Fresh Funk
With over 300 participants, Fresh Funk is Canberra’s leading hip-hop and contemporary dance program. Classes are available for all ages and skill levels. Fresh Funk is about dancing, co-ordination, and enjoyment, with an emphasis on fun, fitness, and friendship. To register for Fresh Funk classes, please fill in the Enquiry Form below and the Fresh Funk Director will be in contact.
Fresh Funk 55+ | 16 May – 20 Jun
Fresh Funk 55+ is designed with older bodies in mind. Find your groove again – suitable for beginners as well as those with dance experience.
HOLIDAY INTENSIVE | FRESH FUNK | 9 – 10 JUL
Two days of dance, with new hip-hop choreography from a range of tutors. Take part in a single class, do a full day, or the whole two days!
FRESH FUNK 55+ | 8 AUG – 12 SEP
Fresh Funk 55+ is designed with older bodies in mind. Find your groove again – suitable for beginners as well as those with dance experience.
FRESH FUNK 55+ | 31 OCT – 5 DEC
Fresh Funk 55+ is designed with older bodies in mind. Find your groove again – suitable for beginners as well as those with dance experience.
Fresh Funk 18m – 6 | Littlies Program
Mini Funk, Funk Stars and Funky Monkeys. Classes from 18 months to 8 years.
Fresh Funk Juniors 9-14 | Performance Program
Fresh Funk offers 5 classes for the 9-14 year old bracket. Participants are sorted into classes on the basis of age, dance experience, and the number of students involved.
Fresh Funk Seniors 15 – 18 | Performance Program
Participants are sorted into classes on the basis of age, dance experience, and the number of students involved.
Fresh Funk 18+ | Performance Program
Fresh Funk Class for adults. Dance experience is recommended but not necessary.
Fresh Funk Master Class | Performance Program
Masters classes are by invitation only, and are offered to tutors and the most experienced dancers as a way to challenge and extend their dance skills.
Fresh Funk Open Class
Aimed at dancers looking to challenge and extend themselves – Open Classes offer a new routine and a new choreographic challenge each class.
Fresh Funk Shows
Fresh Funk’s performance program produces a show at the end of each semester. Each show is a multi-faceted spectacular, rather than a “recital” – with a current theme relevant to young people, often adapted from well-known stories. Performed on stage at Erindale College by more than 300 Fresh Funk students; with each class getting multiple routines that speak to the show narrative which are learnt, practised, and developed into choreographed pieces through the semester. The use of video components, specialised lighting effects and staging come together with cutting-edge choreography to create a huge “wow” factor and forms the unique Fresh Funk experience for both audience and dancers.
Young Choreographers Initiative
Fresh Faced has become a centrepiece of the Fresh Funk program. Running every semester for over 20 years, the initiative offers emerging choreographers the opportunity to develop and perform an original dance work as part of the “Fresh Faced” showcase. From contemporary pieces to well-known musical theatre gems, and hip-hop anthems, each piece has its own theme with each young choreographer taking full control over all the elements of the creative process, from movement to lighting design and costumes. Fresh Faced is offered to the program’s advanced dancers as a free development project and applications are open to students who are keen to learn how a professional would create a show. The opportunity provides valuable insights into the professional dance industry and gets students working outside their comfort zone and with dancers from outside their normal class groups.
Fresh Faced | Fresh Funk | 25 – 27 OCT
The creative ideas of young choreographers will come to life on stage for Fresh Funk’s Young Choreographers Initiative in October
SHOWCASE | FRESH FUNK | 7 DEC
A full cast extravaganza at Erindale Theatre by 300+ dancers from TAC’s hip-hop and contemporary dance program.
FRESH FACED | FRESH FUNK | 17 – 19 MAY
The creative ideas of 16 young choreographers will come to life on stage in the 40th integration of Fresh Funk’s Young Choreographers Initiative in May.
Meet the Tutors
Leena Wall
Brittany Landon
Charly Lehmensich
Chanelle Smith
David Nery
Noah Gorrell
Danica Spitaler
Lucy Nugent
Carmen Rush
About Fresh Funk
Fresh Funk Program Structure
Fresh Funk offers fun classes which cater for dancers of all levels. “Littlies” and Introduction classes introduce the basic elements of dance, and the graduated performance program offers a...
Fresh Funk Success
As Canberra’s first hip-hop dance and choreographic development program, Fresh Funk has paved the way for young dancers to learn, explore and create in hip-hop and contemporary dance styles for...
History of Fresh Funk
In 1998 Caroline ‘Leena’ Wall and Geza Szanto, Year 12 students at Erindale College decided to enter their School into the ACT Rock Eisteddfod. This experience in choreography, producing and...