About the Dance
A freeform conscious dance where there is no right or wrong, no set moves and no talking. Experience a safe space to release your inner dancer, to move like no one is watching, to dance the dance only you can dance.
Dancing Dhevas is alcohol free, drug free and smoke free.
On the dance floor there is no talking, no shoes, no phones and no judgement, we respect each other and ourselves.
Riding the waves of music we dance to free ourselves of tension and habits, finding new ways to move and express, giving us insight into what restricts us in daily life. The process is to uncover your own individual, original dance, it is so unique to you and how you move that it can not be reproduced by anyone else. This gives the freedom from constraints and judgements so you can explode your potential to move until it unleashes the dancer within. The room takes on a different energy as everyone drops into their dance and natural ecstasy is reached.
Music will be played to facilitate a deep experience, from dance club music to classical, folk to experimental. In this way the music becomes our greatest teacher.
The conscious dance community welcomes everyone, gender, colour, ability and sexual orientation. We dance for joy, to move pain, to feel anger and sadness, to connect and to disconnect. To feel whole again.
Words can not do justice to a language written in your body, hit the dance floor to find out more!
How to prepare.
Bring a water bottle and maybe a sweat towel, wear comfortable clothing you can move and sweat in.
Don’t eat a heavy meal before hand, your best dances will be on an empty stomach.
Come for the warm up! There is a time before the doors shut where you can stretch, relax and settle into the space. This is precious ‘you’ time use it as preparation for your dance.
We dance bare foot, shoes carry a plethora of bacteria and we like to sit, lie, roll around on the clean dance floor. It also means your feet get a chance to open up, stretch and feel the floor.
Turn off phones, turn off talking and turn up to your dance.
Read more.... Dance of the Dheva
Dates
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Dancing Dhevas brought Open Floor to WA in 2016, graduating as a teacher in 2018, Theva is currently the only qualified OF teacher in WA, hot on his heels are a wave of teachers in training bringing their style and flavour of conscious movement to the community.
As we delve further into the magic of conscious dance the Open Floor map brings deep insight and resources to support us in life. Mindfully moving we develop skills for living.
Open Floor offers a very exciting future for our dance community as we align with their Values and business model.
Check out Openfloor.org
Common Ground
Open Floor Movement Practice is a lively, sweaty, full-on dance inquiry:
How can we move and include it all – feelings, other people, thoughts, wild passions, limitations?
Can we use movement to soften the tight spots in our tender hearts and stretch our capacity for relationship?
What happens if we turn old repetitive thoughts into choreography for creative dances?
We start small, end quiet. We respond to obstacles and mind the gaps. Ask, how am I now? What’s possible? Find direction. Add fire. Push the limit. Embrace paradox.
There's an essential movement language we all speak when we take these questions to the dance floor. We call on universal elements that are inherent in any moving body, such as breath, gravity, centering, expansion and contraction. This is the common ground that all embodiment practices share.
Open Floor is where the rubber meets the road – a place for creative focus and loving attention.
Common Sense
Since the beginning of time human beings have gathered to dance. Mindful movement is surging all over the planet because it's good for us. People who dance regularly have keener minds, greater emotional intelligence, and a calmer presence. Connection, compassion, and communities grow. In this challenging world, common sense tells us to spend time dancing.
Common Good
The ripple effect is inescapable. One dance can change someone’s day, one act of kindness can inspire a whole community. Students often leave a session able to bring a more generous presence out into the world. We dedicate our work to the common good, to the benefit of all beings.
Common ground. Common sense. Common good.
This is what we cultivate on the Open Floor.
Watch the video for a glimpse into the Open Floor world.