Dying To Dance 2003

Winter Solstice 2001

Rhythms and the Labyrinth

Stirring the Waters, Finding the Flow

The Fires of Bride

Waves

Creating our Changes

Streetwise to the Temple 

The outward path

Dancing Nature's Way 2000

Holidays in Crete

in Ireland

Wild Body -Wild Mind

Calendar of Events

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Thirteenth Moon UK Workshops

Dying to Dance

June 14 - 15th 2003
 

Dancing towards midsummer, we blossom and die to dance again.
A 5Rhythms dance weekend workshop with mask-making, drawing and writing processes  to catalyse the essence of our inner artist in the dance of life. A wonderful workout for your creative conjuror! 

Beautiful venue in rural Derbyshire.

Cost: £70, (concs. £60, £50) 
Book by sending £20 deposit or full amount by the end of May. 
After that the fee is £80. Cheques payable to Cora Greenhill 

Bookings and enquiries about accommodation, travel etc to 
Claire Armstrong
 
F urther enquiries about workshop to Cora

Send Email to Cora
 

Dancing Nature's Way

A weekend to celebrate the spring and to feel its power of renewal within and without. 

5Rhythmsô dance and creative writing in The Lake District.
with Cora Greenhill

Nab Cottage, Rydal, Cumbria
8 (eve) 9/10 March 2002
 

We explore free, intuitive movement and spontaneous writing to re-create connection between inner and outer landscapes: dance as a version of being home, language that comes from the core. By bringing awareness with compassion to the experience of being embodied, by breathing and responding authentically to rhythm, we can transcend isolation and feel or 'gnow' our connection to all life. From such experience, our voices change location as our commitment to ourselves and our world becomes a core creative impulse of being human in the heart of nature.

The setting is in the rugged Cumbrian hills right on the shores of Lake Rydal. In this very special venue, a beautifully converted barn with wood burning stove, we work indoors and out, and are nurtured by the old-fashioned comfort of Nab Cottage.

Times We begin Fri 7pm, end Sun about 4pm. Cost (includes all meals)£105, or £95 if booked by Feb.8th. (Limited concessionary places £75: apply asap.)
Meals are delicious homecooked, and include supper on Fri, lunch on Sat/ Sun and dinner Sat. 
Booking: £50 (usually non-returnable) deposit to me at address below. 
Comfortable B&B on premises, around £22 per night (depending on room type). Book B&B direct with Nab Cottage. They will require a deposit. Say you're on this course and ask for travel directions if you need them, also any special diet etc. Tel. 015394 35311. email ell@nab.dial.lakesnet.co.uk. Numbers are limited: early booking strongly advised.

Thirteenth Moon 9 The Windses, Grindleford, S32 2HY. UK
Tel/fax 44 (0)1433 630759
 

Enquiries: 
Send Email to Cora
 
 
 

Spring in our Step

Come and celebrate the spring and infuse yourself with the energy of new life by taking part in a day (or two) of free, creative dance!

These day workshops are suitable as an introduction or as a further exploration for those who practise the 5Rhythms. Both days will allow you to dance all of the rhythms, but there will be different emphasis.

Spring in our Steps 1

Chesterfield. Saturday March 23rd 2002

at Spring Equinox, will allow a deep, moving meditation on flowing and stillness: the rhythms from which all growth comes.

10.45 for 11am until 6pm
Cost: £30 (concessions and those paying in full before March 1st  £25)

Spring in our Steps 2

Doncaster. Sunday April 7th 2002

two weeks later, as the earth springs into growth and early blossom is bursting out, we'll spend more time exploring the ground between flowing and staccato, earth and fire, and the lyrical edges of both!

10.45 for 11am until 5pm
Cost: £25 (concessions and those paying in full before March 22nd £20)
(Enquiries on this course to Catiya, see calendar).

Bargain multibuy! Book on both days by March 1st and pay only £40! (pay in full, or pay £20 by March 1st and £20 on March 23rd)
 
 
 
 

Dancing on a Dark Planet

5Rhythmsô dance day for Winter Solstice 2001

with Cora Greenhill

Sat December 22nd

Calver Village Hall
 

Letting go of what we've finished with, releasing what we're holding onto, making space for welcoming the new.

Releasing our fears, anger and grief into the bliss of our dance through the rhythms,  a crucible for the alchemy of change. Dancing in honour the cycle of life, death and rebirth, for ourselves and for our world.

Starting with a sunrise ritual at a stone circle, 
(meet Grindlford café 7.30 am, dancing at Calver from 10.45am through to dark, about 6pm).

Cost: £25 (if paid by Nov. 15th), £30 thereafter. Limited concessions: apply early. 
Cheques to Cora Greenhill. 
Let me know if you want directions or need a lift.

Enquiries and booking to Cora Greenhill
Send Email to Cora Tel 01433 630759.
 
 
 
 

Rhythms and the Labyrinth 

A day to dance deeply into a 5 Rhythmstm wave and take part in 

creating a magical labyrinth ritual.

September 29th  2001       Chesterfield

The labyrinth is an ancient tool of the sacred found mysteriously in far flung places on earth from earliest times, and now re-emerging as a crucial instrument for spiritual seekers of many orientations in our time. Creating and walking or dancing the labyrinthís winding path allows us to leave linear time and space and enter into a more feminine consciousness where we are guided by our intuition and can connect with a sense of our core being. If we are attentive and open to the unexpected, we can ask questions and receive answers: it is very practical. It takes us to the centre of things and shows us the way out. It has probably always been associated with dance and rhythm, and thus the kind of ëgnowingí that comes when the two sides of our mind come into balance. Dancing the 5Rhythms is a perfect preparation for the ritual.

Time: 11 - 5(ish) pm 
Cost: £25 (£20/15 concs) booked in advance.

To book: send full amount (or £10 deposit), cheques made out to Cora Greenhill, CC details on cheque please, and enclose address and tel no. Please book early, if poss well before latest booking date of Sept.22. Any places left after that date or at the door will cost £30. Details including venue will be sent to you on booking.
 

Stirring the Waters:  Finding the Flow of the New

Saturday January 13th 2001

Venue: The Greentop, Brightside, Sheffield.
Time: 11am - 6pm
Cost: £25 (conc. £20 or negotiable for helpers - please ask.)
Booking essential: send £10 deposit to me at above address, preferably  to arrive by Jan. 8th - or send it off now as an early new yearís gift to yourself! (For anyone who hasnít paid a deposit, the cost would be £30 if available). 

NB Come to my first Dancing in the City class of the year on Fri. 12th as a brilliant warm up! 7.30 pm, Greentop.
Send Email to Cora
 

The Fire of Bride

A weekend for women to feed our creative fire at Imbolc 2001 

Saturday Feb 3rd -Sunday Feb 4th    2001

Imbolc is the festival of Bride, Brigit, Bridget, Bridie, or Brid, the celtic Goddess of the Brigands in northern England, Scotland and Ireland. She was associated with fire, smithcraft, poetry - the craft of language, and even martial arts. 

It is the time when life begins to stirr and move outwards from the dark cradling of winter. The holiday of Imbolc is a celebration of quickening, a time for initiations, and commitment to our intent for the year. A time to honour the maiden, daughter and warrior Goddess within ourselves and in the world, to risk moving from flowing into stacatto and on. 

We will dance the 5Rhythms, give voice, and create ritual that allows us to express intent with passion and commitment. We will walk a labyrinth with fire at its centre, and take our lights from it out to the world. 

Bring croci, snowdrops, and symbols of beginnings, poems, songs or images that express fire energy, blades, wands, candles. 

Sat/Sun (starting 11am Sat, finishing 5pm Sun.)
Venue: Calver, Derbyshire. 
Cost: £65 (concs. £50). Book now by sending deposit of £30,
cheques made to Cora Greenhill with cc details on back please.
Send Email to Cora

Waves: introductory day workshop in Doncaster

Sun. Feb 18th 2001

Dancing Nature's Way      for Spring Equinox 2001

March 23 (eve) 24/25

with Cora

Lake Rydal, Grasmere, Cumbria

In a landscape that has long inspired the wild soul to express itself, we will bring our experience of movement and landscape into creative interaction, awakening the inner dancer and poet that lives in each one of us. 

Practicals

( Limited  concessions available, but  please enquire early if you need one). 

The venue is Nab Cottage and Barn, a delightful 18th house overlooking Lake Rydal and backing onto wild, open country. The barn has been converted into a beautiful dance space. Warm hospitality. We love this venue! Brochure available. 

B&B can be directly arranged with Nab Cottage at around. £24 per night, (twin rooms) . Triples and singles may also be available. 
Tel. Tim or Liz at Nab Cottage on 015394 35311 or fax 015394 35493. 
Camping may also be possible. 

Booking: Send Email to Cora
Places will be limited, so please book as early as you can, and at least two weeks before the event. Bookings received before March 1st earn a £5 discount. 
 

Creating Our Changes 

A weekend in beautiful surroundings for women to explore and celebrate their creative potential, focussing especially on the mid-life cycle. 

With 5 Rhythms tm dance, creative writing, and other forms of self-expression and ritual that suggest themselves. 

medusa by Christina Biaggi 

November 23rd(eve), 24th, 25th
(NB date change!) 
Nab Cottage, Rydal Water, Cumbria. 

"There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest." 
 Margaret Mead. 

ëI hold an Autumn rose 
and tread the dangerous Autumn floor 
slateslimy, slippery in sunshineí 
(from Colour Schemes by Cora Greenhill) 

For some of us, navigating the storms of mid-life can leave us feeling without a rudder or a route. It can bring crises of confidence, surges of energy, exhilaration, depression, despair. All in one day. For others it may be a smooth ride into mellow maturity. But though our culture tends to pathologise womenís cycles, and menopausal symptoms in particular, it is through listening and surrendering to the dark as well as the light Goddess within that we may become ëwomen of wise blood,í and reclaim this passage as a gateway to power, wisdom - and zest!

For many of us, there seem to be strong resonances between our experience of the menarche, and menopause. In some societies, it is the crones who initiate the maidens into womanhood (see Sara Maitlandís wonderful essay in A Certain Age). Our society lacks traditional rites of passage, but we can learn to create them for ourselves and our children. It is never to late to celebrate what we were or invent rituals for losses we have sustained, so that we enter the next phase more complete, more whole-some. 

"We have no rites passed down 
for your passing on 
can only listen to what our hearts invent 
allow all our hearts to invent 
each in our own way 
for all of us." 
(from Petal Child by Cora Greenhill) 

By coming together at the beginning of winter to dance our many dances, share our creative lives, read  poems and stories round the fire, walk round the wintry lake, cackling together as circles of women always have, we will be doing this vital work for ourselves and other women. 

No experience is needed except your own life experience. You do not need to be menopausal now! If you feel drawn to exploring either in advance or retrospectively, you are very welcome to come be in our company to add to the rich brew! How often we hear women say, "If only I'd known that then!" 

 Cora Greenhill 

I will be 53 in November 2000, so Iím sitting right in the fire with you! I have been facilitating groups for some 13 years and dancing the 5Rhythms for nearly as many. My professional background is in teaching and psychotherapy. I am accredited by Gabrielle Roth to teach the work. I run Inscape Holidays: holiday courses in Crete. I am a writer, and my recent collection of midlife poems, Deep in Time, (available from me) is recommended reading! A relevant reading list will be supplied on booking for those of you wanting it, and Iím sure other great reads will emerge on the course. 

Gabrielle Rothís 5 Rhythms wave dancing is a an inspirational movement map that allows us to rediscover our inner, intuitive dancer, and supports her to explore a wide range of ways of being. Age, body type or level of fitness is not important, what is asked is a desire to let go of judgements and follow your own body and energy with focussed intent. Emotions and physical symptoms can be invited into the dance to be expressed. We become shape shifters. The release of free dancing allows our creativity to flow freely from the deep wells within us. 

Practicals 

The venue is Nab Cottage, a delightful 18th century house on the shore of Rydal Water, between Ambleside and Grasmere in Cumbria.  Our dance space is the beautifully converted barn, which looks onto wild open country. Nab Cottage offers cosy, comfortable accommodation and the course is fully catered. Warm hospitality and good cooking is offered by Tim and Liz, with whom you can also book bed and breakfast if you wish. Please also let them know of any special dietary requirements. 
Phone them on 015394 35311 or fax 35493. 
The course will start at 7pm on Friday, and end about 4pm on Sunday. 
Cost of £100 includes supper on Friday night,  lunches on Sat and Sun, dinner on Sat and all drinks. 
To book your place send a deposit of £50 now, and the balance to arrive one week before the course. Cheques to Cora Greenhill with cc details on back. 
If you have to cancel up to two weeks before the course, £25 is refundable. After that no refunds can be given unless there is a waiting list. Places limited on this workshop. 
Bursaries: a few bursaries to cover part of the fee will be available, please apply early. 

Bookings (and sales and enquiries after Sept. 20th) 

Cora Greenhill 

Streetwise to the Temple
workshop for women 
with Cora Greenhill 

July 29/30, 2000 

"I am the honoured and the sacred one 
I am the whore and the holy one 
I am the wife and the virgin" The Gnostic Gospels. 
 

Aphrodite, Goddess of love and laughter, Shakti, sex goddess, Great Goddess, Amazon, whore, mistress, wife. How do we as modern women relate our life experience to time-honoured sacred archetypes of the feminine as well as the confusing and ever-changing cultural stereotypes? How can we as women who have had to become "streetwise" to protect ourselves over millenia, also learn to live in the sexual body as a temple? 

These two days will offer spaces for women to explore in 5Rhythm tm dance and writing, with humour, playfulness and passion, some of the serious, hilarious, exquisite, paradoxical and perhaps painful aspects of our sexuality. 

We will take as a basic premise that our bodies are temples, and that the space we create is sacred however irreverent our behaviour! We also acknowledge that the attempts to split body from spirit have formed our cultural history and wounded us all. 
We will dance to allow pleasure to become our teacher and healer. And we will dance to embrace our polarities, to celebrate our wholeness, and express the sparkling life force of Aphrodite within. 
Dancing frees up our spontaneous creativity, and from this place we can allow words to drop like ripe apples, bursting with juice and truth. We will  write to bite into some of the myths and secrets of our own lives, relish their uniqueness and commonality.  No particular experience of writing is required. 

Participants should preferably have experience of dancing the 5Rhythms tm, should be excited by the idea of playing creatively with both ëdarkí and ëlightí sides of their experience, and willing to take responsibility for looking after their own needs in the group context, as this is not a therapy group although powerful feelings may be expressed and will be honoured. 

Books that have inspired me in offering this work include: 
Aphroditeís Daughters :íWomenís Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soulí by Jalaja Bonhem,  Whores in History: Prostitution in Western Society by Nickie Roberts (Harper Collins),  Sweat your Prayers: Movement as Spiritual Practise by Gabrielle Roth (Tarcher/Putman).,  When the Drummers were Women: Layne Redmond. 
I also draw on my experience as writer, dancer, student, and lover; and of running groups for many years in personal growth, creative writing, womenís psychology and spirituality, and 5RhythmsTM dancework. 

Practicals 

This year bookings will only be taken for the whole weekend, not single days. 
Times: Sat. 11am until 7pm. Sun. 11am until 5pm. 
Venue: Calver in Derbyshire. Details on booking. Help in finding overnight accommodation can be offered, but ask early as this is peak season in the Peak! 
Cost £70. A few concessions will be available, please ask early. 
£5 reduction for paying in full by June 10th. 
Please ëphone or email me with any enquiries. 
Book by sending a deposit cheque made out to Cora Greenhill for £35,  Include address and tel no! Bookings will be acknowledged on receipt and details sent in July. Send Email to Cora

The outward path

5 evenings and a day of 5 Rhythms for high summer!

Most of us have areas in which we are able to shine easily in the world, and other areas or levels where we are very shy or afraid to be seen. We can be shy about parts of us that are wanting to grow, or afraid of showing the wilder side of our creativity. 
Celebrate Summer Solstice 
this year by dancing and dreaming an exploration of our feelings about being out there, shining! This group is for people excited by following that thread from inner to outer and back again, so that we learn more about our ability and need to share our unique gifts, as well as how to take care of ourselves and each other in doing so. Returning our feelings to the dance again and again, we will also write, draw, talk, and create ritual theatre along the way. 

Dates: Weds. June 7, 14, 21, 28, July 5. 
Each evening will begin at 7.15pm for warm up, and end at 10pm. 
On Wed 21st we will make a sunset ritual for Summer Solstice outdoors. 

Day workshop on Fatherís Day 
Sunday June 18th  11am until 6pm. 

The day will also follow this theme, for it is the sacred role of the father that takes our hand and say ëyesí to our venturing into the world with our own ideas, visions, passions and relationships. We will creatively explore ways of taking this role for ourselves and each other, whatever our personal father stories! 

Venue for all sessions: Calver Village Hall 

Booking Book in advance for the evenings and the day for the special price of £60, when paid in full by April 21st 
Booking later, or separately, the costs will be: 5 evenings paid in advance: £40 (concs £35) 
(For those who cannot make all 5, you can pay in advance for 4 eves for £32. No further reductions for non-attendance) 
If you have not danced the 5Rhythms before, you should come to the first evening. 
Day workshop alone, £30 (concs. £25) paid in advance.Send Email to Cora
 
 

Mending the Web

Sharpening the Blade 

Newcastle 
June 30 (eve) July 1 -2 
 

A 5 RhythmsTM workshop for women and men to explore through dance, words and ritual theatre the gender landscapes we inhabit. Recognising our own comfort zones and dancing on our edges, we will take steps to affirm and integrate the inner polarities of our own natures and of the opposite sex. We can weave back into our dance strands that have been neglected, denied, and consigned to the dark, while cutting away projections that do not belong. Allowing our passion, playfulness and vulnerability, we will hope to lay some inherited ghosts. 

On Saturday we will meet the mirrors of our own circle, exploring archetypes in single sex groups. On Sunday we will greet the other circle in dance and ritual theatre, sharing our truth with compassion and humour, and together creating the sacred ground where the circle and the line can weave their beauty and magic. 

Cora and Adam are both accredited and widely experienced teachers of Gabrielle Rothís 5RhythmTM dancework, and have been friends for many years. We offer this work from our hearts and it takes us to our edges! 
(shall we add a little more about us here - what do you think?) 

Approx. times: Friday, 7 - 9.30pm. Saturday, 11am - 6 pm. Sunday 11am - 5pm. 
Cost £80 (some concessions. negotiable) 
Booking:  Send a deposit of £40 on a cheque made out to Rachel Kurtz 

Enclose name, address and tel. no. Concessions should be applied for as early as possible as they will be limited. You will receive details of venues etc nearer the time. 
 

Dancing Natureís Way

for Spring Equinox 2000

March 24 (eve) 25/26

with Cora

Lake Rydal, Grasmere, Cumbria

In a landscape that has long inspired the wild soul to express itself, we will bring our experience of movement and landscape into creative interaction, awakening the inner dancer and poet that lives in each one of us. 
 

Practicals

Whole course, Fri - Sat - Sun. fully catered, including a snack on Friday night, two lunches, dinner on Saturday and all drinks: £95. 

( Limited  concessions available, but  please enquire early if you need one). 

The venue is Nab Cottage and Barn, a delightful 18th house overlooking Lake Rydal and backing onto wild, open country. The barn has been converted into a beautiful dance space. Warm hospitality. We love this venue! Brochure available. 

B&B can be directly arranged with Nab Cottage at around. £20 per night, (twin rooms) . Triples and singles may also be available. 
Tel. Tim or Liz at Nab Cottage on 015394 35311 or fax 015394 35493. 
Camping may also be possible. 
 
Places will be limited, so please book as early as you can, and at least two weeks before the event. Bookings received before March 1st earn a £5 discount. 
if your enquiry is about the work itself, Send Email to Cora
 

The 5 Rhythms  "wave" is a movement map that encourages us to re-discover our inner, instinctive dancer and supports that dancer to explore a wide range of ways of being. 
In flowing we follow the body, breathe in, receive nurture, re-member our mothering instinct. In staccato we move outwards, define ourselves, relate to others through the heart. Chaos marries the two, releasing the wild creative energy of grounded freedom. In lyrical we can open joyfully to the new patterns ready to emerge, and in stillness we are simply present, breathing and finding shapes from emptiness. 

Anyone can follow this practise: all ages and body types are welcome and no experience is necessary. The form encourages you to follow your own energy: many people find they have far more energy for dancing than they ever believed possible! 

We dance inside to a wide range of music, and outside we move with our breath, voices, and the sounds of nature. Words arise from our depths uncensored, to be expressed in the moment or to become the beginnings of another creative wave 
of composition or performance. 
 

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