Tania Bosak

Tania has worked for more than 34 years as an actor, musician, producer, composer, musical director, theatre director and passionate educator across the arts in Australia and abroad. Her initial training in Odissi and Bharatanatyam Indian Classical dance from 1989 to 1997, alongside her acting and physical theatre training at The John Bolton Theatre School in 1991, became the foundation of her ongoing passion and interest in rhythm, story-telling/theatre, and movement.
In 2018, after more than 20 years of training and practice, Tania certified as a Master TaKeTiNa Rhythm facilitator. TaKeTiNa is a unique Rhythm and Meditation process founded and created by composer and musician Reinhard Flatischler, with whom she trained with in the USA, and assisted between 2010 and 2021. During this time Tania assisted in TaKeTiNa Teacher Trainings, Weekend workshops and Drumming and Percussion courses. Tania continued to develop a deeper interest in rhythm for health and healing, for group process work and music for social and personal change, which then led her to complete a Diploma in Solution-Focused Counselling (CET, Dr Rob McNeilly). She went on to further training with Stephen Gilligan and completed a Trance Camp in 2008, and a certificate in Generative Trance therapy at the Institute of Applied Psychology (IAP) in 2020. Tania more recently completed a leader training certificate with ‘Musicians without Borders in Germany with Otto De Jong, Marion Haak-Schulenburg, and Juan David Garzon 2021.
In 2004 Tania founded Pulse Rhythm Events, an organization dedicated to presenting collaborative workshops and events involving theatre, rhythm, body, voice, and personal evolution practices. In association with Pulse Rhythm, Tania is currently running online ACTIVE RHYTHM MUSIC MEDITATION (ARMM™) programs that combine her expertise in Generative Trance practice, theatre, voice, movement, and the TaKeTiNa Rhythm process.
More recently, Tania was invited to teach TaKeTiNa in the Bachelor of Rhythm and Rhythmics at the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, an innovative 3-year training co-founded by Arnould Massart, for professional music and rhythm teachers to develop further skills working in artistic, educational, socio-cultural or health-care settings. Since 1991, Tania has continued to develop her rhythm and arts teaching practice and now  specialises in teaching these skills to actors, dancers and musicians and theatre makers as well as within community settings. She has been engaged by various Universities and organisations including; Theatre de la Parole (director/dramaturg/movement), Melbourne Polytechnic (TaKeTiNa/Rhythm/Balkan Choir), Victoria University (Rhythm and Theatre), MTC (Melbourne Theatre Company) Educational programs (rhythm/voice/movement), The John Bolton Theatre School (rhythm/movement/theatre), and is currently a guest TaKeTiNa/Rhythm and Movement tutor at Melbourne University, in the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre).
As a diverse musician and perfomer, Tania continues to work with her music ensembles The Barefoot Orchestra, Rektango, and The Beijao. She has also performed with rhythm specialists/drummers, Graeme Leak, Greg Sheehan, David Jones, and the bin and broom-wielding UK group, STOMP. In 2004 Tania received a Churchill Fellowship and traveled to South Korea to study Korean drum and dance with Master drummer Jin Lu Rim, and Korean percussion at the SamulNori Academy in Puyeo, South Korea.
For more than 3 decades Tania has continued to stay in connection with her theatre work and has worked as a theatre worker/actor, community artist, musician andmusical director on various projects in Australia and abroad. She has been engaged by Theatre de la Parole in Belgium (theatre director/movement director), Gonghouse Music Theatre Company (dancer/drummer), Margie Mackay Productions on large scale outdoor community music events,(MD/composer), Theatre Alfresco (actor/MD), Big Monkey Theatre (actor/MD), STOMP percussion group,(dancer/drummer), Chamber Made Opera (musician/actor), Rawcus Theatre (musician/composer/performer) and Jessica Wilson productions (actor).
Tania holds a BA in Performing Arts, Contemporary Dance, and Education, and completed further training in music, physical theatre, acting and movement at the John Bolton Theatre School in 1993.
Tania is a member of IAGC The International Association of Generative Change