Independance

Independance Independance provides high quality drop-in classes in Contemporary Dance, Ballet, Muscle & Bone and Improvisation.

Our classes are taught by a vibrant selection of skilled choreographers, dance artists and technique tutors. Catering to a diverse community, the classes provide professional level training whilst also being open to various levels of experience. Independance welcomes dancers, actors, body practitioners, students, athletes or anybody looking to enhance their relationship to movement through classes

and workshops. Based in Auckland, Independance is an ongoing initiative that provides a sustainable and progressive training program, a community in action & a movement forum for the exchange and growth of contemporary dance and performance practice in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Whoa, we’re in June? Swipe through for what to expect on the D-floor this month 🌀 Monday 8 June ~ Open Contemporary clas...
04/06/2026

Whoa, we’re in June?

Swipe through for what to expect on the D-floor this month 🌀

Monday 8 June ~ Open Contemporary class with 6:30-8pm

Mondays 15, 22 & 29 June ~ Open Contemporary class with 6:30-8pm

Thursdays 4, 11 June ~ Improvisation with 6:30-8pm

Thursdays 18, 25 June ~ Species of Weight/ing with 6:30-8pm

Saturdays 6, 13, 20, 27 June - Muscle and Bone with 10-11:30am

Please register via the link in our bio or by emailing [email protected]! It’s important we know how many people to expect in class! Especially on Thursdays 🫡

Looking forward to sharing the space with you all.

See you in June 🫠

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CLASS WITH LIV ~ starting tonight 🌀 Thursdays 4 & 11 June 6:30-8pm Drawing on my experience in improvisation and somatic...
04/06/2026

CLASS WITH LIV ~ starting tonight 🌀

Thursdays 4 & 11 June
6:30-8pm


Drawing on my experience in improvisation and somatic practices, each week we will spend time arriving in our bodies and evolving into a series of improvisational tasks and exercises to allow for attentive tuning with ourselves and each other.

Olivia McGregor (Muaūpoko, Ngāti Raukawa) is a dance artist originally from from Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai/ Lower Hutt. Olivia is a graduate of the New Zealand School of dance and has performed around Europe and Aotearoa in dance theatre, performance art installations and film with companies including Atamira Dance Company, Footnote New Zealand Dance, The New Zealand Dance Company, Constanza Macras- Dorky Park, Julian Weber, Andre Uerba and Matteo Graziano. Her Choreographic work has been presented at Tiny Festival (2024).

Photo by Cameron Park - Strut Dance

DOING IN RIGOROUS CONFUSIONThursdays 7 & 21 May 6:30-8:30pm These Thursday evenings are a moment to touch base with your...
05/05/2026

DOING IN RIGOROUS CONFUSION
Thursdays 7 & 21 May 6:30-8:30pm


These Thursday evenings are a moment to touch base with your making and do in rigorous confusion*. Utilising performance as practice methodologies we will construct, improvise and perform for one another in an attempt to locate where we are and where to next... These sessions are a chance to check in both together and privately - what am I making? what do I want to make? how do I make with what I have? what does it mean? should I make sense of it?
A facilitative session for practitioners who want to gather together in their creative practice, for a few hours, in the dark.

Note: open to all live performance practitioners. Please bring something to write in.

*From Patti Lather, Troubling Clarity, 1996

Rosamund Philpott is a dance artist who is currently completing a creative practice PhD investigating Q***r philosophies of time, phenomenology and historiography. Her practice is rooted in a deep commitment to dancing as the way forward. She is keen to share some of her thoughts, discoveries and methods with other Tāmaki Makaurau performance makers.

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PLEASE REGISTER BY FOLLOWING THE LINK IN OUR BIO OR BY EMAILING [email protected]
These classes will go ahead if at least 4 people have registered.

May has begun, and we have already had two wonderful classes with ‘Isope and Tor to start the month. Here is your class ...
05/05/2026

May has begun, and we have already had two wonderful classes with ‘Isope and Tor to start the month.

Here is your class line up for the next few weeks

Mondays 11, 18 & 25 May 6:30-8pm - OPEN CONTEMPORARY with Helena May

Thursdays 7 & 21 May 6:30-8:30pm - DOING IN RIGOROUS CONFUSION with Rose Philpott

Saturday 9 May 10-11:30am - MUSCLE AND BONE with ‘Isope Akau’ola .akauola

Saturdays 16 & 23 May 10-11:30am - MUSCLE AND BONE with Xin Ji

NO CLASSES on Thursdays 14 & 28 May, and Saturday 30 May.

PLEASE register for classes via the link in our bio or by emailing [email protected]
If there are less than 3 sign ups per class, class will be cancelled. It takes 2 minutes to sign up, thank you!!

More info coming soon for Rose’s classes!

CLASS RATES
Drop in - $20 / $18 student
10 class card - $150 / $130 student
Pay at reception before class

11/03/2026

We start tonight - And just go. with

This workshop welcomes the whole body into the practice of performance through improvisation. The art of real time composition is delicate and preposterous. We hope to find precision in the nuance and tools for sensitivity. We will move closer to the body in order to move further away from it. We will create shared fictions and grotesque fantasies, challenging our understanding of what it is to dance, what it is to perform.

Through improvised practices we will engage in both practical and intangible tools to harness one’s own performative power and construct solo and group compositions in real time.

This workshop welcomes performers across disciplines open to body based practice. Let’s dance!

Some weeks these sessions will be ‘Dance!’:
Based off David Zambranos ‘Let’s Dance’, we will delve into an improvised score to the length of a full album. Big, bold, brash, and inviting infinite possibilities to dance together. Let’s Just Dance!

Celia Hext is a dance and performance artist whose work brims with emotional ferocity, love, mischief and reverence for land. Her commitment to improvisation as both concept and method champions the immediate, embodied response to the volatility of our world.

Thursdays 12, 19 & 26 March (and into April)
6:30-8pm

05/03/2026

❤️‍🔥Playing with levels of tension, alongside other Physicalities in Musiquality on Monday with

Final class tonight! Come explore ~ even if you weren’t there on Monday!

Thursday 5 March
6:30-8pm
Studio 1

💫Indy March Line-up💫🔸Here is our March line up ~ soooo many amazing teachers! Get into it! 🔸Monday 2 & Thursday 5 March ...
28/02/2026

💫Indy March Line-up💫

🔸Here is our March line up ~ soooo many amazing teachers! Get into it!

🔸Monday 2 & Thursday 5 March - Musiquality Method with Lysanne Van Berlo 6:30-8pm

🔸Monday 9 March - Open Contemporary with 6:30-8pm

🔸Mondays 16, 23 & 30 March- Open Contemporary with Tor Colombus 6:30-8pm

🔸Thursdays 12, 19 & 26 March - Improvisation with Celia Hext 6:30-8pm

🔸Saturday 14 March - Muscle and Bone with Xin Ji 10-11:30am

🔸Saturdays 21 & 28 March - Muscle and Bone with Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann 10-11:30am

🔸No class Saturday 7th March

🔸Class Rates -
Drop in - $20
Drop in student - $18
10 class card - $150
10 class card student - $130
Payment to be made before class at reception / enter via front door.

🔸All classes are held at

🔸Any questions, send me an email at [email protected]

11/02/2026

🔸Starting tonight!

🔸PARTNERING SKILLS with Lulu Qiu

🔸Thursdays 12, 19 & 24 February
6:30-8pm


🔸In this class, Lulu will explore partnering techniques such as inversions, weight bearing and momentum through lifts and floorwork. She attended the MAAM collective partnering workshop at HennyJurien in Amsterdam earlier this year and is excited to be able to share these new insights with the community.

🔸Class is recommended for those with a strong contemporary dance foundation

🔸Register via the link in our bio or email [email protected]

🔸See you there!

✨FEB✨MARCH✨APRIL Save these dates in your calendars for the next few months — here is your Indy Feb-April line up!🔸Feb —...
03/02/2026

✨FEB✨MARCH✨APRIL

Save these dates in your calendars for the next few months — here is your Indy Feb-April line up!

🔸Feb —
Mondays - Contemporary with Tor Colombus 6:30-8pm
Thursdays 12, 19 & 26 - Partnering Skills with Lulu Qiu 6:30-8pm
Saturdays 14 & 21 - Muscle and Bone with Charles Koroneho 10–11:30am
Saturday 28 - Muscle and Bone with Xin Ji 10-11:30am

🔸March —
Monday 2 & Thursday 5 - Musiquality Method with Lysanne van Berlo 6:30-8pm
Monday 9 - Contemporary with Veronica Lyu 6:30-8pm
Mondays 16, 23 & 30 - Contemporary with Tor Colombus 6:30-8pm
Thursdays 12, 19 & 26 - Improvisation with Celia Hext 6:30-8pm
Saturday 14 - Muscle and Bone with Xin Ji 10-11:30am
Saturdays 21 & 28 - Muscle and Bone with Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann 10-11:30am

🔸April —
Mondays 13 & 20 - Contemporary with Holly Finch 6:30-8pm
Thursdays 2 & 9 - Improvisation with Celia Hext 6:30-8pm
Thursdays 16, 23 & 30 - Pro Contemporary with Veronica Lyu 6:30-8pm
Saturdays 11 & 18 - Muscle and Bone with Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann

🔸Class Rates —
Drop in - $20 / $18 student
10 class card - $150 / $130 student
4 week pack (consecutive, only available for 4 week blocks with same teacher) - $55 / $45 student
Payment can be made via card or bank transfer at Wellesley Studios reception before class

🔸Please sign up for class via the link in our bio, or by emailing Brittany at [email protected]

🔸No class on the following dates - 5 Feb, 7 Feb, 7 March, 4 April, 6 April, 25 April; 27 April

🔸Monday Contemporary classes are open to all, but generally the level is Int-Adv

🔸All photos by .by.ems

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113 Wellesley Street West
Auckland
1010

Telephone

+642102478793

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