Workshops & Residencies


Nāu te rourou, nāku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi

With your food basket and my food basket the people will thrive

Jolt have designed and delivered creative music and dance outreach programmes throughout the motu – programmes that have bought together the skills and experience of our inclusive teaching team with creatives, with and without disabilities, from primary and secondary schools, universities, disability support services and rest homes.

 

Upcoming Workshops & Residencies

  • Glass Ceiling Collective, Auckland, 10th February 2024

  • Tukutuku, with Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, Greymouth High School, 28th February - 1st March 2024

  • Big I, with Chamber Music New Zealand, Rototuna High School, Hamilton, 26th July 2024

  • Big I, with Chamber Music New Zealand, Green Bay High School, Auckland, 15th August 2024

  • Big I, with Chamber Music New Zealand, New Plymouth Girls’ High School, New Plymouth, 16th August 2024

  • Gathered Together inclusive dance festival, Tramway, Glasgow, 4th - 7th September 2024

  • Big I, with Chamber Music New Zealand, Marlborough Girls’ College, Blenheim, 25th October 2024

  • Big I, with Chamber Music New Zealand, Mt Aspiring College, Wānaka, 22nd November 2024

The Big I

Developed in collaboration with National Disability Arts Partner Chamber Music New Zealand, The Big I takes a fresh approach to music making by people with intellectual disabilities. The I in The Big I stands for improvisation. Participants are empowered to create their own work, to express and extend their own unique musical voices and to improvise musical conversations.

If you would like to know more about The Big I, please contact Chamber Music New Zealand.

 

Riporipo

Riporipo is another Chamber Music New Zealand initiative, presented in partnership with Jolt, that has been designed to forge stronger relationships between mainstream secondary school music and dance students, and students from their school’s learning support unit.

Thank you for providing such a fantastic experience for our students from Tautoko - Supported Learning Centre. It was a great collaboration between all involved and seeing the positive relationships that were formed between the SLC students and students from the wider school was particularly impressive in such a short space of time. There were so many examples of the students getting involved in ways in which we would never have expected. We discussed the experience at our department meeting this morning and the overall feeling was that we'd been blown away and seen our students, who we like to think we know pretty well, in a new light… Heather Lear (Hutt Valley High School)

 

Tukutuku

Tukutuku is a unique project developed by Jolt to create authentic connections between mainstream music and dance students and students from their schools’ learning support units, weaving together the talents of each group. Over the course of three days, Jolt’s inclusive tutors and a team of professional musicians work alongside students with and without disabilities to create a programme of original choreography and live music, each work inspired by and showcasing the wairua and skills of the student with disabilities.

Tukutuku has been presented in partnership with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra at Haeata Community Campus with Haeata Ferndale Satellite, Shirley Boys’/ Avonside Girls’ High School with Waikahu Ferndale Satellite Unit, and Mt Aspiring College, and in partnership with the Gisborne International Music Competition and Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival at Gisborne Girls’ High School.

I’ve learned that everyone is equal and there shouldn’t be separations between us students. Being here with the Ferndale kids taught me that they are talented and capable of many things than what they look like. I learned how to jazz along with others. Haeata music student

Tukutuku won a Highly Commended citation at the 2019 Te Putanga Toi Arts Access Awards.

 

Move Dance Classes

Jolt’s senior Move trainees are highly experienced in leading dance classes in mainstream primary and secondary schools and at the University of Canterbury. The connections they make with these groups are both extraordinary and unique. They encourage rangatahi to think differently about disability and to develop more nuanced views about difference. Classes run for 1-2 hours, and can include time to discuss wider issues around access and inclusive practice.

If you would like to host a Move dance class at your school, please contact Lyn Cotton.

 

Professional Development

Jolt offer practical, professional development workshops for groups interested in incorporating inclusive dance and movement into their programmes. All workshops are taught inclusively and can range from one hour to one day.

If you would like to learn more, please contact Artistic Director Lyn Cotton.