Moving Knowledge founder and director is Lara Thompson.
Qualifications and Experience
Post Graduate Degree Choreography – Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University
Post Graduate Degree Movement Therapy/Teaching – Melbourne University
Post Graduate Degree Teaching – Dance & Drama – Deakin University
Lara has an expansive background in movement, dance and drama, and for over 15 years has delivered educational integration programs using movement as a mode of somatic learning.
Lara has studied and taught movement, dance and drama in its many different forms both locally and internationally – having integrated the Moving Knowledge program into some of Melbourne’s most Prestigious schools.
Lara has worked with boys in dance across various age groups and social environments. She first learned of the joy of working with boys when she taught Dance and Drama Therapy at ‘Turana Boys Prison’ (Juvenile Justice Centre – Parkville). Lara has furthered her work with boys teaching somatic movement and dance to men with Muscular Dystrophy, as well as teaching Community Men’s dance and Boys dance in Education.
Lara has been successfully delivering bodily- kinaesthetic, creative, integrated, cross-curricular dance in education programs within schools for over 10 years.
Lara has studied dance in its many capacities. Cultural immersion opportunities have seen Lara successfully and respectfully integrate the dances of the Aboriginal and Balinese cultures into the Primary classroom for exploration and cultural understanding.
Lara is a professional Dance in Education Consultant and assists schools to enhance and develop their curriculum and outcomes in the classroom.
Her work not only supports the integration of Arts into the everyday practice and delivery of curriculum material as aligned with National Curriculum standards & practices, but her work provides exciting new skills, tools and confidence to classroom teachers, empowering them to create a new, engaging and physical learning environment.
Lara is experienced in working with toddlers, children, teenagers, adults and elders using dance and movement to enhance growth, development, community, education and rehabilitation.