MOVEMENT
Body… Breath… Rhythm…
To go deep, check out The Way of the Dancer…
To dip your toe in, come to a Movement drop-in session.
For home practice, join The Dancefloor Jedi Project.
See Calender below for all dates and places. Welcome!
MOVEMENT
Body… Breath… Rhythm…
To go deep, check out The Way of the Dancer…
To dip your toe in, come to a Movement drop-in session.
For home practice, join The Dancefloor Jedi Project.
See Calender below for all dates and places. Welcome!
The Way of the Dancer
WORKSHOPS, IMMERSIONS & ONGOING GROUPS A new programme of movement invitations for 2024 In-The-Room events in South Devon, England & Europe. Online sessions bringing the dance into your own space. Dance Deep. Immerse in movement as conscious practice for our times. Live as a Dancer.
The Way of the Dancer
WORKSHOPS, IMMERSIONS & ONGOING GROUPS A new programme of movement invitations for 2024 In-The-Room events in South Devon, England & Europe. Online sessions bringing the dance into your own space. Dance Deep. Immerse in movement as conscious practice for our times. Live as a Dancer.
WHERE’S THE DANCEFLOOR?
2024
March 6 – May 15: TOTNES – The Way of the Dancer: Ongoing Group
March 27 – June 05: ONLINE – The Way of the Dancer: Online Course
April 22: TOTNES – Movement drop-in @Totnes Dance Collective
May 27: LONDON – The Way of the Dancer: One-Day Workshop
June 8: SOUTH DEVON – The Way of the Dancer: One-Day Workshop
Sept 20-22: SOUTH DEVON – The Way of the Dancer: Immersion
Nov 17: LONDON – The Way of the Dancer: One-Day Workshop
Nov 29-Dec 1: ANTWERP – The Way of the Dancer: Immersion
Autumn TBC: LISBON – The Way of the Dancer: Immersion
2025
TBC: Feb 7-9 LONDON – The Way of the Dancer: Immersion
More dates & locations TBA
To get the word, sign-up to the mailing list or join the Patreon.
Click on the underlined links to book or find out more about an event
Most events require prior booking and may fill up, some drop-ins you can just turn up.
REGULARS
TRANSMISSION: deep radio for dancers & music lovers – monthly first Thursdays
DANCEFLOOR JEDI: new & exclusive recordings – released third Saturday of month
WHERE’S THE DANCEFLOOR?
2024
March 6 – May 15: TOTNES – The Way of the Dancer: Ongoing Group
March 27 – June 05: ONLINE – The Way of the Dancer: Online Course
April 22: TOTNES – Movement drop-in @Totnes Dance Collective
May 27: LONDON – The Way of the Dancer: One-Day Workshop
June 8: SOUTH DEVON – The Way of the Dancer: One-Day Workshop
Sept 20-22: SOUTH DEVON – The Way of the Dancer: Immersion
Nov 17: LONDON – The Way of the Dancer: One-Day Workshop
Nov 29-Dec 1: ANTWERP – The Way of the Dancer: Immersion
Autumn TBC: LISBON – The Way of the Dancer: Immersion
2025
TBC: Feb 7-9 LONDON – The Way of the Dancer: Immersion
More dates & locations TBA
To get the word, sign-up to the mailing list or join the Patreon.
Click on the underlined links to book or find out more about an event
Most events require prior booking and may fill up, some drop-ins you can just turn up.
REGULARS
TRANSMISSION: deep radio for dancers & music lovers – live broadcast first Thursday of every month
DANCEFLOOR JEDI: new & exclusive recordings – released third Saturday of every month
The Way of the Dancer – Online
An online dancing journey exploring the fundamentals of movement practice.Six modules with fortnightly live calls (including playback option) + special recordings for home practice and other resources.
The Dancefloor Jedi Project
MEMBERSHIP SERVICEBringing you guided practices, DJ mixes, livestreams and more, The Dancefloor Jedi Project is a subscription-based membership for conscious dancers who want to go deeper. Use anytime, anyplace to integrate the dancing force into your living.
Totnes Dance Collective
The Dancefloor Jedi Project
MEMBERSHIP SERVICEBringing you guided practices, DJ mixes, livestreams and more, The Dancefloor Jedi Project is a subscription-based membership for conscious dancers who want to go deeper. Use anytime, anyplace to integrate the dancing force into your living.
The Way of the Dancer – Online
An online dancing journey exploring the fundamentals of movement practice.Six modules with fortnightly live calls (including playback option) + special recordings for home practice and other resources.
Questions? Please feel free to reach out:
Add more basic factual bio somewhere: 5R, MM, Prapto +
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 on Zoom, but then came to realise that the time was calling me into radical change. I stepped back from movement teaching and from my organisational and community roles. I took an extended period for personal practice, family time 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 The Dancefloor Jedi Project and other new initiatives as part of a multi-disiplinary artistic offering.” – 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 rode the first lockdown teaching on Zoom, but then came to realise that the time was calling me into radical change. I stepped back from movement teaching and from my organisational and community roles. I took an extended period for personal practice, family time 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 The Dancefloor Jedi Project and other new initiatives as part of a multi-disiplinary artistic offering.” – 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 Dancefloor Jedi Project…
5Rhythms Fundamentals
5-15mins – Introduction to the 5Rhythms, taking you through the fundamentals and some of the magic of this brilliant, radical practice created by Gabrielle Roth.
Movement Medicine Fundamentals
How to be a Jedi:
Suggestions for Practice
5Rhythms Fundamentals
5-15mins – Introduction to the 5Rhythms, taking you through the fundamentals and some of the magic of this brilliant, radical practice created by Gabrielle Roth.
Movement Medicine Fundamentals
How to be a Jedi:
Suggestions for Practice
“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
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
The Zero Zone
We Got Love
Saturday night clubbing, fuelled by house music, ecstasy and friendship.
“In freestyle dance you are art.
– Gabrielle Roth
You are not making art or doing art
– you ARE art…”
MOVEMENT
“In freestyle dance you are art. You are not making art or doing art – you ARE art…”
– Gabrielle Roth