Jacqui Dreessens
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| Occupation | Lecturer, choreographer, percussionist |
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| Location | Australia |
| Introduction | Jacqui is a community arts practitioner in choreography and percussion lecturing at Deakin University in early childhood, primary and secondary Arts Education. She co-founded Wild Moves International in 1991 that nurtured the dreaming for the annual Return of the Sacred Kingfisher festival in 1994 at CERES community environmental arts park. Jacqui is inspired by indigenous cultures and their connection to ancestral spirit and the fostering of identity in the youth generation. She has extensively studied dance styles and drumming techniques of the African Diaspora which has led to many exciting artist in residency programs in schools and the community in Australia, Africa and the Netherlands: "Where journeys Meet" Gasworks Community Arts Park to celebrate Australian Federation 2001 and the opening ceremony for the Deaf Olympics in 2005. Jacqui is a regular community arts practitioner for the Surf Coast Shire's High Tide festival. She has a committed interest in human rights issues and feminist ethnography. This fostered the making of "Children of the Blue Light" filmed in the Slave Dungeons of the Cape Coast Castle, Ghana. |
| Interests | The Divine Feminine and Masculine and all things related to the Great Earth Mother, nature and the environment, indigenous cultures, all the arts, human rites issues. |
| Favorite movies | Pirates of the Caribbean, Men in Black 2, Gran Tarino, Narnia, Lord of the Rings, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, |
| Favorite music | All things World Music, African and fusions there of, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Rolling Stones, The Doors, ACDC, Midnight Oil, Afro Mandinko, The Larsen Effect |
| Favorite books | Animals and the Origins of Dance, Earth Childrens' Series: The Mammoth Hunters, Plains of Passage, Valley of the Horses, Shelters of Stone |