Move Like You: Sensory Safe Cypher
Join us for a dance jam session, where you can be yourself, as Sensoria creates a space to chill, draw, nap, take part in dances and move like you.
Dance and music have often been historically inaccessible and there is often not enough representation of disabled bodies, minds and souls in these fields. Jam spaces are often sensorily or socially inaccessible, take place late at night or have physical barriers.
The Sensory Safe Cypher is a space for chronically ill, disabled and neurodiverse dancers to educate, express and exchange with each other through movement and music. ‘Sensory safe’ for us means that people are free to be able to be relaxed and behave in the space as they need. You can make noise, move around, lie down, close your eyes, wear ear defenders, shake, stim, sing, be still or be silent.
Pulling from our underground dance practices that focus on cypher – a circular gathering of humans, dipping into authentic improvisation and sharing it in community – the Sensory Safe Cypher is conversational, co-created and based on somatic, healing movement practices such as Qi gong, intuitive drawing and dancing feelingly.
Schedule
12 noon – 12.45pm: Social Dance Cypher with Roshaan
12.15pm – 12.45pm: Sensory Cypher with Ashley
12.30pm – 1pm: Skills Cypher with Chandenie
1pm – 1.45pm: Beatmotion Workshop with Akeim
2pm – 2.30pm: Sensory Cypher with Ashley
2.30pm – 3pm: Skills Cypher with Chandenie
2.30pm – 3pm Social Dance Cypher with Roshaan
2.40pm – 3pm: Sensory Cypher with Ashley
India Bigg is a DJ who weaves together R&B, jazz, dancehall, hip-hop, Afrobeats and rhythm-driven styles from around the world. She’s brought her distinctive sound to community radio stations like Voices Radio and Loose FM, as well as We Out Here Festival.
Ashley (they/them) is a movement artist and facilitator who aims to create spaces where care and exploration can thrive by focusing on play and using movement to form connections with others. Their practice involves multidisciplinary collaboration, contact improvisation, and mixing styles such as hip-hop and contemporary which focuses on groove, tension, release and explosion.
Akeim Toussaint Buck is an interdisciplinary performer and maker, born in Jamaica and raised in England. Graduating from The Northern School of Contemporary Dance in 2014, Akeim began creating his own work in 2016 with the intention to create moving, thought provoking, accessible and free-spirited projects.
Roshaan is a 20-year-old dancer from south London. Since he began Waacking, he has grown to become an active member of the community, both solo and as part of the ‘London Waacking Movement’ across the UK and Europe.
Need to know
This event especially welcomes neurodiverse, disabled and chronically ill individuals.
This event takes place in The Clore Ballroom, which is an open space with no separation from the surrounding foyer spaces, but the following measures are in place for people entering the cypher to help make the space as safe and accessible as possible:
- For the first hour (12 noon – 1pm) masks are required in the ballroom, unless exempt and with proof of a negative Covid test. After 1pm, mask wearing is encouraged in the space.
- If you are feeling unwell please do not attend. We encourage you to take a Covid test before attending. We will have tests available at the event.
- We have two HEPA Air filters in the space providing fresh air to the venue. We don’t recirculate air in this area.
There is reduced capacity for this event so please arrive early to avoid disappointment.
For your visit
This event is held at the The Clore Ballroom Southbank Centre
The Clore Ballroom is open six days a week.
Tuesday, 10am – 6pm*
Wednesday – Sunday, 10am – 11pm
Monday, closed.
*If we’re hosting a performance, the building will stay open until the event ends.
Plan your visit
The Clore Ballroom is located inside our Royal Festival Hall on Level 2.
Getting here
Our address is Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX.
The nearest tube stations to us are Waterloo and Embankment; Waterloo is also the nearest train station. And more than 20 different London bus routes pass within 500 metres of our venues. More information on getting here by rail, road or river is available on our Getting here page.
We’re cash-free
Please note that we’re unable to accept cash payments across our venues.
Access
We’re working hard to remove barriers, so that our facilities and events can be accessible to as many people as possible.
All help points, toilets, performance and exhibition spaces at the Southbank Centre are accessible to all, as are the cafes, bars and restaurants. We also have excellent public transport links with step-free access.
There is step-free access to The Clore Ballroom, Level 2, Royal Festival Hall, via a ramp.
All information about booking wheelchair spaces, step-free access, blue badge parking, access maps and guides and other help available whilst you’re here, including details about our Access Scheme, can be found on our Access page.
Food & drink
Next to The Clore Ballroom is our Ballroom Cafe where you can grab a coffee and a piece of freshly made cake. Also on Level 2 of our Royal Festival Hall you can grab a slice of life by the Thames with drinks and freshly made pizza at our Festival Bar & Kitchen which opens out onto our Riverside Terrace.
From coffee to cocktails, filling favourites to fine dining, plus some of London’s best street food – it’s all here at the Southbank Centre.