About The Cassettes
The Cassettes!
Professional 80s + 90s Dance Classes, Flashmobs and Festival Workshops, directed by Marissa Treichel:
* Flashmob Dance Company
* Mix Tapes
* Festival Dance Workshops
* For beg - adv groovers
* Weekly classes Byron, Bangalow, Burleigh
The Cassettes Description
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now". - Goethe
The Cassettes began with one hilarious and exciting / terrifying idea:
To flashmob Push It at a party on a sweeping hill overlooking Byron, under a giant fig tree. Three friends joined me in this mission. The ever-inventive and resourceful Cedar of Flow Hive rigged up emergency lighting for us during the performance, and Push It ended up bringing the whole party together in a joyful and reckless celebration of everything awesome. Like dancing. And the 80s.
Something happened to me as I choreographed, taught and shared Push It. The spirit of 80s dance was stirring within my loins, seeping into my splayed jazz hands and stretching into my undulating, body-rolling spine! It hasn't stopped.
Power moves will work for you too: just ask Wonder Woman, TED #power moves and the ever-empowered, all-inclusive Cassettes dancers. And by inclusive, yes that does mean men too, and all humans of the 16 + variety.
Push It also opened up other weird and daring ideas: I applied to perform at Mullum Music Festival with my "80s Flashmob Troupe" (at this stage there was no actual Troupe. . . just me and 2 enthusiastic friends! ) under the name of Melted Cheese. The festival organisers said, "Yes! 80s flashmob you are in! But the name sucks. Find a better name. " A fun late-night brain-storming session with my partner Jake ensued, and The Cassettes was born!
Fast forward to 2017, hundreds of Cassette dance classes and Flashmob performances later! ! What a specific and fun journey!
From it's juicy and organic beginnings, The Cassettes now have seven rad (Really Amazing Dance) classes running each week, and almost a hundred adult dance students, led by a team of seven diverse, inspired and professionally trained teachers.
The Flashmob Troupe continue to combine comedy and 80s dance-theatrics, but now at a super tight, jazztastic level. Wait. . . now that I'm not in it! Jeez, dreams can unfold in unpredictable ways. Still, I'm loving teaching the Byron and Bangalow Mix Tapes, running zesty 80s dance workshops, and Directing our top-notch Cassette teaching team.
Which class /classes will you do? Which are you already doing??
1. Mix Tapes Beginner - Intermediate Level
Tues 9. 30am Burleigh / Weds 9. 30am Byron / Weds 6pm Bangalow / Thurs 5. 45pm Burleigh
2. Hot Stuff Intermediate Level
Tues 9. 30am Byron / Thurs 6pm Bangalow
3. Flashmob Troupe Intermediate - Advanced Level
Mon 6pm Byron
Dancers, we are so proud of you! Stay awesome.
Please check out our videos and pics to fill your heart with inspiration, and of course go to our website:
www. thecassettes.com. au
to book in and dance. Join our mailing list (on homepage) to secure a place in our renowned One-Off Workshops: Dirty Dancing anyone?
Trained dancers and performers, go for it:
Apply to join the Flashmob Troupe.
Festivals and Special Events:
Enquire about booking the Flashmob Troupe
If you're thinking of beginning dance with The Cassettes for the first time, or adding an extra class / another Creative Adventure to your weekly fun-friendship-fitness-funnies list, begin it now. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, after all.
Reviews
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbmBNx2m mifMi7HdxiJBs9A
Hi dance family! Please pop over to our brand spankin' ⚡YouTube Channel⚡and subscribe: We cherish your support and enthusiasm.
... 😍 Also, we've just now added our recent Bohemian Rhapsody show video.
💗 Tremendous thanks to dancer Rohini Drury for creating our YouTube channel.
🤓 Cassette Workshop and Cassette Dance Class channels coming soon!
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⚡️LET’S DANCE. The lovely Georgia Gow, aka our new Door Goddess👩🎤, running through her Bowie warm-up for Byron Mix Tapes with Riss. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ One of so many songs we’ll be exploring this term (as well as our performance pieces):... 💋KISS’ I Was Made for Loving You, and🕴🏼MJ’s Smooth Criminal. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Mix Tapes jazz-kicks off tonight! in Burleigh that is, and next Weds in Byron and Bangalow 🎉. Final places: ⚡️www.thecassettes.com.au. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The dancers who most love our classes are creative 🦄, soulful ✨, organised 👓, fond of connecting 👯♀️and love a leaptastic dance workout 🤸🏻♀️. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⚡️They also tend to be Rather Fond 😍of 80s and 90s music, with a dash of disco and a wobble of The Wombats thrown in the mix. All the better to unravel the body to. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @gowgeorgia #thecassettesdance #mixtapesdance #LetsDance #davidbowie #theseriousmoonlight #dancebyronbay #80sdancebangalow #80sdancebyron #80sdanceburleigh #laugh #sweat #naturalhigh #humour #dance80s #expressyourself #explore #beauty #connect #creativedance #wholebodydance #joyfulexercise #unique 🤘🏼⚡️.
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The Cassettes all-time favourite festival, our stomping ground: Mullum Music Fest ⚡See you there music lovers!
http://www.mullummusicfestival.com/THE_CA SSETTES/677…
⚡️Romping about at The Quad’s Playground Festival, The Cassettes’ Flashmob Dance Company with Bohemian Rhapsody 🎼. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Catsuits, kooky dancers, Queen and handmade shoulder bling 😍. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Big love and thanks to @lensretrospect , Marisa Snow, and a beautiful gleam ✨of flashmob dancers:... @granthfam @ggirlbrooke @rodrury @shelleyanfield @leisel_ann and Vicki Lawrence. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Cosy post performance gobbles were had at @dustyatticmusiclounge . Yum yum! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⚡️#thecassettes #flashmobdancecompany @lismorequad #flashmob #festivaldanceworkshop #dancetheatre #letsgetphysical #physicaltheatre #wonder #teamwork #bohemianrhapsody #explore #connect #perform #share #play #catsuits #sparkle #playgroundfestival #thequad #festivalflashmob #festivaldancers #byronbaydancecrew ⚡️ @ Lismore Quadrangle
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🐛Early Bird ends at midnight!
⚡️Burleigh Cassette Classes we start Thurs 18th Oct ⚡️Byron + Bangalow Cassette Classes we start week of Mon 22nd Oct
... 👓 Planning ahead and makin cool stuff happen!
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“Hi, we're your Weather Girls (uh huh) And have we got news for you!” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 💋Priscilla, Queen of the Desert mash-up by the ⚡️Burleigh Mix Tape Crew. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀... Choreographed and led by Cassettes Teacher @deb_chal 🙌🏼, this piece is an ode to confident, stylish and sassy ladies, gorgeous drag queens, feathers, and flamboyant humans everywhere👩🎤⚡️. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ EARLy BIRd 🧚♀️ for next term ends tomorrow at midnight 🌓. ⚡️www.thecassettes.com.au. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In term 4 Burleigh crew are dancing Michael Jackson’s SMOOTH CRIMINAL 😎. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The ⚡️Priscilla megamix was also our Burleigh dancers first flashmob eva, @SWELLSculpture Festival 👩🎤.
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #TheWeatherGirls #ItsRainingCassettes #Burleighdanceclass #Priscilla #megamix #MixTapes #thecassettes #confidence #team #flair #expression #diversity #awesomewomen #bestself #fitness #fun #freedom #dance #choreography #burleighadultdance ⚡️.
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⚡️I think we’ll go with a little, “Bohemian Rhapsody, ladies”. 👩🎤 This fri + sat @ Cheeky Cabaret, The Cassettes most kaleidescopic piece yet!
https://brunswickpicturehouse.com/our-eve nts/cheeky-cabaret/
“Thank you SO MUCH for last night!!!! Was so excited for my first ever dance performance....thank you for being such an inspiring, caring, patient and exuberantly sparkly teacher!”. 💗⚡️@milifresh the exuberance and sparkliness is all yours🤘🏼. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ So excited by these amazing shots by chillmeister @elliotkirkwoodphotography :... ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The Cassettes’ mega⚡️ joyful Byron + Bangalow, beginner-int 80s dance crews👩🎤, Mix Tapes + teacher Marissa. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Performing our cray-cray athletic 👟Footloose 👟dance routine by Deb ⚡️💗. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Elliot normally captures waves 🌊....we did do a body wave 👩🎤 at one point.... ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ EARLy BIRd 🧚♀️ for next term closes Sept 28: ⚡️www.thecassettes.com.au⚡️. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #dancebyronbay #dancebangalow #elliotkirkwoodphotography #marissatreichel #80sdancebyron #laugh #sweat #happyhigh #naturalhigh #fitness #humour #dance80s #expressyourself #explore #beauty #connect #bigdance #wholebodydance #joyfulexercise #thecassettesdance #mixtapesdance 🤘🏼⚡️.
@ Bangalow, New South Wales
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⚡️Byron and Bangalow Mix Tapes, our beg-int Dance Crews performing Footloose together.
⚡️Next term = anthemic 80s rock with KISS! http://www.thecassettes.com.au/event-cate gory/mix-tape/
How we roll ⚡️ 35 weeks pregnant and performing Footloose tonight with her Mix Tape Crew, radiant and rad naturopath Nat Tropeano 💗.
Priscilla flashmob at a beachfront sculpture festival = Cassette happy place ⚡️.
Just between us 🤫, the Burleigh Mix Tape dancers flashmob SWELL multiple times from 1.45pm today: Look for the twirling umbrellas, flying feathers and tossed aside trench coats.
... With the fearless and freaking awesome Deb Chalmers.
http://www.swellsculpture.com.au
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⚡️HENS Workshop with Jo and her beautiful girlfriends today, Cassette style: 👌🏼80s Dance routines, group hugs 💞, creativity, hyper-activity, rad tunes and reflective writing tasks 🤓⚡️💘. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Champagne tastes so much better after dancing with your g-friends! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀... @josmail @rodrury 🤟🏼⚡️🙏🏼. #80shensbyronbay #cassettesworkshop #cassettesdanceworkshop #dressups #sweatandbehappy #cassettehens #qualityhensworkshop #creativity #friendship #dance80s #laughter #bestdanceclasseseva ⚡️#cassetteshens #byronbayhens #integrity #awesomeness 😘 @ Brooklet, New South Wales, Australia
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The Cassettes are back at the ever amazing Cheeky Cabaret ⚡️
Burleigh Mix Tapes Priscilla dress-rehearsal! ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️
“Since moving to Byron I have joined an 80s dance class called The Cassettes. Every week we get together to learn a choreographed dance; this term it’s Footloose. Last night we got together to watch the film. I feel so lucky to have met such lovely women. 💛🕺🏼Thanks Marissa Treichel for running these classes 🤗.” - Mix Tape dancer, Kirsten Butler, @may_the_ek _byron_bay ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀... ⚡️My pleasure Kirsten. I 💘 running our classes (split leaps, power moves, creative tasks, dress-ups...😍). My favourite aspect of The Cassettes is continually meeting these intelligent, warm-hearted, glowing and interesting people: our dancers 🌈🤘🏼⚡️👩🎤. We have a hoot in every class 😄. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🙋🏼♀️To join, head to: www.thecassettes.com.au ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The experience of running ⚡️The Cassettes has actually given me greater faith in humanity 🤟🏼. The more I teach and engage with others, the more I see our positive natures in action 💞. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #thecassettes #fun #bestdanceclasseva #playful #dancefitness #connection #workingtogether #MixTapesdanceclass #danceclassbyronbay #byronbaydanceclass #burleigh80sdanceclass #bangalowdanceclass #danceclassbangalow #80sdanceburleigh #thecassettesdanceclass #thecassettesbyron #thecassettesbangalow Pics by @lensretrospect at our last Mix Tape show. New shows on this and next week! ⚡️👏🏼 @ Byron Bay, New South Wales
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Mix Tape Dance Classes...we have some fun.
A few pics from last term's Beat It performance. Priscilla Queen of the Dessert mash-up, and Footloose Mix Tape shows on Thurs 13th and Weds 19th Sept!
All the deets for dancing at Mix Tapes with Marissa in Byron and Bangalow, or with Deb in Burleigh:... http://www.thecassettes.com.au/event-cate gory/mix-tape/
Pics by Mr Alex Moffat Clarke
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🤘🏼In 2 weeks today, something epic coming your way!
😂 The Cassettes message of today is: