COURSE REPERTOIRE - CREATIVES

Spiderflower's course repertoire for creatives offers a carefully structured program designed to provide a progressive and thorough training.

 

Basic, Intermediate and Advanced levels fall into:

 

Due to COVID-19, all events (unless listed on the CALENDAR), will now run on demand or can be booked to serve pre-existing groups via an organiser. Organisers wanting to book courses contact Spiderflower for pricing and further details.  

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Spiderflower's work is often site specific. In these cases, specific location is noted, however, events can move to new locations provided a venue and surrounding environment are suitable. Otherwise, the location of a course is free to move without restriction and can work in studio.

CLASSES + DAY COURSES

LENGTH

COURSE

VENUE

LEVEL

CLASSES

CLASSES

Sessions follow the earth year to cover the basics and provide regular practice. 

(3 hours)

ANY / ONLINE

Basic

EXPERIENTIAL COURSES

3 DAY 

THE SEA:

(The Quince, The Comb & The Water Drum)

Looks to our rhythmic relationship with the Ocean.

Perhaps the deepest root to creation the body can remember.

UK

Site Specific /

Zennor - Cornwall

Basic - Intermediate

4 DAY

THE FLOWER DRUM

A dynamic, ongoing body of work dedicated to the ancient relationship between body, earth and rhythm.

ANY

+ Natural Setting

Basic -

Intermediate

2 DAY 

EPONA'S GIFT

The Dance Between Women, Money + the Gift 

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Initiated with Polly Higgins (Eco-cide Lawyer) in relation to Sacred Economics.

ANY

Basic - Intermediate

3 MONTH /

20 DAYS 

THE NAKED DREAM'S LONGING FOR LIGHT

An Ongoing Intensive for Creatives

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Journeying through the dark months of the year to emerge with the first light of spring, this ongoing intensive takes explores the creative dynamics of gestation, dreaming, conception and birthing. 

ANY

+ Woodland

Basic - Intermediate

4 MONTH / 1 YEAR

16 DAYS

WOMAN - THE AVEBURY CYCLE 

4 x 4 Day Blocks. Women only. 

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Held close to the ancient sites of Avebury in Wiltshire, UK - The Avebury Cycle is designed for women who walk a creative path and offers an open, breathable structure on an ongoing basis.

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The dance cycle follows the pattern of a continual spiral rooted in the earth year.  Turning on the wheel, a dance will change its theme and focus to echo the rhythms of the season, a woman's life cycle and that of a dancer's own creative / personal story.

 

Intricately layered, in time and in tune, this is our structure.  The boat to carry the journey. 

 

*With care, WOMAN can translate outside of Avebury, provided land and venue meet requirements.

AVEBURY - UK

Basic - Intermediate

FOUNDATION COURSES

7 DAY 

BEING HUMAN:

(Or The Vulnerable Magician)

Foundation Course (Part 1):  

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Rooted in the relationship between the elemental world and human being, this foundation course opens the space to explore the potent dynamics of creation as they weave between our humanness and the base, yet eternally creative substance of which we are made.

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* Pre-requisite for Year Courses

ANY 

+ Natural Setting

Basic - Intermediate

1 YEAR /

20 DAYS

THE RIVER THAT FINDS US

1 Year Foundation Course (Part 2):

5 x 4 Day Blocks

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One of the most empowering and transformational courses in Spiderflower's repertoire, The River That Finds Us undertakes a years journey into the shared language of emotion, the body and natural world.

 

Travelling through dedicated landscape, the course presents an opportunity to understand and realign our emotional choreography as a creative force, whilst initiating a path of co-creativity between body and earth.

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* Pre-requisite for Year Courses

UK

Site Specific - Various + by Water

Intermediate

SPECIALIST + ADVANCED

4 DAYS +

7 DAYS

THE TABOOED LABYRINTH:

The Dance Between the Forbidden, Creativity & Freedom

(Part 1): 4 Days / (Part 2): 7 Days

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Working with deep focus between earthwork and the dance, this specialist course takes us into the territory of relationship between the forbidden, shadow choreography and creativity.

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*Pre-requisite for Accreditation.

UK

Site Specific 

Lamorna / Cornwall

Advanced

1 YEAR

35 DAYS

RITES OF PASSAGE 

1 Year Course - Spiderflower's 8 Point Wheel in depth.

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Available for Women only, or Men + Women together.

*Pre-requisite for Accreditation.

ANY

+ Natural Setting

Advanced

1 YEAR

35 DAYS

DANCES OF CREATION 

1 Year Course - Spiderflower's Internal Wheel in depth.

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Available for Women only, or Men + Women together.

*Pre-requisite for Accreditation.

ANY

+ Natural Setting

Advanced