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

MOVEMENT

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

DROP-INS

YOU ARE A DANCER

Luminance

NEXT SESSION: JAN 27
ONLINE DANCE SPACE
@glimpsesoflight.art
7pm – 8.30 pm uk time
+ optional sharing space after
Luminance is a regular online movement space using Zoom, so you can join from wherever you are and dance in your own space.
(Luminance is Open to All & Free to Tier 3 Members)

DANCE

GO DEEPER

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 home practice, join my membership, The Home Dancing Project.
See theCalendar for all dates and places.

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THE MAGIC OF DANCING….

“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

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

In 2018, with the dancingTao Collective and AIM partners, I curated Rhythm Village a community festival of dance and celebration. The 10-day event was the centrepiece of All In Movement, a year-long collaborative project exploring movement practice and inclusion, with teams from London, Berlin, Rome and Budapest. Film by Alex Forster

From 2005 until 2019, I spent most Thursday evenings in a big church in South London, holding a 5Rhythms dance space. It was a transformative time for many and became the source point of a strong community of dancers. Gratitude to all that were-part of it – and big thanks to Alex Forster for this beautiful memento.

MAPS TO THE INVISIBLE

Core Resources from The Home Dancing Project…