Dance Floor — Conscious Dance Night

A collaboration by Max & Jon

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What is this?

A weekly dance night in Thornbury. Shoes off, lights low, music that moves you.

No steps. No choreography. Just a hardwood floor, a room full of people, and space to move however your body wants to.

Each week one of us hosts, and each of us brings something different. Some nights it's just music and movement. Others might carry a theme, a reflection, or something to try. Whatever's offered, you can pick it up or leave it. It's your dance.

Welcome to Dance Floor.

The Details

Location

Salvation Army Hall

704/710 High St, Thornbury VIC 3071

When

Thursday evenings

7pm — 9pm

Who

Every body, every ability

18+. Sober. No experience needed. Ramp entry. Accessible toilets.

Price

$25

Per session, at the door

The Dance Card

Numbered dance cards. Four $5-off entries each. Twenty on opening night, ten the next week, five after that. Then gone.

If you get there first, you get one. Get it?

Limited run. Numbered edition for the first three weeks only.

The Ethos

Respect the space

Screens off. Shoes off. The dance is the high.

Get present, stay present

Leave the outside world at the door. The dancefloor is for being here, now.

Let your body do the talking

We communicate through movement. The silence between us makes the music louder.

Lineage

We don't do this from nowhere. We've inherited so much from the traditions and communities that came before us. What we bring to Dancefloor is maybe one or two percent our own. The rest belongs to the people and practices that educated and informed us. We pay homage to them here, and hope to pay reverence through this experiment.

Movement

Contact improvisation. Conscious dance. 5Rhythms. Years of exploring what the body does when you give it space and get out of its way.

Contemplative

Buddhist and Christian contemplative traditions. Monasteries. Mindfulness. The discipline of paying attention, brought onto the floor.

Sound

Thirty years behind the decks, starting in London. Sound engineering. Community radio. Music chosen with care and intention.

Family

We both grew up around music and dance. Community dances, ceilidhs, lounge rooms with the music always on. Community radio. This was part of life before it was ever a practice.

Who we are

Max

Grew up on Yorta Yorta land in country Victoria. Parents were rock and roll dance teachers and community radio DJs—music and movement were how he grew up, not something he came to later. Contact improvisation since 2013. Twenty years of conscious dance practice. Twelve months living in Buddhist monasteries across Thailand, India and Australia. Trained in counselling and art therapy. He sees dance as a way to make sense of life—a creative exploration of the body to express what's inside.

Jon

Thirty years behind the decks. Began drumming at thirteen, was playing jazz by fourteen. Grew up recording pirate radio, chasing white labels through dodgy record shops, and saving every penny from paper rounds for turntables. Residencies across Manchester. Sound engineering. A deep love of Brazilian music, broken beat, and whatever Patrick Forge was playing. For Jon, DJing has always been facilitation—the technical and the artistic, getting a room to move together.

Acknowledgement of Country

We dance on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land. People have been dancing on this ground for over 65,000 years, long before the buildings that sit on top of it. This land was never ceded, and the lore that held it for millennia was never recognised in the law that replaced it.

We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. With honesty about the past and care for what comes next.