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New Zealand Dance Company Dance Classes (Ages 55+)

Come and join NZDC’s weekly dance classes specially designed for individuals aged 55 and above. Every week, we learn new steps and build our movement vocabulary while improving our strength, flexibility, balance, and posture

NZDC Felicity Molloy
Dance
  • Thursdays, to
    05:00 pm - 06:00 pm
$100.00
Felicity Molloy

The New Zealand Dance Company (NZDC) is a leading, full-time arts organisation that creates and presents innovative and inspiring contemporary dance for audiences in Aotearoa and around the world. Beyond the stage, we operate a vibrant Youth and Community program with weekly classes, masterclasses, and workshops for all ages and levels.

Come and join NZDC’s weekly dance classes at TAPAC Studios, specially designed for individuals aged 55 and above. Every week, we learn new steps and build our movement vocabulary while improving our strength, flexibility, balance, and posture. These structured classes run in 10-week blocks and are a great opportunity to discover or rediscover the joy of dance, make new friends, and have fun. By reconnecting with music and movement, you can nurture your physical and mental wellbeing. Come along and enjoy the benefits of dance!

Classes run for 10 weeks each term @ $100.00 each term. 

Payment to be made online at the start of each term to:

New Zealand Dance Advancement Trust: 03 0263 0278987 00

For all enquiries, please contact [email protected]

Teaching artist

Felicity Molloy

Felicity Molloy

Teaching Artist

Dr Felicity Molloy (PhD I MEd I GDHE) maintains a professional profile that extends practice and teaching across dance, yoga, bodywork, and somatics (the experience of living).

Felicity is deeply practiced in community programme development, bringing dance, practice-based movement, and well-being approaches to a broad range of community participants. She was a dancer in Impulse Dance Theatre, and Limbs Dance Company before becoming an independent dance professional, and tertiary educator at Unitec, AUT, University of Auckland, where she completed her PhD.

Since 2009, Felicity has been exploring the benefits of dance for older adults, becoming Research Officer for the AUT/SPARC project called Can Dancing Improve Physical Activity Levels, Functional Ability and Reduce Falls in Older Adults? Following this project and in collaboration with Susan Jordan (DANZ), Felicity designed a series of dance sequences called Dance Mobility that became a teaching structure for other dancer/teachers. This project turned into a co-authored international article and conference presentations, one where Felicity presented at the World Congress of Physical Therapy (WCPT), 2019 in Geneva, Dance Mobility was renamed Silver Bones and has been taught up until the lockdowns in Westmere, Auckland.