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View detailsThe A-Team
Amazing Dance Teaching Team! Since 1980, The Cassettes has prided itself on combining high-quality dance teaching, with novelty floatation devices. Wait, I mean with a sense of the ridiculous. Our new Flashmob Troupe Leader, fresh from professional dance training in Melbourne, New York and Indonesia, promises to continue the tradition. Please welcome Katy Woods to The Cassettes’…
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View detailsHow to be Fabulous
One (fabulous) Cassette dancer reveals all Kat Mathieson has rocked both The Cassettes’ Flashmob Troupe and Mix Tape 80’s Dance Classes. So far she’s danced Total Eclipse of the Heart, Shake Your Thang, Sweet Dreams, Flash and Danger Zone! Kat is one of those people who are effortlessly and contagiously fabulous with a capital F for Freaking-cool. She…
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View detailsTogetherness plus 80s dance
I love teaching 80’s Dance Workshops Sharing Belinda Carlisle’s impassioned Summer Rain and Dead or Alive’s creepy disco delight, You Spin Me Right Round at Bello Winter Music Festival, was no exception. Festival Fun Bello Music Fest is run by Glenn Wright and the excellent crew who also do Mullum Music Fest. Bello is the cooler (as in…
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View detailsThe benefits of dance
Dance kicks butt over every other form of exercise. It’s an art form…and a form of exercise…and for some a spiritual practice. Dancing to Total Eclipse of the Heart can be quite cathartic, let me tell you. Wholly mother of 80’s music, what a fantastic, impossible combo! Movement and music combine to make us feel amazing,…
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View detailsDance Classes in Byron Bay
Yesterday the Byron Mix Tape Crew performed Salt n Pepa’s 1988 Shake Your Thang. This may sound a LITTLE over the top, but it was like giving birth. And we all want our births to take place to an 80’s soundtrack, right? I remember thinking in the prelude to my daughter Pearl’s birth, “If this goes well,…
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View detailsGlittery Unicorns
I’ve spent most of my adult life trying to convince my family-of-origin, aka mum, dad, sister Pia and brother Dan, that I am NOT A HIPPY. And this is true. I like strong coffee, not herbal tea. I like wine, not kombucha. Monogamy, I’m all over it. But glittery unicorns. Are they hippy? Because I…