TEMENOS DANCE COLLECTIVE
Movement shaped by music, presence, and connection
The Temenos Dance Collective is a conscious movement project devoted to rich, intelligent musical journeys and somatically aware facilitation.
We create dance spaces that invite people into their bodies — fully, sensitively, and with depth — through expertly curated music and attentive holding of the room.
Rooted in a profound respect for music and informed by contemporary somatic practice, Temenos offers an evolving approach to conscious dance — one that deeply values emotional range, musical nuance, and authentic human connection.
At Temenos, dance is not just a format — it is a living conversation between body, music, and space.
Each session is shaped with:
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A carefully curated musical story — crafted using a range of genres including electronica, ambient, classical, deep house, jazz, dub and downtempo
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Somatic awareness — supporting embodied choice, nervous system intelligence, and presence
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Relational space — where dancers feel held, respected, and free to connect (or not)
Rather than following a fixed formula, Temenos sessions allow each dance to unfold organically — guided by the energy in the room, the emotional intelligence of the music, and the shared attention of those who gather.
When Temenos founder, Felix Oram, discovered 5Rhythms in 2013 he fell in love with the practice but he always felt it was missing a layer of artistry and sophistication at the musical level.
Felix started DJing at the age of 15 and his 35 years of experience brings an unusually wide musical vocabulary, emotional sensitivity, and technical fluency to the conscious dance landscape.
This musical depth allows for dances that move beyond the familiar — opening space for subtlety, complexity, and genuine transformation.
Temenos welcomes dancers familiar with conscious movement forms as well as those arriving through yoga, somatics, or a simple curiosity to move and feel more fully.
You can learn more about Temenos by exploring the site, or visit the Tickets page to book onto one of our upcoming sessions.
WHAT DOES THE WORD 'TEMENOS' MEAN?
In ancient Greece a temenos was a sacred enclosure or precinct - a piece of land marked off from common uses and dedicated to a god.
It has also been described as a sacred circle where a person can be themselves without fear and where drama can be performed for the purpose of spiritual, emotional and psychological transformation.
For ancient Greeks the purpose of the temenos was to have a space that was sacred and that would not be polluted with daily concerns and interferences. The boundary of the temenos served to both contain the energy and protect it.
More recently Carl Jung encouraged us to understand the temenos as an emotional and psychological space as well as a physical one.
He described temenos as “a means of protecting the centre of the personality from being drawn out and from being influenced from the outside. It is within such a space that important and unruly unconscious contents can be safely brought into the light of consciousness.
The Temenos Dance Collective seeks to create and foster safe spaces (temene) to congregate and move in. Environments where time and space can be set aside so that, collectively, we can reinvigorate and replenish and develop a deeper connection to ourselves, our fellow human beings and to the life force that runs through the universe.
A temenos cannot be bought, rather it must be cultivated. It must be developed over time through conscious intention and careful work.