Upcoming Events…
september
1sep7:30 pm- 9:30 pmSaturday Night Sweat5Rhythms7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Dick Chester Studio, Michael Hall SchoolLocation:Forest Row
Event Details
The Gym, Michael Hall School, Kidbrooke Park, Forest Row RH18 5JA
See our video filmed in this class.
This is a guided 5Rhythms Wave, beginners and experienced movers welcome alike.
These [...]
Event Details
The Gym, Michael Hall School, Kidbrooke Park, Forest Row RH18 5JA
See our video filmed in this class.
This is a guided 5Rhythms Wave, beginners and experienced movers welcome alike.
These are all drop-in classes. No need to book. Just come along.
Arrive from 7.15, class starts at 7.30, doors close at 8pm.
Wear comfortable clothes to move in. Dance barefoot or in soft-soled shoes.
1st Saturday of the month.
Cost: £12
Connect with us on Facebook: 5Rhythms & Open Floor Forest Row
Time
(Saturday) 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Location
Dick Chester Studio, Michael Hall School
Kidbrooke Park, Forest Row RH18 5JA
Organizer
Sarah Davies
heart@sarahdavies.org
Dick Chester Studio, Michael Hall SchoolKidbrooke Park, Forest Row RH18 5JA
Book your ticket now
7sep9:15 am- 10:30 amForest Row Open FloorFriday Morning Dance9:15 am - 10:30 am Peter Griffiths HallLocation:Forest Row
Event Details
Friday Mornings 9.15–10.30am
Cost: £10
After a summer pause this group restarts on September 7th and continues every Friday.
Arrive from 9am for the start of the class at 9.30am. Doors close at [...]
Event Details
Friday Mornings 9.15–10.30am
Cost: £10
After a summer pause this group restarts on September 7th and continues every Friday.
Arrive from 9am for the start of the class at 9.30am. Doors close at 9.30am.
How do we use dance to be fully embodied?
How do we make the most of this one short precious life?
This is an exploration in movement using Open Floor core movement resources.
These are all drop-in classes. No need to book. Just come along.
Wear comfortable clothes to move in. Dance barefoot or in soft-soled shoes.
On September 7th we will have time after the dance to sit in circle together. All Welcome.
Time
(Friday) 9:15 am - 10:30 am
Location
Peter Griffiths Hall
(small village hall), Lewes Rd, Forest Row, East Sussex RH18 5ES
Organizer
Sarah Davies
heart@sarahdavies.org
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8sep10:00 am- 5:00 pmDance Your Art Out - London Blended Ongoing Group - Continuing Group10:00 am - 5:00 pm Green Rooms Arts Hotel,Location:LondonWorldwide
Event Details
“We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters.” Julia Cameron
Dance Your Art Out is a way to strengthen creative confidence. Do you have a creative [...]
Event Details
“We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters.” Julia Cameron
Dance Your Art Out is a way to strengthen creative confidence. Do you have a creative project that you want to give time to? Or maybe you’re interested in exploring your own relationship to your creativity? The Webinars include drawing and dancing, inspired by the Open Floor ‘Core Movement Resources’ to broaden our perspective and catalyse our insight.
We make artful decisions all the time on the dance floor. Decisions about direction, tempo, momentum and which risks to take. In ‘Dance Your Art Out’ we will translate these skills into another artistic medium, using easy-to-do art techniques. When we strengthen our artistic habits, our creative aliveness can flourish and have far reaching impacts on our lives, dreams, dinner plates, wardrobes, relationships, passions and problem
solving skills. Whether you love expressing yourself through art or think you don’t have a creative bone in your body, you’re welcome.
This is a day workshop in London it can be taken as a stand alone workshop or as part of an ongoing group that continues online. The ongoing group consists of five with five fortnightly webinars, two ‘soiree’ / show ‘n tell events. The term lasts from September 8th to 15th November, there are suggested exercises with the webinars and an invitation to do daily Art Journaling, or image sharing. There will still be small groups to check-in with, which will change every term. The time of the webinars alternate from morning to evening, hopefully to suit those in different schedules and time zones.
Hopefully you can join for the workshop day as well as the online webinars. However we realise that isn’t always possible, so, if you have participated in a Dance Your Art Out or ARTiculate Your Soul weekend with Sarah Davies in the past you are able to come only for the online portion of the group, however there’s nothing like dancing and seeing eachother in the same room, so if you can, please do come to the day. Or, maybe you just want to dip your toes in and only come to the day, we’ve broken it down to make it as accessible as possible.
AUTUMN TERM
8th September 10am to 6pm workshop in London
or 15th & 16th Sep 4–7pm online workshop
20th September: 6pm webinar
4th October: 10am webinar
18th October: 6pm webinar
8th November: 10am webinar
8th November: 6pm ‘Salon’ / ‘show & tell’
15th November: 10am ‘Salon’ / ‘show & tell’
15th November: 6pm webinar
and more dates to follow….
Term price = £165 / £121 concession
Day only = £110 / £66 concession
Online only = £72 / £66 concession
10% discount for current DYAO participants.
Book two terms together – 10% discount
Book four terms together – 15% discount
The webinars are on an easy-to-use platform called ‘Zoom’, they are recorded and the link is sent to you in an email after the webinar, for those that can’t make the call. The small groups check in using a secret facebook group.
Workshop Venue
Green Rooms Hotel,Wood Green, London N22 6UW (discount for hotel accommodation available)
Time allocations
Creative Practice: approx 1 hr / week
Small group online check-in: approx 20 mins / week
Sarah Davies is a founder member of Open Floor, she is an artist passionate about movement as a catalyst to creativity. For more see her website: www.waveofenergy.co.uk
For booking contact the organiser Audrey: audrey.boss@gmail.com
Time
(Saturday) 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location
Green Rooms Arts Hotel,
Wood Green, London N22 6UW
Organizer
Audrey Boss
audrey.boss@gmail.com
28sep - 30sep 287:00 pmsep 30Bare Bones - LuxembourgBody language on the dance floor7:00 pm - 4:00 pm (30) Lycée des Arts et MétiersLocation:Europe
Event Details
Bare Bones is a dance meditation for building muscular intelligence, the ability to be awake and fluid, to articulate the innate symphony of wisdom and expression waiting just below [...]
Event Details
Bare Bones is a dance meditation for building muscular intelligence, the ability to be awake and fluid, to articulate the innate symphony of wisdom and expression waiting just below our skin.
We ask our bodies and let them speak:
• What part of me has forgotten how to move?
• Where am I fluid and where am I bound?
• What gestures purr, hum, hurt, hesitate?
• Who do I gravitate towards?
• What propels me to shy away and…
• What makes my body sing?
Our inquiry becomes one of ratio: How much of our huge life force is devoted to keeping ourselves moving in repetitive, habitual patterns? How much is left for creativity, loving connections, the willing surrender to change?
The goal is a body that moves with it all and tells the tale. This is the infinite choreography for Bare Bones.
This workshop will be taught in English, please contact Catherine: celvinger@pt.lu if you will require translation.
Times: Friday 7:30pm–9.30pm
Saturday 10.30am–6pm
Sunday 10.30am–4pm
Venue: Lycée des Arts et Métiers
19 Rue Guillaume Schneider,
2522 Luxembourg
Cost: Weekend earlybird, 160 € before 10th August
190 € thereafter (50 € non refundable deposit for weekend)
20 € Friday evening only
To book: please pay the fee to “LëtzDanz asbl” account:
IBAN: LU71 1111 7046 5850 0000
Code BIC CCPLLULL , quoting “Open Floor Workshop–Bare Bones–Sarah Davies–September ’18” followed by your name; then confirm by mail to Catherine: celvinger@pt.lu
Time
28 (Friday) 7:00 pm - 30 (Sunday) 4:00 pm
Location
Lycée des Arts et Métiers
19 Rue Guillaume Schneider, 2522 Luxembourg
Organizer
Catherine Elvinger on behalf of LëtzDanz a.s.b.l.
celvinger@pt.lu
october
4oct10:00 am- 11:00 amDance Your Art Out - Online Ongoing Group Blended Ongoing Group - Continuing Group10:00 am - 11:00 am OnlineLocation:LondonWorldwide
Event Details
Dance Your Art Out - how it works online
Dance Your Art Out is an ongoing group with the intention to recognise, reclaim and reignite your creative spark. Each term takes [...]
Event Details
Dance Your Art Out – how it works online
Dance Your Art Out is an ongoing group with the intention to recognise, reclaim and reignite your creative spark. Each term takes place over three months with people joining in online from all over the world. It’s a unique combination of movement and artwork, taking inspiration from the Core Movement Resources that form the backbone of the Open Floor curriculum.
There are four options:
- Each term the ‘blended’ option includes a workshop day in London. For those of us who can travel to London, this is a great way to meet each other and explore embodied creativity together.
- Another option is to attend an online workshop, the weekend after the London workshop, three hours each on both a Saturday and a Sunday. It is hoped that participants will attend a workshop either in person or online to get a good introduction and orientation to the rest of the term.
- Whether or not you have attended the in-person or online workshops, everyone joins in with the rest of the term, which is five fortnightly webinars (an online mini-seminar) of one hour each. We also share in small groups between the webinars and there is an option to share daily Art Journaling within the whole group.
Dancing Online
When we move, we practice paying attention to how we are: physically, emotionally, mindfully and soulfully. So, for a part of the online webinar, we dance. It can seem a strange concept to do this in front of the computer when we’re used to think of dancing as something we do when we come together on a dance floor. But moving and dancing in the comfort of our own homes with the motivation, support and encouragement of other people doing the same thing at the same time in their own homes, can be remarkably freeing.
Dance Your Art Out is structured around the Core Movement Resources that form the backbone of the Open Floor curriculum. The webinar dancing is inspired by one of these Resources, which informs the choice of music and drawing exercises. When we’re dancing we are aware of others dancing in their own spaces, sometimes we see them moving, or an arm or a leg passes by on screen, mostly there’s a background sense of a group that we feel encouraged by.
The online world has a reputation for being a pretty disembodied place, we become ‘talking heads’, interactions can lack authenticity or integrity, our attention is pulled in many places at the same time. I know for myself too when I’ve spent too much time on the computer I can feel frazzled.
The benefits of an online course
However, online connections aren’t necessarily phoney or diluted, and can sometimes lead to ‘real life’ meetings. Over the last few years I’ve participated in several online courses, one of them had us in small support groups, I was with a group spread out all over the world and one person happened to live just 30 miles from me. After a month in this group it felt as if we knew each other well; we had shared a lot and the experience had been so rewarding that I met with this person and her family, we had tea together and it felt as if we were old friends.
One of the benefits of an online course is that we can meet with like-minded people from all over the world and have that connection right from where we are. On the current term of Dance Your Art Out we have participants in Austria, California, East Sussex, Greece, London, Moscow and Toronto. Each of us brings our own individual flavour and we inspire each other with our differences as well as our similarities. And at the same time, we are in our own environments. Dancing and making artwork at home can give us the extra safety to explore new territory from a safe space. Not only is it more accessible, it is more affordable in time as well as money. The added flexibility is that you can choose to join the webinar or not and if you don’t join in live, you can watch it later when it suits you. You have access to all webinars up to the start of the next term.
Recently I was talking with some friends, some were Open Floor teachers and some were therapists. Our conversation got onto online work as one of the psychotherapists used to live abroad and when she returned to England, she continued to see her clients on Skype and the therapy continued to be as effective as it was in person. This surprised me, so as part of the research for Dance Your Art Out, I looked for evidence that online therapy is just as effective as face to face:
“Research shows that cognitive behavioural therapy, a type of talk therapy, is as good on the telephone or over Skype as it is face-to-face for some mental health conditions.
…A small 2014 study also found that teens who were counselled over the phone for obsessive compulsive disorder found just as much success in treatment as their peers who met therapists face-to-face. And more recently, researchers in South Carolina found that veterans who experience post-traumatic stress disorder respond just as well to therapy over videoconference to treatment received in office.”
Allison Fox HuffPost
“One advantage of online therapy is the disinhibition effect…where people feel more comfortable opening up and discussing problems when they are online.”
Terry Hanley The Guardian
While Dance Your Art Out isn’t therapy, it can be therapeutic and does rely on embodied connection with ourselves and others on the dance floor. Surely this is lost online? Well, from two terms of Dance Your Art Out online, I know it works as a way to get to know ourselves more and be seen, and while it is different to being on the dance floor together, it is still powerfully connecting. Here are some words from people who’ve tried it:
“I am deeply grateful for this unique opportunity in my personal journey to shift from invisibility to being seen by myself and by others. The workshop, Sarah and the support enabled this shift.” Marina
“It supported me to expand my creative boundaries and identities”
“Re connected me to creative alignment with source”
“I have some rich insights…and feel deeply affected by showing my work and me, and so grateful for the opportunity to tell my story, to be seen, and for the beautiful feedback and seeing.”
“The generous open sharing of people’s work and process, so carefully cultivated, nurtured and held by Sarah, helpers, and the whole group. How easy it has been to engage. Loved the dances on the webinar!” Willson
“It has been great, just perfectly organised, massive gratitude for the level of care that went into the emails and exercises. It all just worked! And I wasn’t able to join all the webinars but watched every one, thank you!”
“I just wanted to say a big thank you for this term of DYAO, it really has brought new dimensions to my creative work. Your facilitation has been inspired and sensitively articulated, and has lead to me feeling totally at ease sharing within the group, even though I’ve not been able to take part in the webinars.” Nina
This is for you if:
- you’d like to develop your relationship with your own creativity
- you’d like to bring the experiences of the workshop space into your day-to-day life
- you’d like to connect through the web with Open Floor dancers
- you’d like another aspect of yourself to be seen through your artwork
- you would like to explore the Open Floor Core Movement Resources in new ways
- you already have a creative project or story or something that you are already working on and you want to work on it in a supportive environment.
What do I need to join?
- To join the webinars it is recommended that you use a computer (laptop or desktop) rather than a smartphone or tablet. By using a computer you will be able to see the visuals and materials as well as being able to chat with other participants.
- You’ll need some basic art materials, ie; some pencils, paper, glue, scissors. There is an option to use a particular sketchbook which you can buy and have sent to you if you wish. If you do have crayons, paints or other art materials they’ll be useful but not essential.
- You’ll need an hour a fortnight to join the webinar or watch it later. It will help if you are in a space that you can dance in, with your art materials so you can do the art exercise during the webinar.
- There is an invitation to check-in with your small ‘pod’ or support group each fortnight. This could be within our private facebook group or it could be in some other way that suits your group, ie, WhatsApp or email.
- There are optional art exercises and an invitation to post daily artwork into our private Facebook group, the time suggestion for this is approximately 10 minutes a day.
AUTUMN TERM Dates and Times (UK times)
8th September 10am to 6pm workshop in London
or 15th & 16th Sep 4–7pm online workshop
20th September: 6pm webinar
4th October: 10am webinar
18th October: 6pm webinar
8th November: 10am webinar
8th November: 6pm ‘Salon’ / ‘show & tell’
15th November: 10am ‘Salon’ / ‘show & tell’
15th November: 6pm webinar
There are four ways of joining this group:
Option 1: Blended Ongoing
London Workshop + Webinars
£165 / £121 Concession
Option 2: Online Ongoing
Online Workshop + Webinars
£165 / £121 Concession
Option 3: Workshop only (London or Online)
£110 / £66 Concession
Option 4: Webinars only
£110 / £66 Concession
“We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters.” Julia Cameron
Sarah Davies is a founder member of Open Floor, she is an artist passionate about movement as a catalyst to creativity. For more see her website: www.waveofenergy.co.uk
For booking contact the organiser Audrey: audrey.boss@gmail.com
Time
(Thursday) 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Organizer
Audrey Boss
audrey.boss@gmail.com
6oct7:30 pm- 9:30 pmSaturday Night Sweat5Rhythms7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Dick Chester Studio, Michael Hall SchoolLocation:Forest Row
Event Details
The Gym, Michael Hall School, Kidbrooke Park, Forest Row RH18 5JA
See our video filmed in this class.
This is a guided 5Rhythms Wave, beginners and experienced movers welcome alike.
These [...]
Event Details
The Gym, Michael Hall School, Kidbrooke Park, Forest Row RH18 5JA
See our video filmed in this class.
This is a guided 5Rhythms Wave, beginners and experienced movers welcome alike.
These are all drop-in classes. No need to book. Just come along.
Arrive from 7.15, class starts at 7.30, doors close at 8pm.
Wear comfortable clothes to move in. Dance barefoot or in soft-soled shoes.
1st Saturday of the month.
Cost: £12
Connect with us on Facebook: 5Rhythms & Open Floor Forest Row
Time
(Saturday) 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Location
Dick Chester Studio, Michael Hall School
Kidbrooke Park, Forest Row RH18 5JA
Organizer
Sarah Davies
heart@sarahdavies.org
Dick Chester Studio, Michael Hall SchoolKidbrooke Park, Forest Row RH18 5JA
Book your ticket now
18oct6:00 pm- 7:00 pmDance Your Art Out - Online Ongoing Group Blended Ongoing Group - Continuing Group6:00 pm - 7:00 pm OnlineLocation:LondonWorldwide
Event Details
Dance Your Art Out - how it works online
Dance Your Art Out is an ongoing group with the intention to recognise, reclaim and reignite your creative spark. Each term takes [...]
Event Details
Dance Your Art Out – how it works online
Dance Your Art Out is an ongoing group with the intention to recognise, reclaim and reignite your creative spark. Each term takes place over three months with people joining in online from all over the world. It’s a unique combination of movement and artwork, taking inspiration from the Core Movement Resources that form the backbone of the Open Floor curriculum.
There are four options:
- Each term the ‘blended’ option includes a workshop day in London. For those of us who can travel to London, this is a great way to meet each other and explore embodied creativity together.
- Another option is to attend an online workshop, the weekend after the London workshop, three hours each on both a Saturday and a Sunday. It is hoped that participants will attend a workshop either in person or online to get a good introduction and orientation to the rest of the term.
- Whether or not you have attended the in-person or online workshops, everyone joins in with the rest of the term, which is five fortnightly webinars (an online mini-seminar) of one hour each. We also share in small groups between the webinars and there is an option to share daily Art Journaling within the whole group.
Dancing Online
When we move, we practice paying attention to how we are: physically, emotionally, mindfully and soulfully. So, for a part of the online webinar, we dance. It can seem a strange concept to do this in front of the computer when we’re used to think of dancing as something we do when we come together on a dance floor. But moving and dancing in the comfort of our own homes with the motivation, support and encouragement of other people doing the same thing at the same time in their own homes, can be remarkably freeing.
Dance Your Art Out is structured around the Core Movement Resources that form the backbone of the Open Floor curriculum. The webinar dancing is inspired by one of these Resources, which informs the choice of music and drawing exercises. When we’re dancing we are aware of others dancing in their own spaces, sometimes we see them moving, or an arm or a leg passes by on screen, mostly there’s a background sense of a group that we feel encouraged by.
The online world has a reputation for being a pretty disembodied place, we become ‘talking heads’, interactions can lack authenticity or integrity, our attention is pulled in many places at the same time. I know for myself too when I’ve spent too much time on the computer I can feel frazzled.
The benefits of an online course
However, online connections aren’t necessarily phoney or diluted, and can sometimes lead to ‘real life’ meetings. Over the last few years I’ve participated in several online courses, one of them had us in small support groups, I was with a group spread out all over the world and one person happened to live just 30 miles from me. After a month in this group it felt as if we knew each other well; we had shared a lot and the experience had been so rewarding that I met with this person and her family, we had tea together and it felt as if we were old friends.
One of the benefits of an online course is that we can meet with like-minded people from all over the world and have that connection right from where we are. On the current term of Dance Your Art Out we have participants in Austria, California, East Sussex, Greece, London, Moscow and Toronto. Each of us brings our own individual flavour and we inspire each other with our differences as well as our similarities. And at the same time, we are in our own environments. Dancing and making artwork at home can give us the extra safety to explore new territory from a safe space. Not only is it more accessible, it is more affordable in time as well as money. The added flexibility is that you can choose to join the webinar or not and if you don’t join in live, you can watch it later when it suits you. You have access to all webinars up to the start of the next term.
Recently I was talking with some friends, some were Open Floor teachers and some were therapists. Our conversation got onto online work as one of the psychotherapists used to live abroad and when she returned to England, she continued to see her clients on Skype and the therapy continued to be as effective as it was in person. This surprised me, so as part of the research for Dance Your Art Out, I looked for evidence that online therapy is just as effective as face to face:
“Research shows that cognitive behavioural therapy, a type of talk therapy, is as good on the telephone or over Skype as it is face-to-face for some mental health conditions.
…A small 2014 study also found that teens who were counselled over the phone for obsessive compulsive disorder found just as much success in treatment as their peers who met therapists face-to-face. And more recently, researchers in South Carolina found that veterans who experience post-traumatic stress disorder respond just as well to therapy over videoconference to treatment received in office.”
Allison Fox HuffPost
“One advantage of online therapy is the disinhibition effect…where people feel more comfortable opening up and discussing problems when they are online.”
Terry Hanley The Guardian
While Dance Your Art Out isn’t therapy, it can be therapeutic and does rely on embodied connection with ourselves and others on the dance floor. Surely this is lost online? Well, from two terms of Dance Your Art Out online, I know it works as a way to get to know ourselves more and be seen, and while it is different to being on the dance floor together, it is still powerfully connecting. Here are some words from people who’ve tried it:
“I am deeply grateful for this unique opportunity in my personal journey to shift from invisibility to being seen by myself and by others. The workshop, Sarah and the support enabled this shift.” Marina
“It supported me to expand my creative boundaries and identities”
“Re connected me to creative alignment with source”
“I have some rich insights…and feel deeply affected by showing my work and me, and so grateful for the opportunity to tell my story, to be seen, and for the beautiful feedback and seeing.”
“The generous open sharing of people’s work and process, so carefully cultivated, nurtured and held by Sarah, helpers, and the whole group. How easy it has been to engage. Loved the dances on the webinar!” Willson
“It has been great, just perfectly organised, massive gratitude for the level of care that went into the emails and exercises. It all just worked! And I wasn’t able to join all the webinars but watched every one, thank you!”
“I just wanted to say a big thank you for this term of DYAO, it really has brought new dimensions to my creative work. Your facilitation has been inspired and sensitively articulated, and has lead to me feeling totally at ease sharing within the group, even though I’ve not been able to take part in the webinars.” Nina
This is for you if:
- you’d like to develop your relationship with your own creativity
- you’d like to bring the experiences of the workshop space into your day-to-day life
- you’d like to connect through the web with Open Floor dancers
- you’d like another aspect of yourself to be seen through your artwork
- you would like to explore the Open Floor Core Movement Resources in new ways
- you already have a creative project or story or something that you are already working on and you want to work on it in a supportive environment.
What do I need to join?
- To join the webinars it is recommended that you use a computer (laptop or desktop) rather than a smartphone or tablet. By using a computer you will be able to see the visuals and materials as well as being able to chat with other participants.
- You’ll need some basic art materials, ie; some pencils, paper, glue, scissors. There is an option to use a particular sketchbook which you can buy and have sent to you if you wish. If you do have crayons, paints or other art materials they’ll be useful but not essential.
- You’ll need an hour a fortnight to join the webinar or watch it later. It will help if you are in a space that you can dance in, with your art materials so you can do the art exercise during the webinar.
- There is an invitation to check-in with your small ‘pod’ or support group each fortnight. This could be within our private facebook group or it could be in some other way that suits your group, ie, WhatsApp or email.
- There are optional art exercises and an invitation to post daily artwork into our private Facebook group, the time suggestion for this is approximately 10 minutes a day.
AUTUMN TERM Dates and Times (UK times)
8th September 10am to 6pm workshop in London
or 15th & 16th Sep 4–7pm online workshop
20th September: 6pm webinar
4th October: 10am webinar
18th October: 6pm webinar
8th November: 10am webinar
8th November: 6pm ‘Salon’ / ‘show & tell’
15th November: 10am ‘Salon’ / ‘show & tell’
15th November: 6pm webinar
There are four ways of joining this group:
Option 1: Blended Ongoing
London Workshop + Webinars
£165 / £121 Concession
Option 2: Online Ongoing
Online Workshop + Webinars
£165 / £121 Concession
Option 3: Workshop only (London or Online)
£110 / £66 Concession
Option 4: Webinars only
£110 / £66 Concession
“We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters.” Julia Cameron
Sarah Davies is a founder member of Open Floor, she is an artist passionate about movement as a catalyst to creativity. For more see her website: www.waveofenergy.co.uk
For booking contact the organiser Audrey: audrey.boss@gmail.com
Time
(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Organizer
Audrey Boss
audrey.boss@gmail.com
november
8nov10:00 am- 11:00 amDance Your Art Out - Online Ongoing Group Blended Ongoing Group - Continuing Group10:00 am - 11:00 am OnlineLocation:LondonWorldwide
Event Details
Dance Your Art Out - how it works online
Dance Your Art Out is an ongoing group with the intention to recognise, reclaim and reignite your creative spark. Each term takes [...]
Event Details
Dance Your Art Out – how it works online
Dance Your Art Out is an ongoing group with the intention to recognise, reclaim and reignite your creative spark. Each term takes place over three months with people joining in online from all over the world. It’s a unique combination of movement and artwork, taking inspiration from the Core Movement Resources that form the backbone of the Open Floor curriculum.
There are four options:
- Each term the ‘blended’ option includes a workshop day in London. For those of us who can travel to London, this is a great way to meet each other and explore embodied creativity together.
- Another option is to attend an online workshop, the weekend after the London workshop, three hours each on both a Saturday and a Sunday. It is hoped that participants will attend a workshop either in person or online to get a good introduction and orientation to the rest of the term.
- Whether or not you have attended the in-person or online workshops, everyone joins in with the rest of the term, which is five fortnightly webinars (an online mini-seminar) of one hour each. We also share in small groups between the webinars and there is an option to share daily Art Journaling within the whole group.
Dancing Online
When we move, we practice paying attention to how we are: physically, emotionally, mindfully and soulfully. So, for a part of the online webinar, we dance. It can seem a strange concept to do this in front of the computer when we’re used to think of dancing as something we do when we come together on a dance floor. But moving and dancing in the comfort of our own homes with the motivation, support and encouragement of other people doing the same thing at the same time in their own homes, can be remarkably freeing.
Dance Your Art Out is structured around the Core Movement Resources that form the backbone of the Open Floor curriculum. The webinar dancing is inspired by one of these Resources, which informs the choice of music and drawing exercises. When we’re dancing we are aware of others dancing in their own spaces, sometimes we see them moving, or an arm or a leg passes by on screen, mostly there’s a background sense of a group that we feel encouraged by.
The online world has a reputation for being a pretty disembodied place, we become ‘talking heads’, interactions can lack authenticity or integrity, our attention is pulled in many places at the same time. I know for myself too when I’ve spent too much time on the computer I can feel frazzled.
The benefits of an online course
However, online connections aren’t necessarily phoney or diluted, and can sometimes lead to ‘real life’ meetings. Over the last few years I’ve participated in several online courses, one of them had us in small support groups, I was with a group spread out all over the world and one person happened to live just 30 miles from me. After a month in this group it felt as if we knew each other well; we had shared a lot and the experience had been so rewarding that I met with this person and her family, we had tea together and it felt as if we were old friends.
One of the benefits of an online course is that we can meet with like-minded people from all over the world and have that connection right from where we are. On the current term of Dance Your Art Out we have participants in Austria, California, East Sussex, Greece, London, Moscow and Toronto. Each of us brings our own individual flavour and we inspire each other with our differences as well as our similarities. And at the same time, we are in our own environments. Dancing and making artwork at home can give us the extra safety to explore new territory from a safe space. Not only is it more accessible, it is more affordable in time as well as money. The added flexibility is that you can choose to join the webinar or not and if you don’t join in live, you can watch it later when it suits you. You have access to all webinars up to the start of the next term.
Recently I was talking with some friends, some were Open Floor teachers and some were therapists. Our conversation got onto online work as one of the psychotherapists used to live abroad and when she returned to England, she continued to see her clients on Skype and the therapy continued to be as effective as it was in person. This surprised me, so as part of the research for Dance Your Art Out, I looked for evidence that online therapy is just as effective as face to face:
“Research shows that cognitive behavioural therapy, a type of talk therapy, is as good on the telephone or over Skype as it is face-to-face for some mental health conditions.
…A small 2014 study also found that teens who were counselled over the phone for obsessive compulsive disorder found just as much success in treatment as their peers who met therapists face-to-face. And more recently, researchers in South Carolina found that veterans who experience post-traumatic stress disorder respond just as well to therapy over videoconference to treatment received in office.”
Allison Fox HuffPost
“One advantage of online therapy is the disinhibition effect…where people feel more comfortable opening up and discussing problems when they are online.”
Terry Hanley The Guardian
While Dance Your Art Out isn’t therapy, it can be therapeutic and does rely on embodied connection with ourselves and others on the dance floor. Surely this is lost online? Well, from two terms of Dance Your Art Out online, I know it works as a way to get to know ourselves more and be seen, and while it is different to being on the dance floor together, it is still powerfully connecting. Here are some words from people who’ve tried it:
“I am deeply grateful for this unique opportunity in my personal journey to shift from invisibility to being seen by myself and by others. The workshop, Sarah and the support enabled this shift.” Marina
“It supported me to expand my creative boundaries and identities”
“Re connected me to creative alignment with source”
“I have some rich insights…and feel deeply affected by showing my work and me, and so grateful for the opportunity to tell my story, to be seen, and for the beautiful feedback and seeing.”
“The generous open sharing of people’s work and process, so carefully cultivated, nurtured and held by Sarah, helpers, and the whole group. How easy it has been to engage. Loved the dances on the webinar!” Willson
“It has been great, just perfectly organised, massive gratitude for the level of care that went into the emails and exercises. It all just worked! And I wasn’t able to join all the webinars but watched every one, thank you!”
“I just wanted to say a big thank you for this term of DYAO, it really has brought new dimensions to my creative work. Your facilitation has been inspired and sensitively articulated, and has lead to me feeling totally at ease sharing within the group, even though I’ve not been able to take part in the webinars.” Nina
This is for you if:
- you’d like to develop your relationship with your own creativity
- you’d like to bring the experiences of the workshop space into your day-to-day life
- you’d like to connect through the web with Open Floor dancers
- you’d like another aspect of yourself to be seen through your artwork
- you would like to explore the Open Floor Core Movement Resources in new ways
- you already have a creative project or story or something that you are already working on and you want to work on it in a supportive environment.
What do I need to join?
- To join the webinars it is recommended that you use a computer (laptop or desktop) rather than a smartphone or tablet. By using a computer you will be able to see the visuals and materials as well as being able to chat with other participants.
- You’ll need some basic art materials, ie; some pencils, paper, glue, scissors. There is an option to use a particular sketchbook which you can buy and have sent to you if you wish. If you do have crayons, paints or other art materials they’ll be useful but not essential.
- You’ll need an hour a fortnight to join the webinar or watch it later. It will help if you are in a space that you can dance in, with your art materials so you can do the art exercise during the webinar.
- There is an invitation to check-in with your small ‘pod’ or support group each fortnight. This could be within our private facebook group or it could be in some other way that suits your group, ie, WhatsApp or email.
- There are optional art exercises and an invitation to post daily artwork into our private Facebook group, the time suggestion for this is approximately 10 minutes a day.
AUTUMN TERM Dates and Times (UK times)
8th September 10am to 6pm workshop in London
or 15th & 16th Sep 4–7pm online workshop
20th September: 6pm webinar
4th October: 10am webinar
18th October: 6pm webinar
8th November: 10am webinar
8th November: 6pm ‘Salon’ / ‘show & tell’
15th November: 10am ‘Salon’ / ‘show & tell’
15th November: 6pm webinar
There are four ways of joining this group:
Option 1: Blended Ongoing
London Workshop + Webinars
£165 / £121 Concession
Option 2: Online Ongoing
Online Workshop + Webinars
£165 / £121 Concession
Option 3: Workshop only (London or Online)
£110 / £66 Concession
Option 4: Webinars only
£110 / £66 Concession
“We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters.” Julia Cameron
Sarah Davies is a founder member of Open Floor, she is an artist passionate about movement as a catalyst to creativity. For more see her website: www.waveofenergy.co.uk
For booking contact the organiser Audrey: audrey.boss@gmail.com
Time
(Thursday) 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Organizer
Audrey Boss
audrey.boss@gmail.com
8nov6:00 pm- 7:00 pmDance Your Art Out - Online Ongoing Group Blended Ongoing Group - Continuing Group6:00 pm - 7:00 pm OnlineLocation:LondonWorldwide
Event Details
Dance Your Art Out - how it works online
Dance Your Art Out is an ongoing group with the intention to recognise, reclaim and reignite your creative spark. Each term takes [...]
Event Details
Dance Your Art Out – how it works online
Dance Your Art Out is an ongoing group with the intention to recognise, reclaim and reignite your creative spark. Each term takes place over three months with people joining in online from all over the world. It’s a unique combination of movement and artwork, taking inspiration from the Core Movement Resources that form the backbone of the Open Floor curriculum.
There are four options:
- Each term the ‘blended’ option includes a workshop day in London. For those of us who can travel to London, this is a great way to meet each other and explore embodied creativity together.
- Another option is to attend an online workshop, the weekend after the London workshop, three hours each on both a Saturday and a Sunday. It is hoped that participants will attend a workshop either in person or online to get a good introduction and orientation to the rest of the term.
- Whether or not you have attended the in-person or online workshops, everyone joins in with the rest of the term, which is five fortnightly webinars (an online mini-seminar) of one hour each. We also share in small groups between the webinars and there is an option to share daily Art Journaling within the whole group.
Dancing Online
When we move, we practice paying attention to how we are: physically, emotionally, mindfully and soulfully. So, for a part of the online webinar, we dance. It can seem a strange concept to do this in front of the computer when we’re used to think of dancing as something we do when we come together on a dance floor. But moving and dancing in the comfort of our own homes with the motivation, support and encouragement of other people doing the same thing at the same time in their own homes, can be remarkably freeing.
Dance Your Art Out is structured around the Core Movement Resources that form the backbone of the Open Floor curriculum. The webinar dancing is inspired by one of these Resources, which informs the choice of music and drawing exercises. When we’re dancing we are aware of others dancing in their own spaces, sometimes we see them moving, or an arm or a leg passes by on screen, mostly there’s a background sense of a group that we feel encouraged by.
The online world has a reputation for being a pretty disembodied place, we become ‘talking heads’, interactions can lack authenticity or integrity, our attention is pulled in many places at the same time. I know for myself too when I’ve spent too much time on the computer I can feel frazzled.
The benefits of an online course
However, online connections aren’t necessarily phoney or diluted, and can sometimes lead to ‘real life’ meetings. Over the last few years I’ve participated in several online courses, one of them had us in small support groups, I was with a group spread out all over the world and one person happened to live just 30 miles from me. After a month in this group it felt as if we knew each other well; we had shared a lot and the experience had been so rewarding that I met with this person and her family, we had tea together and it felt as if we were old friends.
One of the benefits of an online course is that we can meet with like-minded people from all over the world and have that connection right from where we are. On the current term of Dance Your Art Out we have participants in Austria, California, East Sussex, Greece, London, Moscow and Toronto. Each of us brings our own individual flavour and we inspire each other with our differences as well as our similarities. And at the same time, we are in our own environments. Dancing and making artwork at home can give us the extra safety to explore new territory from a safe space. Not only is it more accessible, it is more affordable in time as well as money. The added flexibility is that you can choose to join the webinar or not and if you don’t join in live, you can watch it later when it suits you. You have access to all webinars up to the start of the next term.
Recently I was talking with some friends, some were Open Floor teachers and some were therapists. Our conversation got onto online work as one of the psychotherapists used to live abroad and when she returned to England, she continued to see her clients on Skype and the therapy continued to be as effective as it was in person. This surprised me, so as part of the research for Dance Your Art Out, I looked for evidence that online therapy is just as effective as face to face:
“Research shows that cognitive behavioural therapy, a type of talk therapy, is as good on the telephone or over Skype as it is face-to-face for some mental health conditions.
…A small 2014 study also found that teens who were counselled over the phone for obsessive compulsive disorder found just as much success in treatment as their peers who met therapists face-to-face. And more recently, researchers in South Carolina found that veterans who experience post-traumatic stress disorder respond just as well to therapy over videoconference to treatment received in office.”
Allison Fox HuffPost
“One advantage of online therapy is the disinhibition effect…where people feel more comfortable opening up and discussing problems when they are online.”
Terry Hanley The Guardian
While Dance Your Art Out isn’t therapy, it can be therapeutic and does rely on embodied connection with ourselves and others on the dance floor. Surely this is lost online? Well, from two terms of Dance Your Art Out online, I know it works as a way to get to know ourselves more and be seen, and while it is different to being on the dance floor together, it is still powerfully connecting. Here are some words from people who’ve tried it:
“I am deeply grateful for this unique opportunity in my personal journey to shift from invisibility to being seen by myself and by others. The workshop, Sarah and the support enabled this shift.” Marina
“It supported me to expand my creative boundaries and identities”
“Re connected me to creative alignment with source”
“I have some rich insights…and feel deeply affected by showing my work and me, and so grateful for the opportunity to tell my story, to be seen, and for the beautiful feedback and seeing.”
“The generous open sharing of people’s work and process, so carefully cultivated, nurtured and held by Sarah, helpers, and the whole group. How easy it has been to engage. Loved the dances on the webinar!” Willson
“It has been great, just perfectly organised, massive gratitude for the level of care that went into the emails and exercises. It all just worked! And I wasn’t able to join all the webinars but watched every one, thank you!”
“I just wanted to say a big thank you for this term of DYAO, it really has brought new dimensions to my creative work. Your facilitation has been inspired and sensitively articulated, and has lead to me feeling totally at ease sharing within the group, even though I’ve not been able to take part in the webinars.” Nina
This is for you if:
- you’d like to develop your relationship with your own creativity
- you’d like to bring the experiences of the workshop space into your day-to-day life
- you’d like to connect through the web with Open Floor dancers
- you’d like another aspect of yourself to be seen through your artwork
- you would like to explore the Open Floor Core Movement Resources in new ways
- you already have a creative project or story or something that you are already working on and you want to work on it in a supportive environment.
What do I need to join?
- To join the webinars it is recommended that you use a computer (laptop or desktop) rather than a smartphone or tablet. By using a computer you will be able to see the visuals and materials as well as being able to chat with other participants.
- You’ll need some basic art materials, ie; some pencils, paper, glue, scissors. There is an option to use a particular sketchbook which you can buy and have sent to you if you wish. If you do have crayons, paints or other art materials they’ll be useful but not essential.
- You’ll need an hour a fortnight to join the webinar or watch it later. It will help if you are in a space that you can dance in, with your art materials so you can do the art exercise during the webinar.
- There is an invitation to check-in with your small ‘pod’ or support group each fortnight. This could be within our private facebook group or it could be in some other way that suits your group, ie, WhatsApp or email.
- There are optional art exercises and an invitation to post daily artwork into our private Facebook group, the time suggestion for this is approximately 10 minutes a day.
AUTUMN TERM Dates and Times (UK times)
8th September 10am to 6pm workshop in London
or 15th & 16th Sep 4–7pm online workshop
20th September: 6pm webinar
4th October: 10am webinar
18th October: 6pm webinar
8th November: 10am webinar
8th November: 6pm ‘Salon’ / ‘show & tell’
15th November: 10am ‘Salon’ / ‘show & tell’
15th November: 6pm webinar
There are four ways of joining this group:
Option 1: Blended Ongoing
London Workshop + Webinars
£165 / £121 Concession
Option 2: Online Ongoing
Online Workshop + Webinars
£165 / £121 Concession
Option 3: Workshop only (London or Online)
£110 / £66 Concession
Option 4: Webinars only
£110 / £66 Concession
“We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters.” Julia Cameron
Sarah Davies is a founder member of Open Floor, she is an artist passionate about movement as a catalyst to creativity. For more see her website: www.waveofenergy.co.uk
For booking contact the organiser Audrey: audrey.boss@gmail.com
Time
(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Organizer
Audrey Boss
audrey.boss@gmail.com
15nov10:00 am- 11:00 amDance Your Art Out - Online Ongoing Group Blended Ongoing Group - Continuing Group10:00 am - 11:00 am OnlineLocation:LondonWorldwide
Event Details
Dance Your Art Out - how it works online
Dance Your Art Out is an ongoing group with the intention to recognise, reclaim and reignite your creative spark. Each term takes [...]
Event Details
Dance Your Art Out – how it works online
Dance Your Art Out is an ongoing group with the intention to recognise, reclaim and reignite your creative spark. Each term takes place over three months with people joining in online from all over the world. It’s a unique combination of movement and artwork, taking inspiration from the Core Movement Resources that form the backbone of the Open Floor curriculum.
There are four options:
- Each term the ‘blended’ option includes a workshop day in London. For those of us who can travel to London, this is a great way to meet each other and explore embodied creativity together.
- Another option is to attend an online workshop, the weekend after the London workshop, three hours each on both a Saturday and a Sunday. It is hoped that participants will attend a workshop either in person or online to get a good introduction and orientation to the rest of the term.
- Whether or not you have attended the in-person or online workshops, everyone joins in with the rest of the term, which is five fortnightly webinars (an online mini-seminar) of one hour each. We also share in small groups between the webinars and there is an option to share daily Art Journaling within the whole group.
Dancing Online
When we move, we practice paying attention to how we are: physically, emotionally, mindfully and soulfully. So, for a part of the online webinar, we dance. It can seem a strange concept to do this in front of the computer when we’re used to think of dancing as something we do when we come together on a dance floor. But moving and dancing in the comfort of our own homes with the motivation, support and encouragement of other people doing the same thing at the same time in their own homes, can be remarkably freeing.
Dance Your Art Out is structured around the Core Movement Resources that form the backbone of the Open Floor curriculum. The webinar dancing is inspired by one of these Resources, which informs the choice of music and drawing exercises. When we’re dancing we are aware of others dancing in their own spaces, sometimes we see them moving, or an arm or a leg passes by on screen, mostly there’s a background sense of a group that we feel encouraged by.
The online world has a reputation for being a pretty disembodied place, we become ‘talking heads’, interactions can lack authenticity or integrity, our attention is pulled in many places at the same time. I know for myself too when I’ve spent too much time on the computer I can feel frazzled.
The benefits of an online course
However, online connections aren’t necessarily phoney or diluted, and can sometimes lead to ‘real life’ meetings. Over the last few years I’ve participated in several online courses, one of them had us in small support groups, I was with a group spread out all over the world and one person happened to live just 30 miles from me. After a month in this group it felt as if we knew each other well; we had shared a lot and the experience had been so rewarding that I met with this person and her family, we had tea together and it felt as if we were old friends.
One of the benefits of an online course is that we can meet with like-minded people from all over the world and have that connection right from where we are. On the current term of Dance Your Art Out we have participants in Austria, California, East Sussex, Greece, London, Moscow and Toronto. Each of us brings our own individual flavour and we inspire each other with our differences as well as our similarities. And at the same time, we are in our own environments. Dancing and making artwork at home can give us the extra safety to explore new territory from a safe space. Not only is it more accessible, it is more affordable in time as well as money. The added flexibility is that you can choose to join the webinar or not and if you don’t join in live, you can watch it later when it suits you. You have access to all webinars up to the start of the next term.
Recently I was talking with some friends, some were Open Floor teachers and some were therapists. Our conversation got onto online work as one of the psychotherapists used to live abroad and when she returned to England, she continued to see her clients on Skype and the therapy continued to be as effective as it was in person. This surprised me, so as part of the research for Dance Your Art Out, I looked for evidence that online therapy is just as effective as face to face:
“Research shows that cognitive behavioural therapy, a type of talk therapy, is as good on the telephone or over Skype as it is face-to-face for some mental health conditions.
…A small 2014 study also found that teens who were counselled over the phone for obsessive compulsive disorder found just as much success in treatment as their peers who met therapists face-to-face. And more recently, researchers in South Carolina found that veterans who experience post-traumatic stress disorder respond just as well to therapy over videoconference to treatment received in office.”
Allison Fox HuffPost
“One advantage of online therapy is the disinhibition effect…where people feel more comfortable opening up and discussing problems when they are online.”
Terry Hanley The Guardian
While Dance Your Art Out isn’t therapy, it can be therapeutic and does rely on embodied connection with ourselves and others on the dance floor. Surely this is lost online? Well, from two terms of Dance Your Art Out online, I know it works as a way to get to know ourselves more and be seen, and while it is different to being on the dance floor together, it is still powerfully connecting. Here are some words from people who’ve tried it:
“I am deeply grateful for this unique opportunity in my personal journey to shift from invisibility to being seen by myself and by others. The workshop, Sarah and the support enabled this shift.” Marina
“It supported me to expand my creative boundaries and identities”
“Re connected me to creative alignment with source”
“I have some rich insights…and feel deeply affected by showing my work and me, and so grateful for the opportunity to tell my story, to be seen, and for the beautiful feedback and seeing.”
“The generous open sharing of people’s work and process, so carefully cultivated, nurtured and held by Sarah, helpers, and the whole group. How easy it has been to engage. Loved the dances on the webinar!” Willson
“It has been great, just perfectly organised, massive gratitude for the level of care that went into the emails and exercises. It all just worked! And I wasn’t able to join all the webinars but watched every one, thank you!”
“I just wanted to say a big thank you for this term of DYAO, it really has brought new dimensions to my creative work. Your facilitation has been inspired and sensitively articulated, and has lead to me feeling totally at ease sharing within the group, even though I’ve not been able to take part in the webinars.” Nina
This is for you if:
- you’d like to develop your relationship with your own creativity
- you’d like to bring the experiences of the workshop space into your day-to-day life
- you’d like to connect through the web with Open Floor dancers
- you’d like another aspect of yourself to be seen through your artwork
- you would like to explore the Open Floor Core Movement Resources in new ways
- you already have a creative project or story or something that you are already working on and you want to work on it in a supportive environment.
What do I need to join?
- To join the webinars it is recommended that you use a computer (laptop or desktop) rather than a smartphone or tablet. By using a computer you will be able to see the visuals and materials as well as being able to chat with other participants.
- You’ll need some basic art materials, ie; some pencils, paper, glue, scissors. There is an option to use a particular sketchbook which you can buy and have sent to you if you wish. If you do have crayons, paints or other art materials they’ll be useful but not essential.
- You’ll need an hour a fortnight to join the webinar or watch it later. It will help if you are in a space that you can dance in, with your art materials so you can do the art exercise during the webinar.
- There is an invitation to check-in with your small ‘pod’ or support group each fortnight. This could be within our private facebook group or it could be in some other way that suits your group, ie, WhatsApp or email.
- There are optional art exercises and an invitation to post daily artwork into our private Facebook group, the time suggestion for this is approximately 10 minutes a day.
AUTUMN TERM Dates and Times (UK times)
8th September 10am to 6pm workshop in London
or 15th & 16th Sep 4–7pm online workshop
20th September: 6pm webinar
4th October: 10am webinar
18th October: 6pm webinar
8th November: 10am webinar
8th November: 6pm ‘Salon’ / ‘show & tell’
15th November: 10am ‘Salon’ / ‘show & tell’
15th November: 6pm webinar
There are four ways of joining this group:
Option 1: Blended Ongoing
London Workshop + Webinars
£165 / £121 Concession
Option 2: Online Ongoing
Online Workshop + Webinars
£165 / £121 Concession
Option 3: Workshop only (London or Online)
£110 / £66 Concession
Option 4: Webinars only
£110 / £66 Concession
“We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters.” Julia Cameron
Sarah Davies is a founder member of Open Floor, she is an artist passionate about movement as a catalyst to creativity. For more see her website: www.waveofenergy.co.uk
For booking contact the organiser Audrey: audrey.boss@gmail.com
Time
(Thursday) 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Organizer
Audrey Boss
audrey.boss@gmail.com
15nov6:00 pm- 7:00 pmDance Your Art Out - Online Ongoing Group Blended Ongoing Group - Continuing Group6:00 pm - 7:00 pm OnlineLocation:LondonWorldwide
Event Details
Dance Your Art Out - how it works online
Dance Your Art Out is an ongoing group with the intention to recognise, reclaim and reignite your creative spark. Each term takes [...]
Event Details
Dance Your Art Out – how it works online
Dance Your Art Out is an ongoing group with the intention to recognise, reclaim and reignite your creative spark. Each term takes place over three months with people joining in online from all over the world. It’s a unique combination of movement and artwork, taking inspiration from the Core Movement Resources that form the backbone of the Open Floor curriculum.
There are four options:
- Each term the ‘blended’ option includes a workshop day in London. For those of us who can travel to London, this is a great way to meet each other and explore embodied creativity together.
- Another option is to attend an online workshop, the weekend after the London workshop, three hours each on both a Saturday and a Sunday. It is hoped that participants will attend a workshop either in person or online to get a good introduction and orientation to the rest of the term.
- Whether or not you have attended the in-person or online workshops, everyone joins in with the rest of the term, which is five fortnightly webinars (an online mini-seminar) of one hour each. We also share in small groups between the webinars and there is an option to share daily Art Journaling within the whole group.
Dancing Online
When we move, we practice paying attention to how we are: physically, emotionally, mindfully and soulfully. So, for a part of the online webinar, we dance. It can seem a strange concept to do this in front of the computer when we’re used to think of dancing as something we do when we come together on a dance floor. But moving and dancing in the comfort of our own homes with the motivation, support and encouragement of other people doing the same thing at the same time in their own homes, can be remarkably freeing.
Dance Your Art Out is structured around the Core Movement Resources that form the backbone of the Open Floor curriculum. The webinar dancing is inspired by one of these Resources, which informs the choice of music and drawing exercises. When we’re dancing we are aware of others dancing in their own spaces, sometimes we see them moving, or an arm or a leg passes by on screen, mostly there’s a background sense of a group that we feel encouraged by.
The online world has a reputation for being a pretty disembodied place, we become ‘talking heads’, interactions can lack authenticity or integrity, our attention is pulled in many places at the same time. I know for myself too when I’ve spent too much time on the computer I can feel frazzled.
The benefits of an online course
However, online connections aren’t necessarily phoney or diluted, and can sometimes lead to ‘real life’ meetings. Over the last few years I’ve participated in several online courses, one of them had us in small support groups, I was with a group spread out all over the world and one person happened to live just 30 miles from me. After a month in this group it felt as if we knew each other well; we had shared a lot and the experience had been so rewarding that I met with this person and her family, we had tea together and it felt as if we were old friends.
One of the benefits of an online course is that we can meet with like-minded people from all over the world and have that connection right from where we are. On the current term of Dance Your Art Out we have participants in Austria, California, East Sussex, Greece, London, Moscow and Toronto. Each of us brings our own individual flavour and we inspire each other with our differences as well as our similarities. And at the same time, we are in our own environments. Dancing and making artwork at home can give us the extra safety to explore new territory from a safe space. Not only is it more accessible, it is more affordable in time as well as money. The added flexibility is that you can choose to join the webinar or not and if you don’t join in live, you can watch it later when it suits you. You have access to all webinars up to the start of the next term.
Recently I was talking with some friends, some were Open Floor teachers and some were therapists. Our conversation got onto online work as one of the psychotherapists used to live abroad and when she returned to England, she continued to see her clients on Skype and the therapy continued to be as effective as it was in person. This surprised me, so as part of the research for Dance Your Art Out, I looked for evidence that online therapy is just as effective as face to face:
“Research shows that cognitive behavioural therapy, a type of talk therapy, is as good on the telephone or over Skype as it is face-to-face for some mental health conditions.
…A small 2014 study also found that teens who were counselled over the phone for obsessive compulsive disorder found just as much success in treatment as their peers who met therapists face-to-face. And more recently, researchers in South Carolina found that veterans who experience post-traumatic stress disorder respond just as well to therapy over videoconference to treatment received in office.”
Allison Fox HuffPost
“One advantage of online therapy is the disinhibition effect…where people feel more comfortable opening up and discussing problems when they are online.”
Terry Hanley The Guardian
While Dance Your Art Out isn’t therapy, it can be therapeutic and does rely on embodied connection with ourselves and others on the dance floor. Surely this is lost online? Well, from two terms of Dance Your Art Out online, I know it works as a way to get to know ourselves more and be seen, and while it is different to being on the dance floor together, it is still powerfully connecting. Here are some words from people who’ve tried it:
“I am deeply grateful for this unique opportunity in my personal journey to shift from invisibility to being seen by myself and by others. The workshop, Sarah and the support enabled this shift.” Marina
“It supported me to expand my creative boundaries and identities”
“Re connected me to creative alignment with source”
“I have some rich insights…and feel deeply affected by showing my work and me, and so grateful for the opportunity to tell my story, to be seen, and for the beautiful feedback and seeing.”
“The generous open sharing of people’s work and process, so carefully cultivated, nurtured and held by Sarah, helpers, and the whole group. How easy it has been to engage. Loved the dances on the webinar!” Willson
“It has been great, just perfectly organised, massive gratitude for the level of care that went into the emails and exercises. It all just worked! And I wasn’t able to join all the webinars but watched every one, thank you!”
“I just wanted to say a big thank you for this term of DYAO, it really has brought new dimensions to my creative work. Your facilitation has been inspired and sensitively articulated, and has lead to me feeling totally at ease sharing within the group, even though I’ve not been able to take part in the webinars.” Nina
This is for you if:
- you’d like to develop your relationship with your own creativity
- you’d like to bring the experiences of the workshop space into your day-to-day life
- you’d like to connect through the web with Open Floor dancers
- you’d like another aspect of yourself to be seen through your artwork
- you would like to explore the Open Floor Core Movement Resources in new ways
- you already have a creative project or story or something that you are already working on and you want to work on it in a supportive environment.
What do I need to join?
- To join the webinars it is recommended that you use a computer (laptop or desktop) rather than a smartphone or tablet. By using a computer you will be able to see the visuals and materials as well as being able to chat with other participants.
- You’ll need some basic art materials, ie; some pencils, paper, glue, scissors. There is an option to use a particular sketchbook which you can buy and have sent to you if you wish. If you do have crayons, paints or other art materials they’ll be useful but not essential.
- You’ll need an hour a fortnight to join the webinar or watch it later. It will help if you are in a space that you can dance in, with your art materials so you can do the art exercise during the webinar.
- There is an invitation to check-in with your small ‘pod’ or support group each fortnight. This could be within our private facebook group or it could be in some other way that suits your group, ie, WhatsApp or email.
- There are optional art exercises and an invitation to post daily artwork into our private Facebook group, the time suggestion for this is approximately 10 minutes a day.
AUTUMN TERM Dates and Times (UK times)
8th September 10am to 6pm workshop in London
or 15th & 16th Sep 4–7pm online workshop
20th September: 6pm webinar
4th October: 10am webinar
18th October: 6pm webinar
8th November: 10am webinar
8th November: 6pm ‘Salon’ / ‘show & tell’
15th November: 10am ‘Salon’ / ‘show & tell’
15th November: 6pm webinar
There are four ways of joining this group:
Option 1: Blended Ongoing
London Workshop + Webinars
£165 / £121 Concession
Option 2: Online Ongoing
Online Workshop + Webinars
£165 / £121 Concession
Option 3: Workshop only (London or Online)
£110 / £66 Concession
Option 4: Webinars only
£110 / £66 Concession
“We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters.” Julia Cameron
Sarah Davies is a founder member of Open Floor, she is an artist passionate about movement as a catalyst to creativity. For more see her website: www.waveofenergy.co.uk
For booking contact the organiser Audrey: audrey.boss@gmail.com
Time
(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Organizer
Audrey Boss
audrey.boss@gmail.com
16nov - 18nov 167:00 pmnov 18Libido Fundamentals7:00 pm - 4:00 pm (18) Emerson CollegeLocation:Sussex
Event Details
“Libido is appetite in its natural state” Carl Jung
Libido is an essential part of our body’s natural expression. Complicated one moment, ecstatic the next. Absent or burdened with expectations of [...]
Event Details
“Libido is appetite in its natural state” Carl Jung
Libido is an essential part of our body’s natural expression. Complicated one moment, ecstatic the next. Absent or burdened with expectations of past experiences, this energy within and between us comes to the dance longing for freedom.
The intention in Open Floor Movement practice is to mindfully support our full embodiment. In one dance we may feel juicy, radiant and desirable while at other times we battle feeling awkward or shy. It is often challenging to navigate our own experiences and/or the sexual energies around us.
Libido Fundamentals investigates this complex and creative conundrum by using movement to ground, build and explore our sexual energy. We embrace a wider definition of Libido as life force, birth place of creativity, vitality, presence and aliveness. Because sexuality is so often unconsciously acted out or ignored, the exploration of this territory tends to be intense, intimate, liberating and empowering.
Participants can expect to spend each day engaging in mindful movement practice, group sharing and inquiry along with some didactic education. Nudity and actual genital contact are not a part of this workshop.
All genders and sexual orientations are welcome. Welcome solo or in relationship.
Some prior experience of Open Floor or other Conscious Dance Practice is required.
For more information contact Beam: 07970 436823 or earthbeam@gmail.com
Sarah Davies has apprenticed with Andrea Juhan for several years to qualify to teach this work. Sarah is a Founding Member of Open Floor, she has taught conscious dance since the 5Rhythms teacher training with Gabrielle Roth in 2008.
When: 16–18 November 2018
Fri 7–10pm, Sat 10–6pm, Sun 10–4pm
Where: Emerson College, East Sussex, England RH18 5JX. Accommodation & full board is available at the venue. Please enquire for availability and cost: earthbeam@gmail.com
Cost: £215 / Concession £185
10% discount if paid in full by 5th October
For more about Sarah Davies and other work she is offering see: www.waveofenergy.co.uk
Time
16 (Friday) 7:00 pm - 18 (Sunday) 4:00 pm
Location
Emerson College
Forest Row, East Sussex, RH18 5JX
Organizer
Beam
earthbeam@gmail.com
september
Event Details
The Gym, Michael Hall School, Kidbrooke Park, Forest Row RH18 5JA See our video filmed in this class. This is a guided 5Rhythms Wave, beginners and experienced movers welcome alike. These [...]
Event Details
The Gym, Michael Hall School, Kidbrooke Park, Forest Row RH18 5JA
See our video filmed in this class.
This is a guided 5Rhythms Wave, beginners and experienced movers welcome alike.
These are all drop-in classes. No need to book. Just come along.
Arrive from 7.15, class starts at 7.30, doors close at 8pm.
Wear comfortable clothes to move in. Dance barefoot or in soft-soled shoes.
1st Saturday of the month.
Cost: £12
Connect with us on Facebook: 5Rhythms & Open Floor Forest Row
Time
(Saturday) 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Location
Dick Chester Studio, Michael Hall School
Kidbrooke Park, Forest Row RH18 5JA
Organizer
Sarah Davies heart@sarahdavies.org
Dick Chester Studio, Michael Hall SchoolKidbrooke Park, Forest Row RH18 5JA
Book your ticket now
Event Details
Friday Mornings 9.15–10.30am Cost: £10 After a summer pause this group restarts on September 7th and continues every Friday. Arrive from 9am for the start of the class at 9.30am. Doors close at [...]
Event Details
Friday Mornings 9.15–10.30am
Cost: £10
After a summer pause this group restarts on September 7th and continues every Friday.
Arrive from 9am for the start of the class at 9.30am. Doors close at 9.30am.
How do we use dance to be fully embodied?
How do we make the most of this one short precious life?
This is an exploration in movement using Open Floor core movement resources.
These are all drop-in classes. No need to book. Just come along.
Wear comfortable clothes to move in. Dance barefoot or in soft-soled shoes.
On September 7th we will have time after the dance to sit in circle together. All Welcome.
Time
(Friday) 9:15 am - 10:30 am
Location
Peter Griffiths Hall
(small village hall), Lewes Rd, Forest Row, East Sussex RH18 5ES
Organizer
Sarah Davies heart@sarahdavies.org
Buy ticket via Paypal
Event Details
“We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters.” Julia Cameron Dance Your Art Out is a way to strengthen creative confidence. Do you have a creative [...]
Event Details
“We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters.” Julia Cameron
Dance Your Art Out is a way to strengthen creative confidence. Do you have a creative project that you want to give time to? Or maybe you’re interested in exploring your own relationship to your creativity? The Webinars include drawing and dancing, inspired by the Open Floor ‘Core Movement Resources’ to broaden our perspective and catalyse our insight.
We make artful decisions all the time on the dance floor. Decisions about direction, tempo, momentum and which risks to take. In ‘Dance Your Art Out’ we will translate these skills into another artistic medium, using easy-to-do art techniques. When we strengthen our artistic habits, our creative aliveness can flourish and have far reaching impacts on our lives, dreams, dinner plates, wardrobes, relationships, passions and problem
solving skills. Whether you love expressing yourself through art or think you don’t have a creative bone in your body, you’re welcome.
This is a day workshop in London it can be taken as a stand alone workshop or as part of an ongoing group that continues online. The ongoing group consists of five with five fortnightly webinars, two ‘soiree’ / show ‘n tell events. The term lasts from September 8th to 15th November, there are suggested exercises with the webinars and an invitation to do daily Art Journaling, or image sharing. There will still be small groups to check-in with, which will change every term. The time of the webinars alternate from morning to evening, hopefully to suit those in different schedules and time zones.
Hopefully you can join for the workshop day as well as the online webinars. However we realise that isn’t always possible, so, if you have participated in a Dance Your Art Out or ARTiculate Your Soul weekend with Sarah Davies in the past you are able to come only for the online portion of the group, however there’s nothing like dancing and seeing eachother in the same room, so if you can, please do come to the day. Or, maybe you just want to dip your toes in and only come to the day, we’ve broken it down to make it as accessible as possible.
AUTUMN TERM
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and more dates to follow….
Term price = £165 / £121 concession
Day only = £110 / £66 concession
Online only = £72 / £66 concession
10% discount for current DYAO participants.
Book two terms together – 10% discount
Book four terms together – 15% discount
The webinars are on an easy-to-use platform called ‘Zoom’, they are recorded and the link is sent to you in an email after the webinar, for those that can’t make the call. The small groups check in using a secret facebook group.
Workshop Venue
Green Rooms Hotel,Wood Green, London N22 6UW (discount for hotel accommodation available)
Time allocations
Creative Practice: approx 1 hr / week
Small group online check-in: approx 20 mins / week
Sarah Davies is a founder member of Open Floor, she is an artist passionate about movement as a catalyst to creativity. For more see her website: www.waveofenergy.co.uk
For booking contact the organiser Audrey: audrey.boss@gmail.com
Time
(Saturday) 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location
Green Rooms Arts Hotel,
Wood Green, London N22 6UW
Organizer
Audrey Boss audrey.boss@gmail.com
Event Details
Bare Bones is a dance meditation for building muscular intelligence, the ability to be awake and fluid, to articulate the innate symphony of wisdom and expression waiting just below [...]
Event Details
Bare Bones is a dance meditation for building muscular intelligence, the ability to be awake and fluid, to articulate the innate symphony of wisdom and expression waiting just below our skin.
We ask our bodies and let them speak:
• What part of me has forgotten how to move?
• Where am I fluid and where am I bound?
• What gestures purr, hum, hurt, hesitate?
• Who do I gravitate towards?
• What propels me to shy away and…
• What makes my body sing?
Our inquiry becomes one of ratio: How much of our huge life force is devoted to keeping ourselves moving in repetitive, habitual patterns? How much is left for creativity, loving connections, the willing surrender to change?
The goal is a body that moves with it all and tells the tale. This is the infinite choreography for Bare Bones.
This workshop will be taught in English, please contact Catherine: celvinger@pt.lu if you will require translation.
Times: Friday 7:30pm–9.30pm
Saturday 10.30am–6pm
Sunday 10.30am–4pm
Venue: Lycée des Arts et Métiers
19 Rue Guillaume Schneider,
2522 Luxembourg
Cost: Weekend earlybird, 160 € before 10th August
190 € thereafter (50 € non refundable deposit for weekend)
20 € Friday evening only
To book: please pay the fee to “LëtzDanz asbl” account:
IBAN: LU71 1111 7046 5850 0000
Code BIC CCPLLULL , quoting “Open Floor Workshop–Bare Bones–Sarah Davies–September ’18” followed by your name; then confirm by mail to Catherine: celvinger@pt.lu
Time
28 (Friday) 7:00 pm - 30 (Sunday) 4:00 pm
Location
Lycée des Arts et Métiers
19 Rue Guillaume Schneider, 2522 Luxembourg
Organizer
Catherine Elvinger on behalf of LëtzDanz a.s.b.l. celvinger@pt.lu
october
Event Details
Dance Your Art Out - how it works online Dance Your Art Out is an ongoing group with the intention to recognise, reclaim and reignite your creative spark. Each term takes [...]
Event Details
Dance Your Art Out – how it works online
Dance Your Art Out is an ongoing group with the intention to recognise, reclaim and reignite your creative spark. Each term takes place over three months with people joining in online from all over the world. It’s a unique combination of movement and artwork, taking inspiration from the Core Movement Resources that form the backbone of the Open Floor curriculum.
There are four options:
- Each term the ‘blended’ option includes a workshop day in London. For those of us who can travel to London, this is a great way to meet each other and explore embodied creativity together.
- Another option is to attend an online workshop, the weekend after the London workshop, three hours each on both a Saturday and a Sunday. It is hoped that participants will attend a workshop either in person or online to get a good introduction and orientation to the rest of the term.
- Whether or not you have attended the in-person or online workshops, everyone joins in with the rest of the term, which is five fortnightly webinars (an online mini-seminar) of one hour each. We also share in small groups between the webinars and there is an option to share daily Art Journaling within the whole group.
Dancing Online
When we move, we practice paying attention to how we are: physically, emotionally, mindfully and soulfully. So, for a part of the online webinar, we dance. It can seem a strange concept to do this in front of the computer when we’re used to think of dancing as something we do when we come together on a dance floor. But moving and dancing in the comfort of our own homes with the motivation, support and encouragement of other people doing the same thing at the same time in their own homes, can be remarkably freeing.
Dance Your Art Out is structured around the Core Movement Resources that form the backbone of the Open Floor curriculum. The webinar dancing is inspired by one of these Resources, which informs the choice of music and drawing exercises. When we’re dancing we are aware of others dancing in their own spaces, sometimes we see them moving, or an arm or a leg passes by on screen, mostly there’s a background sense of a group that we feel encouraged by.
The online world has a reputation for being a pretty disembodied place, we become ‘talking heads’, interactions can lack authenticity or integrity, our attention is pulled in many places at the same time. I know for myself too when I’ve spent too much time on the computer I can feel frazzled.
The benefits of an online course
However, online connections aren’t necessarily phoney or diluted, and can sometimes lead to ‘real life’ meetings. Over the last few years I’ve participated in several online courses, one of them had us in small support groups, I was with a group spread out all over the world and one person happened to live just 30 miles from me. After a month in this group it felt as if we knew each other well; we had shared a lot and the experience had been so rewarding that I met with this person and her family, we had tea together and it felt as if we were old friends.
One of the benefits of an online course is that we can meet with like-minded people from all over the world and have that connection right from where we are. On the current term of Dance Your Art Out we have participants in Austria, California, East Sussex, Greece, London, Moscow and Toronto. Each of us brings our own individual flavour and we inspire each other with our differences as well as our similarities. And at the same time, we are in our own environments. Dancing and making artwork at home can give us the extra safety to explore new territory from a safe space. Not only is it more accessible, it is more affordable in time as well as money. The added flexibility is that you can choose to join the webinar or not and if you don’t join in live, you can watch it later when it suits you. You have access to all webinars up to the start of the next term.
Recently I was talking with some friends, some were Open Floor teachers and some were therapists. Our conversation got onto online work as one of the psychotherapists used to live abroad and when she returned to England, she continued to see her clients on Skype and the therapy continued to be as effective as it was in person. This surprised me, so as part of the research for Dance Your Art Out, I looked for evidence that online therapy is just as effective as face to face:
“Research shows that cognitive behavioural therapy, a type of talk therapy, is as good on the telephone or over Skype as it is face-to-face for some mental health conditions.
…A small 2014 study also found that teens who were counselled over the phone for obsessive compulsive disorder found just as much success in treatment as their peers who met therapists face-to-face. And more recently, researchers in South Carolina found that veterans who experience post-traumatic stress disorder respond just as well to therapy over videoconference to treatment received in office.”
Allison Fox HuffPost
“One advantage of online therapy is the disinhibition effect…where people feel more comfortable opening up and discussing problems when they are online.” Terry Hanley The Guardian
While Dance Your Art Out isn’t therapy, it can be therapeutic and does rely on embodied connection with ourselves and others on the dance floor. Surely this is lost online? Well, from two terms of Dance Your Art Out online, I know it works as a way to get to know ourselves more and be seen, and while it is different to being on the dance floor together, it is still powerfully connecting. Here are some words from people who’ve tried it:
“I am deeply grateful for this unique opportunity in my personal journey to shift from invisibility to being seen by myself and by others. The workshop, Sarah and the support enabled this shift.” Marina
“It supported me to expand my creative boundaries and identities”
“Re connected me to creative alignment with source”
“I have some rich insights…and feel deeply affected by showing my work and me, and so grateful for the opportunity to tell my story, to be seen, and for the beautiful feedback and seeing.”
“The generous open sharing of people’s work and process, so carefully cultivated, nurtured and held by Sarah, helpers, and the whole group. How easy it has been to engage. Loved the dances on the webinar!” Willson
“It has been great, just perfectly organised, massive gratitude for the level of care that went into the emails and exercises. It all just worked! And I wasn’t able to join all the webinars but watched every one, thank you!”
“I just wanted to say a big thank you for this term of DYAO, it really has brought new dimensions to my creative work. Your facilitation has been inspired and sensitively articulated, and has lead to me feeling totally at ease sharing within the group, even though I’ve not been able to take part in the webinars.” Nina
This is for you if:
- you’d like to develop your relationship with your own creativity
- you’d like to bring the experiences of the workshop space into your day-to-day life
- you’d like to connect through the web with Open Floor dancers
- you’d like another aspect of yourself to be seen through your artwork
- you would like to explore the Open Floor Core Movement Resources in new ways
- you already have a creative project or story or something that you are already working on and you want to work on it in a supportive environment.
What do I need to join?
- To join the webinars it is recommended that you use a computer (laptop or desktop) rather than a smartphone or tablet. By using a computer you will be able to see the visuals and materials as well as being able to chat with other participants.
- You’ll need some basic art materials, ie; some pencils, paper, glue, scissors. There is an option to use a particular sketchbook which you can buy and have sent to you if you wish. If you do have crayons, paints or other art materials they’ll be useful but not essential.
- You’ll need an hour a fortnight to join the webinar or watch it later. It will help if you are in a space that you can dance in, with your art materials so you can do the art exercise during the webinar.
- There is an invitation to check-in with your small ‘pod’ or support group each fortnight. This could be within our private facebook group or it could be in some other way that suits your group, ie, WhatsApp or email.
- There are optional art exercises and an invitation to post daily artwork into our private Facebook group, the time suggestion for this is approximately 10 minutes a day.
AUTUMN TERM Dates and Times (UK times)
|
| There are four ways of joining this group: | |
| Option 1: Blended Ongoing
London Workshop + Webinars £165 / £121 Concession |
Option 2: Online Ongoing
Online Workshop + Webinars £165 / £121 Concession |
| Option 3: Workshop only (London or Online)
£110 / £66 Concession |
Option 4: Webinars only
£110 / £66 Concession |
“We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters.” Julia Cameron
Sarah Davies is a founder member of Open Floor, she is an artist passionate about movement as a catalyst to creativity. For more see her website: www.waveofenergy.co.uk
For booking contact the organiser Audrey: audrey.boss@gmail.com
Time
(Thursday) 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Organizer
Audrey Boss audrey.boss@gmail.com
Event Details
The Gym, Michael Hall School, Kidbrooke Park, Forest Row RH18 5JA See our video filmed in this class. This is a guided 5Rhythms Wave, beginners and experienced movers welcome alike. These [...]
Event Details
The Gym, Michael Hall School, Kidbrooke Park, Forest Row RH18 5JA
See our video filmed in this class.
This is a guided 5Rhythms Wave, beginners and experienced movers welcome alike.
These are all drop-in classes. No need to book. Just come along.
Arrive from 7.15, class starts at 7.30, doors close at 8pm.
Wear comfortable clothes to move in. Dance barefoot or in soft-soled shoes.
1st Saturday of the month.
Cost: £12
Connect with us on Facebook: 5Rhythms & Open Floor Forest Row
Time
(Saturday) 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Location
Dick Chester Studio, Michael Hall School
Kidbrooke Park, Forest Row RH18 5JA
Organizer
Sarah Davies heart@sarahdavies.org
Dick Chester Studio, Michael Hall SchoolKidbrooke Park, Forest Row RH18 5JA
Book your ticket now
Event Details
Dance Your Art Out - how it works online Dance Your Art Out is an ongoing group with the intention to recognise, reclaim and reignite your creative spark. Each term takes [...]
Event Details
Dance Your Art Out – how it works online
Dance Your Art Out is an ongoing group with the intention to recognise, reclaim and reignite your creative spark. Each term takes place over three months with people joining in online from all over the world. It’s a unique combination of movement and artwork, taking inspiration from the Core Movement Resources that form the backbone of the Open Floor curriculum.
There are four options:
- Each term the ‘blended’ option includes a workshop day in London. For those of us who can travel to London, this is a great way to meet each other and explore embodied creativity together.
- Another option is to attend an online workshop, the weekend after the London workshop, three hours each on both a Saturday and a Sunday. It is hoped that participants will attend a workshop either in person or online to get a good introduction and orientation to the rest of the term.
- Whether or not you have attended the in-person or online workshops, everyone joins in with the rest of the term, which is five fortnightly webinars (an online mini-seminar) of one hour each. We also share in small groups between the webinars and there is an option to share daily Art Journaling within the whole group.
Dancing Online
When we move, we practice paying attention to how we are: physically, emotionally, mindfully and soulfully. So, for a part of the online webinar, we dance. It can seem a strange concept to do this in front of the computer when we’re used to think of dancing as something we do when we come together on a dance floor. But moving and dancing in the comfort of our own homes with the motivation, support and encouragement of other people doing the same thing at the same time in their own homes, can be remarkably freeing.
Dance Your Art Out is structured around the Core Movement Resources that form the backbone of the Open Floor curriculum. The webinar dancing is inspired by one of these Resources, which informs the choice of music and drawing exercises. When we’re dancing we are aware of others dancing in their own spaces, sometimes we see them moving, or an arm or a leg passes by on screen, mostly there’s a background sense of a group that we feel encouraged by.
The online world has a reputation for being a pretty disembodied place, we become ‘talking heads’, interactions can lack authenticity or integrity, our attention is pulled in many places at the same time. I know for myself too when I’ve spent too much time on the computer I can feel frazzled.
The benefits of an online course
However, online connections aren’t necessarily phoney or diluted, and can sometimes lead to ‘real life’ meetings. Over the last few years I’ve participated in several online courses, one of them had us in small support groups, I was with a group spread out all over the world and one person happened to live just 30 miles from me. After a month in this group it felt as if we knew each other well; we had shared a lot and the experience had been so rewarding that I met with this person and her family, we had tea together and it felt as if we were old friends.
One of the benefits of an online course is that we can meet with like-minded people from all over the world and have that connection right from where we are. On the current term of Dance Your Art Out we have participants in Austria, California, East Sussex, Greece, London, Moscow and Toronto. Each of us brings our own individual flavour and we inspire each other with our differences as well as our similarities. And at the same time, we are in our own environments. Dancing and making artwork at home can give us the extra safety to explore new territory from a safe space. Not only is it more accessible, it is more affordable in time as well as money. The added flexibility is that you can choose to join the webinar or not and if you don’t join in live, you can watch it later when it suits you. You have access to all webinars up to the start of the next term.
Recently I was talking with some friends, some were Open Floor teachers and some were therapists. Our conversation got onto online work as one of the psychotherapists used to live abroad and when she returned to England, she continued to see her clients on Skype and the therapy continued to be as effective as it was in person. This surprised me, so as part of the research for Dance Your Art Out, I looked for evidence that online therapy is just as effective as face to face:
“Research shows that cognitive behavioural therapy, a type of talk therapy, is as good on the telephone or over Skype as it is face-to-face for some mental health conditions.
…A small 2014 study also found that teens who were counselled over the phone for obsessive compulsive disorder found just as much success in treatment as their peers who met therapists face-to-face. And more recently, researchers in South Carolina found that veterans who experience post-traumatic stress disorder respond just as well to therapy over videoconference to treatment received in office.”
Allison Fox HuffPost
“One advantage of online therapy is the disinhibition effect…where people feel more comfortable opening up and discussing problems when they are online.” Terry Hanley The Guardian
While Dance Your Art Out isn’t therapy, it can be therapeutic and does rely on embodied connection with ourselves and others on the dance floor. Surely this is lost online? Well, from two terms of Dance Your Art Out online, I know it works as a way to get to know ourselves more and be seen, and while it is different to being on the dance floor together, it is still powerfully connecting. Here are some words from people who’ve tried it:
“I am deeply grateful for this unique opportunity in my personal journey to shift from invisibility to being seen by myself and by others. The workshop, Sarah and the support enabled this shift.” Marina
“It supported me to expand my creative boundaries and identities”
“Re connected me to creative alignment with source”
“I have some rich insights…and feel deeply affected by showing my work and me, and so grateful for the opportunity to tell my story, to be seen, and for the beautiful feedback and seeing.”
“The generous open sharing of people’s work and process, so carefully cultivated, nurtured and held by Sarah, helpers, and the whole group. How easy it has been to engage. Loved the dances on the webinar!” Willson
“It has been great, just perfectly organised, massive gratitude for the level of care that went into the emails and exercises. It all just worked! And I wasn’t able to join all the webinars but watched every one, thank you!”
“I just wanted to say a big thank you for this term of DYAO, it really has brought new dimensions to my creative work. Your facilitation has been inspired and sensitively articulated, and has lead to me feeling totally at ease sharing within the group, even though I’ve not been able to take part in the webinars.” Nina
This is for you if:
- you’d like to develop your relationship with your own creativity
- you’d like to bring the experiences of the workshop space into your day-to-day life
- you’d like to connect through the web with Open Floor dancers
- you’d like another aspect of yourself to be seen through your artwork
- you would like to explore the Open Floor Core Movement Resources in new ways
- you already have a creative project or story or something that you are already working on and you want to work on it in a supportive environment.
What do I need to join?
- To join the webinars it is recommended that you use a computer (laptop or desktop) rather than a smartphone or tablet. By using a computer you will be able to see the visuals and materials as well as being able to chat with other participants.
- You’ll need some basic art materials, ie; some pencils, paper, glue, scissors. There is an option to use a particular sketchbook which you can buy and have sent to you if you wish. If you do have crayons, paints or other art materials they’ll be useful but not essential.
- You’ll need an hour a fortnight to join the webinar or watch it later. It will help if you are in a space that you can dance in, with your art materials so you can do the art exercise during the webinar.
- There is an invitation to check-in with your small ‘pod’ or support group each fortnight. This could be within our private facebook group or it could be in some other way that suits your group, ie, WhatsApp or email.
- There are optional art exercises and an invitation to post daily artwork into our private Facebook group, the time suggestion for this is approximately 10 minutes a day.
AUTUMN TERM Dates and Times (UK times)
|
| There are four ways of joining this group: | |
| Option 1: Blended Ongoing
London Workshop + Webinars £165 / £121 Concession |
Option 2: Online Ongoing
Online Workshop + Webinars £165 / £121 Concession |
| Option 3: Workshop only (London or Online)
£110 / £66 Concession |
Option 4: Webinars only
£110 / £66 Concession |
“We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters.” Julia Cameron
Sarah Davies is a founder member of Open Floor, she is an artist passionate about movement as a catalyst to creativity. For more see her website: www.waveofenergy.co.uk
For booking contact the organiser Audrey: audrey.boss@gmail.com
Time
(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Organizer
Audrey Boss audrey.boss@gmail.com
november
Event Details
Dance Your Art Out - how it works online Dance Your Art Out is an ongoing group with the intention to recognise, reclaim and reignite your creative spark. Each term takes [...]
Event Details
Dance Your Art Out – how it works online
Dance Your Art Out is an ongoing group with the intention to recognise, reclaim and reignite your creative spark. Each term takes place over three months with people joining in online from all over the world. It’s a unique combination of movement and artwork, taking inspiration from the Core Movement Resources that form the backbone of the Open Floor curriculum.
There are four options:
- Each term the ‘blended’ option includes a workshop day in London. For those of us who can travel to London, this is a great way to meet each other and explore embodied creativity together.
- Another option is to attend an online workshop, the weekend after the London workshop, three hours each on both a Saturday and a Sunday. It is hoped that participants will attend a workshop either in person or online to get a good introduction and orientation to the rest of the term.
- Whether or not you have attended the in-person or online workshops, everyone joins in with the rest of the term, which is five fortnightly webinars (an online mini-seminar) of one hour each. We also share in small groups between the webinars and there is an option to share daily Art Journaling within the whole group.
Dancing Online
When we move, we practice paying attention to how we are: physically, emotionally, mindfully and soulfully. So, for a part of the online webinar, we dance. It can seem a strange concept to do this in front of the computer when we’re used to think of dancing as something we do when we come together on a dance floor. But moving and dancing in the comfort of our own homes with the motivation, support and encouragement of other people doing the same thing at the same time in their own homes, can be remarkably freeing.
Dance Your Art Out is structured around the Core Movement Resources that form the backbone of the Open Floor curriculum. The webinar dancing is inspired by one of these Resources, which informs the choice of music and drawing exercises. When we’re dancing we are aware of others dancing in their own spaces, sometimes we see them moving, or an arm or a leg passes by on screen, mostly there’s a background sense of a group that we feel encouraged by.
The online world has a reputation for being a pretty disembodied place, we become ‘talking heads’, interactions can lack authenticity or integrity, our attention is pulled in many places at the same time. I know for myself too when I’ve spent too much time on the computer I can feel frazzled.
The benefits of an online course
However, online connections aren’t necessarily phoney or diluted, and can sometimes lead to ‘real life’ meetings. Over the last few years I’ve participated in several online courses, one of them had us in small support groups, I was with a group spread out all over the world and one person happened to live just 30 miles from me. After a month in this group it felt as if we knew each other well; we had shared a lot and the experience had been so rewarding that I met with this person and her family, we had tea together and it felt as if we were old friends.
One of the benefits of an online course is that we can meet with like-minded people from all over the world and have that connection right from where we are. On the current term of Dance Your Art Out we have participants in Austria, California, East Sussex, Greece, London, Moscow and Toronto. Each of us brings our own individual flavour and we inspire each other with our differences as well as our similarities. And at the same time, we are in our own environments. Dancing and making artwork at home can give us the extra safety to explore new territory from a safe space. Not only is it more accessible, it is more affordable in time as well as money. The added flexibility is that you can choose to join the webinar or not and if you don’t join in live, you can watch it later when it suits you. You have access to all webinars up to the start of the next term.
Recently I was talking with some friends, some were Open Floor teachers and some were therapists. Our conversation got onto online work as one of the psychotherapists used to live abroad and when she returned to England, she continued to see her clients on Skype and the therapy continued to be as effective as it was in person. This surprised me, so as part of the research for Dance Your Art Out, I looked for evidence that online therapy is just as effective as face to face:
“Research shows that cognitive behavioural therapy, a type of talk therapy, is as good on the telephone or over Skype as it is face-to-face for some mental health conditions.
…A small 2014 study also found that teens who were counselled over the phone for obsessive compulsive disorder found just as much success in treatment as their peers who met therapists face-to-face. And more recently, researchers in South Carolina found that veterans who experience post-traumatic stress disorder respond just as well to therapy over videoconference to treatment received in office.”
Allison Fox HuffPost
“One advantage of online therapy is the disinhibition effect…where people feel more comfortable opening up and discussing problems when they are online.” Terry Hanley The Guardian
While Dance Your Art Out isn’t therapy, it can be therapeutic and does rely on embodied connection with ourselves and others on the dance floor. Surely this is lost online? Well, from two terms of Dance Your Art Out online, I know it works as a way to get to know ourselves more and be seen, and while it is different to being on the dance floor together, it is still powerfully connecting. Here are some words from people who’ve tried it:
“I am deeply grateful for this unique opportunity in my personal journey to shift from invisibility to being seen by myself and by others. The workshop, Sarah and the support enabled this shift.” Marina
“It supported me to expand my creative boundaries and identities”
“Re connected me to creative alignment with source”
“I have some rich insights…and feel deeply affected by showing my work and me, and so grateful for the opportunity to tell my story, to be seen, and for the beautiful feedback and seeing.”
“The generous open sharing of people’s work and process, so carefully cultivated, nurtured and held by Sarah, helpers, and the whole group. How easy it has been to engage. Loved the dances on the webinar!” Willson
“It has been great, just perfectly organised, massive gratitude for the level of care that went into the emails and exercises. It all just worked! And I wasn’t able to join all the webinars but watched every one, thank you!”
“I just wanted to say a big thank you for this term of DYAO, it really has brought new dimensions to my creative work. Your facilitation has been inspired and sensitively articulated, and has lead to me feeling totally at ease sharing within the group, even though I’ve not been able to take part in the webinars.” Nina
This is for you if:
- you’d like to develop your relationship with your own creativity
- you’d like to bring the experiences of the workshop space into your day-to-day life
- you’d like to connect through the web with Open Floor dancers
- you’d like another aspect of yourself to be seen through your artwork
- you would like to explore the Open Floor Core Movement Resources in new ways
- you already have a creative project or story or something that you are already working on and you want to work on it in a supportive environment.
What do I need to join?
- To join the webinars it is recommended that you use a computer (laptop or desktop) rather than a smartphone or tablet. By using a computer you will be able to see the visuals and materials as well as being able to chat with other participants.
- You’ll need some basic art materials, ie; some pencils, paper, glue, scissors. There is an option to use a particular sketchbook which you can buy and have sent to you if you wish. If you do have crayons, paints or other art materials they’ll be useful but not essential.
- You’ll need an hour a fortnight to join the webinar or watch it later. It will help if you are in a space that you can dance in, with your art materials so you can do the art exercise during the webinar.
- There is an invitation to check-in with your small ‘pod’ or support group each fortnight. This could be within our private facebook group or it could be in some other way that suits your group, ie, WhatsApp or email.
- There are optional art exercises and an invitation to post daily artwork into our private Facebook group, the time suggestion for this is approximately 10 minutes a day.
AUTUMN TERM Dates and Times (UK times)
|
| There are four ways of joining this group: | |
| Option 1: Blended Ongoing
London Workshop + Webinars £165 / £121 Concession |
Option 2: Online Ongoing
Online Workshop + Webinars £165 / £121 Concession |
| Option 3: Workshop only (London or Online)
£110 / £66 Concession |
Option 4: Webinars only
£110 / £66 Concession |
“We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters.” Julia Cameron
Sarah Davies is a founder member of Open Floor, she is an artist passionate about movement as a catalyst to creativity. For more see her website: www.waveofenergy.co.uk
For booking contact the organiser Audrey: audrey.boss@gmail.com
Time
(Thursday) 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Organizer
Audrey Boss audrey.boss@gmail.com
Event Details
Dance Your Art Out - how it works online Dance Your Art Out is an ongoing group with the intention to recognise, reclaim and reignite your creative spark. Each term takes [...]
Event Details
Dance Your Art Out – how it works online
Dance Your Art Out is an ongoing group with the intention to recognise, reclaim and reignite your creative spark. Each term takes place over three months with people joining in online from all over the world. It’s a unique combination of movement and artwork, taking inspiration from the Core Movement Resources that form the backbone of the Open Floor curriculum.
There are four options:
- Each term the ‘blended’ option includes a workshop day in London. For those of us who can travel to London, this is a great way to meet each other and explore embodied creativity together.
- Another option is to attend an online workshop, the weekend after the London workshop, three hours each on both a Saturday and a Sunday. It is hoped that participants will attend a workshop either in person or online to get a good introduction and orientation to the rest of the term.
- Whether or not you have attended the in-person or online workshops, everyone joins in with the rest of the term, which is five fortnightly webinars (an online mini-seminar) of one hour each. We also share in small groups between the webinars and there is an option to share daily Art Journaling within the whole group.
Dancing Online
When we move, we practice paying attention to how we are: physically, emotionally, mindfully and soulfully. So, for a part of the online webinar, we dance. It can seem a strange concept to do this in front of the computer when we’re used to think of dancing as something we do when we come together on a dance floor. But moving and dancing in the comfort of our own homes with the motivation, support and encouragement of other people doing the same thing at the same time in their own homes, can be remarkably freeing.
Dance Your Art Out is structured around the Core Movement Resources that form the backbone of the Open Floor curriculum. The webinar dancing is inspired by one of these Resources, which informs the choice of music and drawing exercises. When we’re dancing we are aware of others dancing in their own spaces, sometimes we see them moving, or an arm or a leg passes by on screen, mostly there’s a background sense of a group that we feel encouraged by.
The online world has a reputation for being a pretty disembodied place, we become ‘talking heads’, interactions can lack authenticity or integrity, our attention is pulled in many places at the same time. I know for myself too when I’ve spent too much time on the computer I can feel frazzled.
The benefits of an online course
However, online connections aren’t necessarily phoney or diluted, and can sometimes lead to ‘real life’ meetings. Over the last few years I’ve participated in several online courses, one of them had us in small support groups, I was with a group spread out all over the world and one person happened to live just 30 miles from me. After a month in this group it felt as if we knew each other well; we had shared a lot and the experience had been so rewarding that I met with this person and her family, we had tea together and it felt as if we were old friends.
One of the benefits of an online course is that we can meet with like-minded people from all over the world and have that connection right from where we are. On the current term of Dance Your Art Out we have participants in Austria, California, East Sussex, Greece, London, Moscow and Toronto. Each of us brings our own individual flavour and we inspire each other with our differences as well as our similarities. And at the same time, we are in our own environments. Dancing and making artwork at home can give us the extra safety to explore new territory from a safe space. Not only is it more accessible, it is more affordable in time as well as money. The added flexibility is that you can choose to join the webinar or not and if you don’t join in live, you can watch it later when it suits you. You have access to all webinars up to the start of the next term.
Recently I was talking with some friends, some were Open Floor teachers and some were therapists. Our conversation got onto online work as one of the psychotherapists used to live abroad and when she returned to England, she continued to see her clients on Skype and the therapy continued to be as effective as it was in person. This surprised me, so as part of the research for Dance Your Art Out, I looked for evidence that online therapy is just as effective as face to face:
“Research shows that cognitive behavioural therapy, a type of talk therapy, is as good on the telephone or over Skype as it is face-to-face for some mental health conditions.
…A small 2014 study also found that teens who were counselled over the phone for obsessive compulsive disorder found just as much success in treatment as their peers who met therapists face-to-face. And more recently, researchers in South Carolina found that veterans who experience post-traumatic stress disorder respond just as well to therapy over videoconference to treatment received in office.”
Allison Fox HuffPost
“One advantage of online therapy is the disinhibition effect…where people feel more comfortable opening up and discussing problems when they are online.” Terry Hanley The Guardian
While Dance Your Art Out isn’t therapy, it can be therapeutic and does rely on embodied connection with ourselves and others on the dance floor. Surely this is lost online? Well, from two terms of Dance Your Art Out online, I know it works as a way to get to know ourselves more and be seen, and while it is different to being on the dance floor together, it is still powerfully connecting. Here are some words from people who’ve tried it:
“I am deeply grateful for this unique opportunity in my personal journey to shift from invisibility to being seen by myself and by others. The workshop, Sarah and the support enabled this shift.” Marina
“It supported me to expand my creative boundaries and identities”
“Re connected me to creative alignment with source”
“I have some rich insights…and feel deeply affected by showing my work and me, and so grateful for the opportunity to tell my story, to be seen, and for the beautiful feedback and seeing.”
“The generous open sharing of people’s work and process, so carefully cultivated, nurtured and held by Sarah, helpers, and the whole group. How easy it has been to engage. Loved the dances on the webinar!” Willson
“It has been great, just perfectly organised, massive gratitude for the level of care that went into the emails and exercises. It all just worked! And I wasn’t able to join all the webinars but watched every one, thank you!”
“I just wanted to say a big thank you for this term of DYAO, it really has brought new dimensions to my creative work. Your facilitation has been inspired and sensitively articulated, and has lead to me feeling totally at ease sharing within the group, even though I’ve not been able to take part in the webinars.” Nina
This is for you if:
- you’d like to develop your relationship with your own creativity
- you’d like to bring the experiences of the workshop space into your day-to-day life
- you’d like to connect through the web with Open Floor dancers
- you’d like another aspect of yourself to be seen through your artwork
- you would like to explore the Open Floor Core Movement Resources in new ways
- you already have a creative project or story or something that you are already working on and you want to work on it in a supportive environment.
What do I need to join?
- To join the webinars it is recommended that you use a computer (laptop or desktop) rather than a smartphone or tablet. By using a computer you will be able to see the visuals and materials as well as being able to chat with other participants.
- You’ll need some basic art materials, ie; some pencils, paper, glue, scissors. There is an option to use a particular sketchbook which you can buy and have sent to you if you wish. If you do have crayons, paints or other art materials they’ll be useful but not essential.
- You’ll need an hour a fortnight to join the webinar or watch it later. It will help if you are in a space that you can dance in, with your art materials so you can do the art exercise during the webinar.
- There is an invitation to check-in with your small ‘pod’ or support group each fortnight. This could be within our private facebook group or it could be in some other way that suits your group, ie, WhatsApp or email.
- There are optional art exercises and an invitation to post daily artwork into our private Facebook group, the time suggestion for this is approximately 10 minutes a day.
AUTUMN TERM Dates and Times (UK times)
|
| There are four ways of joining this group: | |
| Option 1: Blended Ongoing
London Workshop + Webinars £165 / £121 Concession |
Option 2: Online Ongoing
Online Workshop + Webinars £165 / £121 Concession |
| Option 3: Workshop only (London or Online)
£110 / £66 Concession |
Option 4: Webinars only
£110 / £66 Concession |
“We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters.” Julia Cameron
Sarah Davies is a founder member of Open Floor, she is an artist passionate about movement as a catalyst to creativity. For more see her website: www.waveofenergy.co.uk
For booking contact the organiser Audrey: audrey.boss@gmail.com
Time
(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Organizer
Audrey Boss audrey.boss@gmail.com
Event Details
Dance Your Art Out - how it works online Dance Your Art Out is an ongoing group with the intention to recognise, reclaim and reignite your creative spark. Each term takes [...]
Event Details
Dance Your Art Out – how it works online
Dance Your Art Out is an ongoing group with the intention to recognise, reclaim and reignite your creative spark. Each term takes place over three months with people joining in online from all over the world. It’s a unique combination of movement and artwork, taking inspiration from the Core Movement Resources that form the backbone of the Open Floor curriculum.
There are four options:
- Each term the ‘blended’ option includes a workshop day in London. For those of us who can travel to London, this is a great way to meet each other and explore embodied creativity together.
- Another option is to attend an online workshop, the weekend after the London workshop, three hours each on both a Saturday and a Sunday. It is hoped that participants will attend a workshop either in person or online to get a good introduction and orientation to the rest of the term.
- Whether or not you have attended the in-person or online workshops, everyone joins in with the rest of the term, which is five fortnightly webinars (an online mini-seminar) of one hour each. We also share in small groups between the webinars and there is an option to share daily Art Journaling within the whole group.
Dancing Online
When we move, we practice paying attention to how we are: physically, emotionally, mindfully and soulfully. So, for a part of the online webinar, we dance. It can seem a strange concept to do this in front of the computer when we’re used to think of dancing as something we do when we come together on a dance floor. But moving and dancing in the comfort of our own homes with the motivation, support and encouragement of other people doing the same thing at the same time in their own homes, can be remarkably freeing.
Dance Your Art Out is structured around the Core Movement Resources that form the backbone of the Open Floor curriculum. The webinar dancing is inspired by one of these Resources, which informs the choice of music and drawing exercises. When we’re dancing we are aware of others dancing in their own spaces, sometimes we see them moving, or an arm or a leg passes by on screen, mostly there’s a background sense of a group that we feel encouraged by.
The online world has a reputation for being a pretty disembodied place, we become ‘talking heads’, interactions can lack authenticity or integrity, our attention is pulled in many places at the same time. I know for myself too when I’ve spent too much time on the computer I can feel frazzled.
The benefits of an online course
However, online connections aren’t necessarily phoney or diluted, and can sometimes lead to ‘real life’ meetings. Over the last few years I’ve participated in several online courses, one of them had us in small support groups, I was with a group spread out all over the world and one person happened to live just 30 miles from me. After a month in this group it felt as if we knew each other well; we had shared a lot and the experience had been so rewarding that I met with this person and her family, we had tea together and it felt as if we were old friends.
One of the benefits of an online course is that we can meet with like-minded people from all over the world and have that connection right from where we are. On the current term of Dance Your Art Out we have participants in Austria, California, East Sussex, Greece, London, Moscow and Toronto. Each of us brings our own individual flavour and we inspire each other with our differences as well as our similarities. And at the same time, we are in our own environments. Dancing and making artwork at home can give us the extra safety to explore new territory from a safe space. Not only is it more accessible, it is more affordable in time as well as money. The added flexibility is that you can choose to join the webinar or not and if you don’t join in live, you can watch it later when it suits you. You have access to all webinars up to the start of the next term.
Recently I was talking with some friends, some were Open Floor teachers and some were therapists. Our conversation got onto online work as one of the psychotherapists used to live abroad and when she returned to England, she continued to see her clients on Skype and the therapy continued to be as effective as it was in person. This surprised me, so as part of the research for Dance Your Art Out, I looked for evidence that online therapy is just as effective as face to face:
“Research shows that cognitive behavioural therapy, a type of talk therapy, is as good on the telephone or over Skype as it is face-to-face for some mental health conditions.
…A small 2014 study also found that teens who were counselled over the phone for obsessive compulsive disorder found just as much success in treatment as their peers who met therapists face-to-face. And more recently, researchers in South Carolina found that veterans who experience post-traumatic stress disorder respond just as well to therapy over videoconference to treatment received in office.”
Allison Fox HuffPost
“One advantage of online therapy is the disinhibition effect…where people feel more comfortable opening up and discussing problems when they are online.” Terry Hanley The Guardian
While Dance Your Art Out isn’t therapy, it can be therapeutic and does rely on embodied connection with ourselves and others on the dance floor. Surely this is lost online? Well, from two terms of Dance Your Art Out online, I know it works as a way to get to know ourselves more and be seen, and while it is different to being on the dance floor together, it is still powerfully connecting. Here are some words from people who’ve tried it:
“I am deeply grateful for this unique opportunity in my personal journey to shift from invisibility to being seen by myself and by others. The workshop, Sarah and the support enabled this shift.” Marina
“It supported me to expand my creative boundaries and identities”
“Re connected me to creative alignment with source”
“I have some rich insights…and feel deeply affected by showing my work and me, and so grateful for the opportunity to tell my story, to be seen, and for the beautiful feedback and seeing.”
“The generous open sharing of people’s work and process, so carefully cultivated, nurtured and held by Sarah, helpers, and the whole group. How easy it has been to engage. Loved the dances on the webinar!” Willson
“It has been great, just perfectly organised, massive gratitude for the level of care that went into the emails and exercises. It all just worked! And I wasn’t able to join all the webinars but watched every one, thank you!”
“I just wanted to say a big thank you for this term of DYAO, it really has brought new dimensions to my creative work. Your facilitation has been inspired and sensitively articulated, and has lead to me feeling totally at ease sharing within the group, even though I’ve not been able to take part in the webinars.” Nina
This is for you if:
- you’d like to develop your relationship with your own creativity
- you’d like to bring the experiences of the workshop space into your day-to-day life
- you’d like to connect through the web with Open Floor dancers
- you’d like another aspect of yourself to be seen through your artwork
- you would like to explore the Open Floor Core Movement Resources in new ways
- you already have a creative project or story or something that you are already working on and you want to work on it in a supportive environment.
What do I need to join?
- To join the webinars it is recommended that you use a computer (laptop or desktop) rather than a smartphone or tablet. By using a computer you will be able to see the visuals and materials as well as being able to chat with other participants.
- You’ll need some basic art materials, ie; some pencils, paper, glue, scissors. There is an option to use a particular sketchbook which you can buy and have sent to you if you wish. If you do have crayons, paints or other art materials they’ll be useful but not essential.
- You’ll need an hour a fortnight to join the webinar or watch it later. It will help if you are in a space that you can dance in, with your art materials so you can do the art exercise during the webinar.
- There is an invitation to check-in with your small ‘pod’ or support group each fortnight. This could be within our private facebook group or it could be in some other way that suits your group, ie, WhatsApp or email.
- There are optional art exercises and an invitation to post daily artwork into our private Facebook group, the time suggestion for this is approximately 10 minutes a day.
AUTUMN TERM Dates and Times (UK times)
|
| There are four ways of joining this group: | |
| Option 1: Blended Ongoing
London Workshop + Webinars £165 / £121 Concession |
Option 2: Online Ongoing
Online Workshop + Webinars £165 / £121 Concession |
| Option 3: Workshop only (London or Online)
£110 / £66 Concession |
Option 4: Webinars only
£110 / £66 Concession |
“We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters.” Julia Cameron
Sarah Davies is a founder member of Open Floor, she is an artist passionate about movement as a catalyst to creativity. For more see her website: www.waveofenergy.co.uk
For booking contact the organiser Audrey: audrey.boss@gmail.com
Time
(Thursday) 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Organizer
Audrey Boss audrey.boss@gmail.com
Event Details
Dance Your Art Out - how it works online Dance Your Art Out is an ongoing group with the intention to recognise, reclaim and reignite your creative spark. Each term takes [...]
Event Details
Dance Your Art Out – how it works online
Dance Your Art Out is an ongoing group with the intention to recognise, reclaim and reignite your creative spark. Each term takes place over three months with people joining in online from all over the world. It’s a unique combination of movement and artwork, taking inspiration from the Core Movement Resources that form the backbone of the Open Floor curriculum.
There are four options:
- Each term the ‘blended’ option includes a workshop day in London. For those of us who can travel to London, this is a great way to meet each other and explore embodied creativity together.
- Another option is to attend an online workshop, the weekend after the London workshop, three hours each on both a Saturday and a Sunday. It is hoped that participants will attend a workshop either in person or online to get a good introduction and orientation to the rest of the term.
- Whether or not you have attended the in-person or online workshops, everyone joins in with the rest of the term, which is five fortnightly webinars (an online mini-seminar) of one hour each. We also share in small groups between the webinars and there is an option to share daily Art Journaling within the whole group.
Dancing Online
When we move, we practice paying attention to how we are: physically, emotionally, mindfully and soulfully. So, for a part of the online webinar, we dance. It can seem a strange concept to do this in front of the computer when we’re used to think of dancing as something we do when we come together on a dance floor. But moving and dancing in the comfort of our own homes with the motivation, support and encouragement of other people doing the same thing at the same time in their own homes, can be remarkably freeing.
Dance Your Art Out is structured around the Core Movement Resources that form the backbone of the Open Floor curriculum. The webinar dancing is inspired by one of these Resources, which informs the choice of music and drawing exercises. When we’re dancing we are aware of others dancing in their own spaces, sometimes we see them moving, or an arm or a leg passes by on screen, mostly there’s a background sense of a group that we feel encouraged by.
The online world has a reputation for being a pretty disembodied place, we become ‘talking heads’, interactions can lack authenticity or integrity, our attention is pulled in many places at the same time. I know for myself too when I’ve spent too much time on the computer I can feel frazzled.
The benefits of an online course
However, online connections aren’t necessarily phoney or diluted, and can sometimes lead to ‘real life’ meetings. Over the last few years I’ve participated in several online courses, one of them had us in small support groups, I was with a group spread out all over the world and one person happened to live just 30 miles from me. After a month in this group it felt as if we knew each other well; we had shared a lot and the experience had been so rewarding that I met with this person and her family, we had tea together and it felt as if we were old friends.
One of the benefits of an online course is that we can meet with like-minded people from all over the world and have that connection right from where we are. On the current term of Dance Your Art Out we have participants in Austria, California, East Sussex, Greece, London, Moscow and Toronto. Each of us brings our own individual flavour and we inspire each other with our differences as well as our similarities. And at the same time, we are in our own environments. Dancing and making artwork at home can give us the extra safety to explore new territory from a safe space. Not only is it more accessible, it is more affordable in time as well as money. The added flexibility is that you can choose to join the webinar or not and if you don’t join in live, you can watch it later when it suits you. You have access to all webinars up to the start of the next term.
Recently I was talking with some friends, some were Open Floor teachers and some were therapists. Our conversation got onto online work as one of the psychotherapists used to live abroad and when she returned to England, she continued to see her clients on Skype and the therapy continued to be as effective as it was in person. This surprised me, so as part of the research for Dance Your Art Out, I looked for evidence that online therapy is just as effective as face to face:
“Research shows that cognitive behavioural therapy, a type of talk therapy, is as good on the telephone or over Skype as it is face-to-face for some mental health conditions.
…A small 2014 study also found that teens who were counselled over the phone for obsessive compulsive disorder found just as much success in treatment as their peers who met therapists face-to-face. And more recently, researchers in South Carolina found that veterans who experience post-traumatic stress disorder respond just as well to therapy over videoconference to treatment received in office.”
Allison Fox HuffPost
“One advantage of online therapy is the disinhibition effect…where people feel more comfortable opening up and discussing problems when they are online.” Terry Hanley The Guardian
While Dance Your Art Out isn’t therapy, it can be therapeutic and does rely on embodied connection with ourselves and others on the dance floor. Surely this is lost online? Well, from two terms of Dance Your Art Out online, I know it works as a way to get to know ourselves more and be seen, and while it is different to being on the dance floor together, it is still powerfully connecting. Here are some words from people who’ve tried it:
“I am deeply grateful for this unique opportunity in my personal journey to shift from invisibility to being seen by myself and by others. The workshop, Sarah and the support enabled this shift.” Marina
“It supported me to expand my creative boundaries and identities”
“Re connected me to creative alignment with source”
“I have some rich insights…and feel deeply affected by showing my work and me, and so grateful for the opportunity to tell my story, to be seen, and for the beautiful feedback and seeing.”
“The generous open sharing of people’s work and process, so carefully cultivated, nurtured and held by Sarah, helpers, and the whole group. How easy it has been to engage. Loved the dances on the webinar!” Willson
“It has been great, just perfectly organised, massive gratitude for the level of care that went into the emails and exercises. It all just worked! And I wasn’t able to join all the webinars but watched every one, thank you!”
“I just wanted to say a big thank you for this term of DYAO, it really has brought new dimensions to my creative work. Your facilitation has been inspired and sensitively articulated, and has lead to me feeling totally at ease sharing within the group, even though I’ve not been able to take part in the webinars.” Nina
This is for you if:
- you’d like to develop your relationship with your own creativity
- you’d like to bring the experiences of the workshop space into your day-to-day life
- you’d like to connect through the web with Open Floor dancers
- you’d like another aspect of yourself to be seen through your artwork
- you would like to explore the Open Floor Core Movement Resources in new ways
- you already have a creative project or story or something that you are already working on and you want to work on it in a supportive environment.
What do I need to join?
- To join the webinars it is recommended that you use a computer (laptop or desktop) rather than a smartphone or tablet. By using a computer you will be able to see the visuals and materials as well as being able to chat with other participants.
- You’ll need some basic art materials, ie; some pencils, paper, glue, scissors. There is an option to use a particular sketchbook which you can buy and have sent to you if you wish. If you do have crayons, paints or other art materials they’ll be useful but not essential.
- You’ll need an hour a fortnight to join the webinar or watch it later. It will help if you are in a space that you can dance in, with your art materials so you can do the art exercise during the webinar.
- There is an invitation to check-in with your small ‘pod’ or support group each fortnight. This could be within our private facebook group or it could be in some other way that suits your group, ie, WhatsApp or email.
- There are optional art exercises and an invitation to post daily artwork into our private Facebook group, the time suggestion for this is approximately 10 minutes a day.
AUTUMN TERM Dates and Times (UK times)
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| There are four ways of joining this group: | |
| Option 1: Blended Ongoing
London Workshop + Webinars £165 / £121 Concession |
Option 2: Online Ongoing
Online Workshop + Webinars £165 / £121 Concession |
| Option 3: Workshop only (London or Online)
£110 / £66 Concession |
Option 4: Webinars only
£110 / £66 Concession |
“We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters.” Julia Cameron
Sarah Davies is a founder member of Open Floor, she is an artist passionate about movement as a catalyst to creativity. For more see her website: www.waveofenergy.co.uk
For booking contact the organiser Audrey: audrey.boss@gmail.com
Time
(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Organizer
Audrey Boss audrey.boss@gmail.com
Event Details
“Libido is appetite in its natural state” Carl Jung Libido is an essential part of our body’s natural expression. Complicated one moment, ecstatic the next. Absent or burdened with expectations of [...]
Event Details
“Libido is appetite in its natural state” Carl Jung
Libido is an essential part of our body’s natural expression. Complicated one moment, ecstatic the next. Absent or burdened with expectations of past experiences, this energy within and between us comes to the dance longing for freedom.
The intention in Open Floor Movement practice is to mindfully support our full embodiment. In one dance we may feel juicy, radiant and desirable while at other times we battle feeling awkward or shy. It is often challenging to navigate our own experiences and/or the sexual energies around us.
Libido Fundamentals investigates this complex and creative conundrum by using movement to ground, build and explore our sexual energy. We embrace a wider definition of Libido as life force, birth place of creativity, vitality, presence and aliveness. Because sexuality is so often unconsciously acted out or ignored, the exploration of this territory tends to be intense, intimate, liberating and empowering.
Participants can expect to spend each day engaging in mindful movement practice, group sharing and inquiry along with some didactic education. Nudity and actual genital contact are not a part of this workshop.
All genders and sexual orientations are welcome. Welcome solo or in relationship.
Some prior experience of Open Floor or other Conscious Dance Practice is required.
For more information contact Beam: 07970 436823 or earthbeam@gmail.com
Sarah Davies has apprenticed with Andrea Juhan for several years to qualify to teach this work. Sarah is a Founding Member of Open Floor, she has taught conscious dance since the 5Rhythms teacher training with Gabrielle Roth in 2008.
When: 16–18 November 2018
Fri 7–10pm, Sat 10–6pm, Sun 10–4pm
Where: Emerson College, East Sussex, England RH18 5JX. Accommodation & full board is available at the venue. Please enquire for availability and cost: earthbeam@gmail.com
Cost: £215 / Concession £185
10% discount if paid in full by 5th October
For more about Sarah Davies and other work she is offering see: www.waveofenergy.co.uk
Time
16 (Friday) 7:00 pm - 18 (Sunday) 4:00 pm
Location
Emerson College
Forest Row, East Sussex, RH18 5JX
Organizer
Beam earthbeam@gmail.com