Ecstatic Dance Boston - April - Relational Dancing

Welcome to Ecstatic Dance Boston! Each month we'll be bringing you a multilayered dance experience... starting off with a movement class warmup featuring renowned instructors and facilitators, followed by DJ'd beats and music from dance floors around the world, and finally coming to a sound scape cool down integration with either live instruments, digital production, or vocalization. Our featured guests will be a mix of local talent and familiar faces to international teachers and musicians. We'll start and finish each night with brief opening and closing circles to ground ourselves and gather in our present space of learning, expression, and connection. 🎶 🌀 🔅 👣 ♦️ ☯️ ✨ We're honored to be hosted by Dance Freedom... a long time supporter of dance and community through its weekly events and dedicated crew. Dance with them every other Wednesday of the month with a great lineup local DJs and hometown camaraderie! Be sure to check out more about Dance Freedom and other Dance New England - DNE events. 💠 🔀 🔶 🎵 🚀 🌺 💫 This month we're delighted to welcome Wren LaFeet to instruct us in the complexities and bliss of relational dancing. Wren will guide us into an experiential embodiment practice based in the forms of many of the world's social partner dance techniques, while inviting and allowing an easeful flow of ideas to emerge through listening and responding to the moment. Familiar styles woven together in this practice include contact improvisation, blues, tango, ecstatic dance, fusion, and more! As we hone this dynamic, kinetic toolbox, we emphasize connection, communication and presence between two people within a community of others. Allowing intuition and feeling to guide the partnership, their centers and frames to support it, Cocréa celebrates our ability to embody profound joy through being in a body moving in harmony with another body. Weaving the threads of collaboration, cross-pollination and consciousness, the practice focuses on how dance can enhance and expand relationships into a deeply connected, honest and powerful tool for personal, interpersonal and collective transformation. ◀︎ LOGISTICS ▶︎ 7 pm Doors open, Arrival 7:30 Opening Circle then Lab with Wren LaFeet 8:45 Ecstatic Dance with DJ Journey Weaver 10:15 Sound Scape & Closing Circle ✦ Location: First Congregational Church 11 Garden Street Cambridge, MA 02138-3605 ➡︎ When facing the front of the church from the street door is located on the right side. ✦ Tickets: Early Bird Online: $10 (limited amount) Regular Price Online: $15 (sold out) At the Door: $20-25 ➡︎ door price discount coupons available attending Dance Freedom on other Wednesday nights! ➡︎ work exchange available - please message Sarah Monette at least 3 days in advance of the event to join our crew! spots fill up quickly ✦ Bring: 1. Loose-fitting clothes that let you move your body and free yourself 2. Water and a water bottle. You can refill it at the venue. 3. A good attitude, open heart, your business card or flyers for networking ◀︎ GUIDELINES ▶︎ 1. Respect yourself and one another 2. Dance barefoot (or for health reasons... use dance, non-street shoes) 3. Conversation & cellphone use outside the dance space "At Ecstatic Dance, we join together to create a sacred space for dancing. No talking on the dance floor allows us to move out of our heads and into our bodies, hearts, and spirits. We leave behind the words and worries of the day, and connect with spirit and each other in new ways." - Donna Carrol (Co-Founder Ecstatic Dance Oakland) ❉ Connect with inquiry before assumption, give yourself permission to be present and free of digital distractions, enjoy a natural high, and co-create the experience with consideration. ❉ Any concerns at any point can be addressed with an available Space Holder (listed at the entrance table) ◀︎ FEATURING ▶︎ Wren LaFeet Fueled by his curiosity in spirituality, global community, the natural world and human relations, Wren's devotion to love has been his guiding light, and partner dance the method of his understanding. He underwent a rigorous dance training at The Branson School, followed by a BA in Drama and Dance at University of Washington where he trained with Suzuki masters Steve Pearson and Robin Hunt, and professional dancer Peter Kyle in P3. In working somatically in his contemplation of the Gene Keys, applying his study of humanity through theater as well as applying his highly developed intuitive ability, Wren has enabled countless students to dance with joy, helped free insights locked in the body, brought people into a greater awareness of their sensual nature and even assisted in the healing of chronic disease. Wren's goal is to help guide people into right relationship with the moment; to listen and respond appropriately to what is being called for in service to the highest good of all involved. He is an author in the published work, "Reinhabiting the Village," a TEDx speaker on "Pioneering a New Renaissance through Movement" and creator of the mindful movement modality, Cocréa™. www.nomaddance.com DJ Journey Weaver Inspired by a love of dance and connection, Journey moves your spirit and form through space with the push of beats and the invitation of melody. From organic world beats to ambient chill, deep house to global base... each set is nourishingly familiar yet cravingly unique. Founder of Nexus Ecstatic Dance Amherst and Co-founder of I-Opener Dance Boston & NYC, she also works with Mandala Dance, Ecstatic Dance NYC, Dance New England, and several festival organizations around the world. Journey's other projects include Nexus Expressions .. a multilayer collective that designs, facilitates, promotes and manages dance events, instructors, transformational retreats, DJs, and workshops … and Synthesis - Authentic Relating which guides connective group experiences through interactive games and movement. She plays for ecstatic dances, contact improv jams, music & art festivals, guided journeys, yoga workshops, Daybreaker, and more... providing a range of experiences from warm up morning flow to high-vibe midnight peak. She loves traveling and adores taking dancers on a wave of creative expression and connective discovery! www.djjourneyweaver.com ◀︎ ECSTATIC DANCE BOSTON ▶︎ A monthly dance journey to take us into self exploration and creative expression. We honor "moving as the music inspires you" in a judgement-free space designed to inspire easeful presence and energetic flow. ED Boston is an opportunity to connect with your self, shake up your patterns, let free-form inspiration abound, and co-create a transformative experience. Let carefully crafted musical journeys allow you to process emotions, exercise your body and mind, lift your spirits, and be welcomed by a vibrant local community as part of a global family in ecstatic expression. You can engage in the dance as you wish… through movement, meditation, expansion, observation, introspection, development, and connection. You'll be amazed at what emerges when you let go and just dance! ◀︎ STAY CONNECTED ▶︎ Follow our page Ecstatic Dance Boston - Relational Dancing Join our group Ecstatic Dance Boston Tribe Find us on Instagram at "EcstaticDanceBoston" And check out our Meetup Group www.meetup.com/Boston-Ecstatic-Dance/ Upcoming Dates: May 16 June 20 Be sure to check out regular dance events in the area! I-Opener Dance Boston Dance Freedom Dance New England - DNE Nexus - Expression, Dance, Production, Connection Inspired by and with kind permission of the worldwide Ecstatic Dance community! Ecstatic Dance is happening everywhere: Hawaii, Belgium, San Francisco, Berlin, New York, Seattle, Goa, London, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Ibiza and more! #EcstaticDanceBoston #ComeAsYouAre #MoveAsYouWish #DanceYourTruth ..