Sunday, April 24 @10am-12pm PT | 5-7pm UTC
Dance to uplift yourself and raise your frequency. Our aim is to
create inner and outer harmony: in ourselves, in our relationship with
the Earth, with Spirit and with one another through guided and
free-style dance, conscious movement, and meditation.
We will focus on the element of earth with sensual yet rigorous dance,
and explore a poem by Rumi that speaks powerfully to our times.
A Free Online Event with Banafsheh Sayyad
April 7 @5:30pm PT with replay on April 9 @12pm PT
Join Banafsheh to discover how sacred dance can help you activate the power and resilience to not just survive, but thrive as you endure individual and collective challenges — so you can become a radiant, divine human who can help heal our traumatized world.
What if you could tap back into the power of your Heart on a visceral, cellular and energetic level to discover what’s really wanted and needed for your life and happiness now?
What if you could turn off the inner critic in your head in order to access a deeper, more powerful inner Wisdom?…
This week’s Dance First Insight is from Adam Barley, the man behind ZeroOne!
During my work, stuff comes up. There’s often a strong sense of moving through it in a way that feels like healing, to use the original meaning of the word, which is related to wholeness, and holiness. We become more completely ourselves.
Because of this common experience, there’s a tendency to think of it as therapy. But it’s not. Therapeutic, yes, but not therapy, as I understand it.
I want to explain how I see it because I get asked about it fairly often. The following is imperfect, but it’s a start. If you have any comments or suggested revisions, I’d be glad to hear from you.
Community is a quirky concept. What makes a community? How do you know when you’re in one? Can communities overlap?
The whole idea of community is sort of like a fractal. If you zoom out to the 30,000 foot view from an airplane window, then an entire city or town could be considered a community.
If you zoom all the way in to your dining room table, then a community may be no larger than a few friends united by common interest. Communities are also defined by the things the members care about or value.
5 Tuesdays, May 3-31 | 10-11:30AM PDT | $80/series
This class series is an introduction to Anna Halprin’s unique approach to body and movement. This is a series for anybody that wants to explore the power of dance and discover new possibilities for expression. Halprin’s interdisciplinary approach to movement, including spanning philosophy, science, and dance, encourages the discovery of the joy, strength, and inspiration that a dancing body can provide. We will also explore some of the scores that Anna used to teach in her own classes.
4 Thursdays, March 5,-26 | 9-10:45am PDT | $65 for the series | 7 CEUs: $37
Myths are timeless and so is our soul. The Greek goddess Demeter is an archetypal mother figure that must be reimagined if we are to embody her cyclic wisdom, reclaim her courage, and harness her healing energies. Demeter’s journey is multifaceted: from bliss to loss, from grief to despair,
4 Fridays: May 6, 13, 27, June 3 | 10-11:30AM PDT | $65/series | 6 CEUs: $36
Each part of our bodies is unique: each has developed specific functions, moves in particular ways, and has its own stories to tell and dances to dance. In this series, we focus on a new area of the body each week. For each body part, we study anatomy and body mechanics, we explore its movement somatically, and we allow its wisdom to express through drawing, creative writing, and dance.
Saturday, May 28th | 9AM – 12PM PDT | $40
Immerse yourself in pure creativity and embodied play in this one day workshop using scoring methods developed by Anna Halprin. Using our bodies as our instruments, we use scores as structures and instructions to guide improvisation, release the imagination, and inspire creativity and performance. Learn about what scores are, how they work, and even create your own!
4 Mondays: June 6, 13, 20 & 27 | 10AM – 11:30AM PDT | $65/series
In this series we expand our movement repertoire by activating energy and movement dynamics through tempo, space, force, and weight. With somatic support, we explore a variety of movement qualities that give voice to sensations, feelings, and images. We ask: If our dance could speak, what story is emerging? Using tools of the Life-Art Process, we invite new experiences of ourselves and gain resources for our art practice.
4 Wednesdays: June 8, 15, 22, 29 | 10-11:30AM PDT | $65/series
What moves you? Where do your dances come from? How can your real-life experience become art? This class uses mindfulness and somatic practices to guide participants in explorations using awareness as a bridge between embodiment and expression, sensing and movement, life, and dance.
4 Fridays: June 10, 17, 24, July 1 | 10-11:30AM PDT | $65/series | 6 CEUs: $36
Each part of our bodies is unique: each has developed specific functions, moves in particular ways, and has its own stories to tell and dances to dance. In this series, we focus on a new area of the body each week. For each body part, we study anatomy and body mechanics, we explore its movement somatically, and we allow its wisdom to express through drawing, creative writing, and dance. By exploring our anatomy experientially and artistically, we connect more deeply with our bodies, creativity, and lived experience.
Saturday, June 18 | 9AM-12PM PDT | $50
This workshop pulls from Dohee Lee’s training and practice in Korean Shamanism and performative ritual by utilizing techniques that connect to voice, body, heartbeat and spirit. How we tune our bodies through sound, movement and rhythm, guides us to navigate and delve deeper into our individual and collective roots, cultural heritages, natural environments and social consciousness.
This week’s Dance First Spotlight is on the 5th Annual FAST FORWARD Contemporary Ballet!
Hammer Theatre Center – San Jose, CA
Saturday, April 2, 2022 at 7:30pm
An evening of original choreography, emboldening dancers and pushing boundaries.
Fast Forward provides the opportunity for award-winning and cutting-edge choreographers, both local and from around the country, to experiment. Choreographers Amy Seiwert, Duncan Cooper, Marika Brussel, Mariana Sobral, and Dalia Rawson are creating brand new works that push the boundaries of classical ballet. Set to music ranging from classical to singer-songwriters performing live, this program will treat you to a fast-paced evening of new contemporary ballet, often described by the dancers as their favorite program of the season.
Let’s give three cheers for the power of creativity. Where do you find it? How do you cultivate it? What gifts does it bring to your life?
Sometimes you’ll hear people lament that they are terrible dancers or can’t paint, or don’t have a creative bone in their body. I say balderdash! There are as many ways to create as there are people on the planet.
If you ask me, where people miss the mark is by focusing on the finished product. It’s easy to be intimidated when you’re a newbie admiring the work of a seasoned professional.
For the love of dance 
Tijdens deze dansavonden kun je je onderdompelen in de magie van je eigen dans en die van de groep.
★ DJ Yarun Dee ★
This month Dance From The Heart celebrates and honors radical thinker, bell hooks. We call on her spirit, strength and wisdom bell so diligently and purposely crafted as a tool for our collective authentic liberation and empowerment. Inspired by her quote “ love is an action” Dance From The Heart will dance deeply led by our empowered hearts to our own resilient body, mind and spirit affirmation. Hooks left this world, but her spirit lives in all of us.
This week’s Dance First Spotlight is on Stacey Butcher!
Wow…what a dancing journey this has been the last few years, dancing with the unknown moment by moment. This is where we apply our practice on the dance floor to our everyday lives.
After the pandemic hit, of course, everything changed for us. Like everyone, I had to shift from teaching in person to teaching online. After a year or so, I felt I needed some time to move away from the screen and take time to listen deeply to my own body. So, in April, I left the Bay Area for an adventure. This turned into a 7-month road trip around the U.S. in my Honda Element, which I’ve converted into a “hotelement.” I was practicing a different kind of dance all throughout the U.S.
Let’s talk about beliefs today. How do you form them? What’s your process? Do they just appear and suddenly exist somehow?
The whole concept of belief is an interesting one when you get right down to it. They’re an interesting sort of phenomenon that manifests somewhere around the edges of cognition, intellect, communication, and consciousness.
In tough times, we need to play more than ever, as it’s the very means by which we prepare for the unexpected, search out new solutions, and remain optimistic. No play without curiosity. No play without the thrill of freedom: in the game everything seems possible. But playing has its limits; where the physical violence begins, the game ends. Play cannot take place without reflection, without the awareness of playing; where that awareness is lacking, madness begins.
The secret to achieving wealth, health and harmony with the world.
Zero Limits is a five-day workshop using the 5Rhythms map. We will try to meet each other in our great power and pure perfection. We will focus on being 100% responsible for ourselves and our lives.
Can you feel your heart beating?
Are you curious how that beat moves you?
When you get angry, do you sense the power of that emotion? Or when you’re joyful, how is that energy? What if you could use that energy as your ally; How would that change your life?
7 Wednesdays: April 13 – May 25 | 10 – 11:45AM PDT | $130/series
Although Indigenous ancestors on every continent of this planet lived intimately with the natural world, modern technologically-driven societies have become divorced from, and done damage to, the Web of Life that sustains us.
Well, Spring is springing no matter how you slice it. What do the longer days inspire in you?
I suppose you may live somewhere that’s still covered in snow, but here in the Bay Area it’s nothing but sunshine. The hills are green, plants are starting to bloom, and new growth is popping up everywhere.
Perhaps because it’s time to pull weeds, the urge to edit is upon us. Nothing screams CLEAN HOUSE louder than the word springtime! Conquering clutter is a constant conundrum. The change in the seasons reveals entropy at its roots.
Learn to bring love to this being human!
Have a taste of opening your heart to yourself, no matter what.
As the world is fighting, through inner alchemy you actually can learn to heal the inner fight that we all carry.
Mystica is en blijft vaste gast bij ons. De sets van ★ Mystica ★ kenmerken zich door een kleurrijk palet van zorgvuldig gekozen nummers die met een zekere intentie of gevoel resoneren, die zij vervolgens weeft tot een kunstwerk dat spreekt van emotie, een spiritueel inzicht en levenservaring. Het verhaal van haar sets gaat soms diep, over de viering van het leven, inspireert of wakkert de helende werking van muziek aan.
This week’s Dance First Spotlight is on The Edwardian Ball!
The Edwardian Ball 2022 will be celebrating its Spring Revival at the Regency Ballroom SF on Friday, April 1, and Saturday, April 2, from 8 pm to 2 am.
For information, photo gallery, videos, performer line-up, to buy tickets, and more, please visit https://www.edwardianball.com/
Mark Metz describes the Ball, “In the grand tradition of San Francisco spectaculars, The Edwardian Ball outshines them all! The juiciest corners of history reimagined with a modern twist.”
This is an All-Ages event with proof of vaccination. This 21st Anniversary Weekend, the producers, PARADOX Media & Vau de Vire have reduced capacity by 50% and are giving access to all areas of the venue to every ticket holder. Plus, both nights will be the Ball and will feature Edward Gorey’s story, The Wuggly Ump, a short, humorous tale of children at play and their eventual demise at the hands of a devious, mythical creature.
