Movers and Makers 2012

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Film and video based around dance and the body
Focus on Award Winning video dance artist Katrina McPherson.
Friday 30th and Saturday 31st March

Nourishing The Source

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A 5Rhythms® Treat For Women
with Deborah Jay-Lewin
Sat 12th November, 2 – 10pm
Sunday 13th November, 10am – 5pm

Improvisation and Listening

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Kirstie Simson
Sunday 17th July
The Universal Hall, Findhorn

Force Of Nature
Friday 22nd July 8pm.
A documentary about dance artists Kirstie Simson by award-winning director Katrina McPherson.

Everyone is welcome to join us for one or both of the day’s sessions.

2 – 5pm: A [...]

Force Of Nature

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Film Screening
A documentary about Kirstie Simson by award-winning director Katrina McPherson.
Friday 22nd July, 8pm
Universal Hall, Findhorn

Brand New 11-12

Brand New 11/12

A six day New Year 5Rhythms® gathering.
28 December 2011, 2pm – 2 January 2012, 8pm
A New Year 5 Rhythms Gathering

Heart2Heart

Heart2Heart

A 5Rhythms® Heartbeat® Workshop
with Deborah Jay-Lewin

3rd and 4th June 2011
Cluny Hill College, Forres

4X4 Dance Body And The Environment

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With Guest Artists: Jennifer Monson, Simon Whitehead, Helen Poynor,
Angus Balbernie, Simon McPherson
and Audicia Morley
18th – 29th April 2010
4×4 is a twelve-day event on the theme of dance, body and the environment for dance or movement artists, choreographers and artists [...]

Mirrors

Mirrors

An Advanced 5Rhythms workshop
with Jonathan Horan Gabrielle Roth’s son and closest collaborator

24th – 29th June 2011
In the 5Rhythms® practice, we are constantly moving into the most spontaneous, energetic, expansive qualities of our being. In the Mirrors level of the practice, [...]

Deep & Delicious

Secret Garden

with Julie Deal and Deborah Jay-Lewin
Saturday 27th November
Afternoon 2-6pm Cluny Hill College in ForresEvening 6.30pm Dinner and Sauna, Findhorn Village
A 5 Rhythms afternoon for women followed by scrumptious evening to nurture & celebrate the richness of our womanhood. Deborah and [...]

Bodysurf Scotland & friends bring you

Brand New

Brand New 10/11

A New Year Improvisation Jam
28th December – 2nd January 2011 Price drop to £200 due to the positive number of bookings!

More event and pricing information below
The venue for Brand New 10/11 is the magnificent Universal Hall [...]

Secret Garden 2011

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with Julie Deal and Deborah Jay-Lewin
4th – 6th March 2011
Invitation to a 5Rhythms weekend for women to nurture and celebrate our sacred sexuality. Enter the Secret Garden and explore, through dance and ritual, the richness of being a woman. Our [...]

Skinner Releasing Technique

Skinner Release

Introductory Skinner Releasing Technique – Weekend Intensive
with Kirsty Alexander

Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT) is an innovative approach to dance and movement training which has been continually developed by Joan Skinner for over 40 years.

Scaravelli Inspired Yoga Workshops

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Diane Long
The emphasis of this approach to yoga is not on achieving postures but using them to undo tension and find integration. The practice is an ongoing exploration of the relationship between the parts of the body and between our movements and the breath, the ground and the space around us. Gradually a new network of muscles is brought into use.

Heart2Heart

Heart2Heart

A 5Rhythms® Heartbeat® Workshopwith Deborah Jay-Lewin
10th -12th September 2010
Cluny Ballroom, Findhorn Foundation Cluny Hill College, ForresIn these changing times, emotions are flying all around us: Fear in many guises from denial to panic; Anger from blame to rage; Sadness from [...]

Force of Nature

Force of Nature

Force of Nature is a one-off performance by four of the World’s most inspiring improvising dance artists. It features leading figures from the field of contemporary dance: Michael Schumacher (Ballet Frankfurt, Twyla Tharp Dance); Dai Jian (Trisha Brown company); Kenzo [...]

Poetry In Motion

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Force of Nature

Dance Performance
Kirstie Simson with special guests.
Michael Schumacher (Ballet Frankfurt)
Dai Jian (Trisha Brown Co.)
Kenzo Kusuda (Trisha Brown Co.)
Friday 23rd July 4pm & 8pm
The Universal Hall, Findhorn

Dance, improvisation and Listening
A Workshop with Kirstie Simson
24th & 25th July 2010
The [...]

Gender Rhythms

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A 5Rhythms® workshop produced by Vital Moves in association with Bodysurf Scotland
4th-6th June 2010
Findhorn, Scotland
You are invited to dance who you are, as a woman or as a man, in order to shape and shift your inconsistencies, your similarities, your [...]

Secret Garden

Secret Gardenwith Julie Deal and Deborah Jay-Lewin
5th – 7th March 2010
Invitation to a 5Rythms weekend for women to nurture and celebrate our sacred sexuality. Enter the Secret Garden and explore, through dance and ritual, the richness of being a woman.

Yoga with Diane Long and Sophy Hoare

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8th -11th May 2010 A yoga workshop in the tradition of Vanda Scaravelli
Vanda Scaravelli, who died in Italy in l999 at the age of 9l, may be best known to many yoga students for her influential book [...]

Medicine Dance

Jonathan Horanwith Jonathan Horan, Gabrielle Roth’s son and closest collaborator
1st – 6th May 2010
A 5Rhythms® workshop for both advanced and beginning students. The 5Rhythms are a contemporary medicine wheel and Medicine Dance is a journey through the primary maps of the wheel nourishing the warrior-healer that is alive in each of us. Dancing for oneself, for each other, for our families, and for our communities is powerful medicine, a way to create a loving ripple effect in this world.

Evening of contemporary dance

Come To Mama

An Evening Of Contempory Dance

Karl Jay-Lewin & Company
Rick Nodine & Company
Rosalind Masson

Saturday October 16th 8pm £8/£6

Playful Physics

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A Contact Improvisation workshop with Robert Anderson and Karl Jay-Lewin28th-29th November

 

A workshop both for those new to contact and for more experienced dancers who want to deepen their study of the principles that underlie a contact dance.

 

“Karl and Robert [...]

New Year’s Event 09/10

New Year Party O8Deborah Jay-Lewin, Karl Jay-Lewin & Robert Anderson
29 December – 3rd January

 

Bodysurf Scotland’s 8th New Year Event. A fantastic opportunity to dance 5Rhythms and Contact Improvisation in the beautiful enriching environment of the Findhorn Foundation community.

 

Deborah Hay

Deborah Hay

Bodysurf is happy once again to host choreographer, Deborah Hay, and 20 international dancers for the Solo Performance Commissioning Project. This event is produced by Independent Dance, London, in collaboration with Bodysurf Scotland. For more information please visit www.independentdance.co.uk

 

Feldenkrais into Contact Improvisation

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Rick Nodine & Simonetta AlessandriA weekend workshop for all levels of experience16th & 17th October 201010am – 4pmThe Universal Hall, Findhorn, Scotland Contact Improvisation is a dance form in which the point of contact with another dancer provides the [...]

3×3 Dance & Cross Art Collaboration

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Big Fat Party: Wadada (Suns of Arqa) Live Trance World Roots Music

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Performance and Party

 

Wadada (Suns of Arqa) playing Live Trance World Roots Music
Dance Improvisations
DJ Monkey Magic

 

Friday 17th July 8pm – 1am
Universal Hall, Findhorn:

 

To round up the nine days of the 3×3 event we’re throwing a big fat party featuring Wadada from [...]

Award Winning International Choreographer and Composer | Fish Pie Supper | Visual Art

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PROGRAMME CHANGE – CLAIRE CUNINGHAM NOW ON THE 14TH

The Universal Hall, Findhorn
10th July

Choreographer Jonathan Burrows & Composer Matteo Fargion present
CHEAP LECTURE
A half-hour musical lecture about performance

The evening starts at 6.30pm with Exhibition Opening: Monochromatic Work by Edinburgh College of [...]

Cycles with Kathy Altman

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20 – 25 JuneSOLD OUT! We are operating a waiting list for this event. Places will be offered down the list to those who can confirm with an immediate payment.

 

Following the hugely successful Waves: Heaven and Hell workshop in the [...]

Mary Prestige

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20th-22nd March: Mary Prestidge
Contact Improvisation & related dance

A hugely influential dancer and teacher of improvisation & experimental dance. Mary’s generous, investigative approach to teaching makes this workshop suitable to all levels of experience.

 

I am interested in working with the physical, [...]

The Goddess and the Whore

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6th – 8th March 2009 with Julie Deal
Newbold House, Findhorn Foundation Community

Cost: £180-£140 (incl 3 meals); residential: add £25 per night (B&B)

Timetable: Fri eve, Sat day & eve, Sun daytime until 5pm

Welcome back to those women that have taken the [...]

New Year’s Dance Event 2008

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NEW YEAR’S DANCE EVENT 2008

29th December 2008 – 3rd January 2009
with Deborah Jay-Lewin, Karl Jay-Lewin & Robert Anderson

This highly popular dance event has been running in Findhorn for six years. Following a one year sabbatical Karl and Deborah are [...]

Waves: Heaven & Hell

Waves, Heaven and Hell

A 5Rhythms® workshop with Kathy Altman

A rare opportunity to work with one of the world’s foremost 5Rhythms teachers and Co-director of The Moving Centre School USA

While highly trained in many forms of dance, it wasn’t until Kathy’s [...]

The Goddess and the Whore

Goddess and Whore

Exploring the sacred and sexy through dancing The 5 Rhythms ®

A weekend treat for women with Julie Deal
Newbold House Retreat Centre

When given space to flourish, our spirituality and sexuality enrich the whole of our lives. Too often the expression of these vital aspects of our nature become divorced from each other and compartmentalised to culturally acceptable parts of life. I am inviting you to this weekend to take time out in the company of other women to welcome our natural sensuality and renew our connection to spirit.

Opensource: {Videodance} 2007

Videodance

20th – 24th November 2007

Cost: £300 funded and financially supported places: £180 standard price. Early registration discount – All delegates registering and paying in full by 15th October will be entitled to £20 discount on their fee.

An open symposium for [...]

Body Mind Centering

Body Mind Centering

Catherine Hossenlopp
Sense & Perception28th, 29th, 30th September 2007
The skin, vestibular system, mouth, nose, ears and eyes are the senses of our physical body. In this workshop we will explore perception through the inter-relationship of the different senses and their relationship [...]