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, the Collective seeks to challenge the existing paradigms that exist in conscious dance, dissolving boundaries, questioning norms and offering unique and stimulating movement experiences.
Since it's launch in 2023 Temenos has excelled at providing safe and holistic 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 and DJs from across the spectrum of conscious movement including, but not exclusively, 5Rhythms, Contact Improvisation, and Ecstatic Dance.
Temenos passionately believes that dance should be affordable to all, and its sessions are priced accordingly. This includes the option to purchase a membership subscription package for only £5 a month, which provides each member with discounts to all classes and workshops throughout the calendar year, as well as an invitation to one free dance each month.
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 weekly sessions include:
Human BE:IN - a small, intimate communal session that invites attendees to sit, share and move together.
Movement Playground - an energetic, connected and uplifting dance that encourages dancers to explore movement through play and interaction with others.
Movement Journey - a deeper, more exploratory movement session that supports dancers to engage with their inner landscape and find new ways to move and express themselves.
Movement Class - hosted by professional dancers with specific areas of expertise. Teachers are invited to share their knowledge and passion for movement with the Temenos community.
Deep Space - a unique restorative meditation and movement session that offers dancers a chance to explore movement from a place of stillness.
Saturday Workshops - longer format sessions designed to offer dancers more time and space to dive deeper into a range of movement modalities.
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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.