Festival of Sacred Dance Music and Song. Tickets from £950. £300 deposit

Join us in the Universal Hall, Findhorn for our annual divine celebration of dance, music, and song!

Before booking a ticket please read BOOKING INSTRUCTIONS at end of this description.

Tickets cost from £950 with food and accommodation. £300 non refundable deposit payable on booking. Balance due May 5th.

World renowned and local teachers bring a programme of dance ranging from folk traditions of diverse cultures to contemporary choreographies, held in the heart of the Findhorn Community where the Sacred Circle Dance movement first developed. The dancing will be supported by participatory singing, a Festival choir and inspired musicians. The Festival programme includes workshops each morning and afternoon over the week and live music evenings. Accommodation and 2 meals a day are included in the Festival price.

Laura Shannon with Kostantis Kourmadias Laura has travelled widely to research Greek and Balkan traditional dances and her teaching offers a deep experience of the sacred symbols these dances contain. Kostantis Kourmadias is a virtuoso of the violin and saz, specialising in music of the Greek islands and Asia Minor, where his grandparents were born. He teaches Byzantine music at the Ilion music school in Athens, and travels widely to accompany Laura Shannon’s seminars.

Susanne Anders Bartholomäi will share DanceMeditation. She offers anapproach to dance that deepens the awareness and the experience of themovement and helps to find authenticity in the dance.

Peter Vallance will be sharing his approach to traditional and choreographed dances and how he blends and grows them together to create a ‘dancing field’ within which transformation can occur.

Barbara Swetina shares dances from different spiritual traditions which use mantras, sacred harmony chants and simple movements to honour the sacred in all life.

Renata Ramos will present the Findhorn Flower Essences project

Brant Bambery holding the Centrepiece

Katharina Kroeber offering Dancing Health

Meditative Sacred Dance with Francesca Stridgen and Kathryn Kusa

Anni Broadhead sharing Earth Energy dances.

Festival Choir with Kate O’Connell - learn by ear, no experience needed, The Choir are one of the groups who provide music for the final night’s community dance and celebration.

Dancing to live music is an essential part of the Festival experience and evening sessions will have musicians playing for us to dance; an evening of traditional Greek, Balkan and Armenian dances with Laura Shannon and Kostantis Kourmadias; Barbara Swetina with an evening of Sacred Harmony Dances; a Scottish Ceilidh and an evening with the O’Connells’ band and Peter Vallance.

Before booking a ticket please read BOOKING INSTRUCTIONS here;

To book a ticket please select accommodation type under tickets.

You will be offered the choice of Single rooms in Dianne's or Genesis which are our old style bungalows or rooms in Rainbow Lodge a modern eco house on the Field of Dreams. All bookings are with lunch/dinner. Diannes/Genesis have kitchens but no breakfast supplies. Rainbow Lodge will supply do it youself breakfast. We are offering the option to book an extra night if you wish to arrive on Friday. If you opt to arrive on Saturday you will not be able to check in till 5.00 and you would miss the opening small groups meeting unless you checked in during dinner.

There is a room in Rainbow Lodge with a double bed and another with twin beds. The prices listed are per person. If booking as a twin/double please say the person you will be sharing with to avoid confusion. You have to book seperately. Scroll down to see all the ticket options.

Currently we are not offering the option to book non residential with food. If we fill all our rooms we will offer this option. We have had to pay a non refundable deposit on all the rooms we are advertising and we will be eating in the lower foyer of the Universal Hall so there is limited space.

ARRIVAL TIME. FRIDAY NIGHT ACCOMMODATION BEFORE FESTIVAL.

We have booked all the accommodation for the Friday night (check in from 4.00) before the Festival begins so we can start at 2.00 on Saturday as usual. If you wish to book the extra night please book on the ticket link that says 8 nIghts.

We will be offering non residential tickets without food nearer the time to local dancers.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Universal Hall Promotions, Universal Hall, FORRES, United Kingdom