Wild Moves is a collective of community and professional artists willing to embrace, celebrate and contribute to cultural diversity as well as environmental awareness through the interplay and integration across the arts. We are dedicated to promoting and encouraging inter-cultural teaching and learning with a focus on communication, a sense of place and the nurturing of creative development through the arts. Wild Moves inspiration comes from indigenous cultures specialising in the African Diaspora and their connection to Mother Earth.
Wild Moves International
Established in 1999 by Jacqui Dreessens and Paa Brown and was formly called AGORO. Now a strong collective of performers from across the Aboriginal and African Diaspora all of the Wild Moves’ programs and interactive performances will take you on a sound and movement journey that will demonstrate and reflect the relationship between people and their connection to the Creator, their Ancestors, the Earth, and each other.
Wild Moves community drum & dance
Founded in 1993 by Jacqui Dreessens and Thais Sansom, Wild Moves community drum and dance is made up of people like you. They perform at many fund raisers and benefit gigs to raise funds for inter-culturalism and the environment. Wild Moves is the initiator of the annual Return of the Sacred Kingfisher Festival at CERES community arts park, Brunswick, annually held in the last week of November.
Wild Moves on the Surf Coast
Founded in 2006 by Jacqui Dreessens when she relocated back to her original stamping ground of Torquay. After being away for over 20 years establishing her artistic and academic career, Jacqui continues to drum up audiences and members interested in ancient traditional cultures as a way of introducing the importance of Ancestral Spirit and indigenous connection to the Earth
International Sister Centres for Wild Moves
Wild Moves works in collaboration with sister drum n dance centres all over Victoria and Ghana, West Africa
Melbourne, Mansfield, Mt Gambier, Surf Coast, Phillip Island, Inverloch, Woodend, Castlemaine, Daylesford, Warrnambool or arrange for us to come to your region.
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You name it…we’ll create it!
Australia
Adzohu
Asanti Dance Theatre
Cuban Dance Academy
Larry Malumba and Safari Music
Melissa’s Dance
Thula Sana
Voyerhythmic
Warako Musikia
Ghana
Agoro Fie Productions, Cape Coast, Ghana
Asanti dance theatre, Cape Coast, Ghana
Coastal TV, Cape Coast, Ghana
Daowa, Atimpoku, Ghana
Kukykukyku Performance Group, Mosomagor, Kakukm National Park
Ko Nimo and Adaddam Cultural Group, Kumase, Ghana
Omari and the Miracle Dancers, Accra, Ghana
Swanzy Yard, Elmina, Ghana
Wala, Nungua, Ghana
Xofa,
Volta region, Ghana
Zo Zimlia, Tamale, Ghana
