Dates, times, venues

Weekly 5 Rhythms Classes & Groups in Bristol

Drop-in Classes (all welcome)

Dates: Weekly on a Friday night, all year round
Times: 8pm – 10:30pm
Venue: Dance Studio 2, Hamilton House, Bristol (see below)
Price:  £12 (£10 conc)
Classes continue unbroken throughout the year –
for details of any guest teachers and special classes, join our mailing list.

Guest teachers (2019):
Our latest “Festival of Fridays” was:
Feb 15 – Dawn Morgan (from Stroud)
Feb 22 – Reem Behzad (from Bristol!)
Mar 1 – Dawn Morgan (from Stroud) *
Mar 8 – Jessica Howie (from Oxford)
Mar 15 – Neil Pinnock (from Shropshire)
April 26 – Jean Rankin (Glastonbury) *
Next:
June 21 – Dawn Morgan (Summer Solstice!)
July 5 – [t.b.c.] *
Aug 9 – Dawn Morgan
Sept 20 – Dean Kayum
Nov 1 – Dawn Morgan *
Nov 8 – Jean Rankin
Nov 15 – Jessica Howie
(how lucky are we?!? 🙂 )

Many thanks to our Guest teachers in 2018 who were:
Alex Mackay (from Wales)
Andrew Holmes (from Stroud)
Dawn Morgan (from Stroud)
Jean Rankin (from Glastonbury)
Neil Pinnock (from Shropshire)

* Note: unless otherwise stated, guest teacher classes are generally not ‘Sweat Your Prayers®’ or ‘Fundamentals’, even if they fall on those dates. See…

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“Rhythm Circle” – a weekly ongoing closed group

Weekly on a Tuesday night – pre-booking per term essential.
Tuesday sessions run in three ‘terms’ and stop for the summer.

Next term will start in April:
Term dates: April 30 – July 9 * (11 sessions, no half-term break)
Times: 8pm – 10:30pm
Venue: Dance Studio 2, Hamilton House, Bristol (see below)
— the larger studio, with fully sprung floor —
Price: Apr-July £115.50/(£104.50 conc) for 11 sessions

Find out more:

• About the Rhythm Circle ongoing closed group (incl booking).
• Video – Bernadette explains why the Rhythm Circle ongoing closed group.
• Blog post: What’s so special about Tuesdays?.

If you would like to discuss joining us, please contact Bernadette (re process) OR contact Jon (re practicalities/payment and to be notified when spaces become available).

 

“Awakening the Creative-Self” – a weekly course to Discover & Recover innate Creativity

Next time, we plan to run a longer course, probably in two or three ‘terms’, in an extended format of up to 18 sessions (plus ongoing informal meet-ups in between!)
– as before, 4 hours each, Mondays 10am-2pm.
Dates t.b.c.

Please see the Awakening the Creative-Self page for more details and to join the mailing list for this course.
(The 2016 course was full and fabulous – thank you everyone in our gorgeous group!)

 

Classes outside Hamilton House

Bernadette also teaches classes outside Bristol, by invitation when the regular teacher is away, and at Festivals and Summer Schools – recent and upcoming dates include:

2018 dates included:
March 26 – Glastonbury (Jean Rankin’s “Dance Your Dream Awake”)
April 14 – Tufnell Park, London (Sue Rickards’ “A Call to Dance”)
April 18 – Exeter (“Barefoot Dance”)
May 13 – Spirit Fest, Bristol
May 22 – Exeter (“Barefoot Dance”)
June 25 – Glastonbury (Jean Rankin’s “Dance Your Dream Awake”)
Aug 8-12 – Tribe of Doris Summer School
Dec 5 – Exeter (“Barefoot Dance”)

Venue

Our venue for drop-in classes, the Rhythm Circle ongoing group, Awakening the Creative-Self course, and many other workshops and events is:

In-Alignment Studios,
Hamilton House,
Bristol BS1 3QY
(it’s above The Canteen!)

Hamilton House can be found within the heart of Stokes Croft, just 10 minutes walk from Bristol City centre. It is opposite Turbo Island, on the junction of Stokes Croft, Jamaica Street and City Road.
[Google map link here]

Home of DMAC-UK, it’s a fantastic venue – we’re usually in Studio 2 (sometimes in smaller Studio 1) – both have professional quality Harlequin dance floors.

Workshop & Events Calendar

Workshops, events, programmes, guest teachers and more…
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• Elemental Rhythms – Four Residential 5 Rhythms Dance Intensives in 2019
  EARTH – one place left A series of four workshops – for those who: * Have fallen in love with the dancing path * Are passionate about the natural world * Want to open to the wisdom holding ...
• SUMMER’s here – Fridays, Tribe of Doris, Solstice Fridays: Dancing right through the summer DMAC, Hamilton House this Friday, next Friday, EVERY FRIDAY… …right through the summer, so whatever other kind of craziness is going on, you can come and ...
• GOOD FRIDAY we ARE dancing!
  April 19 (drop-in) Kick off your holiday weekend with a 5 Rhythms Dance – moving with Spring energy, Full Moon, Easter, and of course Good Friday. However you relate to Easter itself, the Christian ...
• Dancing into 2019 – where, when and how (deep) Happy New Year! 🙂 In this message: DMAC (Hamilton House, Bristol): Dancing into the future at Hamilton House Friday drop-in classes – restart Jan 4 Tuesday Rhythm Circle – restart Jan 8 Rhossili, S Wales: Workshops: Elemental ...
• What happened at The Deepening?
  … and what’s next? what happened | what’s next? Some reflections (and dates!) from Jon, three weeks on… It’s hard to find the words really … except “Wow!” … so here are some from the participants ...
• What’s so special about Tuesdays? 5 Rhythms is an enormously powerful practice – and even just as an evening class, people love it, and benefit greatly from it 🙂 … and, as Bernadette explains in ...

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