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Vocal Dance -- Safe for Every Body!
Aviva graduated from dance school in 1968. Her dance studies included Classical Ballet (Cecchetti method), Jazz, Classical Spanish, Flamenco, National, Character, African, Afro- American, Improvisation in Dance and Voice. |
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Currently
Aviva holds Breathing, Voice and Movement classes at the Masonic Hall, Kiama on Tuesdays 12-1:30 and individual sessions in Brilliant Birth and Parenting Training. |
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She has also studied Singing, Anatomy, Massage and Body Care, Stretching, Active Birthing.
In recovering from a back injury (sustained, ironically while studying chiropractic in 1974), Aviva rediscovered dance, finding her way through improvisation.
Her delight in movement led to vocalising as she danced. She gradually developed a blend of many dance and vocal styles, the voice adding a dimension to the expression. Aviva coined the term VOCAL DANCE while developing her system in Amsterdam in 1977. |
Treating Bodies With Respect
Body awareness, anatomy and basic movement have always been the foundations of Aviva Sheb'a's classes. Body and personality types, age, ability, fitness, current or past injuries and illnesses are all taken into account.
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Vocal Dance Defined: an unconventional method of using voice and movement to give expression to one’s feelings and emotions. It is liberating, healing and exhilarating. |
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Vocal Dance enables the dancer -- whether professional or recreational -- to find a balance of suppleness, strength, and beauty using movement and sound.
The inhibitions many people face in using the voice with dance soon dissolve, allowing a broad range of expression.
This enhances self-esteem and confidence in daily life as well as in performance.
Who benefits from Vocal Dance?
Aviva's students have come from all walks of life, and from many countries --
dancers, weightlifters, gymnasts, singers, musicians, footballers, medical practitioners, natural therapists, childbirth educators, physio- and psycho-therapists, schoolchildren, business people.
Vocal Dance has many particular benefits for women's health.
Aviva's work with people with a disability of all ages has been particularly fulfilling --
with often profound and lasting improvements in their quality of life.
"This includes people with intellectual, vision, auditory, lung,
mobility or other impairments."
Aviva assists survivors of trauma in the process, "From Victim to Survivor to Thriver".
Aviva communicates to her students her infectious passion for her work and for life.
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COMMENTS FROM WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS:
 Excellent, unique, stimulating ... increased my awareness ... simple, understandable, language..."
- Nehama Patkin, International Music and Movement Educator.
"Thank you, I've changed my life."
- Teenager at the Ballarat Children's Home.
"When you meet Aviva you confront one very exuberant, full of life, positive person. The remarkable Aviva Sheb'a"
- Dance Australia Magazine
"Never before had the word NATURAL struck me so clearly and strongly. Hilarious. An experience not to be missed"
- Lee Flanigan, NEMEDA
"We must have this lady back... She was terrific... has the ability to convey her message..."
- Don Collis, Rotary Club of Monbulk.
'Thanks so much for the world you have given us."
-Adit & Avi Pank, artist & dance teacher, Israel.
Contact Aviva by phone or email
"If you email me or leave a message, please bear in mind that on occasion I may be unable to respond immediately. I will get back to you."
Aviva Sheb'a is writing her autobiography about her experiences as an entertainer in the Vietnam War.
Rarely backward in coming forward, Aviva is known for her slogans:
- Big Bellies are Beautiful (pregnancy, humanness and self-esteem)
- Post Natal Reality (a more enabling term than Post Natal Depression)
- Breathing -- the Most Widely Abused Human Right
(with regard to respiratory disorders and environmental tobacco smoke)
- From Victim to Survivor to Thriver
- Bugger the sound of one hand clapping -- I love the sound of many hands clapping!
Vocal Dance -- Safe for Every Body
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