Ecstatic Dance Oakland: Featuring Kudos Lokey

~ Ecstatic Dance Oakland is back under new stewardship at Sweets Ballroom ~ Sunday morning schedule: 9:45am - Doors Open 10am - Contact Improv w/ Ava Maag & Yoga w/ James Kapicka 10:45am - Opening Circle 11am - Ecstatic Dance 1pm - Sound Healing Sweets Ballroom 1933 Broadway, Oakland, CA BART: 19th St. BART Parking: Free street parking on Sundays or paid parking @ Oakland City Center Garage 525 14th St, Oakland, CA 94612 Tickets: Available at the door with Cash / Venmo $25 Drop-In $20 Passes sold in 5 packs Volunteer Opportunity: Please email us at [email protected] Ecstatic Dance Agreements: Let the dance be your language, we keep the floor a space of movement rather than words. Follow what feels true in your body, honor your own boundaries, and practice consent in every interaction. We gather in a clear, substance-free field, no alcohol or drugs. Please keep phones away so we can be fully present together. Dance barefoot if you can, or wear soft-soled dance shoes if needed. This is a community space open to all ages and expressions. ----- Kudos LoKey is a cosmological being who channels the pulse, colours and movement of the Earth through musical poetry. With an unabating passion for pushing musical boundaries, Kudos LoKey blends genres through sonic alchemy; creating intoxicating dance-floor elixirs. Musically influenced by the multicultural city of Toronto and extensive global travels, Kudos weaves a celebration of music born of diverse Peoples and Lands into a vibrant tapestry to create his signature sound, something he's calling "50 Shades of Bass." The "50 Shades of Bass" umbrella offers audiences a sensual and stimulating kaleidoscope of Bass Music, Global Rhythms, and Psychedelic Textures intertwined through Kudos LoKey's unique and innovative production. As a sound sorcerer, Kudos crafts music to remind us of its primordial medicine, to awaken our cosmic hearts, and to inspire spaces for us to pray together with the entirety of our physical being. As a respected veteran sound engineer and record producer, Snappy Homefry is the wizard behind the curtain, releasing original music and remixes as Kudos LoKey since 2019. Now a vetted leader in his local music communities, Snappy has been mixing and mastering dynamic styles like latin, folk, and techno from a diverse selection of artists in his Toronto-based Playhouse Studio for more than 25 years. As Kudos LoKey, he has provided direct support to The Desert Dwellers, Andreilien, The Human Experience, Adham Shaikh, Michael Red, Dubmatix and Soohan while also reaching broad audiences at festivals across North America including Beloved, Lucidity, Harvest Festival, Future Forest, Valhalla, Eclipse (Quebec), Evolve (Nova Scotia), and Sonic Springs. In addition to his self-released work, Kudos LoKey has a remix with Gravitas Recordings in 2022, an original single with High Vibe Records and has official remixes out for Skysia, Dubmatix, Mr. Ours (France), and Tyr Kohout.