I am delighted and excited to announce that I am starting up my dance offerings again but this time in Tweed Heads on the South of the Gold Coast. The practice I will now be offering is under the name “Open Floor” in line with the current training I am doing with Open Floor International (as explained below).
Where: Tweed Heads Public School Hall - two blocks back from the middle of Coolangatta Beach. The entry is at the back of the school via the carpark on the corner of Bay St & Thomson St, next to Stuart Lane
Note: it is NOT the Tweed Heads Public School in South Tweed which is across the river further south.
Commencing: Tuesday 26th April 7-9 pm NSW time.
Sessions will then be offered on a 10 week term basis with the following dates for 2016:
26/4/16- 28/6/16 inclusive
19/7/16- 20/9/16 inclusive
11/10/16- 13/12/16 inclusive
Investment: $20/15 concession for each two hour facilitated dance journey.
Please join the Facebook Group: “Open Floor Gold Coast” to be part of this community and receive updates.
Description of Open Floor can be described through two lenses:
1. Dance & immerse yourself in a diverse mix of global and contemporary music. A two hour dance journey into the territory of your life, woven together by beats that make you move and ballads that make you feel. Let your body speak!
2. Open Floor as a practice is also about developing capacity and awareness through embodiment on four levels:
a) We explore and develop our physical capacities: fitness; flexibility; endurance; self pacing; proprioceptive and kinaesthetic awareness; spatial awareness; physical expression. Core movement principles are explored together with Laban Movement Analysis (an additional layer).
b) We develop our emotional capacities: to identify and open to our feelings; to sooth ourselves; to hold, express, integrate and release feelings as we need; to identify and express the layers of emotion that we carry beneath the surface.
c) We develop our mental capacity: to become more conscious of the thoughts and stories we carry and how they are impacting on us; to soften or release ourselves from obsessive thoughts; to create an embodied understanding of how thoughts and feelings are connected.
d) We develop our capacity to connect to something greater than ourselves: to develop our awareness of what we are being uniquely called into in our lives, what is our contribution; to develop and claim an expanded sense of self and increased clarity of how to be in the world in regard to our greater purpose.
Along the way we explore what are termed in Open Floor as “The Four Hungers” or needs that we share as humans:
1. Solitude
2. Connection with others
3. Belonging to community
4. Connection with Spirit
See the “Dance” Tab on my website for more details about this dance practice.