UK & Abroad
Dance workshops
And The Beat Goes On is an extraordinary group full of unique, connecting and ordinary people. We dance, explore, find ourselves playful, and learn together. We build our own community, over and over, changing, adapting, alive and real; with all our human kindness, strangeness and quirks, with all our silliness and seriousness. We learn to include ourselves and each other and grow as individuals at the same time. We become more spontaneous and honest, more real and more responsible - and we have plenty of fun as we go.
Next Term: (Pse note new format of days and evenings)
Weekend
Saturday, Oct 11th, 11.00am - 5.30pm
Sunday, Oct 12th 10.30am - 5.00pm
3 Thursday Evenings 23rd Oct, 6th Nov, 20th Dec
7.00pm - 10.00pm
Saturday, 6th Dec, 11am - 5.30pm
251 Hungerford Rd, London N7 9LD, UK
Each term starts with a weekend (next intake 11/12 Oct 2025). The minimum commitment is 2 terms to allow time for new participants to arrive and to have a sense of continuity for the group.
And The Beat Goes On has been running for 22 years.
It is a closed group and newcomers are invited
only at the beginning of each term.
To join or find out more; info@acalltodance.com
Already Alright
An annual retreat and gathering in Orval, Belgium with Sue
Assistance: Frie Lavelli & Kath Jones
Room spaces and camping available
5 Days: Sun 27 Jul - Fri 1 Aug 2025
Booking & Info: luc@owc.be
https://www.owc.be/program/already-alright#info
Already Alright is an annual summer retreat and gathering. The week is both unique for each of us and also deeply supported by our coming together. We dance and create space to be curious, excited and surprised by what is actually ready to emerge and be included. We don't need to know in advance what we need or what might happen. This simple yet radical practice of exploring and being curious can change everything.
Connected to ourselves and to each other, we find ourselves much less interested in thinking there is something wrong with us, or anyone else. We can stop fighting with the underlying fear that we are not truly ok and therefore we can relax and become available to delight and spaciousness. Freedom and freshness come through us, sometimes when we least expect it.
Each year we build our confidence in what's ready to emerge. Fresh each year, and as a result of all our years of dancing together, this Annual Retreat and Gathering helps us to keep remembering the value of our unique contributions and our innate Alrightness. Oldtimers are as welcome as ever - we welcome each other! And newcomers are always very welcome too.
Discovery
Autumn 2025
We dance.
We explore.
And we don't try to fix anything - we see what comes up to be acknowledged, included, celebrated, teased apart, discovered....we won't know what until the moment arises. This enriches us and gives us new perspectives.
We're curious together. We see what happens when we bring loving attention and presence to whatever comes up. Which is often surprising and freeing and fresh and sometimes gently challenging.
I can't really describe it, but if you want to come and find yourself newly and compassionately surprised - by yourself and each other, this could be for you.
These groups are deepening and getting simpler at the same time. Some people return regularly and in each series new people jump on board. Our confidence and trust grows. We become more curious, more playful, more surprised. At least, I do! - and I don't think I'm alone in that.
Online
Mondays 6 - 8pm
Dates: Oct 13, 20, 27. Nov 10, 17, 24
Cost: Basic cost £160
Pretty skint - £110
Totally skint - £40 (limited number)
To book: please pay and then let me know that you have:
suerickards888@gmail.com
Paypal
or bank transfer Ms S A Rickards SC: 07-04-36 ACC: 43788875
or in Euros (€180/132 ) WISE:
IBAN BE67 9671 0835 1487
Bank code (SWIFT / BIC) TRWIBEB1XXX
TransferWise Europe SA
Avenue Marnix 13-17
Brussels 1000 Belgium
VILLAGE 2025
A six month, monthly online moving village gathering to include losses as part of our vibrant living.
Holding ourselves, together
We need to be able to hold ourselves when grief and sorrow wash through our lives. We also need a village, to acknowledge our grief and loss, the big and the small, so that it can colour, but not define our lives.
For most of us this place and 'process' has been lost or ignored so that we are left in the cold or emptiness of grief, rather than being alive to it. The difference, the cost, is our vitality. Which is a waste of our life while we have it. As Elizabeth says in The Last Devil to Die "I'm grieving, not dead".
This group - 1 ¾ hours a month, through the Winter, is a village for our aliveness whilst acknowledging loss. Holding ourselves, together, as we include what's true; that sorrow is a healthy response in our vibrant life. It's not what we carry, but how. We'll dance, of course. We'll laugh, maybe cry, we'll be delighted, we'll be together and that's healthy
When: Mondays monthly online
Mondays 6 - 7.45pm (UK);
6th Oct, Nov 3rd, Dec 1st, Jan 12th, Feb 9th, Mar 9th.
Cost:
£150
£100 earlybird until 31st May
£40 (4 places available for people for whom the cost would otherwise be prohibitive)
To book your place:
I have been training as a grief-tender with Frances Weller, author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow, who names a few gates of the grief that we all live with, and that are often unacknowledged. This work will gently inform our times together.
Surprised By A Poem
In the same way that learning to make an omelette doesn't make us a chef, or making a clay pot doesn't make us a ceramicist, writing a poem doesn't make us a poet.
However, we might turn out to love making omelettes or pots or writing a poem or two. If you would like the latter to be true, whatever your experience or absence thereof, this might be for you. Over these 5 weeks we'll come together to work and play with letting poems appear. We'll read and write poems, whether we think we can or not, we'll move to some fab music and see what happens. Together we'll hear and write the unexpected.
Rachel is a poet and always will be, she loves poetry and wants to work with it.
Sue is not a poet, and doesn’t want to be, yet she loves poetry and wants to play with it.
Online
Wednesdays, Oct 29th, Nov 5, 12, 19, 26
6 - 8.30pm UK time
£180 earlybird price before 31st July
£250 generous, supportive
£220 regular
£200 lower cost
£40 2 places for those for whom the cost would otherwise be prohibitive
To book, please contact Bronia onemomentintimetheatre@gmail.com
Everything Is Interesting 2026
A weekend of dancing in Antwerp with Sue
Let's have some fun and get curious. One of my teachers said: If nothing is wrong, everything is interesting.
So simple and so inviting as an exploration.
Each year we have a thing to get interested in and we see what comes up.
When: Sat 21- Sun 22 March 2026
Where: Antwerp, Belgium
To book: https://www.owc.be/course/3505/everything-is-interesting