Ecstatic Dance San Francisco
Sunday Oct 27 - VESICA (Bay Area / Berlin)
Contact Improv: Marcus van Duren
Host: Geneva Bybee
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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
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DJ: VESICA
Vesica is Initiator and Co-founder of Ecstatic Dance Berlin, where she is a resident DJ and the organizer of Ecstatic Dance Sundays. Vesica, while born & raised in Berlin, has lived most of her adult life in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. Oakland Ecstatic Dance saved her in 2008, when her doctoral dissertation on spirit possession & psychiatry was literally driving her mad. Ever since, Ecstatic Dance has been her twice weekly, non-negotiable pilgrimage to the dance floor -to get down and right with herself, her community, her body and the Sacred. It is no surprise then, that Vesica is a dancer’s DJ deeply steeped in West Coast Bass music committed to the Heart, Soul and Funk of her dancers.
https://soundcloud.com/vesica-ecstatic
Contact Improv: Marcus van Duren
Marcus van Duren is a dancer and teaching artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Marcus has intensively studied movement and dance performance since his discovery of contact improvisation in 2013. He has had the pleasure of studying with Chris Aiken, Angie Hauser, Frey Faust, Scott Wells, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Ray Chung, Martin Keogh, Nita Little, Sarah Shelton Mann and many others. Marcus actively investigates new ways of moving and understanding movement as a member of the international Axis Syllabus community. In addition to appreciating dance as a performing art, Marcus sees dance, especially contact improvisation, as a life practice. Marcus is endlessly curious about how dance can be used to access different states of being and uncover new ways of relating to self and other.
Host: Geneva Bybee
Geneva Bybee is a movement and visual artist with a passion for producing conscious events. With training in numerous dance and yoga techniques, she is here to offer her natural ability to hold space, facilitate positive change and offer support to the community. Geneva has been involved with the Ecstatic Dance Community since the Bay Area beginnings. She was one of the facilitators of Missoula’s Ecstatic Dance for several years.
“To move is to breathe,” ~geneva
https://geneva.dance/
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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:
- Physical Exercise
- Mental Therapy
- Connection to Spirit
- Social Connection with Others
- Personal Connection with Self
We only ask that you refrain from:
- Talking on the Dancefloor
- Using your Phone
- Wearing Shoes
- Using Substances (Be Yourself!)
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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/