Boulder Ecstatic Dance (BED) - 3 5 featuring Skysia

★ Tickets: https://app.oneboulder.one/tickets/EXZ6B59T0NUDJ ★ Join us for a fulfilling night of community, connection and dance! This week features music by Skysia and facilitation by Danny Balgooyen. ★ Rhythm of the Dance 6:15 - 6:30: Arrive and land in the space for Dance Lab 6:30 - 7:15: Dance Lab Our intention for the Dance Lab is to co-create a core resonance of what is possible when we dance together in a more intentional, alive and collective way. We believe this is the foundation for creating a dance that so many of us are craving!!! Dance Lab can look like dance games, contact improvisation, connection games, etc. It is a place where we get to feel an invitation to bring more play, exploration, and attunement to our experience in dance space. Dance Lab primes us for a free-form, permission-filled ecstatic dance that invites us to tap into a more liberated expression of ourselves. [Accessible for all levels / No experience needed] 7:15 - 7:25: Dance Lab Debrief/ Opening Circle 7:25 - 7:45: Ambient set- Time for Arrival, Stretching, Dropping In 7:45 - 9:15: Ecstatic Dance This is the main course of the night where our DJ will take us on a soundscape journey into movement as a community. 9:15 - 9:30: Closing This is a space for individuals to share, express and be seen by the community and is the closing chapter of the evening. *** Note: You are not required to participate in any part of this which does not feel alive for you. You have full permission to sit/rest/observe at any time of the evening. There is an altar space for pulling cards and meditation. There is also a squish zone for relaxing and cuddles. These spaces are still a part of the non-verbal dance space. You are free to arrive and leave when you wish. If the dance is at capacity, we must turn dancers away. Come early or buy a ticket in advance to ensure you make it in for the dance. ★ Location: Avalon Ballroom - 6185 Arapahoe Rd, Boulder, Colorado 80303 ★ Tickets: Pay for a sliding scale ticket from $15-30 at the door or reserve a spot in advance through this ONE|Boulder app link. ★ DJ = Skysia: Forgoing electronic music’s inherent heaviness for a spiritualized serenity and elegant songcraft, Skysia fuses elements of melodic bass, chill-step, and modern downtempo into a euphonious sound. The producer/composer often reveals a minimalist, deliciously danceable style; his translucent low-end theory is rich in musicality and steeped in dreamy psychedelia. Born Tanner Allen, Skysia is a self-taught pianist, filmmaker, and production wizard; formerly based in Southern California, these days he lives in a converted mini-school bus - complete with mobile studio, crafting sound art while perpetually immersed in nature. Skysia mines earthy textures and unveils emotive tones, sonically expressing the delicate balance between darkness and light. His crisp, clear compositions invoke the sacred and sexy, humbly channeled through medicinal bass music. Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/skysia ★ Facilitator = Jahfaa Mythic Honey is the name of Jahfaa’s brand. The intention and inspiration of Mythic Honey can be seen in these two questions: What can be created from a liberated imagination? What does it mean to be an embodied creative? Jahfaa's interest are the intersections of mythopoetic and the relations to practical magic, imagination & archetypal play, Somatic liberation, pleasure liberation and dance as plant medicine. Jahfaa has a BA from Naropa combining Somatic psychology, peace studies and performance art. Jahfaa has spent most of his dance journey on a path of healing and learning about himself along with his embodied patterns whether through 5 rhythms, some form of partner dance or bridging meditation and movement. As an embodied Imagination muse Jahfaa inspires to remind people of the deep medicine that we get to play with when we let our imaginations and bodies in presence teach us. This is what has inspired his call to action. Jahfaa has been facilitating for over 5 years bringing his gentle, playful, reflective, emergent and disrupting the norms in his approach to facilitating. In this dance lab Jahfaa will be offering a creation he has been sharing for a couple years now called “Mythic Movement”. A guided dance and movement exploration journey that takes you through your own hero's quest with reflective questions/prompts to support your process of integrating what you are ready to see with this dance. You will leave feeling more connected in your body and walk away with some deep reflections from your dance along with tools you can platy with in the future. We'll play with mindfully moving in dance, exploring our shapes in movement and stillness, visualization & meditation, embodying personal mythology & archetypal exploration. What have you been moving through lately? What does this previous chapter have to gift you? What parts of yourself are you ready to face and free? The Dance Ecstatic Dance is a free form dance meditation that encourages you to express oneself through movement with the support of an intentionally curated musical journey. The 'ecstatic' aspect refers to spontaneous and unrestrained movement, without concern for the aesthetics of the dance. By allowing ourselves to freely dance, we can express emotion and release stress, tension or emotions stored in our bodies. Ecstatic Dance provides a safe space to embark on a journey designed to encourage deeper connection with ourselves and others. Interaction and connection on the dance floor is encouraged. When desiring to dance with another, we are mindful, sensitive and slow, listening for their body’s “YES.” Some invitations are: mirroring their dance moves, offering a hand, making eye contact and smiling. If they turn away or offer prayer hands in front of their heart, this is their “NO.” There is no rejection, only an honoring of ourselves and each other. We don’t make someone’s no about us, instead redirecting ourselves and continuing to dance. If someone isn’t listening to your no, being inappropriate or causing you to feel uncomfortable, please tell someone on the BED team immediately. Principles and Values of Space: - Drug and alcohol - free sacred dance floor. - Judgment and expectation-free zone with full inclusivity. - Encouraging the practice of attunement to self, your physical space & other dancers. - Full permission to feel, express and embody your emotions. - Respectful honoring of your own and other dancer’s boundaries and personal space - Focused on-verbal connection (no talking) - Consensual. If it’s not a clear yes, it’s a no. - Free of phones and cameras in the dance space. In other areas, keep them off or in airplane mode. - Free of heavy perfumes or oils. Please practice body hygiene when you come to dance. - Free of shoes Want to Join the Team? Each week we welcome a volunteer team to help with the day of dance roles. We hold this dance as a community effort and co-creation. Sign up to volunteer here: https://boulderecstaticdance.ivolunteer.com ★★ Volunteer Roles ★★ ★ Vibe Guardians - Setting up the altar, squish/cuddle zone, lights, ambiance and cleansing of the space - Angels of the space, offering loving support to help maintain a safe and aware group field. - Team break down and clean up ★ Welcome Squad - Welcomes and checks in attendees and sell tickets for the dance - We need 1 paid person to support from 6:00 - 9:30pm. You will receive $50 plus 1 free dance admittance for the future. - We need 2 additional volunteers as support. One person will help from 6:00 - 7:15 pm and the other will help from 7:15 - 8:30pm. - We need 1 floater volunteer to be flexible to take on one of the other volunteer roles in the event that someone becomes sick on the night of the event. ★ Skill Offerers - Tribal markers/body painting - Massage (bring your own table/chair) - Art Vendor - Serve Tea / Cacao / Elixirs - open to other creative ideas * Note, permission to charge for offerings. ★ Hosts: Danny, Aly, Bloom, BED Volunteer Team