Ecstatic Dance at the Conservatory

When: 7:00-8:30
Cost: $10 suggested Love donation +
$3 Entrance Fee to Conservatory for non members

Description:
Ecstatic dance is about letting go of our self-imposed restrictions. It is about setting aside our intellect and it’s concepts of how not to move. It is about being open to new ways of expressing our self in movement, and explore the world again. This dance is not a structured dance that follows a certain form. It is not taught, but invited. It is an invitation to explore our different rhythms, patterns and movements. It is an invitation to listen to our body, which now becomes the teacher. It is about finding your own dance from within. Ecstatic dance is an invitation to push the envelope, to break free of personal boundaries. To co-create fantastic energetics on the floor with other dancers. To play again with the wild abandon of a child. To revel in spirit and the joy of life while moving to the sounds of world grooves.

This is not a social dance. It is held in an alcohol and drug free environment. This is not a place for people to come and observe others dance and make them feel self-conscious. Everyone participates in the dance. We all become co-creators of the energy on the dance floor. The dance floor is to be respected as sacred space. It is a place for moving meditation that can take many forms. It can be deep, introspective inner work or high energy, extroverted dancing alone or with others.

Ecstatic Dance is perhaps the oldest spiritual practice on the planet. It is requested that there be no conversation in the dance. Talking brings in the intellect, which we want to leave outside the dance. This dance is the abandonment of the intellect, forming a direct body-spirit connection experience. Hooting, hollering, animal sounds, energetic noises are all OK.