Bangalow ~ Wed eve ~ Semester 1, 2027!!

Bangalow Cassettes!

*Friday Ocean Shores classes included with booking: use as make-up class, or enjoy an additional class each week*

Strong bones (oh yeah), toned bodies and joyful, connected hearts await at Byron Shire’s most bodacious adult dance class. With carefully curated and radtastic tunes, friendly people and incomparable choreography, Cassette dancing keeps us grooving through life.

Classes currently blend Contemporary Dance and Jazz-Modern styles.

Wednesdays, 6.00pm – 7.20pm @ Bangalow All Souls

Led by Marissa Treichel, Director of The Cassettes. Aka Riss.
BA Contemporary Dance, Graduate Diploma of Education, Associate Jazz.

A half-year of dance to enrich your days.
Choose one Term only, or for best value, a Semester of dancing fun.

Will sell out. Scroll down to secure your place!

Featuring Annie Lennox and friends, such as David Bowie

With both Contemporary Dance, and joyful jazz / modern dance. 

Ask yourself Why
Walk on Broken Glass
when Sweet Dreams await?!
No more Thorn in My Side. 

When Tomorrow Comes, you can be a
Missionary Man; or better yet, notice
Sisters are Doing it for Themselves.
Love is a Stranger, and yet,
the Miracle of Love.

And David Bowie, because Bowie! Also, they were creative allies and provide complementary listening / dancing. Cassette Legends know there will be oodles of other artists in the mix!

 

Semester 1, 2027 Dance Dates (includes term 1 and term 2):

What’s included:

• 14 x weeks of exceptional Cassette 80s Dance Classes, including
• Two x showclasses, our summer one on March 17 is a Nature Flashmob: dancing in the sky with both incredible groups together
• Home videos for optional practicing and home boogies
• More deets below

Prepare for the Retro Rapture

Within the Semester, we’ll refine two feature routines, plus dance and stretch to countless brilliant tunes including choreographed warm-ups. Riss and our students are constantly discovering new and old music: it’s one of the most rewarding parts of being alive!

At The Cassettes we know a varied playlist is vital. Every class is individually curated to ensure surprise and delight are always in store for you.

More details:

• Carefully planned, lovingly delivered, top-notch classes suitable for Beginner and Intermediate movers.
• Warm-ups and stretch sequences, to keep our bodies cared for
• Happy cardio fitness: the kind you seriously wouldn’t do without Cassette motivation!
• Social connection with a positive, supportive and uplifting group of Byron Shire legends
• Video keepsake of our joyful yet casual performances
• Super-fun 80s Dance routines, suitable to experienced and beginner movers. Choreography is designed so that experienced dancers can extend or deepen: this is the art of being a dancer!
• Make-up class option: if you need to miss a class, attend our other weekly Cassette Class.
• Creativity, connection and self-discovery. Cassettes are famous for being “so much more than a dance class”
• Embodying 80s classics plus 70s, 90s and a sprinkling of current (ish!) music.
• Nourishing cool downs to nurture your inner peace
• Home rehearsal videos so you can enliven your lounge-room
• 2 x Joyous show classes, one of which is a nature flashmob: We’ll film the dance outside, under the sky. Beauty within beauty. The final weeks of the 2 x terms within Semester are creatively costumed, with an open dress-up theme. We encourage reduce-reuse-recycle: no need to buy any costume items.

We also like to have social get-togethers outside of class…stay tuned!

 

The Benefits of doing Cassettes:

• Being part of a fabulous, supportive group. We have a wide range of professionals, creatives and parents dancing at The Cassettes. It’s an incredible, caring and generous community I feel lucky to hold space for.
• Experiencing original choreography (not commercial dance) is a beautiful way to expand your perspective of what is possible. Invite new flavours into your body.
• Humour. Cassette classes are often funny.
• Dance improves your health, both immediately and longterm: It helps prevent osteoporosis and dementia more than any other activity.
• Psychological wellbeing. Dance brings together cognitive, emotional and physical wellbeing. The word “emotion” is derived from the Latin ’emovere’ meaning to move or move through. At Cassettes there’s a song and dance for every emotion. The proof is in the pudding: one always feels better after class. The proof is also in the science: dance is proven to help reduce feelings of anxiety and depression. The Bee Gees were right: You should be dancing, yeah!
• More playfulness and fun in your life
• You may not realise, but every time you have fun and feel more confident, society benefits.  80s dance is powerful stuff!
• Time to just enjoy yourself and be carefree
• Feel more energised, sparkly and inspired
• Increased tone and fitness, bone density, balance and grace
• Being guided and cared for by an experienced and rather jazzed-up teacher
• Bone health. Who’d have thought preventative health care could be so fun? 
  

  Ready to integrate emotional, physical and intellectual health through the magic of Cassettes dance? Complete your booking below!

 

What is expected of you:

• Phones on silent. Use this time to switch off from the many demands of modern life.
• Kindness and courtesy. Cassette class etiquette includes not speaking over the teacher.
• Move at your own level and respond to your bodies’ limitations and strengths. Adapt moves to suit how your body is feeling today. Equally, if you want to extend movements, go for it! We praise wherever you’re at.
• Be spatially aware: Pay attention to where you are in the room and in relation to others. Avoid crowding up. Move yourself to emptier parts of the room: often at the front, or next to the teacher when we’re in a circle.
• Check your calendar before joining: Changes to bookings incur a 20% administration fee, plus classes passed, whether attended or not.
  

What to bring:

• Water bottle and sweat towel
• Yoga mat or towel for stretch and relaxation
• Dance shoes, joggers or bare feet
• Arrive 5-min before class to stretch and settle in
• Comfy active wear, colour encouraged! New Cassette top coming soon.
• Respect for teacher, team and yourself.

Interesting choreography is the best way to get fit and feel strong because there’s an outcome, yet it’s not the primary focus. Tone and vitality is just a happy side-effect of getting lost in the moves and the music…

Give yourself a radiant Semester 1, 2027: jump in below!

Take $20 off when booking with Direct Deposit:
Open to returning students only. Please email to confirm your place!

Payment Plans available:

Option 1: Email for Direct Deposit details: [email protected]
Option 2: Choose Paypal at the check-out, for a two-part payment plan.

Your future self will thank you for having fun, feeling fit and connecting with friendly people. You are a friendly person after all!

We look forward to having you at Cassettes: The meeting place of the Shire’s most kind and sparkly people.

 

Exercise has never been this FUN! Riss and the groovin’ ladies at the Cassettes offer a perfect blend of modern choreography and playfulness. Riss encourages everyone to step outside their comfort zone in a safe and supportive way while giving your brain a gym workout by building new synapses with every new dance routine we learn. It’s the best way to get body and brain fit, while having a good time and leaving all other worries behind 🙂
– Cassette dancer Lainie