“Joe Ink’s Move It! is an infectious approach to dance”
- Susan Gordon, Arts and Multicultural Co-coordinator, Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation

Whether it’s the sandbox or the cubicle, everyone needs to break out of the box once in a while. In cultures around the world, for all ages, dance is a major form of expression.

Move It! invites participants back into their bodies, to everyone’s first language: movement. From toddlers to grandmothers and everyone in between, community members of all ages and abilities come together to be inspired, empowered and motivated to move their bodies through dance making. This free workshop puts an emphasis on physical literacy, creative expansion, mental health, confidence and overall well being. Experience the exhilaration of movement in a safe, non-judgemental environment.

Move It! is available to every body as a free workshop, offered several times a year at various locations in Greater Vancouver and beyond. Move It! is also available to community groups who want to run their own Move It! workshop for community members.

Move It! founder Joe Laughlin and co-director Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg invite you to:

• Rediscover the profound pleasure of movement
• Find renewed energy and confidence
• Alleviate stress
• Tune into your body
• Affirm your creativity
• Build physical literacy
• Experience the joy of dance making
• Develop a sense of connection with fellow participants
• Appreciate the beauty and diversity of your community
• Re-connect to your innate playful spontaneity
• Have fun!

“Move It! is about affirming one’s creativity and finding one’s own movement style. It’s also a challenge, and it’s about commitment and discipline as well.” – Joe Laughlin

Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg

Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, Move It! Co-Director, is an innovative and acclaimed dancer, actor, choreographer and dance educator. Since she began working with Joe Laughlin in 2001, Tara has been integral to the development, direction and facilitation of Move It! Originally from Calgary, Tara studied theatre at the University of Calgary and, following a move to Vancouver, graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from Simon Fraser University in 1994.

Tara has choreographed over a dozen dance pieces independently and in collaboration with other artists including several projects in Chile, and is regularly commissioned to choreograph for theatre. Her critically acclaimed dance-theatre solos bANGER, Lift, Frame, The Beckoning, and a little too far have been performed here in Vancouver and as far away as Montreal and Belgium. As an independent dance-theatre artist, Tara has danced with some of Canada’s most celebrated choreographers.

Jacci Collins

Jacci Collins is an independent dancer/choreographer and yoga instructor in Vancouver.. After graduating from Simon Fraser University’s dance program in 2002, she traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa to work with Moving Into Dance Mophatong where she was teaching, apprenticing with the performance company and learning the Edudance teaching methodology. Jacci has most recently performed her newest solo work, Covet, at the Nextfest Arts Festival in Edmonton, AB. Jacci is co-artistic director of Mad Calf Productions and has been facilitating Joe Ink’s Move It! Community Dance Workshops since 2002.

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Participants praise Move It!