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

– Gabrielle Roth

WHERE’S THE DANCEFLOOR?

MOVEMENT

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

– Gabrielle Roth

WHERE’S THE DANCEFLOOR?

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 rode the first lockdown teaching online. But in the stretch of doing this while parenting, I came to a realisation that I was in need of radical change. I stepped back from movement teaching and from my organisational and community roles to take a year+ of retreat, existential enquiry and – I hoped! – renewal.

Glimpses of Light was the result, rooted in Devon ground and presenting Dancefloor Jedi and other new movement projects as part of an integrated artistic offering.

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 rode the first lockdown teaching online. But in the stretch of doing this while parenting, I came to a realisation that I was in need of radical change. I stepped back from movement teaching and from my organisational and community roles to take a year+ of retreat, existential enquiry and – I hoped! – renewal.

Glimpses of Light was the result, rooted in Devon ground and presenting Dancefloor Jedi and other new movement projects as part of an integrated artistic offering.


MAPS TO THE INVISIBLE:

dancers’ practice guides to
5RHYTHMS, MOVEMENT MEDICINE & other ways

– coming soon…

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.

*TESTAMONIALS SLIDESHOW – TO ADD: SLIDE REVOLUTION?*

*SHORT MOVEMENT SPECIFIC CdS BIO*

MAPS TO THE INVISIBLE:
DANCERS’ PRACTICES GUIDES TO 5RHYTHMS, MOVEMENT MEDICINE +
– COMING SOON

POSTCARD FROM SOUTH LONDON

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.

ART FOR DANCERS

“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