Circle Dance
Circle Dance is an international movement, originally based on traditionsal Balkan dances, started by Bernhard Wosien as a core activity for the Findhorn Community. Originally (and in many countries still) it was called "sacred circle dance". The dance embodies an implicit spiritual ethos of care and community. For a good introduction to these very diverse dances see the (UK) Circle Dance Network website.
See information about a day of circle dance with myself and Jenny Johnson
or download a flier.
And there's a radical dance day being planned
in Winchester on September 29th 2012!
Our Local Group
I have recently taken over leading the circle dance group at Wickham, Hampshire, UK, after the retirement of Joan Smith (a splendid teacher!). Sessions are held in Wickham Church room (A32, 7 miles North of Fareham; behind the church, access and parking off B2177, Southwick Rd) from 7.30pm to 10.00pm on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month. £4 per sessions (free to first-timers trying it out!) Isabel Clarke designs a new centrepiece — pictured left — for each session.
For the venue location see Directions to Wickham Church Room. Please note that while we enjoy the generous hospitality of Wickham Parish, we have no formal links with the church.
I hope to expand the links on this page shortly to cover web resources, thoughts about some of the dances current in the movement, and some of my own dances. (For the sources of much of the music for circle dance, see Raymond Thompson's Web Site.)
Meanwhile see ...