West African inspired Dance Wellington
The Moringa Dancers are a high energy, high tempo dance group influenced by West African music and culture in Wellington, New Zealand. We provide weekly community dance classes, and host workshops with international and NZ guest artists. We offer fun, uplifting workshops and performances for your festival, school, organization, community event or party. We perform and facilitate in collaboration with our partner African percussion band, Kubatana, and our friends at Djembe NZ to create a powerful synergy of movement and music bringing life, energy and joy to every occasion.
weekly Community Classes
Dances of Africa
Shake, shimmy and groove to the soulful rhythms of Africa!
Release tension from your week, and share in some epic joy.
Release tension from your week, and share in some epic joy.
Tutor - Moringa Director
Jenny Bloomfield Class venue for Monday & Thursday Classes: Te Whaea National Dance & Drama Centre 11 Hutchison Rd, Newtown Class venue for Tuesday Dun Dun Dance: Cook Islands Society Hall, 220 Hanson St, Newtown NO DANCE CLASS WILL BE HELD THURSDAY 7th DEC - instead come out and see us perform on the Street Stage on High Street in Lower Hutt for "Our Hutt Xmas" our set is 7pm-7:45pm ALL OTHER MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS ARE ON THROUGH 14 DECEMBER - BOOK FOR CLASSES OR ROCK UP!!! THEN 2024 CLASSES WILL RESUME IN THE FIRST WEEK OF FEB! |
Community Dance Class
with Live Drumming All are welcome in this inclusive, mixed level community class. No experience necessary. Thursdays join any week! 6:30pm-8pm Live drumming, Kubatana, led by Simon Elwell. Beginners Dance Class with Live Drumming join casually any week Start something new, or get back to basics and delve into the juicy details. No experience necessary. Mondays 6:30pm-8pm Live drumming led by Susanna Hay & Simon Elwell Dance teaching assistant Clémentine Fessy Dun Dun Dance Class Have heaps of fun drumming and dancing - challenging your musical and physical fitness - all are welcome to join, no experience necessary! Tuesdays 8:30pm-9:30pm block rego req'd Dun Dance is taking a break while we gather a keen group of wild rhythm junkies with a healthy sense of humour willing to jump in and have the best fun ever. IS THIS YOU???? Register your interest here for the next block in the summer season! |
"Dancing with you each week is a ray of sunshine, a breath of fresh invigorating air
which refills my energy level and clears clouds off my mind." ~ Clémentine Fessy
which refills my energy level and clears clouds off my mind." ~ Clémentine Fessy
Project Connect
International Dun Dun DAnce Collaboration!
It was an honour to be invited by Melbourne Djembe to participate in Project Connect, uniting dun dun dance practitioners worldwide in a video project during a time when many people have been locked down, lonely, and unable to perform publicly. We had a glorious sunny morning on Mount Victoria filming our submission and celebrating our beautiful community here in Wellington, New Zealand. Choreography by Mitzi McRae.
If drumming while dancing and generally having an epic time like this excites you contact jenny@moringadancers.co.nz
We will run another Moringa Dun Dun Dance series in the warm weather seasons.
Tuesday eves at 8:30pm - All we need is you!
We will run another Moringa Dun Dun Dance series in the warm weather seasons.
Tuesday eves at 8:30pm - All we need is you!
cuba Dupa Street Workshop w/ Kadodo
It was heaps of fun teaching in the street at Cuba Dupa with the Kadodo Drummers!! What a buzz. Looking forward to more collaboration with Koffie and Kadodo!
