Baby Dance at The Green, Nunhead

Baby Dance at The Green, Nunhead

Reconnect with your body, dance to great music with other parents, and move with your baby in a fun and supportive class designed to awaken creativity.

Over the course of a term, we explore developmental movement stages that babies go through and use these as inspiration to try different dance styles and movement games. We dance both with and without carrying the baby, and as your baby learns to roll, sit, and crawl, we adapt the dance to go with them. The atmosphere is relaxed and social, always focussed on the wellbeing of you and your baby.

For pre-walking babies, suggested ages: 2-10 months

  • Current Term:
    • Term Dates: Nov 4th to Dec 20th 2024
    • Time: Friday 11:00 to 11:45
  • Next Term:
    • Term Dates: Jan 6th to Feb 14th 2025
    • Time: Friday 11:00 to 11:45
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The Green – Nunhead Community Centre

The Green Community Centre stands in the heart of Nunhead, a lovely neighbourhood in South London. With cafés, parks and pubs within a minute walk from The Green, there is plenty of opportunities to socialise after the dance class. In the warmer months, do make use of The Green’s garden and outdoor play area, as well as their very reasonably priced in-house café.

It’s a short distance from nearby areas of East Dulwich, Peckham and Brockley.

  • Venue Details:
    • Name: The Green – Nunhead Community Centre
    • Address: Nunhead Community Centre, 5 Nunhead Green, London, SE15 3QQ
    • Website: https://thegreennunhead.org
  • Facilities at The Green:
    • Step-free access via lift
    • Safe space to leave buggies
    • Baby change opposite dance studio
    • Café
    • Playground
    • Other parent and baby activities during the week

What to Expect

In a 45-min session, we will spend ca 35 minutes moving. For a large part of the dance, we move without carrying baby and instead engage baby in other ways. When we do carry baby, we don’t use a sling (unless you prefer that), because we’ll be moving baby through the air, practicing different ways of carrying, lifting, bouncing and holding them in a dance hold.

We’ll explore different dance styles and various kinds of music. Requests are welcomed.

Come as you are, no previous dance experience is needed. Just bring comfortable clothes and get ready to move!

If you have any questions or special requirements, please get in touch at: julia@meandbaby.dance, or follow us on Instagram @meandbabydance.

Term Overview

Each week, we focus on muscular connections in the body, and link these to a developmental movement stage. We’ll move through the connections of core to limbs, head to tail along the spine, upper and lower body, body halves, and cross-lateral connections used when crawling and walking.

Each session includes a warm-up for you, interactions with baby, group dances, a calming cuddle dance, and a reflective check-out.

Read more on the Baby Dance page.

Facilitator: Julia Korning

I am a dance movement psychotherapist and I have two young daughters. I set up Me&Baby Dance together with my first baby, because I wanted to share my love for dance, music and movement. I needed a place for us to be creative and couldn’t find any other sessions that offered what Me&Baby Dance does – a chance to be a person in my own right, together with my baby, and dance with her and with other families together.

I found that parenting had made me stressed, worried about practicalities such as feed- and nap-times, isolated, and that it was hard to access my playful side. I therefore designed Me&Baby Dance to support connections – reconnecting to my own body after becoming a parent, connecting with my child, and connecting with other families, all through playful movement and dance. Over the years, it has brought me so much joy to dance with my children. It continues to melt my heart when I see parents connect with their babies, and I absolutely love my job.

As you might agree, it is usually easier to be playful and carefree when you are out of the home, in a space which you don’t have to tidy up, and with a structure to improvise around. This is what I provide in my sessions: a safe space for you to let go and just be present with your child. I’ll never force you or your child to behave in a certain way, or dance in a certain way. I provide a comforting structure, well-thought out and backed up my by experience as a dance therapist, for you to tune in to your body and dance with your child.

If you have any questions, please get in touch on julia@meandbaby.dance

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