Phoenix Dance
Phoenix Dance is a collective of movement teachers & facilitators holding a weekly space for conscious dance and embodied movement.
Held each Tuesday evening in the beautiful St Mary's church in Primrose Hill the vision behind Phoenix Dance is to provide a space that supports individuals to develop their movement practice, irrespective of their ability or experience.
At Phoenix Dance we recognise the benefits that a movement practice provides. It's not about how good we are as a dancer, rather it is about recognizing that movement and dance offer us a unique relationship to our body, one that deepens over time.
Much like a meditation practice or yoga practice - regular dancing has an incredible overall benefit on our physical, emotional and psychological well being, but it is something that we need to practice - just doing it once in a while may be fun and engaging but we miss out on the benefits of working with our body on a regular basis.
At Phoenix Dance our team of teachers hold the space on rotation, supporting dancers to move authentically with freedom and in the spirit of exploration and play.
The venue, St Mary's, is a truly beautiful environment and we bring in a fantastic sound system each week to enable you to fully immerse yourself in the practice.
So, if you are looking for a space to dance regularly, to deepen your relationship to your body and to expand your 'movement practice' then come join us.
Phoenix Dance is an inclusive community of practice for everyBODY - regardless of fitness, ability, stamina, size, age and gender and sexuality. Chairs are placed on the dance floor for those who need more than two legs. You are invited to move as much as their bodies can and want to.
MEET THE PHOENIX TEAM
Audrey Boss - Open Floor
Audrey has been teaching embodied movement since 2015. As a teacher of Open Floor movement practice, she is passionate about cultivating awareness through the moving body and facilitating spaces that are inclusive and welcoming. Her current focus is on supporting therapists and therapists in training to resource themselves in movement and bring more embodied awareness into therapeutic spaces. Her favourite part of this dream job? Getting to put together playlists and calling it work. Read more
Sue Rickards - 5 Rhythms & Open Floor
Sue is a book reading, dog loving, wild swimming, clay squashing, word smithing, wool knitting, day dreaming human being residing in North London. She has been holding and facilitating weekly 5Rhythms and Open Floor classes in London for over thirty years, in addition to workshops both in the UK and overseas.
One of Sue's many gifts is for supporting people to feel safe, welcome and to go deep into their process. Her passion for conscious dance began in 1990. After initially training as a Drama and Movement Therapist, she went on to train with the late Gabrielle Roth and qualified as a certified 5Rhythms teacher in 1994.
Sue was a founding member of Open Floor International in 2014 and is a member of the International Conscious Movement Teachers Association (ICMTA) Read more
Mira Schauble - Open Floor
Mira danced before she could walk. Her parents met on a dance floor, as did her grandparents. So she comes from a long line of wild and furious dancers and is passionate about supporting people to return to their dance and bodies as a life line, a soul calling and ancestral bone shaking.
She is a registered Dance Movement psychotherapist, a UKCP-registered Integrative Psychotherapist and a qualified Open Floor Dance teacher. She also holds a Yoga Allieance teacher qualification.
Mira brings over 35 years’ of dance training/teaching and 44 years of dance experience to her sessions. Read more
Pricing
SUPPORTER RATE - £10 Pre-pay for a month in advance and dance for just £10 a week. Only 10 Supporter Tickets available each month.
GENEROSITY RATE - £20 If you have enough to be generous then this makes it possible to offer sponsored rates to those who have less.
FAIR PRICE RATE - £15 What we need to make a living.
SPONSORED RATE - £5 f you are struggling financially and need to dance.
Pay on the door with cash or card