3 hours
St. Luke's Church on the Avenue
Starting at USD 15
Sat, 26 Jul, 2025 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm (GMT-04:00)
St. Luke's Church on the Avenue
800 West 36th Street, Baltimore, United States
This event is in an old church without A/C -- there will be plenty of fans to circulate air, ice to dunk your head in, spray bottles, and water to drink. But make sure you dress appropriately and bring your own water bottle!
The more one embraces ecstatic dance, the more they might approach life itself as a dance. So much of what we tend with, care for, ponder, and experience in life is this dance between what seems to be opposing forces that live within us.
Dance brings this flow in the balancing of our lives. It becomes an energetic approach to the acknowledgment of the multitude of parts that make us up as whole human beings.
Let's engage with that consciously as a community with an extended playful/contemplative embodiment practice to start the event off. Followed by some hard pivots and juxtaposition in eclectic musical mash-ups, with tracks from a multitude of genres that evoke powerful emotional catharsis masterfully blended in a set crafted by DJ & Ecstatic Dance facilitator HP Tellem.
"Chiaroscuro" is an italian word that translates to "light-dark" -- we will embrace both light and darkness with a loving heart; honoring the shadow while celebrating the brightness.
Let's dance with our contradictions, our juxtaposition, and our duality. Let's witness each other and help each other release as the evening unfolds. Let's hold each other in all that comes forth.
To close out the evening: Support from the Crystal Ashram with their ancient Tibetan singing bowls and other vibrational frequency instruments to bring us back to center.
Info: Saying hello, and coming together as a community in the space.
Info: This will be a bit of a change from our normal, playful, silly "recess" to get the body moving. We will be engaging in the conscious movement of both our darkness and our light. With parts to enact both. Come with an open heart and a posture of respect/consent.
Info: An immensely up and down affair on the dance floor. Get ready to jump. Get ready to sweat. Get ready to cry. -- Check out previous recordings on SoundCloud -- https://soundcloud.com/hptellem
Info: A journey back to center and stillness provided by the very experience facilitators of sound healing of Crystal Ashram
Tickets for Chiaroscuro: an Ecstatic Dance with Duality can be booked here.
Ticket type | Ticket price |
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General Admission | 25 USD |
Supported Tier | 15 USD |
Supporter Tier | 39 USD |
Godsend Tier | 50 USD |
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