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Wednesday moving

A local, welcoming space for discovering dance and movement together, every Wednesday during termtime. Hosted and curated by Olly Otley and Galit Criden, a bespoke line up of renowned dance artists share a variety of methods to playfully release and reconnect to your body. These are joyful sessions for every body and no experience is necessary - we welcome non-dancers who want to get off the mat and move with other people.

"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!"

Round Chapel Old School Rooms

Powerscroft Road, Hackney E5 0PU

Wednesday evenings · 6:45-8pm


You can contact Galit here with any questions or to be added to our WhatsApp group.

Booking and prices

It's great to have a regular movement practice, and it helps us plan ahead if we know who's coming to dance with us, so we offer tiered pricing with an incentive to commit to a series of Wednesday Moving sessions.

Wednesday Lover

£11 per session

The full current term block of 6 sessions for £66 or 7 sessions for £77.

Bookable during week one, not extendable beyond the current block.

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Wednesday Mover

£14 per session

A class pack of 4 sessions for £56, redeemable any time within the current term block.

A term block is usually 6 or 7 weeks. Not extendable beyond the current block.

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Drop-in

£17 per session

One-off drop-in class of your choice — see booking links alongside term lineup below.

Book online or pay in person (by card) at the end of the session.

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Our current term

9 / 9 / 26 · Orley Quick
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Orley is a dance artist and busy, brilliant teacher - we're so excited to have found a date when she can make it back to Wednesday Moving. She loves teaching a range of things that fall under the 'contemporary dance umbrella' including dance technique, improvisation and choreography. Orley will share some of Passing Through - a social-centric system of moving with others created by David Zambrano, combined with her own instant composition scores and games.
16 / 9 / 26 · Manuela Albrecht
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Wednesday Moving Lover Manuela is a Brazilian movement artist, facilitator, performer, researcher, and mother. Drawing from 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.
23 / 9 / 26 · Sunanda Biswas AKA Bgirl SUNSUN
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Sunanda, AKA Bgirl SUNSUN, is one of the UK's most accomplished Jazz and Hip Hop dance artists. In this session, she'll bring us Lindy Hop, introducing the social and cultural history of the dance in its form and style of traditional and vernacular jazz. We'll explore the solo side with stomping and posture drills, then learn about lead and follow roles, developing into the 'swing out' and a short partner routine.
30 / 9 / 26 · Galit Criden
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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.
7 / 10 / 26 · Olly Otley
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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 image-based guided improvisation, partner and group games, and simple skill-building sequences.
14 / 10 / 26 · Carolyn Roy
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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.
21 / 10 / 26 · Patricia Langa
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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.