• ANTICIPATED OUTCOMES FOR PARTICIPANTS
• Improved lung capacity - better Peak Flow rates
• Increase in stamina
• Greater breath control, both during and between attacks
• Release of muscular tension caused by fighting for breath
• Improved posture
• Greater flexibility and feeling "at home" in the body
• Greater sense of control over the body
• Ability to use the voice as an indicator of tension and the state of asthma
• Development of the experience of enjoyment of the body's capabilities
• Increased physical strength and ability all round
• Enhancement of medical and other treatment
• Experience the delights of dance and voice together
• Enhanced self-esteem and confidence
• For those who so desire -- the potential of staying involved with Vocal Dance, forming a permanent Vocal Dance Performance Group.

For further information please email or phone Avival


		Aviva Sheb'a commenced ballet studies as a therapy for asthma just over forty years ago. Unwittingly becoming one of Australia's first Dance Therapists, Aviva has been working with people with differing abilities since 1966. She developed Vocal Dance in order to broaden the scope of expressive possibilities -- for herself and others. She was a founding board member of the Dance Therapy Association of Australia. Aviva has worked in several countries as a performer, dance teacher, choreographer and dance therapist. Her contagious enthusiasm, sense of humour and youthful lust for life are as much a part of her teaching as her vast body of knowledge.

 

A SAMPLE OF RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

       DANCE TEACHING:

• Began supervised student teaching in 1966.
• Graduated with Honours in 1968, then taught in a variety of populations ranging from professional dancers to severely disabled.
  
  Settings have included: introducing classes in Anatomy through Dance at RMIT, Melbourne; Vocal Dance for asthmatic children through The Asthma Foundation, Victoria; Royal School for Deaf Children; Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind, Melbourne; the Theatre School, Modern Dance Dept., Amsterdam; Ganzenhoef, and Studio 35, Amsterdam, Rudi Institute for Psychoanalytical Therapy, Herzliyah-Pituach, Israel; the Lola-Rogge Shule, Hamburg, Germany; conducted own studios in Melbourne, Amsterdam, Dunolly, Timor (Central Victoria), Adelaide; workshops for The Australian Dance Council (Ausdance).
  
  PERFORMANCE:
  From 1969 to the present.
  Experiences range from Flamenco and Jazz dancing in cabaret, on television, for the troops in the Vietnam War, Chorus Captain (Classical Ballet and Singing) with the Compagnia Italiana d'Operetta, Vocal Dance - both solo and with my own group, The Energy Exchange -- in Jazz clubs, art galleries and other settings throughout Holland, in Israel, Germany, Australia, Nexus Cabaret, Adelaide.
  
  Three one-woman shows, including "This is a War Zone, Baby - Improvise!" in the Adelaide Fringe 2000 Festival. (Accompanied by Hung Phan and No See Dolly.)
  
  CHOREOGRAPHY:
  Choreographed for settings mentioned under performance above, plus for Melbourne Mime and Mumbles Group, "Levensboom", "Wandering Fossils" Theatre group Pariah, "The Bald Prima Donna" The In Players, "Time Dilations", Amsterdam; "Scribbled Energy", Israel, "Sugar'N'Spice", Dunolly, (Central Victoria); Dance Director, Carnival of Adelaide.
  
  CHOREOLOGICAL, THEATRICAL, DANCE STUDIES:
  Maestro A. Vila, Melbourne, Zack Thompson, Paris and Amsterdam; Bale Dawe Motema, (Zairian Dance), Amsterdam; Jenn Ben-Yakov, Stichting M'Akuba Multicultural Foundation, The In Players and Desmond Niles, Amsterdam.
  
  ALSO:
• Founding member of the Dance Therapy Association of Australia
• Studied Vocal Harmonic toning with Ashley Sheppard, Adelaide
• Certified Kinesiologist
• Certified Practitioner of the Bowen Therapeutic Technique
• Writing-in-progress -- autobiographical book and play, "This is a War Zone, Baby -- Improvise!" "Welcome Inside My Head", play for stage and radio soundscape
• Various articles published in Australia, Brazil and Holland
• recordings for ABC radio
• Aviva is a popular speaker at numerous conferences and seminars, in Australia and overseas.
  


Australia Council Grant
Aviva was the recipient of a grant from The Australia Council www.ozco.gov.au.
which assisted her in the development and implementation of her vocal dance techniques.

Aviva welcomes enquiries

"When you meet Aviva you confront one very exuberant, full of life, positive person. The remarkable Aviva Sheb'a"
- Dance Australia Magazine

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
• Being crazy -- the only way to stay sane!
• Bugger the sound of one hand clapping -- I love the sound of many hands clapping!
  
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Vocal Dance -- Safe for Every Body.

Aviva is available for radio, television, interviews and other public appearances.
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