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
£14 drop in - no need to book
£70 for the full 6 week term
You can contact Galit here with any questions or to be added to our WhatsApp group.
Our next day retreat
Wednesday Moving's first Day Out is rooted in somatic practices, joy and shared space. We'll explore movement in our beautiful studio space and outside on the Marshes. Expect sessions to flow between improvised and choreographed sections, with moments to pause and reflect.
This day is for anyone seeking time, space and reconnection in good company.
£75 for the day including a delicious meal and refreshments
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The sooner you book the better as places are limited...
Summer term dates and facilitators
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. Informed by the playfulness and celebration of her previous Wednesday Moving sessions, we'll explore storytelling through the body through both individual and group improvisation.
14 / 5 / 2025 · Heni Hale
Heni works as a choreographer, performer, researcher and educator in diverse contexts with a collaborative focus. Movement and dancing can be a way of activating our memory and imagination. We will work with movement patterns of spiralling, undulating, folding and unfurling, listening and shimmering. This term, tasks will involve partnering and witnessing each other, seeing and being seen. We will look at transforming our movement experiences into writing or mark-making.
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. This session will focus on an exploration of the spine.
4 / 6 and 11 / 6 / 2025 · Samantha Emanuel
A playful deep dive into strength and power. Samantha Emanuel is a Guildhall Ignite specialist movement coach, dancer, MSc dance science researcher at Trinity Laban, and Pilates practitioner. Through Fighting Monkey-inspired games, rhythmic movement phrases, and open-ended improvisation, you’ll build resilience, coordination, and a sense of joyful effort. Expect an energising, explorative session where strength isn’t just about force but about adaptability, connection, and moving with intention.
18 / 06 / 2025 · Julia Testas
Julia's improvisation sessions are inspired by a combination of her own somatic research, 'dissolving', and David Zambrano's concept of 'passing through', a philosophy that suggests that movement neeeds no leader in creation. Connecting, sharing and collaborating, Julia invites you to tap into your body's intelligence and enhance your self-awareness towards cultivating greater confidence and freedom in your movement. The session encourages playful experimentation as you discover new dimensions of your movement vocabulary and engage with others in a supportive environment.
25 / 06 / 2025 · Cat Jones
Cat draws from her experience and research into release-based dance practices to encourage fluid-limbed movement in and out of the floor. Her classes are often guided by nature embedded imagery as an underscore for improvisation. Come as you are and find ways to be both porous and curious whilst moving. Then take this feeling out and beyond the studio into your week.
2 / 07 / 2025 · Anoushka Jago
Anoushka is a dancer and Gaga teacher based in London. Her work is centred around a research of emotional and physical range within the body. Informed by her Gaga teaching practise this class will draw together the investigation of delicacy, rhythm and texture.
9 / 07 / 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.
16 / 07 / 2025 · Patricia Langa
Patricia is a Barcelona-born dance artist, choreographer and director of Eric Longa, a company known for its production Cabrole! Patricia will be leading a flamenco-inspired movement session that draws on flamenco's queer history as a creative tool, offering you the opportunity to explore and express your identity through flamenco, and to discover the new possibilities it can open up for you. No previous experience in flamenco is required, just a willingness to explore and uncover a new side of yourself using flamenco as a creative tool! Photo credit: Darren Evans.
23 and 30 / 07 / 2025 · OPEN PRACTICE
Our beautiful space, a great arcing playlist, and you: our open practice sessions, which happen in between the terms, are unguided. This is an opportunity to let your body move in exactly the way it wants to in each moment. A safe, expansive space hosted by Galit or Olly with no judgment, just a few great people, moving.
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