Free community offering to gather & share the abundance of community resources that support our collective care on the path to liberation.
Join us on June 17th from 1-5pm at El Sereno Community Garden for Well:spring – A Day of Community Wellness! Critical Mass Dance Company invites you to celebrate the summer solstice with us by activating our collective webs of support, nourishment, and mental well-being.
We all feel a lot, deep down. And we are born with the instinct for full-body expression of those feelings, whether painful or pleasurable. Humans are hard-wired to let our feelings show through our physicality: we naturally light up in joy, sag downwards in sorrow, thrust forwards in anger and retreat backwards in fear.
These feeling-states are vibrant energies which can be inspiring catalysts for movement and dance. Even the ‘negative’ feelings become fascinating, luminous experiences once we begin to move with them, all with a raw, spontaneous, creative potential that is both archetypal and deeply personal.
From the 14 of august afternoon to the 19 of august morning 2023
This festival welcomes you to dance of course, and also to enjoy exceptional nature in the heart of the wild Ardèche, with forest, a lake for swimming, and all amenities to make these days as nourishing and enjoyable as possible.
Everything is changing in our world… how are you adapting?
And even more important, how are you contributing?
For the past 10 years, OneDanceTribe gathering has been bringing together conscious movement school founders, senior teachers, spiritual leaders, world class healers, artists and dancers to share in the experience of meeting as ONE GLOBAL TRIBE.
Each session is woven into one thread that links every offering into a unified fabric providing a rich, unique and unforgettable experience of embodied movement.
This Revolution will offer a delightful and rich exploration of the pathways that are opening for us to navigate the new that is unfolding.
To be a dancing warrior, embodied; no matter whether pleasurable or painful, whether I’m alone or in company, whether I understand what’s happening or not, I will say yes to this experience and be as creative as I can with what I have, I will seek the growth and learning and healing here, I will let this moment dance me even deeper awake and alive, in love, in truth, with every breath I have.
This is not for the faint-hearted, but then none of us are faint-hearted. Not really. We all have a longing for life and for freedom so profound that deep down we will tackle anything to reach for it. Maybe sometimes we lose hope, but we can help each other out, encourage, cheer on, take hands; we don’t have to do this alone.
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Iranian-born master dance artist and transformational teacher, Banafsheh communicates the universal message of Sufi mysticism and Divine Feminine wisdom in a passionate yet serenely meditative way. Her dance is an interplay between trance and directed movement, precise yet abandoned and unrestrained. Her explosive yet fluid movement is sensual and ritualistic, uniting the feminine and masculine energies, body and soul, light and dark in a marriage of opposites. She invokes the ancient roots of dance as devotion, prayer and adoration while blazing an original trail in contemporary dance with her masterly fusion of high level dance technique and spirituality.
How do you maintain perspective in your life? What’s your best way of seeing your situation from a different point of view? Why is it good to see yourself through another lens occasionally?
When you were a kid, did you sometimes wonder what the world looks like through the eyes of an adult!? The converse applies as a grown-up. How many times have you heard a variation on the theme of “If I had only known then what I know now!”
How easy it is to forget the wisdom of other generations. And what a pleasure it is when we remember!
The exchange of knowledge and insight and inspiration is a two-way street. It’s as rewarding to acknowledge the wisdom of an elder as it is gratifying for that elder to impart it to you.
