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Hello Beautiful Humans !KIZZUP Playdate Events is proud to present our final offering for 2025:
Communication and Consent on the Dance Floor.
This workshop has been a long time in planning, and we are delighted to offer it to you as our final piece for the year. After a few incidences this year overseas, that became very public in the social dance community, we decided its a good time to look at the topic of boundaries, consent and respectful interaction the social dance floor, with 2 industry experts. Around this topic, we can explore:
What does consent look like?
How do I understand if me or my dance partner is feeling unsafe or uncomfortable?
How do we navigate the feelings that come up when this happens?
How do we maintain respectful and free interaction that is dignified and doesn’t rob anyone of their agency?
How do we have healthy and mature discussions around all these topics, that drive real attitudinal and behavioural changes, at a community level?
If you are a social dancer , form any dance discipline , you are invited and encouraged to attend this workshop. This is open to leaders and followers, from all dance styles. You don’t need to do every activity offered to you in the workshop- just showing up is good enough. Nobody has to do anything they are uncomfortable with.
If you:
-Have ever felt uncomfortable or awkward on the dance floor
-Have been unsure how to navigate “big feelings” in the intimate setting of social dance
-Struggle to understand what “feeling unsafe” is in your body
-Struggle to read what “feeling unsafe” is in others
-Have had problems expressing , maintaining or respecting boundaries in social dancing
-Don’t know how to talk about or are curious about big topics like consent and boundaries
-Want to learn how to interact with agency and maturity as an adult in dance
Then this workshop is FOR YOU.
WHAT THIS WORKSHOP IS NOT:
-A kizomba workshop
-Technique focused dance workshop
-A 6 hour lecture
-An opportunity to name, blame and shame others
-A trauma dumping session
-Training to become a dancefloor policeman/woman
This workshop is a safe space to present with curiously, respect and humility, to learn to listen to and receive others, to learn new things, and take them back into your dance practice and community a large. The objective is to bring a group of dancers together and provide them with awareness of new ways of interacting and communicating that promotes more closeness and proximity, not to drive division , suspicion and distance.
Program
9:30-10:00am Arrival and Registration
10am to 12pm Morning session with Mike
Mike’s segment of the workshop will explore some simple steps for generative conversations that drive action aligned to shared understanding. This will be an interactive morning session full of activities that will give us the tools we need to have deeper conversations. He will be covering:
-Ground rules for creating safety
-How we carve out time and space for better conversations
-What it means to lead a conversation with honesty and how we --listen with genuine curiosity, so that everyone feels heard and seen
-How we ensure that conversations lead to real change that encourages action aligned to shared understanding.
12pm to 1pm lunch break
1pm to 430pm Afternoon session with Molly
Molly will lead the afternoon session, which will include a mixture of theory , discussions and activities. She will facilitate a session to help you explore what consent is for mature adults in dance setting, as well as giving you a framework to help you navigate your interactions on the social dance floor (and off it) with others so they can remain respectful, dignified and playful. With a few breaks in between, molly will guide segments for you to :
-Explore somatic practices to help you tune into your safety, comfort, and agency
-Play fun relational games to build trust and make it easier to express boundaries and choices
-Learn to read the body (and the room) so you can sense your partner’s cues and attune to their nervous system in motion
-Focus on how to lead with empathy and generosity, and how to follow with agency and empowerment
-Learn to apply IDC’s Five Pillars of Intimacy so you can dance the consent protocols with clarity and confidence
4:30pm to 5:00pm questions, sharing and closing space.
About your Workshop Facilitators:
Mike Dyson
Mikey is both passionate about facilitating better conversations, and teaching others how. He is the founder of Good Blokes Co, a social enterprise promoting healthy masculinity in workplaces and schools. He has extensive experience in suicide prevention, facilitating mental health leadership programs and delivering the safeTALK suicide alertness training. His 15 years in clinical practice supporting individuals mental health and holistic wellbeing serve as the foundation for conversations grounded in care and courage. Primarily, Mike builds leaders and teams social and emotional capacity for human centred leadership.
Molly Tipping
Molly is a gentle and joyful Somatic Practitioner and Consent Educator making an occasional cameo as a Dance Artist. Molly works with movers and makers of all kinds—supporting nervous system regulation, pain recovery, anxiety, and performance enhancement through a deeply embodied approach. When she’s not in private practice, Molly lectures in the Dance and Performance Departments at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and leads professional development for organisations including STRUT Dance, AusDance, The Royal Academy of Dance, and The Blue Room Theatre. In her “spare” time, Molly steps into the role of Intimacy Coordinator for WAAPA, Yirra Yaakin, and The Blue Room Theatre—helping artists create brave, safe, and expressive work.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Juan Rando Dance Academy, 302 Churchill Avenue,Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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