Artist Session: Victoria Hunt

Join acclaimed choreographer and dancer Victoria Hunt for an introduction to Body Weather, a movement practice originating from Japan. Through discussion and practical improvisation exercises, this workshop investigates the connection between the performer and their environment.

Open to anyone interested in exploring the body, mind and movement. Suitable for 18+ with no prior experience or training necessary.

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About Body Weather

The physical and philosophical basis for Body Weather was founded in the early 1980s by Min Tanaka and further developed by dance artists worldwide. Using the body as a primary tool of communication, this movement practice investigates the 'weather of the body' engaging through the spirit to improvise and experiment.

Victoria Hunt

Victoria Hunt is a Māori-Australian dancer, director, choreographer, dramaturg, photographer, and filmmaker working across the visual and performing arts.

Born on unceded Kombumerri Country (Surfers Paradise) and currently living on Bidjigal Country, Eora (Sydney, Australia), Victoria’s work delves into Indigenous epistemologies within diasporic concepts of identity formation and belonging. Her work is liminal, transcultural, transdisciplinary and reinstates the power of Indigenous creativity within the politics of Rematriation – inserting the body into frameworks of power, for future ancestors. Central to this is Whakapapa (kinship/genealogies), Atua Wahine (sacred feminine principle), Body Weather and IndigiQueer revitalization within creation practices.