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(Online registration ends tonight, 3/16, at 11:59pm EDT.)
For a printable registration form that can be
filled out in advance and brought with you click here.
Friday March 17th
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
St. John’s Episcopal Church
74 Pleasant St. • Arlington, MA
Dance 8:00-11:00pm
8-9:30pm Live Music & Movement Stan Strickland
9:45-11pm DJ Maitri
Saturday March 18th
St. John’s Episcopal Church
74 Pleasant St. • Arlington, MA
Registration and Opening Circle 10:45-11:00
Classes 11am-6:15pm
(for class descriptions and instructor bios scroll to the bottom of the page)
Class Period 1 11:00-12:00
Parish Hall: Tonya—Heart Fire
Outdoors/Offsite: Jenna Osborn—Biking the Minuteman Trail (double period 1 & 2)
Class Period 2 12:15-1:15
Parish Hall: Suzy Spivey—Journey Dance®—Awaken Your Heart
Outdoors/Offsite: Jenna Osborn—Biking the Minuteman Trail (double period 1 & 2)
Class Period 3 1:30-2:30
Parish Hall: y.t.—Intro to Hoop Dance
Outdoors/Offsite: Beth Cohen—Walking Tour of Arlington
Class Period 4 2:45-3:45
Parish Hall: Margaux—The 5 Rhythms & Authentic Relating (Heart Waves)
Memorial Hall: Que—Integrated East West Massage/Body/Energy Work For Dancers
Class Period 5 4:00-5:00
Parish Hall: Johara—Belly Dancing for Everyone
Memorial Hall: Leslie Lawrence—Paging the Dance
Class Period 6 5:15-6:15
Parish Hall: Alice—Nia with an African Twist
Memorial Hall: Bill Kennedy—Foot Reflexology
DNE Dinner & Meeting 6:15-7:45
DNE camp in Tolland Ma. 2018?
Davio Danielson and Blake Holden have joined dozens of other DNE supporters to buy a homeplace for DNE. Camp Timber Trails in Tolland, MA has 400+ wooded acres and a 16-acre lake. Very private and with over 40 buildings it’s an amazing place for art, music and dance events as it’s equidistant between NYC and Boston. Unifier and Forest Dance are held there, and DNE’s camp will be there in 2018 if the purchase from the Girl Scouts is completed successfully.
What’s needed? Involvement, investment, creativity, labor, and support from people of all ages, both members of the DNE community and people from other compatible groups. Please dive in and look more deeply into the risks, benefits and possibilities for personal involvement or investment. There are zoom meetings on-line every Thursdayat 5:30 PM if you want to stay current. The next Open House on-site at CTT will be on Saturday, April first or on April eighth. Questions and comments are always welcome.
All are welcome to attend the DNE Dinner and meeting for free, but please register by March 8th or bring food.
Dance 8-11pm
8-9:30pm Rose
9:45-11pm Dave & Hrana
Saturday Class Descriptions
and Instructor Bios
| Title | Description | Instructor Bio | |
| Heart Fire
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Play and explore with movement and mark making. When we approach art and dance from a curious place, we get to discover movements, images, and colors that have meaning for us. Ease into the day by going inward and then expanding to connections with your fellow explorers. All drawing and movement experience levels welcome. | Tonya White is an Expressive Arts Therapist utilizing many forms of art to guide others to play, explore, and connect. Expressive Arts Therapy involves visual art, movement, acting, writing, music and more. Tonya works at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and NESCA providing individual and group Expressive Arts Therapy. | |
| JourneyDance —Awaken Your Heart  |
Come warm your hearts and deepen your capacity for joy and connection. Jo u r n e y D a n c e ™ acts as a catalyst for you to feel and celebrate the magnificence of your body and life as you become open and present to the abundance of love that surrounds us. Movement explorations guide and support us to become grounded in ourselves, release stress and judgment, surrender and explore our emotions, dance our fiery rhythmic beats, open our hearts, and move into a new story of self-love.
All are welcome to share this journey of self-exploration and self-acceptance. |
Suzy Spivey is a Somatic Movement Therapist and Life Transformation Coach. She has been teaching JourneyDance classes and workshops since 2006. She serves as Seasonal Staff at the Omega Institute and is a Certified Journey Dance, Kripalu Yoga Dance, and Shake Your Soul teacher. As Founder of Daring to Dream, she specializes in guiding people through transition to transformation. Visit www.suzyspivey.com for more information. | |
| Biking the Minuteman Trail |
Equipment needed: Your bicycle and accompanying gear | Jenna Osborn | |
| Intro to Hoop Dance
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Learn the basics and beyond! We will explore fundamental components to hooping on and off the body. Class is designed for new hoopers and experienced beginners. If you have never hula hooped in your life, we’ll set you up with the proper tools to get started. Experienced beginners will received variations to familiar movements and tricks plus tips on how to drill and improve your technique. Hoop dance is a movement form that incorporates technique, flow and creative exploration of a traditional circus prop. Come join us — expect to be challenged and have tons of fun! | y.t. of Boston Hoop Troop y.t., “yours twirly,” began her hoop dance journey on a camping trip in a bout of sleep deprivation in 2009. In 2010 she joined the Boston Hoop Troop and began teaching in the Greater Boston area to a new generation of hula hoop lovers. When not hooping, y.t. is a professional project manager, piano teacher and a proud member of a local bicycle nerd-gang. |
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| Walking Tour of Arlington |
Beth Cohen | ||
| The 5 Rhythms & Authentic Relating ( Heart Waves)  |
The 5 Rhythms is an ecstatic moving meditation practice. It is a practice that Gabrielle Roth brought forward in the 1960s and because of this practice, a movement revolution began. It’s a practice of being fully in the body and yet be able to soar. It is a practice where we let go of the social chatter and the chatter of our mind and return to the heartbeat of our feet where knowledge of our ancient truths arise. Like The 5 Rhythms, Authentic Relating Games are filled with offerings that welcome us to explore our ancient and present day truths in a fun, supportive and non judgmental environment. |
Margaux Skalecki Medicine Dancer. BFA in Dance , MA in Performance and Healing Education is one of two teachers who lovingly brought The 5 Rhythms, ecstatic movement practice of Gabrielle Roth’s to MA in the 1990s. Margaux’s medicine bag is filled as a certified shamanic practitioner, as a 500 ERegistered child and adult yoga teacher , as a commissioned healer of the Spiritulist Churches, as a Reiki Master, medium, animal communicator, choreographer and song writer. One of Margaux ‘s paths in this life time is to create spaces for children and adults to find their bliss while dancing on their edges, jumping into the unknown and jumping fully back into their bodies. Www. Margauxskalecki.com |
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| Integrated East West Massage / Body/Energy Work For Dancers
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A focus on dancer ailments and injuries, this course focuses on physical and spiritual /energetics both in pairs and self treatment using muscle manipulation, acupressure and Qi Therapy / like Reiki with dietary recommendations of healing herbs right from your market and yoga poses. | Enrique (Henry ) Oliveras, LMT, is a Buddhist/Taoist with a background in Asian and western Medicine, he holds 5 STAR Ratings with two mobile massage companies, works with the Hyatt hotel and holds his own practice in Arlington Ma that offers Therapy, dance, stretch in the Chinese and also Indian styles working on a “Yoga Certification ” with Daniel Orlansky after years of private practice, martial arts, spiritual counseling, meditation and western fitness in office and off location. | |
| Bellydance for Everyone
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Discover this earthy and sensual dance from the Middle East and beyond. Learn slow serpentine snake-arms, body-waves, Belly-rolls, and figure eights along with fast and fiery hip-locks and shimmies. Wear comfortable clothing and bring any variety of scarf for the hips.
Equipment needed: any variety of scarf for the hips |
Johara has been a leading performer, instructor, choreographer, and percussionist since 1995. She is certified in Hatha & Vinyasa yoga and has trained in multiple dance styles. As the director of Snake Dance Theater Company she has performed her innovative blend of traditional (Egyptian,Turkish) and fusion belly dance in Turkey, Greece, Brazil and across the US. She’s produced over 15 theatrical shows. Currently, Johara teaches at the New England Movement Arts and the Dance Complex where she has been a faculty member since 1993. | |
| Paging The Dance
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Through a series of guided free-writing exercises, this workshop will provide the opportunity to explore–and share– what dancing has meant to us throughout our lives. | A veteran writer and teacher, and a recipient of an NEA, Leslie Lawrence recently published her first book, The Death of Fred Astaire and Other Essays From A Life Outside the Lines (SUNY Press). Finding the DNE community has been one of the great blessings of her life. |
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| Nia with African Twist
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Nia blends the best of movement forms — consciously guiding in your body’s way through dance, martial arts and healing arts including yoga to provide a full body mind emotion and spiritual experience.(This class is an all level fun movement experience set to great music and can include children over 8 years old …) |
Alice Heller’s focus for 2017 is on Nia, early movement education and African dance. She has been working with children and adults for over 20 years. Starting with the classic dance genres, she moved into African dance and then martial arts and Nia.
Besides African dance and drumming, Alice’s studies moved her to work with children in preschools and private class settings. She has taught jazz, creative movement, hip hop, improvisational dance and gymnastics and more recently internal martial arts and Nia (she is a Blue Belt). Nia classes integrate dance, martial arts and the healing arts including yoga. Alice brings all modalities to her class making them unique and accessible – internally as well as externally. |
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| Foot Reflexology
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We’ll create a space for giving, receiving and learning the techniques of foot massage to fellow dancers. Emphasis will be on healing through loving touch. Join us for the pleasure intimacy and joy of learning how to release tension and restore body balance. Beginners especially welcome. | Bill Kennedy has taught yoga, massage, reflexology, and meditation for many years. Starting off as one of two pioneering teachers in the early days of yoga at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education with Patricia Walden, he then directed and hosted his own national TV series called Success without Stress reaching tens of millions of people including a demonstration of acupuncture. He has held numerous retreats which all started with Partner Reflexology. His regular Reflexology classes in pregnancy yoga at MIT Medical Department and at CCAE were evaluated as the most popular of all his teaching. He has a PhD in Physics and is a former Research Fellow in Mind Body Medicine at Harvard Medical School. A Reike Master, and trained in Reconnection Healing Energy technique he believes the whole basis of healing is achieved through the loving acceptance of one Soul Friend for another. |
Sunday March 19th
Explore classes in the greater Boston area
Cambridge: Dance Complex, 536 Mass Ave. Central Square
11:00am -1:00pm A-Coeur-Dance With Cassie $22-33 at the door
1:30-3:30pm—Nectar (Dance) Adults $10-15, Age 6-12 $5-7, Under 6 free
Cambridge: Studio 550, 550 Mass Ave. Central Square
2:00-4:00pm The Shakti Wave Women Gathering Margaux $15 (preregister below)
Sunday Descriptions
The dance floor is a territory to fully feel the momentum of our lives. It is a space where we return to feel ourselves as both guides and guided along our path. When we arrive here we ask How am I moving? And how may I move when life asks something different of me? May more freedom be found in my ability to adapt with greater EASE?
No experience is necessary just curiosity. All ages are welcome.
Cassie has been teaching classes and coordinating events for variety of movement modalities over the last 12 years in Asheville, NC. 5Rhythms, SoulMotion, and Dance Meditation have offered her a broad color pallet and range of experiences for her inspiration on the dance floor.
4 part series: March 19 & 26 April 2 & 9
$60 all 4 until March 12. Click here to register: A-Coeur-Dance With Cassie
$22-33 individual classes at the door.
The Shakti Wave Women Gathering: is a workshop that fiercely supports and validates the feminine.
The overwhelming energy of love and the ability to show up during the Women’s March is still reverberating all over the world.We continue to move mountains with the unstoppable waves of the feminine as they emerge and expand.This workshops brings us together in the circle of the heart of love, life, movement and being seen and heard.
We enter into the sacredness of the dance floor, our pelvic floor. and the spine. As we become more and more available to ourselves we are available to show up in all aspects of our life.
Nectar is a talk-free dance inspired by conscious and ecstatic dance. It is a space to enjoy and explore embodiment, physical expression, and the body’s wisdom. After an unguided warm-up period, the Facilitator-DJ leads a brief opening circle on a theme or guided practice, followed by a playlist of music—beginning spacious and mellow, gaining intensity, and arriving back into stillness. Participants are welcome to move, dance, and be still as their bodies desire. Nectar closes with a sharing circle in which participants are welcome to speak about their experiences in the dance.
Nectar is offered primarily for adults. Children are welcome with adult accompaniment provided they can follow the talk-free and intentional structure and be mindful of their impact on others in the space. Kids under 6 can come for free, and ages 6-12 for half price ($5-7). $10-15 for adults. Please pay upon entry. 1:30-3:30pm at the Dance Complex 536 Mass Ave.in Central Square Cambridge. 1st and 3rd Sundays monthly between September and May.
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