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Our mission is to care for dancers and communities, through artistic practice and cultural storytelling.

We have strong mental health inclusion priorities and seek to advocate for the sustainability and diversity of dance practice.

13/02/2024

FREE DANCE WORKSHOPS! Are you or someone you know a young person with diverse mental health who loves to dance? We will be hosting a range of creative development workshops in partnership with Schizy Inc at Boyd Studio (Melbourne) starting soon, for women and female identifying people under 30. All levels of dance experience welcome. Wednesday nights, beginning 20 March. FREE, with an opportunity to perform. Full details in post, email [email protected] to register!

30/09/2023

Grace Dance Company is pleased to launch a series of peer support and dance workshops for people that identify as having a lived experience of diverse mental health, ages 18-30.
This is a fully funded program with a focus on integrating dance and movement practices with peer support in a community setting.

Running for six weeks for people aged 18-30years on Mondays, from 2-4pm. The dates are as follows 30th October, 6 November, 13th Nov, 20th November, 27th November, 4th December. There are up to 10 spots available, fully funded by the Ducas Paul Foundation in partnership with Schizy Inc. Please contact [email protected] if you have any further queries or click the link below to register interest.

https://forms.gle/DFqsKTDhtrbwoUW86

03/06/2023

Ceremony of Connection at 📍Elwood Beach

Yesterday dancers .alyne2 communed at Elwood Beach to bear witness to the sunrise.

Together we explored movement/dance practice that responded to the prompts of connection with self, connection with eachother and connection ‘beyond’ - a practice we usually embrace in the studio setting, but this time had the blessing of exploring in a site specific beachside location. Thank you to for documenting our practice on camera. It was truly special to be witnessed in this way 🙏🏻

29/04/2023

Happy International Dance Day!

To those of you that survived covid lockdowns and still hold true to your dance practice

To those of you that moved on but miss the home of your body and regular movement practice

To those of you that are in the thick of performance season and are ever invested in rehearsing and performing

To those of you that are studying to make it as a ‘professional dancer’… but are unsure what that will tangibly look like when full time studies finish…

To the dancers facing mental health challenges at the moment

To the dancers that struggle with disordered eating

To the dancers that are in a never ending cycle of perfectionism and have a strong inner critic

To the improvisers, free spirits, movers and groovers and colourful sparks of hope in a dark room

We see you

We are grateful for you

You matter

We believe in you

Wishing you all a Happy International Dance Day!

— with love from the artists of Grace Dance Company

21/08/2022

We are pleased to share that this year our dance film will be featuring at The Big Anxiety Festival, hosted by theatre in the Yarra Ranges. Sincerely Survivor the dance film will have a face to face screening followed by a live QnA with some of the artistic Grace Dance Company team. Please join us! Book today via the link below https://www.thebiganxiety.org/events/sincerely-survivor-film-screening-and-qa/

15/03/2022

Join Grace Dance Company in their 2022 work exploring the intersection of mental health lived/living experience and dance. Grace Dance Company are currently looking to engage with 6 female identifying dancers between the ages of 18-30 years old to develop a new work in Melbourne that will be performed at La Mama Theatre at the end of the year.

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Peer Led Dance and Mental Health Creative Development

Paid opportunity for six female dancers with lived experience of mental ill health/neurodiversity.

An opportunity to reconcile your mental health lived experience back to creative dance practice.

The creative development will take place from May-July (2022) with the opportunity to perform at La Mama Theatre in October.

Find more info and express your interest today via the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNX-1iyvDO8t-Psv8aKkCGw-CLOZOVC_gKnQB0q5vpsg-zkg/viewform

Applications close 31 March 2022.

Proudly supported by Schizy Inc, Ducas Paul Foundation and Vic Health

11/10/2021

Artist’s House International Podcast chats with founder of Sincerely Survivor, Hannah Friebel!

Hosted by Lara Bianca Pilcher, Hannah talks all things mental health and creativity, drawing from her own lived experience with mental health in the Victorian public mental health system.

You can listen podcast Season 5 Episode 5, or check out the link directly to their site in our bio!

11/10/2021

Thank you to all who joined us yesterday at 5pm for our livestream!

Whilst we can’t confirm any formal dance performances due to COVID-19 in 2022, we look forward to engaging in other ways through our Peer Support Programs and Dance For Health programs, as well as on our growing community on social media.

If you are in a position to consider contributing to our Seed Fundraiser to assist with company startup during this strange and challenging time for dancers, we would love for you to partner with us and be a part of the journey unfolding.

You can donate via the link in our bio and email [email protected] for any queries into our future programming.

30/09/2021

To celebrate World Mental Health Day 2021, our friends at Sincerely Survivor have put together a program which aims to raise awareness for Mental Health through a screening of their dance film and a discussion afterwards.

Tickets are pay by donation, and are available via the link in the event. The proceeds of the event will go towards funding their documentary series.

This film may contain triggering themes pertaining to mental health, institutional abuse and trauma.

02/09/2021

ABOUT THE FOUNDER⁠⁠
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Hannah Gabrielle Friebel grew up dancing; free spirited and full of wonder and awe. Her vision for dance came at a very young age - which was realised with the launch of Grace Dance Company on World Mental Health Day 2020. Hannah advocates for mental health in all that she does, informed by her own lived experience. Hannah adopts an interdisciplinary practice in mental health and the arts, currently working as a Consultant at Monash Health and Researcher at Monash University where she amplifies Consumer lived experience voices in support of mental health system reform. Longer term, Hannah is pursuing training to become a Psyschologist and brings a wealth of mental health knowledge to inform her work in the dance sector. Our debut work was created in collaboration with , which Hannah is is also a founder.⁠⁠
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In 2019 Hannah travelled to London to study dance at Roehampton University. It was here that she began to connect her passion for mental health advocacy with the dance sector, meeting with dancers across the UK, EU, US and Australia to advocate for improved mental health standards for dancers. This includes having recently established a Dancer Peer Support Program with , as well as ongoing contributions to the International Dance Psychology Journal Club (a global collaboration of researchers committed to dance and mental health promotion).⁠⁠
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