MOVEMENT

Body… Breath… Rhythm… -> Welcome to the Dancefloor!

MOVEMENT

Body… Breath… Rhythm…
-> Welcome to the Dancefloor!

WHERE’S THE DANCEFLOOR?

WHERE’S THE DANCEFLOOR?

To dip your toe in, come to a Drop-in or an Online Session
To Go Deeper, dive into an Immersion or other longer event
For committed home practice, join my membership, The Dancefloor Jedi Project.
See the Calendar for all dates and places.

To dip your toe in, come to a Drop-in or an Online Session
To Go Deeper, dive into an Immersion or other longer event
For committed home practice, join my membership, The Dancefloor Jedi Project.
See the Calendar for all dates and places.

“Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos.”
– Lyall Watson

“Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos.”
– Lyall Watson

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SOME DANCING HISTORY…

“Dancing for me began as a clandestine activity in my bedroom as a teenager, awakening and igniting my spirit in ways I had never dreamed were possible. In time I came across and immersed in the dual movement pathways of raving and Tai Chi. Discovering the 5Rhythms in 1998, I felt like I had come home.

I danced and learned this movement meditation practice intensively with Gabrielle Roth, Ya’Acov & Susannah Darling Khan and several other teachers, eventually training with Gabrielle in 2004-05 and beginning to teach. I was then involved in Movement Medicine from its inception by Y&S DK, working as a pathfinder and faculty teacher for the School of Movement Medicine. 

For 15 years I held classes, workshops and dancing ceremonies in London and other European cities. The weekly Sweaty Thursdays, held in a big church in south London, became something of a subcultural phenomenon, spawning a vibrant movement community.

This was the ground from which emerged the seminal dancingTao collective, a collaborative experiment in holding dance spaces, movement-based community reach-out and special events like the Rhythm Village festival and international All In Movement project.

When the Covid-19 pandemic came. I stepped back from movement teaching and from my organisational and community roles, taking an extended period to focus on personal practice, family and other work. I went deep into existential enquiry and creative renewal.

Glimpses of Light was the result, rooted in South Devon ground and presenting Transmission, The Dancefloor Jedi Project and other new initiatives as part of a multi-disiplinary artistic offering. Then in 2024 I began holding longer movement spaces again with a year-long programme teaching The Way of the Dancer.” – Christian

SOME DANCING HISTORY…

“Dancing for me began as a clandestine activity in my bedroom as a teenager, awakening and igniting my spirit in ways I had never dreamed were possible. In time I came across and immersed in the dual movement pathways of raving and Tai Chi. Discovering the 5Rhythms in 1998, I felt like I had come home.

I danced and learned the practice intensively with Gabrielle Roth, Ya’Acov & Susannah Darling Khan and several other teachers, eventually training with Gabrielle in 2004-05. I was then involved in Movement Medicine from its inception by Y&S DK, working as a pathfinder and faculty teacher for the School of Movement Medicine. 

For 15 years I held classes, workshops and dancing ceremonies in London and other European cities. The weekly Sweaty Thursdays, held in a big church in south London, became something of a subcultural phenomenon, spawning a vibrant movement community.

This was the ground from which emerged the seminal dancingTao collective, a collaborative experiment in holding dance spaces, movement-based community reach-out and special events like the Rhythm Village festival and international All In Movement project.

When the Covid-19 pandemic came. I stepped back from movement teaching and from my organisational and community roles, taking an extended period to focus on personal practice, family and other work. I went deep into existential enquiry and creative renewal.

Glimpses of Light was the result, rooted in South Devon ground and presenting Transmission, The Dancefloor Jedi Project and other new initiatives as part of a multi-disiplinary artistic offering. Then in 2024 I began holding longer movement spaces again with a year-long programme teaching The Way of the Dancer.” – Christian

POSTCARDS FROM THE DANCEFLOOR

MAPS TO THE INVISIBLE

Core Resources from The Dancefloor Jedi Project…

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I have also studied Amerta (the movement work of Suprapto Suyodarmo, aka Prapto) Processwork / Worldwork, Taoism and various threads of Shamanic / Animist practice (with Malidoma Somé, Chris Luttichau and Daniel Foor amongst others) – all of which inform and guide my movement facilitation and ritual-holding.

I have also studied Amerta (the movement work of Suprapto Suyodarmo, aka Prapto) Processwork / Worldwork, Taoism and various threads of Shamanic / Animist practice (with Malidoma Somé, Chris Luttichau and Daniel Foor amongst others) – all of which inform and guide my movement facilitation and ritual-holding.

PHOTOGRAPHIC MOVEMENTS

“In freestyle dance you are art.
You are not making art or doing art
– you ARE art…”

– Gabrielle Roth

MOVEMENT

“In freestyle dance you are art. You are not making art or doing art – you ARE art…”

– Gabrielle Roth

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