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Ecstatic Dance
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DJ : Alchemia
Music Vibe: Songs that evoke power, play, and passion, using a variety of instruments and sounds. Strong beats balanced with introspective instrumental moments. Inspired by music across the globe. Multi-genre, including funk, big-band, french electronic, techno, dub-step, art-pop, indie, classical, and more.
Theme: Sovereignty
Description: Connect to your inner power and truth, let your body lead, and allow any and all expression to come through as this multi-genre set inspires you to explore your inner world as it bubbles up and out of your body. Connect to your inner truth and the room around you at your own pace with a set that begins like a budding bloom, inviting you into something greater than yourself. Building into big beats and sounds that encourage expansive playfulness, powerful stomps, and sensual sassiness are woven in with emotional and passionate songs to open your heart. The set is designed to allow you to feel yourself first and foremost, and explore your version of truth within each song.
Bio: Alchemia uses movement and music to process the human experience, as well as connect even more deeply to herself and those around her. She aims to have her sets do the same for others. Having travelled all across the globe, she pulls music from the places and people she meets, keeping her sets fresh and interesting. She is also a yoga teacher and leads events focused on healing the nervous system - and brings that purposeful energy to her sets as well.
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Pre-Dance Workshop
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Title: Invisible Dance Partners
Facilitators: Michael Brazington and Inara Sky
Michaela Brazington (Alchemia) is a Yoga teacher who focuses her work on events that combine music, movement, and bodywork to facilitate opportunities of learning about and regulating our nervous systems. This workshop will explore similar concepts through the lens of dance, and discovering the organic movements that can come from any one at all - whether they have a dance background or not! Inara Sky will also be joining her to assist.
Description: Exploring the "invisible" spaces of dance: breath, space, stillness, and sensation. We will start by exploring the ways in which breath, space, stillness, and sensation can inspire movement, with examples and space to explore each one. From there, we will practice using those connection points to stay grounded in ourselves even when dancing with others. And finally, we will explore how we can use breath, space, stillness, and sensation to connect to others during partner or group dancing.
At the core of these themes is nervous system awareness and regulation. Working with the breath, space, stillness and sensation are all ways to attune to our nervous system but they are not the only ways. We will explore a few other practice to regulate the nervous system through dance and learn how to use anxiety, fear, and nervousness as motivation for movement.
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Evening flow
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6:30pm - Doors Open
7pm - Workshop
8:15p - Dance begins
10:20p - Dance ends, closing circle
10:35p - Snacks & Socializing
11:30p - Doors close
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Cost
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Workshop: free if attending dance
Drop-in $20
Pass $90 (6 dances @ $15)
Cash or Venmo at door or prepay online at omculture.com
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