Dance artists Galit Criden and Olly Otley provide a welcoming space for dance in all its forms. Classes often include somatic influences, guided improvisation, a spattering of technique, and each term we introduce something a little different to widen this field. These are joyful sessions for every body and no experience is necessary - just bring yourself and an openness to exploring how your body moves.
"One of the most welcoming, nurturing, nourishing and fun places I know. I come tired after a long day and I leave energised and happy."
"Every week it's a bit different but it's mostly about being gently invited to explore freely your body in movement. I usually start off feeling a bit self conscious, then about half way through I feel like my heart might burst with happiness and gratitude that I'm here doing this. I cycle home, relaxed and singing to myself, with a smile on my face."
"Very joyous, freeing, empowering and connecting!"
Powerscroft Road, Hackney E5 0PU
Wednesday evenings · 6:45-8pm
£12 drop in - no need to book
£70 / £60 for the full 7 / 6 week term
You can contact Galit here with any questions or to be added to our WhatsApp group.
Spring term dates and facilitators
26 / 2 / 2025 · Galit Criden
Galit's RESET movement method blends elements of somatic practices, contemporary dance, disco, and free improvisation. It's designed to take you on a transformative journey where you tap into your own power, explore movement and experience a sense of liberation.
5 & 12 / 3 / 2025 · Rosie Noctor
Rosie is a dancer, a creative and a mother of two. She welcomes you into her class with grounding practices, mindful awareness and focused breathing. The class integrates somatic practices, formal contemporary dance techniques and inspiration from the Ilan Lev Method. "During my class I hope to create a metaphorical cocoon in which you can have a direct experience of your body and mind in its current state, however you come".
19 / 3 / 2025 · Andrew Coombs
The Hackney legend, and the person who Wednesday Moving has to thank for its existence, Andrew Coombs is bringing his unique and effervescent style to The Old School Rooms. Expect brilliant music, rich imagery, fluid release-based choreography, all presented with infectious energy and enthusiasm for any age, body and experience.
26 / 3 / 2025 · Angela Andrew
Angela is a London-based dance artist, teacher and producer who specializes in Lindy Hop and vernacular jazz. She's known for her unique teaching style and her passion for researching and spreading the roots of lindy hop. Lindy Hop is an African-American partner dance originating in the late 1920s Jazz Era in Harlem and across the USA. This fun and informative class will introduce the basics of Lindy Hop in a laid back, sociable setting - no partner needed and suitable for beginners.
2 / 4 / 2025 · Carolyn Roy
Carolyn is a London-based dancer/writer whose practice speculates on questions of what it is to be with others in this world, channelling the somatic processes and understanding we use as dancers. Her class is a structured improvisation exploring where we are in relation with others in shared space - being-with; dancing as part of a temporary community; sensing, moving and resting together; sensing what matters today, or in this moment, as our visceral, sensitive, sensual, dreaming, thinking bodies move.
23 / 4 / 2025 · Galit Criden
Galit's RESET movement method blends elements of somatic practices, contemporary dance, disco, and free improvisation. It's designed to take you on a transformative journey where you tap into your own power, explore movement and experience a sense of liberation.
30 / 4 / 2025 · Franziska Boehm
Franzi, a German movement artist, performative researcher and teacher in London, takes great joy in integrating her musical background into her movement work. "I sing a sound which could become a melody, a process of sensing, or a movement...it's the flexibility offered through mult-formed-expression that excites me". Franzi's session will draw on Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT) - using poetic imager, supportive music and guide touch - to engage in movement and sound improvisation.
7 / 5 / 2025 · Manuela Albrecht
Manuela is a Brazilian movement artist, facilitator, performer, researcher, and mother. Drawing from physical theatre, contemporary dance, somatic practices and her lived experience of samba and the Brazilian carnival, she channels movement into nurturing creativity, curiosity, inventiveness and self-expression. She is particularly interested in exploring solo and group improvisational dynamics as a door to cultivate listening, acceptance, playfulness and care.
14 / 5 / 2025 · Heni Hale
Heni is an independent artist, working as a choreographer, performer, researcher and educator in diverse contexts with a collaborative focus. She is approaching this session with the desire to hold space to listen into what's already there and what is emerging, when we choose to be in a dancing space with others. "As I age, I'm letting go of any agenda about what dancing looks like, but getting curious about how dancing could be applied to ways of thinking and being with others".
21 / 5 / 2025 · Olly Otley
As a community dance artist and forest school leader, Olly brings a natural playfulness and a love of nature to her work. Olly moves because it makes her feel good and her mission is to share that feeling with others. She teaches a mix of breathwork, guided improvisation and simple skill-building sequences.
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