Pollinate Dance: Autumn Alive Stephen Katz

back at it again for our first dance of the autumn season! 🍁 a time for reformulating, dropping the old, coming alive in the freshness of change. ∞ LINE UP ∞ 8pm - 9:30pm Stephen Katz 9:30pm - 11pm DJ Brando 11pm - 12:30am DJ Luminus ____ 💚🍇🍵 Nourishing, organic, medicinal foods provided by Stillwater Sweetfire of Fae Fare 💧 Bring a water bottle to reduce our waste. Fresh VT spring water provided! With the help of our Compost Queen, Stef Jade we are aiming to make Pollinate a totally waste-free event! 🌍 👯‍♀️ ECSTATIC DANCE is happening all over the world. Help us keep the space as a sacred journey by keeping our feet bare and conversation off the dance floor. Enjoy the lounge space for yummy food, conversation and connection! And remember: consent is sexy. Keep dances respectful and mutual. Some tips: • You may motion an invitation for a dance with open arms before entering into someone's dance space • You may make use of prayer hands at the heart ('namaste') as a respectful decline _____ LIVE MUSIC TO OPEN: Movement jam with live improvised music by Stephen Katz~ The Valley's most favoured cellist! ♥️ Cellist and award-winning composer Stephen Katz has charted new territory for the rhythmic potential of the cello with the groundbreaking approach he calls Flying Pizzicato. His compositions juggle two or three “voices” at a time, making music that simultaneously lays grooves, weaves tunes, and lifts spirits. "With a bow and fingers as light as feathers Stephen Katz makes a cello punctuate spoken lines, arias and choruses to bring out meanings you might not have suspected were there." - New York Times Stephen Katz makes some remarkably innovative music with the cello. While revering its traditions, he is on the cutting edge of liberating the instrument from being locked into the printed page..." - Paul Winter, Grammy Award winner www.stephenkatzmusic.com _____ DJ Luminus: Marek has a variety of backgrounds. He grew up in communist Czechoslovakia (later Czech Republic) where he studied puppetry, improvisation and drama education. It was then when he started to be interested in somatic healing, body and mind connection and finding freedom through embodied expression. Later after moving into the US in 2001, he got a counseling degree and began working as a somatic psychotherapist. He became fascinated with the practice of focusing and completed his Focusing Teacher Certification. Focusing became a framework for his psychotherapy practice, Solid Healing Arts, currently in Greenfield MA. ​ Later on he encountered the dancing community and discovered contact improvisation form of dance. This opened new ways for him to work with bodily energy and to explore how dancing improvisation can contribute to healing stuck emotional energy. ​ From there it was only a step away to become a dance facilitator and DJ in 2012 and to start working with energy of music and its impact on the body, connection to one self and to others. ​ Since then his journey as a DJ and workshop facilitator led him to creating healing workshops and dance events across the US as well as internationally. Some of his beloved places that he likes to visit and create events is Vancouver BC, island Ometepe Nicaragua, Portland OR, and of course his homeland - Prague. ​ Currently he co-creates regular ecstatic dance events with his team in Northampton & Boston: Pollinate | I-Opener Ecstatic Dance | Vortex Ecstatic Dance | Flow Ecstatic Dance www.djluminus.com https://www.mixcloud.com/DJLuminus/ https://www.facebook.com/LuminusDJ/ ____ DJ Brando DJ BRANDO offers heart opening soulful soundscapes that seamlessly weave music styles & cultures. A globally blended tapestry of beats, bumps, & baselines that penetrate to the marrow of your bones, spiraling around your undulating spine and unearthing your moving body. Starting his career on vinyl records in 1995, Brando was able to learn and refine his DJ capabilities under the tutelage of the finest NYC turntablists. Since then, he has transitioned from vinyl to a digital rig. Diverging from strictly pure house he now includes a massive diversity of music. Brando carefully combs the most gifted producers in underground sound and crafts his sets focusing on the simple elements and thick basslines that make bodies move. His styles include, Global Bass, Heart-Opening Electronica, Soul-Dripping Vocals, Cutting Edge Remixes, Deep Electro House, and Minimal Trap. His thoughtful transitions between sounds, styles, and textures, keeps the air moist with sweat and ecstasy. Brando has DJ’ed in venues across the United States, and internationally including Greece, Germany, and Ibiza, Spain. He is one of the originators of the long-standing epic Ecstatic Dance experience called Pollinate. Brando has been featured as an emerging artist on fmainstream.com and a featured guest on the Valley Advocate’s video podcast series. Downloads and videos are available on www.pollinatedance.com _____ Exchange: $15-20 sliding scale PM Brianna Kin for work exchange opportunites ( limited spots available ) See you on the dance floor, babes!