CIRCLE - CYCLE DANCE WORKSHOP
by Ina Leah | a circular dance workshop for everyone, with easy to follow feet movement and call-and-response celebratory singing, inspired by Dolo and Sole Oha dance practices from East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.
Audience participation in RCA2024 Degree Show, Live Music in collaboration with MTV Trio group. Documented by @throughnelslens.
Previous Workshop Video (with a live painting by Ina Leah)
"This is a story
About the humans
Beings of feelings,
Oh look!
They are dancing and singing
Round like the earth,
They stand hand in hand
To everything that comes and goes
This is how it goes..."
Dolo: In Conversation Lyric
by Ina Leah
workshop facilitating
In the last six years, Ina Leah has dedicated herself to developing therapeutic art workshops and innovative methods. Here, art transcends its traditional boundaries to become a tool for personal and collective healing. Her workshops focus on capturing the rhythmic essence of music on canvas—creating a bridge between ephemeral and more permanent mediums, illustrating how music, shapes, and colour can evoke a spectrum of emotions, and encourage a safe space to share personal stories in community. In her pursuit to integrate art with wellbeing, Gabriela also founded Akarupa, a platform offering art-based products and workshops targeted at youth.
Q: What changes or progress have you seen in people who participate in your workshops? A: I can talk a lot about this. Ah.. I have been doing so many different type of workshops throughout the years, to the point that I do not know where to start! But several things that happens again and again are… I see firsthand how this kind of art workshop can touch people, how it can connect people (even the people who have never met before–from strangers to people who hug each other in tears, happy tears!)... How art can move us, make us feel something deeply, and even transform us, impacting us in a way that is just hard to describe unless you are there witnessing it firsthand. Usually the people that are involved in my workshops were very hesitant at first about their capability in making art or expressing themselves in art, whether it's in my singing workshop or in my painting workshop, or in my mindful drawing workshops. At the end of the session they become much more confident about it… and I can see them proudly and lovingly staring at their creation, knowing that now they can bring home one more tool to help them express themselves in ways that they didn't know before. So it's something that is very rewarding for me as well, knowing that what I do, what benefits me, can also benefit a lot of people–even the people that I haven't met before as well. - an excerpt from Instant Karma Magazine Interview, 2024