5Rhythms® movement class, followed by drum, voice and dance jam.

A chance to meet old friends and new. Come and dance, share food together, and enjoy a great performance.

This will be a day in 3 parts - come to the whole day, or drop in at the time that suits you. Admission is pay-what-you-can (so, literally, if you’re skint you can come for nothing; if money’s not a problem for you right now, then please be generous).

Part 1 - a 5Rhythms class with Ben Deutsch (10:30am)

How do you find freedom in movement?

Is it by gently expanding beyond the boundaries that you’ve grown used to?

By finding movement to express the things that words cannot express?

By freeing yourself from your ideas of what freedom means?

By following the part of yourself that is already free?

By releasing the effort of inhabiting the past or future, and allowing yourself to rest in the present moment?

Maybe for you it’s something completely different, or perhaps the idea of “freedom in movement” feels completely alien right now. However it is, we’ll use our dancing practice to explore possibilities of freedom, to see if we can create a little more space for ourselves and for each other.

Part 2 - community lunch (12:30pm)

A chance to get to know our fellow dancers, while sharing a meal - please bring food to share.

Hot drinks available for a small donation

Part 3 - Drum, voice and dance jam (1:30pm)

In the afternoon, we’ll have an opportunity to dance some more, and to create the music to which we’ll be dancing in a drum, voice and dance jam (other instruments also welcome). Maybe this will take the form of another 5Rhythms Wave, or maybe it will find its own form.

Certainly, just as you don’t have to be a trained dancer to dance in a 5Rhythms class, you won’t need any musical training or expertise to participate in this jam. It’s a space for us to create and collaborate freely.

I have a few drums and percussion instruments to bring along for anyone to use, but please do bring your own as well - it’s your decision whether you want to let other folk play them or not.

Book online via Tickets below, or pay cash on arrival.

To make this event accessible to as many people as possible, admission is on a pay-what-you-can basis. If you want some guidance, suggested donations are £12 to £15.