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March Theme: One Love

With March being the month of International Women’s Day, the International Day of Happiness and Zero Discrimination Day, we thought we’d pick the theme ‘One Love’ this month. Meet a new person If you’ve moved to a new city or you’ve perhaps fallen into a cycle of seeing the same (wonderful) familiar faces, maybe it’s […]

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February’s Theme: Luv Yuhself

When the Groove Therapy team sat down to think about February our calendar jumped out with Valentines Day emojis and we groaned at the foreseeable spam of love, relationships and undermining of self-confidence that so many brands were gearing up to cash in on. In defiance we decided to flip the script on love this […]

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JANUARY’S THEME: RESTART

RESTART YOUR YEAR WITH DANCE Dance class at Groove Therapy starts on the week of Jan 8 2018 (which you can book here). Amongst the hype of new year reinvention, bucket lists, goals and resolutions the Groove Therapy fam over here has a few words for you. You’ve always said you’ll come to class…one day. […]

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Not Your Average Dancer: Wanida Serce

We’re back at it again with another ‘Not your Average Dancer’. Meet Wanida Serce, your Brisbane therapist, one woman powerhouse and entrepreneur who is out here to change the beauty ideals in Australian media one project at a time. Wanida’s dance career started like many others. She was put into dance classes by her mum […]

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Dance Industry Music

Groove Lab Playlist #3

Bored of your current jams list? Don’t worry,  we’ve got you covered with another curated list by our Cali-living Aussie friend, Clarence Kent. This dude practices bedroom grooves harder than anyone we’ve ever met, so it was only fitting that we asked him to put together a list of songs he’s currently bumping. Low key […]

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Not Your Average Dancer: Benny ‘Bucho’ Garcia

Amy Zhang, our producer and general manager, has created this new series ‘Not Your Average Dancer’, in which she interviews incredible performance artists who have carved out a career path despite not fitting the typical ‘dancer mould’. Today we have our Gold Coast teacher Benny ‘Bucho’ Garcia on all things breaking, growing up and what […]

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Who was Vanessa Marian at Home Growing Up?

Words by Samantha Varghese (Vanessa Marian’s baby sister) When I sat down to write this article on how and why Groove Therapy is as we know it today, I realised it was something I’d given little prior thought to. I first found out about Groove Therapy over a trending Facebook post when my sister launched […]

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Five Reasons Why Dance can Change your Life this Week.

Get on it. Stat. Have you been meaning to get to class but find something always comes up? Or are you an already converted faithful regular? Either way, it’s Vanessa Marian – founder of Groove Therapy here, and I’m going to list five of the fundamental reasons on why I decided to start this company. […]

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Fear Less. Live More. Show the World your Bedroom Grooves.

We’re All Going To Die Festival is approaching and we think you need to jump on board. What are you afraid of? Not being able to keep up with the choreography? Being the wrong body shape for a dance class? Looking like Bambi on ice? All of the above? Well it turns out you’re not […]

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What Makes Groove Therapy So Different?

I’m Samantha Varghese. I grew up dancing, not just in dance classes but also in my room. I guess it runs in the family since I’m the smarter and better looking sister of Groove Therapy’s founder Vanessa Marian. I think it’s safe to say that I know all about Groove Therapy and why Vanessa started […]