Temenos Dance Collective
Avant-Garde Conscious Dance.
HOW IT WORKS
The Temenos Dance Collective is a first of its kind multi-disciplinary conscious dance project set up to provide spaces for people in London to explore conscious movement.
With an underlying emphasis on innovation, we offer unique movement experiences that expand the existing paradigms present in the world of conscious movement.
Since it's launch in 2023 Temenos has excelled at providing safe environments for dancers, of all levels, to develop their practice, challenge themselves and enjoy embodied movement.
Most sessions are hosted by Temenos founder Felix Oram (aka FX10K) but often include guest facilitators, teachers and DJs from across the spectrum of conscious movement including, but not exclusively, 5Rhythms, Contact Improvisation, and Ecstatic Dance. At Temenos we passionately believe that dance should be affordable to all, and our sessions are priced accordingly. As part of this commitment we offer a monthly membership subscription for only £5 a month, that comes with a discounts to all classes and workshops as well as an invitation to one free Movement Journey session each month, and our monthly late night community dance called Sounds Of The Underground.
Sessions are held every Tuesday and Friday evening in King's Cross and Clapton respectively, with Saturday workshops hosted each month to provide dancers with deeper, more in depth material.
Our sessions include:
Human BE:IN - a weekly Tuesday evening session that invites attendees to find ways to come into the present moment through sitting, sharing and moving together.
Movement Journey - a deeper, more exploratory weekly Friday evening session that supports dancers to engage with their inner landscape and find new ways to move and express themselves.
S.O.T.U - a monthly late night Saturday session. A chance to let loose and have some fun, with no teaching or facilitation, just underground house music and plenty of opportunity to socialise and connect with other dancers.
Deep Space - a monthly restorative meditation, movement and sound healing session offering the chance to explore stillness.
Movement Class - one off educational sessions hosted by professional dancers with specific areas of expertise. Teachers are invited to share their knowledge and passion for movement.
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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 (temenos') 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.
