Dance and Creative Movement - youth workshops

Designed for participants aged 12-18, these 2hr workshops draw on principles from a range of different creative dance and movement practices. Each session is built around a different theme, and makes use of mindful direction, music and selected props to help extend creativity and physical expression. The result is an integrated movement experience that can be grounding, relaxing, playful, soulful, joyful and anything in between!

Workshops incorporate individual, small group and whole class work, and each session includes aesthetic and design-based exploration as well as physical movement. Any young person wanting to move or extend their creativity in a new direction is welcome - no previous dance experience required.

About the teacher:

Meah Velik-Lord is the Artistic Director of Travel Art Dance Company, and has been teaching, choreographing and performing with the group since 2003. She currently runs the company's program of public classes and workshops, teaching classes for adults and children in dance and creative movement, brush and ink, and labyrinth walking practices.

Meah holds a Diploma in Teaching Creative Dance from Mangala Studios of Yoga and Creative Dance (where she has been dancing herself since early childhood), a Diploma in Dance Movement Therapy from Dance Therapy NZ, and is a Veriditas-trained labyrinth facilitator. She has also been training for many years with Anne O'Keeffe (Alchemy Dance Improvisation) and Richard Liddicut (Behold Art), and is currently undertaking an apprenticeship in Mettler-based creative dance through Mettler Studios in Tucson AZ.

Next workshops:

2026 dates coming soon!