Calendar/workshops
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Once a month in Bath
Saturday evening is a drop in class followed by an optional Sunday workshop. (You can do both or either).
SATURDAY & SUNDAY DATES 2020
January 18, 19
Saturday 7.00 - 9.30 and Sunday 10.30 - 5.30
February 8, 9
Saturday 7.00 - 9.30 and Sunday 10.30 - 5.30
March 21, 22 CANCELLED - CORONAVIRUS PRECAUTIONS
Saturday 7.00 - 9.30 and Sunday 10.30 - 5.30
April 25, 26 CANCELLED - CORONAVIRUS PRECAUTIONS
Saturday 7.00 - 9.30 and Sunday 10.30 - 5.30
May 9, 10
Saturday 7.00 - 9.30 and Sunday 10.30 - 5.30
June 13, 14
Saturday 7.00 - 9.30 and Sunday 10.30 - 5.30
July 18, 19
Saturday 7.00 - 9.30 and Sunday 10.30 - 5.30
August 9 (day and evening)
Sunday day & evening 10.30 - 5.30 and 7.00 - 9.30
September 19, 20
Saturday 7.00 - 9.30 and Sunday 10.30 - 5.30
October 10. 11
Saturday 7.00 - 9.30 and Sunday 10.30 - 5.30
November 14, 15
Saturday 7.00 - 9.30 and Sunday 10.30 - 5.30
December 12, 13
Saturday 7.00 - 9.30 and Sunday 10.30 - 5.30
Cost for Saturday evening £20
Cost for Sunday £55
Cost for Saturday and Sunday £65.
Cost for 3 Saturday evenings £50 if used within 5 months
Cost for three Sundays £150 if used within 5 months.
Cost for 3 Saturday and Sundays £180 if used within 5 months.
To Book: Please transfer your payment to Sue Kuhn
Sort code: 07-01-16 Account: 14318117 using your name as reference.
Or pay on the door with cash.
Please pay before the start of the class or workshop.
About Open Floor Movement
Common Ground
Open Floor Movement Practice is a lively, sweaty, full-on dance inquiry:
- How can we move and include it all – feelings, other people, thoughts, wild passions, limitations?
- Can we use movement to soften the tight spots in our tender hearts and stretch our capacity for relationship?
- What happens if we turn old repetitive thoughts into choreography for creative dances?
We start small, end quiet. We respond to obstacles and mind the gaps. Ask, how am I now? What’s possible? Find direction. Add fire. Push the limit.
Embrace paradox.
There's an essential movement language we all speak when we take these questions to the dance floor. We call on universal elements that are inherent in any moving body, such as breath, gravity, centering, expansion and contraction. This is the common ground that all embodiment practices share.
Open Floor is where the rubber meets the road – a place for creative focus and loving attention.
Common Sense
Since the beginning of time human beings have gathered to dance. Mindful movement is surging all over the planet because it's good for us. People who dance regularly have keener minds, greater emotional intelligence, and a calmer presence. Connection, compassion, and communities grow. In this challenging world, common sense tells us to spend time dancing.
Common Good
The ripple effect is inescapable. One dance can change someone’s day, one act of kindness can inspire a whole community. Students often leave a session able to bring a more generous presence out into the world. We dedicate our work to the common good, to the benefit of all beings.
Common ground. Common sense. Common good.
This is what we cultivate on the Open Floor.
Paradox: one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases. (Webster’s dictionary) .
There are times when life and how we think, feel and behave is seemingly contradictory. Perhaps you crave solitude and yet are always in company.
Or vice versa. Maybe you want a relationship yet avoid someone you find attractive, or want to feel fit and find yourself ensconced in front of the tv again. Maybe you want to start something and find yourself procrastinating. Maybe you show the world you’re fine but feel empty inside. You have yours.
In this workshop we will be exploring these contradictory aspects of our human condition in movement. Following curiosity into the pull and push of our internal world. Into the potential battleground of conflicting commitments.
Of our unconscious loyalties and agreements. Inquiring and illuminating different parts through movement.
Using our core resources, The Dragons Gate and other aspects of the Open floor maps to discover new ways to hold the tension of opposites and follow what’s true.
Allowing ourselves a little more peace, love and understanding.
Pre requisite for this workshop: A minimum of 12 hours Open floor, 5 Rhythms or similar movement practice with an accredited teacher.
Friday evening is open to all.
Friday 16th August 2019 7 - 9.30pm
Saturday 17th August 10.30-5.00 & 6.30 - 10pm
Sunday 18th August 10.30 - 4.30pm
Cost £185, £160 if paid in full before July 15.
Cost for Friday evening only £20.
To Book: Please transfer your payment to Sue Kuhn
Sort code: 07-01-16 Account: 14318117 using your name as reference.
About Open Floor Movement
Common Ground
Open Floor Movement Practice is a lively, sweaty, full-on dance inquiry:
- How can we move and include it all – feelings, other people, thoughts, wild passions, limitations?
- Can we use movement to soften the tight spots in our tender hearts and stretch our capacity for relationship?
- What happens if we turn old repetitive thoughts into choreography for creative dances?
We start small, end quiet. We respond to obstacles and mind the gaps. Ask, how am I now? What’s possible? Find direction. Add fire. Push the limit.
Embrace paradox.
There's an essential movement language we all speak when we take these questions to the dance floor. We call on universal elements that are inherent in any moving body, such as breath, gravity, centering, expansion and contraction. This is the common ground that all embodiment practices share.
Open Floor is where the rubber meets the road – a place for creative focus and loving attention.
Common Sense
Since the beginning of time human beings have gathered to dance. Mindful movement is surging all over the planet because it's good for us. People who dance regularly have keener minds, greater emotional intelligence, and a calmer presence. Connection, compassion, and communities grow. In this challenging world, common sense tells us to spend time dancing.
Common Good
The ripple effect is inescapable. One dance can change someone’s day, one act of kindness can inspire a whole community. Students often leave a session able to bring a more generous presence out into the world. We dedicate our work to the common good, to the benefit of all beings.
Common ground. Common sense. Common good.
This is what we cultivate on the Open Floor.
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