BARE Bones

Searching for a different kind of workshop experience?

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For 5 full days we’ll gather with national and international facilitators to dive into movement, ideas, sweat, and inspiration. We’ll dance, learn, connect, and explore how moving and living intertwine.Classes, films, talks, raw works-in-progress, and powerful connections—five days of shift and transformation.
Bring your bones. And the rest of you.

eoi's are now open

closing Friday January 16

EOI’s close Friday January 16

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2026 facilitators

further facilitator announcements coming soon

further facilitator announcements coming soon

  • $680 for 5-day intensive workshops

    10% discount for those who submit an EOI before end of 2025.

    Note: As always there will be scholarships, which you can apply for in the EOI.

  • The festival is based around:

    Technique classes from leading practitioners

    Intensive research workshops focusing on the mind and the body

    Studio showings and discussions

    but will also contain:

    Qi gong on the beach, dancing into the ocean, and time to hang out, to talk together, walk together, and be silent together

    Our bones are laid bare, to share what we know, and discover what we don't.

  • “I was engulfed by new ideas that will continue to affect my own art making. And other familiar ideas were deepened, made more integrated and revitalised.”

    “The mix of people was great - different backgrounds but the same passion and the friendly environment created fostered easy friendships :)”

    “The sense of community we created in a very short period really helped balance the relationship/blur the lines between "teacher" and "student". “

    …“You managed to create this specifically inspiring, uplifting and empowering atmosphere that good dance festivals have, you created variety with amazing physical classes, improvisation, showings, and- often missing in dance festivals: discussions. I loooved the discussions.”

    …”my favorite thing about Bare Bones though were the outdoor sessions, they made the experience really special…”

“I was engulfed by new ideas that will continue to affect my own art making”