Category Archives: Dance

Oriah Mountain Dreamer – The Invitation

Posted on September 1, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to … Continue reading →

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Tomas Hunt on Navajo Dance

Posted on July 29, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Click on the link to visit Facebook for this lovely little film about finding aliveness in dance, moving through experiences of bullying and racism, and using dance to connect with people, ignite sparks of creativity and joy, and share … Continue reading →

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Duet – Amy Yakima & Travis Wall

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Click on the above link to visit Worldwidedance on Facebook, for this beautiful, expressive pair dance by Amy and Travis, about connection and sexual relationship. Travis also did the choreography for this piece. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling … Continue reading →

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Ahmad Joudeh on being a Syrian dancer

Posted on July 15, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Inspiring, sad and lovely. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling in Exeter since 1994

Posted in civil rights, conflict, creativity, cultural questions, cultural taboos, Dance, embodiment, empowerment, flow, Gender & culture, gender identity, identity, internal locus of evaluation, masculine, movement meditation, non-conforming, physical being, political, resilience, risk, self, trauma, violence | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, Ahmad Joudeh, coercion, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, dance as freedom, dance as political, embodiment, external locus, follow your bliss, follow your dream, follow your passion, following your dream, gender and culture, gender identity, internal locus, low cost counselling exeter, Movement Medicine, non conforming, oppression, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, post traumatic stress, PTS, trauma response, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Crystal Pite on Flight Pattern

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

This looks heartbreaking and wonderful…. Art as protest and activism. It was on stage in March this year. Choreographer, Crystal Pite, is the first woman to have created a new work for the Royal Ballet in almost two decades. … Continue reading →

Posted in compassion, conflict, consciousness, creativity, cultural questions, Dance, Disconnection, diversity, embodiment, empathy, flow, grief, interconnection & belonging, loss, movement meditation, music, physical being, political, power and powerlessness, shadow, trauma, violence, vulnerability | Tagged activism, activism and creativity, activism through art, activism through dance, affordable counselling exeter, alienation, art as politics, art as protest, belonging, compassionate action, compassionate attention, compassionate presence, connection, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, Crystal Pite, dance as activism, disempowerment, embodied being, embodiment, empathic connection, empathy, exclusion, expression through movement, Flight Pattern, grief and loss, grief process, grieving, interbeing, interconnectedness, interconnection, isolation, low cost counselling exeter, movement meditation, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, refugee crisis, responding to conflict, statelessness, Syrian refugees, trauma, vulnerability, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Jerron Herman of Heidi Latsky Dance on human possibilities…

Posted on May 7, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Click on the link for this beautiful, moving and powerful film, about our soaring potential and how much greater, stranger and less predictable this is, than what others may tell us (or we may tell ourselves) about our limits…. … Continue reading →

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Feel the Beat: Dancing While Deaf – Antoine Hunter

Posted on September 3, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Click on the link for this You Tube clip, about Antoine’s work in dance. Really interesting on how he found his expression and his art in dance; how he and his students engage with music through vibration; and how his … Continue reading →

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Susannah Darling Khan ‘Your dance does not depend on the music’

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Susannah and Ya’Acov Darling Khan founded the School of Movement Medicine, near to us in Devon, and teach this conscious dance form all over the world. Here’s how they describe their work:- ‘Movement Medicine is a creative, embodied meditation practice for our times. It … Continue reading →

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Animal courtships, performed by humans

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

It’s a first in our history to post a condom advert, but we enjoyed this piece of whimsy, which has some depth and beauty – and we thought you might too… Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling Exeter since 1994

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Ascension by Jacob Sutton, Opéra National de Paris

Posted on February 20, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Just beautiful…. The dancers are Hannah O’Neill and Germain Louvet. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling Exeter since 1994

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