Isadora Duncan workshops TBA.

Kindergarten, Primary and Secondary.

Nature and the Dance invites children into an immersive movement journey in which dance arises from breath, music, poetry, and inner imagery rather than imposed steps. Guided by Duncan’s understanding that movement begins in the solar plexus — the centre of vitality and feeling — children explore walking, skipping, rising, falling, and expanding through nature-inspired imagery, poetic prompts, and playful solo and group explorations, always returning to rest as a natural expression of movement.

The workshop unfolds gently. Children enter a prepared space accompanied by music from Johann Sebastian Bach, arriving through simple images of sun, moon, earth, and stars. From stillness — like seeds in warm soil — movement begins to grow.

Poetic lines are offered as living pictures for movement:

“I shot an arrow into the air…” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs…” — William Wordsworth

Children respond through flowing, rising, travelling, and returning — sometimes individually, sometimes as a chorus. Music by Franz Schubert, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Frédéric Chopin, Christoph Willibald Gluck and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky supports this exploration, cultivating natural musicality and sensitivity to phrasing through movement.

Throughout the session, children encounter what Duncan called “repose in movement” — discovering how energy and calm can coexist within dance. There is no pressure toward performance; the aim is simply to awaken breath, imagination, spatial awareness, and the joy of moving creatively together.