Temenos Dance Collective
Avant-Garde Conscious Dance.
HOW IT WORKS
The Temenos Dance Collective is an innovative, multi-disciplinary conscious dance project offering Londoners a unique range of movement experiences.
Since it's launch in 2023, Temenos has hosted a diverse range of sessions including sober raves and Contact Improvisation classes in an effort to support people that are seeking to develop their movement practice and experience the benefits of embodied movement.
Most sessions are hosted by Temenos founder Felix Oram (aka DJ FX10K) but can also feature 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 believe that dance should be affordable to all, and our sessions are priced accordingly
As part of this commitment we offer a Monthly Subscription for only £5 a month.
The package entitles subscribers to a range of discounts on all classes and workshops as well as an invitation to attend two sessions each month completely free: a Movement Journey, and our monthly late-night community dance Sounds Of The Underground.
Sessions are held every Tuesday and Friday evening in King's Cross and Clapton respectively, with a range of Saturday workshops and dances hosted each month to offer more in depth material.
Our regular 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 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 with no teaching just great dance music and the opportunity to connect with fellow dancers.
Movement Trilogy - a six hour immersion exploring the three main modalities of conscious dance, Contact Improvisation, 5Rhythms and Ecstatic Dance.
Deep Space - a restorative stillness-based session that uses meditation, gentle movement and sound healing.
Movement Class - one off sessions and workshops hosted by professional dancers and teachers with specific areas of expertise.
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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.
