Mr. Blank - SF Ecstatic Dance - Sunday Morning

Ecstatic Dance San Francisco Sunday Jan. 19 - Mr. Blank Contact Improv: Juliana Mendonca Sound Healing: Charles Moselle Opening Circle & Meditation: Tyler Blank ----- Arrive when you wish: 9:45am - Doors Open 10:00am - Contact Improv Class 10:50am - Opening Circle 11:00am - Ecstatic Dance 1:00pm - Sound Bath / Closing Meditation 1:11pm - Good Day Everyone! Tickets available at the Door Drop-In: $25 (Cash / Card / Venmo) Circle Dance Passes: $20 each (sold in packs of 5 for $100) Volunteer Opportunity: Show up at 9am sharp! for Opening or ask at the door for Closing Opportunities. @ Sacred Heart Church (of 8 Wheels) 554 Fillmore St., SF, CA Street Parking ---- DJ: Mr. Blank Tyler Blank is the Founder of Ecstatic Dance Oakland, SF, Fairfax, and the EcstaticDance.Org NonProfit Community. He plays a full spectrum journey of celebrating all our emotions, all tempos (speeds), and a generous variety of musical genres, for a movement experience to transform our individual and collective energy. Tyler appreciates all kinds of music, and he invites us to both the powerful & the playful, the sacred & the sexy, and all the loving and funky and wild vibrations that come with being a human on this earth. Join us in the Dance of this Soundscape, from the ancient past into the distant future, arriving, appreciating, and enjoying this very moment, right here and now. Every set is curated to be an epic Journey, and each one is Unique, never to be experienced again. www.mixcloud.com/TylerBlank Contact Improv: Juliana Mendonca Juliana Mendonca is a Venezuelan Contemporary Dance Performer, Choreographer and Teacher. She is an innovative bodyworker influenced by Latin Traditional Dances, Butoh, Contact Improvisation and Physical Theater. Throughout her career she has developed a unique language with which she can express and create powerful art and healing. She has dedicated many years to creating projects and performances inspired by water: Raíz de Agua, La Naciente, Drop & Drought, Liquidanza, Sono Somatic, water has represented a very important element to understand herself. She currently directs her own proposal for relaxation and dance practice in the water, Liquidanza. She also works with Destiny Arts Center, La Peña Cultural Center, Private Events, and collaborates with other Bay Area Artists. (www.liquidanza.com) Sound Healing: Charles Moselle Charles Moselle is a multi-instrumentalist (piano, saxophones, flutes, drums,) and composer, having scored numerous films, plays, and dance works. He is also known for his unusual vocal stylings and theatrical characterizations (Mongolian beatboxing, zombie operettas,etc.). He has a reputation for being able to sing, perhaps,, the lowest note humanly possible. He has also invented a number of very unusual instruments (ex.The electric mirror) He attended Lee Strasberg acting Institute and California Institiute of the Arts. Over the years Charles’s career has taken a number of interesting turns- As a music therapist he has worked with Schizophrenics, incarcerated youth, incarcerated adults, and war veterans. Recently years he has worked with teens and children in Syrian Refugee camps. He has performed with Robin Williams, Stan Getz, Frank Sinatra Jr., Bobby McFerrin , Stanley Clarke, Sly and the Family Stone, and Eddie Henderson, just to name a few. Opening Circle & Meditation: Tyler Blank Founder of Ecstatic Dance Oakland, San Francisco, Fairfax, & EcstaticDance.org Community, Tyler is also an Ecstatic Dance DJ, Partner Yoga, & Contact Improv Teacher. www.MixCloud.com/TylerBlank ----- All are Welcome. Ecstatic Dance is a Freeform Conscious Dance, Mixed by a Seasoned DJ for a Continuous Sonic Journey. Move however you wish, without verbal guidance, shoes, or booze. Music will flow through various Tempos, Genres, Intensities, and Emotions, so that Dancers may Experience, Express, and Transform their own Energies on the Dancefloor Together. Ecstatic Dance can be your: 1. Physical Exercise 2. Mental Therapy 3. Connection to Spirit 4. Social Connection with Others 5. Personal Connection with Self We only ask that you refrain from: 1. Talking on the Dancefloor 2. Using your Phone 3. Wearing Shoes 4. Using Substances (Be Yourself!) ----- Drop-In: $25 (Cash / Card / Venmo) Circle Dance Passes: $20 each (sold in packs of 5 for $100) Available at the Door. @ Sacred Heart Church (of 8 Wheels) 554 Fillmore St., SF, CA Website: www.ecstaticdance.org/dance/san-francisco-ecstatic-dance/