Dance Connect Play “TANZPRO” for children aged six to twelve years. 

When: Tuesday afternoons 4.00 pm - 5.30 pm, 20 January, 27 January, 3 February, more dates to be confirmed.

COME & TRY sessions are a FREE trial session for new people. If we have enough interest we will take enrolments for the term.

Where: Ballarat East Neighbourhood House Community Room #103

Cost: FREE trial sessions

Also taking Expressions of Interest for children aged three to six years - contact us.

Please book under the name of the accompanying adult and then email us if you are bringing more than one child (see more on this below). Parents and carers are invited to attend and participate in the first session.

The program involves dance, story sharing, art, imaginary play and movements with music, curated for children.

TANZPRO is an evidence-based program that supports children developmentally with emotional regulation, empathy, relaxation, self esteem and increased skills in communication and confidence, in a fun and engaging way. 

Sessions include:

• A shared story: A journey of discovery to another country and its people, geography and customs. Within each story are woven themes that highlight values such as joy, friendship, care for living beings, courage and solidarity.
• A dance of the theme (Biodanza) with curated music.
• Artistic expression: Children have the opportunity to process the experience pictorially via drawing, art and imaginary journeys.

Children will develop an awareness of self-perception, growing their identity and developing their self-confidence. They will learn to:

• Express their potential
• Have courage to take risks through creativity
• Respect each other
• Feel cared for.

This course encourages pathways to developing empathy which is a fundamental skill to foster lifelong healthy relationships.

TANZPRO‘s Foundations and History

The methodologies of Biodanza and Biodanza for Children form the basis to which story sharing, artistic expression and experiences from travelling around the world was designed, bringing TANZPRO to life in 2009. 

Prof. Dr. Marcus Stueck and Dr. Alejandra Villegas developed, scientifically researched and evaluated Biodanza programs from 2008. They are: Scientists, Researchers, Psychologists, Lecturers, Educators, Didactic/Directors of Biodanza Schools in Latvia and Germany and Dancers. They have scientifically investigated and published extensive works of research findings related to Biodanza for many years.

TANZPRO, including other methods and ‘School of Empathy’ involved many professionals and educators, 1800 children and 22 kindergartens and schools over a 4 year period, as part of a German Federal Ministry of Health Project. Source: auntynanas.com.au/tanzpro/

About Liz

Liz is a qualified teacher with many years of experience tutoring and teaching Primary and Secondary students and caring for young people in outside-school-hours-care and respite care. Liz has completed the Tanzpro training to be certified to facilitate Tanzpro – Biodanza for Children and is currently undertaking the Biodanza School which ultimately leads to qualification to facilitate Biodanza programs for adults.  

Bookings are essential and are required for all attending. Please note that our online system only records the email address and name of the accompanying adult and only one booking can be made per email address. We recognise that this is not ideal for booking more than one child into the activity and we are working on improvements to this system. If you would like to book more than one child, please register the adult in the activity and then email us (reception@ballarateastnh.org.au) to let us know how many children will be attending so we can include them in the numbers.

You do not need to register the names of children in the online system, just the accompanying adult.