The Dance of Being

A Retreat, A Wild Conference, A Lab

Three days of movement classes, workshops, talks, meditation, film screenings & time together

To meet us in the swell between being and action

Join in person in Norfolk, UK or via livestream, wherever you are

Our days will be a spacious rhythm of movement classes, workshops, talks, meditation, film screenings and being together. Calling on the embodied intelligence of dancing, as a way to meet troubled times. Guided by a beautiful, alchemic team of philosophers, dancers, osteopaths, anthropologists, yogis, Rolfers and writers. To meet us in the space of potentiality between being (presence, attention, connectedness) and action (doing, direction, movement).

This series of labs began in 2021, this is the first open fully to the public. Birthed from a radical, fugitive, earth wide movement of professional women dancers called ‘Sanctuary on the Fault Line’. A space that allows dance to be a powerful contributor in meeting troubles times. A space to allow us to slow down and gently flee, to find new perspectives, to liberate ‘the dance’ in all of us, helped by a it’s feminist ways.

For dancers we hope ‘The Dance of Being’ will re-orient you into the beauty of your worth, strengthen you for your work, from gentleness. For others we have expanded the simplicity of dancing, so it can reach and nourish you also, aid you in your life and your work.

We are excited to welcome as contributors this year, John Stirk, Yoga Teacher and trained Osteopath; Barbara Kane, 4th generation Isadora Duncan Legacy Dancer; Bayo Akomolafe, philosopher, writer, activist, professor of psychology, and executive director of The Emergence Network; Hayley J S Matthews, Dancer, Rolfer, leader of the pack at Sanctuary on the Fault Line and curator of the lab, and Andrew Sanger, Dancer, Choreographer, Teacher and Scholar of Dance and Anthropology.

Together we will meet the potential of slowing down in body and mind; the alternative dance of possession; strength, length and lightness; the tremendous force of dynamic movement through the expressive body; liminality, communities of practice and alternative futures and ‘being the dance.

Please see the schedule via the link. Spaces are limited, so book early.

https://www.ensembledance.org/the-dance-of-being