Saturday, June 30th, 2 – 4pm Sunday, July 1st, 8th, 15th, 6:30 – 8:30pm Solo Sana will be in Durham, NC for a month teaching 4 dance workshops at Living Arts Collective: Saturday June 30 2:00-4:00 Sunday July 1 6:30-8:30 Sunday July 8 6:30-8:30 Sunday July 15 6:30-8:30 Solo will be accompanied by Atiba Rorie [...]
Tuesdays, June 5, 12, 19 from 7:30- 9:30, Contact Jam, Tuesday June 26 from 7:00 – 9:30 Come explore aspects of contact improvisation, movement and theater improvisation, Body-Mind Centering and Authentic Movement. Opening pathways to the source of our creativity and imagination through embodiment. Come play, enjoy, and have fun with others. It requires no [...]
Thursday, June 14th, 9:30pm – 12am Join us for CoboBrothers Salsa Thursdays at LAC!!! Beautiful spacious dance floor for a night of Salsa, Bachata & Kizomba to get the weekend started!! LOCATION: - Living Arts Collective Center (LAC): 410W Geer St, Durham ( 5 minute drive from DPAC) EVENING ITINERARY (21 and Over): - 9:30p [...]
Saturday, June 30th, 2 – 4pm Sunday, July 1st, 8th, 15th, 6:30 – 8:30pm Solo Sana will be in Durham, NC for a month teaching 4 dance workshops at Living Arts Collective: Saturday June 30 2:00-4:00 Sunday July 1 6:30-8:30 Sunday July 8 6:30-8:30 Sunday July 15 6:30-8:30 Solo will be accompanied by Atiba Rorie [...]
Tuesdays, June 5, 12, 19 from 7:30- 9:30, Contact Jam, Tuesday June 26 from 7:00 – 9:30 Come explore aspects of contact improvisation, movement and theater improvisation, Body-Mind Centering and Authentic Movement. Opening pathways to the source of our creativity and imagination through embodiment. Come play, enjoy, and have fun with others. It requires no [...]
Thursday, June 14th, 9:30pm – 12am Join us for CoboBrothers Salsa Thursdays at LAC!!! Beautiful spacious dance floor for a night of Salsa, Bachata & Kizomba to get the weekend started!! LOCATION: - Living Arts Collective Center (LAC): 410W Geer St, Durham ( 5 minute drive from DPAC) EVENING ITINERARY (21 and Over): - 9:30p [...]
The Living Arts Collective supports local artists and promotes community engagement by offering accessible space and resources for socially progressive arts, culture, conscious living, and wellness practices.
We host regular movement classes, workshops and retreats; community socials, dances and jams; providing creative space for artists to create, rehearse, teach and perform; as well as a special event space for organizations and communities. Forms of Art that we and our community of artists practice include African dance, modern dance, partner dance (fusion, blues, salsa, bachata, zouk, kizomba, swing and more), ecstatic dance, contact improvisation, culinary arts, massage, yoga, martial arts, theatre and acroyoga.
We are located at 410 W. Geer St, Durham, NC.
Events
Classes, Workshops, Dance Socials, Live Music, Dance and Theater shows and performances, Community Gatherings and more!
Weekends
These events repeat monthly or bi-weekly, so they're different week to week
Sundays through July 15th (skipping June 17th) 5 – 6:30pm Welcome to Djembe FUNdamentals In Africa life moves to the beat. Make rhythm the soundtrack of YOUR life. Together with Teli Shabu students will explore the rich legacy of this versatile instrument. Using the music of Guinea, West Africa, we will begin to hone the [...]
Sunday, June 24th, 3:30 – 6:00pm Both Orquesta GarDel and Living Arts Collective are thrilled to announce an exciting collaboration for 2018 - GarDel is the salsa-band-in-residence at LAC. Every fourth Sunday we will perform in this intimate, inviting dance studio. All are welcome - social salsa dancers, dancers of all backgrounds and skills, people who just want to [...]
The Living Arts Collective occasionally hosts AcroYoga Jams, classes or Workshops, often at least one per month. Check out our calendar or the Triangle AcroYoga website to find out about the next workshop!
The Living Arts Collectives often hosts Triangle CI events such as workshops, classes, jams, and underscores. Often at least one Contact Improv event per month. See the LAC calendar or Triangle CI website to find out more!
Date: Every third Saturday of the month On 3rd Saturdays, the Westie Party offers top notch West Coast Swing events with national and international instructors for their afternoon workshops and evening dances. Find the next Westie Party Event on our Calendar and learn more about Westie Parties on their Facebook Page.
Durham Bodywork group clinics offer personalized treatments within a supportive community on certain Saturdays at the Living Arts Collective. Durham Bodywork honors the importance of individual health and personal sustainability as part of a greater vision of community wellness. You must schedule a session to attend! Schedule a session here: http://www.durhambodywork.com/schedule/ YOUR SESSION 60 minutes in session [...]
June 1, 2018 at 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm 410 West Geer St, Durham
Experience authentic self-expression in a safe space free of judgment & instruction. This weekly ecstatic dance event offers an opportunity to explore delicious states of being from stillness to unfettered wildness through self-directed freeform movement in community.
The 90 minute practice takes us on a movement journey with musical texture and form.
Every Friday, 7:30-9pm at The Living Arts Collective, near downtown Durham.
Suggested donation, $7-$10.
June 2, 2018 at 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm Living Arts Collective
Cost $10
Hi everyone! The first Saturday Social will be moving to the Living Arts Collective! We are really excited about this new opportunity and working with LAC to keep the 1st. Saturday Social going.
We will update the event page once we have all the details. Hope to see you on March 3rd!
June 3, 2018 at 11:11 am - 12:45 pm Living Arts Collective Dance Studio, 410 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
Experience authentic self-expression in a safe space free of judgment & instruction. This weekly ecstatic dance event offers an opportunity to explore delicious states of being from stillness to unfettered wildness through self-directed freeform movement in community. The 90 minute practice takes us on a movement journey with musical texture and form.
Cost $7- 10
Read more about the Durham Dance Wave and the weekly Monday Night Durham Dance Wave here.
DRUM OR DIE: Djembe FUNdamentals for Adults & Mature Youth *downstairs*
June 3, 2018 at 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Living Arts Collective, 410 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
Welcome to Djembe FUNdamentals
In Africa life moves to the beat. Make rhythm the soundtrack of YOUR life. Together with Teli Shabu students will explore the rich legacy of this versatile instrument. Using the music of Guinea, West Africa, we will begin to hone the basic techniques to enjoy playing Djembe music comfortably. Come jam!
June 3rd - July 15th (Skipping June 17th)
Living Arts Collective 410 W Geer Street Durham, North Carolina
Cost: $84.00 for the course, $19.00 per individual class
Payment can be made in two $42.00 installments, or three $28.00 installments
5:00 pm-6:30 pm
Adults & Mature youth
Drums are available for rent, $3 per class
please contact me ahead of time to reserve a drum
Family rates available, for more info please contact me
June 3, 2018 at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Living Arts Collective, 410 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
“My music is my thought, and my thought is my emotion; the deeper I dive into the ocean of
feeling, the more beautiful are the pearls I bring
forth in the form of melodies.”
~~Hazrat Inayat Khan
There is indeed a Music of the Heart;
a subtle, ever changing tapestry of feelings, emotions, and desires flowing through our inner world, that is often drowned out by the hubbub of everyday life. During this workshop, we will explore practices that can help tune our ears to this more subtle music within. Guided by the feelings and sensations that arise as we listen and sing, we will discover how to use music as craft to travel through the realms of the subconscious and unconscious, or the paths of the heart, as the Sufis call them. Through listening to highly emotive music, guided group "sounding", and Simple exercises exploring the relationship of sound and emotion in the body, participants will have the opportunity to unwind, let go, and reconnect with that deep well of feeling and wisdom that lies with in each of us.
Living Arts Collective
410 W Geer St
Durham, NC 2770
6pm-8pm
$20 suggested donation
More Info, and FAQ:
~Music is a language beyond words. Just as our feelings and emotions often defy definition, music offers us a special place to experience and express this inner world, without the need to explain it or put…
June 4, 2018 at 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Living Arts Collective Dance Studio, 410 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
Experience a Bollywood-inspired dance fitness program that combines exhilarating choreography and calorie-burning workouts with upbeat music from around the world.
Come dressed to sweat and ready to dance! All levels welcome.
June 5, 2018 at 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Living Arts Collective Dance Studio, 410 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
Melodic Breathing Meditation
Tuesdays 7:30-9pm
What if you could experience some of the benefits that meditation has to offer immediately, and in a single session?
This is exactly what we are offering in our workshop: a tiny peak into what meditation is like.
Through conscious breathing you can silence your mind and feel what it would be like if you cultivated a practice of meditation.
Guided by Theo Feaster and live music provided by Donovan Moran, we'll take you on a melodic journey through diaphragmatic breathing that has been shown to combat anxiety and bolster the immune system.
7:30-8:30: Breathing meditation
8:30-9:00: Group discussion
Source Flow: Creative Pathways to Inquiry Janice Geller and Kevin Ryan
June 5, 2018 at 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Blue Point Yoga Center Downtown
Come explore aspects of contact improvisation, movement and theater
improvisation, Body-Mind Centering and Authentic Movement. Opening
pathways to the source of our creativity and imagination through
embodiment. We will explore structured movement scores that open to
free unstructured improvisation. It requires no particular confidence, skill,
training or facility in any of these modalities. Rather it requires curiosity,
respect, honesty, and a little bit of courage to face what arises.
Tuesdays, June 5, 12, 19 from 7:30- 9:30,
Contact Jam, Tuesday June 26 from 7:00 – 9:30
First Tuesday at Blue Point Yoga Studio (door to the left of LAC, same building), remaining sessions at –
Living Arts Collective, 410 Geer Street, Durham, NC 27701, USA
Cost: $30 for the series
$12 for an individual two hour class
June 6, 2018 at 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Living Arts Collective, 410 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
Whether you're curious about Brazilian zouk, or wanting to learn this beautiful partner dance that can be danced to almost any music, here's your chance to dive in with us! This six-week series covers the fundamentals of Brazilian zouk connection and movement. You don't need a partner, but feel free to invite your friends! This series is suitable for beginners and anyone wanting to deepen their understanding of zouk technique.
In addition, our practica and social occurs every Wednesday at the LAC from 8:30-11pm. The class includes free entry to the practica and social, so you'll have plenty of time to practice what you've learned!
Six-Week Brazilian Zouk Fundamental Series Living Arts Collective Durham, NC May 2-June 6 Advance cost: $72, including all classes, practicas, and socials Drop-ins: $15 (includes practica and social that day)
What is Brazilian zouk? If you have never experienced this beautiful and mesmerizing dance, you are in for a treat! Brazilian Zouk, also known as "Zouk-Lambada," is a partner dance with origins in Lambada and traditionally danced to "Zouk" music made popular in the French Caribbean. Brazilian Zouk can be characterized by its smooth and flowing nature as well as its circular upper body movements, dramatic hair whips, dips, and magical connection. As this dance has evolved along with popular music and dance…
June 6, 2018 at 8:30 pm - 11:00 pm 410 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
We will be mixing the best Zoukable music from neozouk and ghetto zouk to hip-hop, R&B, kizomba, and your favorite zouk remixes and cover songs! We can Zouk to it all!
Cover $7 or $5 for those attending Zouk classes before the social.
June 8, 2018 at 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm Durham Central Park, 501 Foster St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
We are DANCING OUTSIDE this Friday ✨Join us!
In light and support of the PLAYlist Concert Series at Durham Central Park we invite you to come early to move to the French-Columbian sounds of Gabriel Garzón-Montano’s music that is healing, comforting, and funky from 6-8pm.
After which Living Arts Collective will host a Dance Wave outside in the park with live music and playlist by XYLEM 8-9:30!
*this will be our first time doing this so please help us by helping others where and when is needed. We will flow.
Hoping to dance at the pavilion and may need to set up at the leaf garden depending on load out from band/ food trucks part of concert series etc.
June 8, 2018 at 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm Durham Central Park, 501 Foster St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
We are DANCING OUTSIDE this Friday ✨Join us!
In light and support of the PLAYlist Concert Series at Durham Central Park we invite you to come early to move to the French-Columbian sounds of Gabriel Garzón-Montano’s music that is healing, comforting, and funky from 6-8pm.
After which Living Arts Collective will host a Dance Wave outside in the park with live music and playlist by XYLEM 8-9:30!
*this will be our first time doing this so please help us by helping others where and when is needed. We will flow.
Hoping to dance at the pavilion and may need to set up at the leaf garden depending on load out from band/ food trucks part of concert series etc.
June 9, 2018 at 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Living Arts Collective
Community Massage Clinic
Connect to a sense of comfort in your body and freedom in your being through our unique combination of massage therapy and guided group rest. We delight in caring for you from the moment you arrive, until you walk out feeling relaxed and connected and ready to re-enter the world.
Our model aims to support all human bodies with clothed massage to promote comfort and safety, wheelchair access, a flexible sliding scale, and a team that practices anti-oppression and anti-racism.
June 10, 2018 at 11:11 am - 12:45 pm Living Arts Collective Dance Studio, 410 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
Experience authentic self-expression in a safe space free of judgment & instruction. This weekly ecstatic dance event offers an opportunity to explore delicious states of being from stillness to unfettered wildness through self-directed freeform movement in community. The 90 minute practice takes us on a movement journey with musical texture and form.
Cost $7- 10
Read more about the Durham Dance Wave and the weekly Monday Night Durham Dance Wave here.
The space is open at 1:30pm, and there will be an opening circle at 2:00 pm and a closing circle at 3:45pm
Live music by John Osburn, a professional musician for dancers who has played for universities and for the summer school at the American Dance Festival (bio below).
You are free to come and go as you please, but we think that you will want to stay! This will be a spacious expanse of time.
Sliding scale $7-20. (Live music!!!)
Quiet/focus in the space.
Hang out in the lobby (feel free to bring snacks)!
There will be no formal instruction, but informal 1:1 instruction for beginners is always available ( :
* * *
John Osburn hears sound like a painter sees color, paying particular attention to the textures and shading of each element within his work. He not only listens to how his sounds thread in and out of each other, but also focuses on how they are affected by the space in which they resonate. Rather than creating music, Osburn focuses on creating a sound environment in which to immerse his audience. Sourcing from his eclectic background in Western music, African drumming, and Sonic Arts studies, Osburn creates a unique musical blend which floods out of his speakers in an evocative array of frequencies.
DRUM OR DIE: Djembe FUNdamentals for Adults & Mature Youth *downstairs*
June 10, 2018 at 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Living Arts Collective, 410 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
Welcome to Djembe FUNdamentals
In Africa life moves to the beat. Make rhythm the soundtrack of YOUR life. Together with Teli Shabu students will explore the rich legacy of this versatile instrument. Using the music of Guinea, West Africa, we will begin to hone the basic techniques to enjoy playing Djembe music comfortably. Come jam!
June 3rd - July 15th (Skipping June 17th)
Living Arts Collective 410 W Geer Street Durham, North Carolina
Cost: $84.00 for the course, $19.00 per individual class
Payment can be made in two $42.00 installments, or three $28.00 installments
5:00 pm-6:30 pm
Adults & Mature youth
Drums are available for rent, $3 per class
please contact me ahead of time to reserve a drum
Family rates available, for more info please contact me
June 11, 2018 at 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Living Arts Collective Dance Studio, 410 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
Experience a Bollywood-inspired dance fitness program that combines exhilarating choreography and calorie-burning workouts with upbeat music from around the world.
Come dressed to sweat and ready to dance! All levels welcome.
Source Flow: Creative Pathways to Inquiry Janice Geller and Kevin Ryan
June 12, 2018 at 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Come explore aspects of contact improvisation, movement and theater
improvisation, Body-Mind Centering and Authentic Movement. Opening
pathways to the source of our creativity and imagination through
embodiment. We will explore structured movement scores that open to
free unstructured improvisation. It requires no particular confidence, skill,
training or facility in any of these modalities. Rather it requires curiosity,
respect, honesty, and a little bit of courage to face what arises.
Tuesdays, June 5, 12, 19 from 7:30- 9:30,
Contact Jam, Tuesday June 26 from 7:00 – 9:30
Living Arts Collective, 410 Geer Street, Durham, NC 27701, USA
Cost: $30 for the series
$12 for an individual two hour class
June 12, 2018 at 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Living Arts Collective Dance Studio, 410 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
Melodic Breathing Meditation
Tuesdays 7:30-9pm
What if you could experience some of the benefits that meditation has to offer immediately, and in a single session?
This is exactly what we are offering in our workshop: a tiny peak into what meditation is like.
Through conscious breathing you can silence your mind and feel what it would be like if you cultivated a practice of meditation.
Guided by Theo Feaster and live music provided by Donovan Moran, we'll take you on a melodic journey through diaphragmatic breathing that has been shown to combat anxiety and bolster the immune system.
7:30-8:30: Breathing meditation
8:30-9:00: Group discussion
June 13, 2018 at 8:30 pm - 11:00 pm 410 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
We will be mixing the best Zoukable music from neozouk and ghetto zouk to hip-hop, R&B, kizomba, and your favorite zouk remixes and cover songs! We can Zouk to it all!
Cover $7 or $5 for those attending Zouk classes before the social.
Come play with us this Thursday in Durham! Acro jams are non-structured events where we share skills and learn from one another. Cost is $5-10 sliding fee at the door!
June 15, 2018 at 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Living Arts Collective
This workshop is based on tasks that use theatricality and a state of being as influence for physical movement. We will warm up through tasks that ask us to re-imagine that body in different contexts and then move into larger "happenings" in the space. We will explore different methods of creating those happenings in a safe and inclusive space. Everyone's experience is valid in this world we will make together.
I am interested in improvisation not as a random series of movements, but as a way to react to situational based proposals. For example, a storm, a volcanic eruption, a strange encounter in the train. As human beings, we have a great deal of influences from our daily lives that we often don't have the opportunity to reflect on. Performative and creative contexts allow us to address reality through the lens of the surreal and make sense of things we could not understand through normal processes.
This workshop is accessible to anyone with an open desire to experience movement. This approach to physical tasks is not limited to our understanding of dance technique, but includes our human impulses as a catalyst for instant creation.
A performance of my solo work "Most women do not creep by daylight" will follow this workshop from 5pm to 6pm.
About the artist: Rachael Mauney is a freelance artist originally from North Carolina who is now…
June 15, 2018 at 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Living Arts Collective, 410 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
This solo work is a research of my experiences as a woman in a culture that uses guilt and shame as means of control. I am interested in the similarities between submission and rebellion, primarily the fact that there usually exists little balance in between the two extremes. Eventually, although the aim might be different, the patterns start to look exactly the same.
In the attempt to reject certain indoctrinated principles, I have observed the tendency to search for other destructive behaviors or sources. The comfort with feeling contaminated or diminished just asserts itself into the new activity. Especially when related to sexual autonomy, there become only two options: suppression or merchandising.
The desire for something authentic or expressive is interrupted by the failure to do so through compassion or pleasure, and so redirects to a more familiar feeling: shame.
This solo research is intended to confront our fears about having a healthy relationship with healing sexual repression. About transforming simple objects and ideas that have been corrupted into redemptive ones.
June 15, 2018 at 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm 410 West Geer St, Durham
Experience authentic self-expression in a safe space free of judgment & instruction. This weekly ecstatic dance event offers an opportunity to explore delicious states of being from stillness to unfettered wildness through self-directed freeform movement in community.
The 90 minute practice takes us on a movement journey with musical texture and form.
Every Friday, 7:30-9pm at The Living Arts Collective, near downtown Durham.
Suggested donation, $7-$10.
June 17, 2018 at 11:11 am - 12:45 pm Living Arts Collective Dance Studio, 410 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
Experience authentic self-expression in a safe space free of judgment & instruction. This weekly ecstatic dance event offers an opportunity to explore delicious states of being from stillness to unfettered wildness through self-directed freeform movement in community. The 90 minute practice takes us on a movement journey with musical texture and form.
Cost $7- 10
Read more about the Durham Dance Wave and the weekly Monday Night Durham Dance Wave here.
June 18, 2018 at 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm Living Arts Collective, 410 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
Join me for a lunch time meditation practice to awaken your inner landscape, connect with your body & transform the way you experience being. This meditation isn't about sitting like a statue or struggling to arrest your thoughts. You will move into a peace filled release of stagnant emotions, while increasing awareness of energy circulating throughout your being. Come, open to explore. There's no judgement. All are welcome.
June 18, 2018 at 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Living Arts Collective Dance Studio, 410 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
Experience a Bollywood-inspired dance fitness program that combines exhilarating choreography and calorie-burning workouts with upbeat music from around the world.
Come dressed to sweat and ready to dance! All levels welcome.
Source Flow: Creative Pathways to Inquiry Janice Geller and Kevin Ryan
June 19, 2018 at 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Come explore aspects of contact improvisation, movement and theater
improvisation, Body-Mind Centering and Authentic Movement. Opening
pathways to the source of our creativity and imagination through
embodiment. We will explore structured movement scores that open to
free unstructured improvisation. It requires no particular confidence, skill,
training or facility in any of these modalities. Rather it requires curiosity,
respect, honesty, and a little bit of courage to face what arises.
Tuesdays, June 5, 12, 19 from 7:30- 9:30,
Contact Jam, Tuesday June 26 from 7:00 – 9:30
Living Arts Collective, 410 Geer Street, Durham, NC 27701, USA
Cost: $30 for the series
$12 for an individual two hour class
June 19, 2018 at 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Living Arts Collective Dance Studio, 410 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
Melodic Breathing Meditation
Tuesdays 7:30-9pm
What if you could experience some of the benefits that meditation has to offer immediately, and in a single session?
This is exactly what we are offering in our workshop: a tiny peak into what meditation is like.
Through conscious breathing you can silence your mind and feel what it would be like if you cultivated a practice of meditation.
Guided by Theo Feaster and live music provided by Donovan Moran, we'll take you on a melodic journey through diaphragmatic breathing that has been shown to combat anxiety and bolster the immune system.
7:30-8:30: Breathing meditation
8:30-9:00: Group discussion
June 20, 2018 at 8:30 pm - 11:00 pm 410 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
We will be mixing the best Zoukable music from neozouk and ghetto zouk to hip-hop, R&B, kizomba, and your favorite zouk remixes and cover songs! We can Zouk to it all!
Cover $7 or $5 for those attending Zouk classes before the social.
Come play with us this Thursday in Durham! Acro jams are non-structured events where we share skills and learn from one another. Cost is $5-10 sliding fee at the door!
June 22, 2018 at 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm 410 West Geer St, Durham
Experience authentic self-expression in a safe space free of judgment & instruction. This weekly ecstatic dance event offers an opportunity to explore delicious states of being from stillness to unfettered wildness through self-directed freeform movement in community.
The 90 minute practice takes us on a movement journey with musical texture and form.
Every Friday, 7:30-9pm at The Living Arts Collective, near downtown Durham.
Suggested donation, $7-$10.
June 24, 2018 at 11:11 am - 12:45 pm Living Arts Collective Dance Studio, 410 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
Experience authentic self-expression in a safe space free of judgment & instruction. This weekly ecstatic dance event offers an opportunity to explore delicious states of being from stillness to unfettered wildness through self-directed freeform movement in community. The 90 minute practice takes us on a movement journey with musical texture and form.
Cost $7- 10
Read more about the Durham Dance Wave and the weekly Monday Night Durham Dance Wave here.
DRUM OR DIE: Djembe FUNdamentals for Adults & Mature Youth *downstairs*
June 24, 2018 at 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Living Arts Collective, 410 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
Welcome to Djembe FUNdamentals
In Africa life moves to the beat. Make rhythm the soundtrack of YOUR life. Together with Teli Shabu students will explore the rich legacy of this versatile instrument. Using the music of Guinea, West Africa, we will begin to hone the basic techniques to enjoy playing Djembe music comfortably. Come jam!
June 3rd - July 15th (Skipping June 17th)
Living Arts Collective 410 W Geer Street Durham, North Carolina
Cost: $84.00 for the course, $19.00 per individual class
Payment can be made in two $42.00 installments, or three $28.00 installments
5:00 pm-6:30 pm
Adults & Mature youth
Drums are available for rent, $3 per class
please contact me ahead of time to reserve a drum
Family rates available, for more info please contact me
June 25, 2018 at 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm Living Arts Collective, 410 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
Join me for a lunch time meditation practice to awaken your inner landscape, connect with your body & transform the way you experience being. This meditation isn't about sitting like a statue or struggling to arrest your thoughts. You will move into a peace filled release of stagnant emotions, while increasing awareness of energy circulating throughout your being. Come, open to explore. There's no judgement. All are welcome.
June 26, 2018 at 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Living Arts Collective Dance Studio, 410 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
Melodic Breathing Meditation
Tuesdays 7:30-9pm
What if you could experience some of the benefits that meditation has to offer immediately, and in a single session?
This is exactly what we are offering in our workshop: a tiny peak into what meditation is like.
Through conscious breathing you can silence your mind and feel what it would be like if you cultivated a practice of meditation.
Guided by Theo Feaster and live music provided by Donovan Moran, we'll take you on a melodic journey through diaphragmatic breathing that has been shown to combat anxiety and bolster the immune system.
7:30-8:30: Breathing meditation
8:30-9:00: Group discussion
The space is open at 7:00pm, and there will be an opening circle at 7:30pm and a closing circle at 9:15pm.
Live music by John Osburn, a professional musician for dancers who has played for universities and for the summer school at the American Dance Festival (bio below).
You are free to come and go as you please, but we think that you will want to stay! This will be a spacious expanse of time.
Sliding scale $7-20. (Live music!!!)
Quiet/focus in the space.
Hang out in the lobby (feel free to bring snacks)!
There will be no formal instruction, but informal 1:1 instruction for beginners is always available ( :
* * *
John Osburn hears sound like a painter sees color, paying particular attention to the textures and shading of each element within his work. He not only listens to how his sounds thread in and out of each other, but also focuses on how they are affected by the space in which they resonate. Rather than creating music, Osburn focuses on creating a sound environment in which to immerse his audience. Sourcing from his eclectic background in Western music, African drumming, and Sonic Arts studies, Osburn creates a unique musical blend which floods out of his speakers in an evocative array of frequencies.
June 27, 2018 at 8:30 pm - 11:00 pm 410 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
We will be mixing the best Zoukable music from neozouk and ghetto zouk to hip-hop, R&B, kizomba, and your favorite zouk remixes and cover songs! We can Zouk to it all!
Cover $7 or $5 for those attending Zouk classes before the social.
Come play with us this Thursday in Durham! Acro jams are non-structured events where we share skills and learn from one another. Cost is $5-10 sliding fee at the door!
June 29, 2018 at 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm 410 West Geer St, Durham
Experience authentic self-expression in a safe space free of judgment & instruction. This weekly ecstatic dance event offers an opportunity to explore delicious states of being from stillness to unfettered wildness through self-directed freeform movement in community.
The 90 minute practice takes us on a movement journey with musical texture and form.
Every Friday, 7:30-9pm at The Living Arts Collective, near downtown Durham.
Suggested donation, $7-$10.
June 30, 2018 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Living Arts Collective, 410 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701, USA
Solo Sana will be in Durham, NC for a month teaching 4 dance workshops at Living Arts Collective:
Saturday June 30 2:00-4:00
Sunday July 1 6:30-8:30
Sunday July 8 6:30-8:30
Sunday July 15 6:30-8:30
Solo will be accompanied by Atiba Rorie and other local drummers versed in Malian Rhythms. All levels Welcome!
$20
More Info: 802-355-9776
More about Solo: http://www.solosana.com
Souleymane Solo Sana is an accomplished traditional dancer from Mali, West Africa. Dedicated to the preservation of traditional dance, music, and culture, Solo is committed to continuous research to maintain an accurate representation and disbursement of traditional information, movement, and rhythm. A former principal member of one of the premiere companies of Mali, Ballet Du District de Bamako, he is a leader among artists. Solo’s presence at local ceremonies and festivals in Mali has always been in high demand, performing with renown griots and musicians as well as internationally known artists such as Djeneba Seck and Oumou Sangare. With an extensive knowledge of traditional dances of the Mande culture he is highly sought after as an instructor for private and group lessons teaching students from around the world including internationally acclaimed dancers, university instructors, and Broadway performers. Currently Solo splits his time between teaching and performing in the United States and running Kono Gnaga, his NGO in Mali with a mission to preserve traditional dance and music. Solo made his choreographic premiere in New York City in the Spring of 2014 and…
Saturday, June 30th, 2 – 4pm Sunday, July 1st, 8th, 15th, 6:30 – 8:30pm Solo Sana will be in Durham, NC for a month teaching 4 dance workshops at Living Arts Collective: Saturday June 30 2:00-4:00 Sunday July 1 6:30-8:30 Sunday July 8 6:30-8:30 Sunday July 15 6:30-8:30 Solo will be accompanied by Atiba Rorie [...]
Monday, June 18th, 12:15 – 1:15pm Join me for a lunch time meditation practice to awaken your inner landscape, connect with your body & transform the way you experience being. This meditation isn't about sitting like a statue or struggling to arrest your thoughts. You will move into a peace filled release of stagnant emotions, [...]
July 3rd 7-9pm: Bring-a-Friend class. July 10th-24th 7-9pm: 3 Week CI Basics Series. July 31st 7-9:30pm: Community Jam with live music July is the time to get started or refresh your practice of Contact Improvisation! The month will give you a sense of the basics and will open up the world of jamming and more [...]
Thursday, June 14th, 21st, 28th, 6:30 – 7:30pm We're starting our new all levels acro series. Designed to help you build skills that apply to all of your favorite types of acro! Jam to follow 7:30 – 9:30!
Friday, June 8th, 8 – 9:30pm We are DANCING OUTSIDE this Friday ✨Join us! In light and support of the PLAYlist Concert Series at Durham Central Park we invite you to come early to move to the French-Columbian sounds of Gabriel Garzón-Montano’s music that is healing, comforting, and funky from 6-8pm. After which Living Arts [...]
Tuesdays, June 5, 12, 19 from 7:30- 9:30, Contact Jam, Tuesday June 26 from 7:00 – 9:30 Come explore aspects of contact improvisation, movement and theater improvisation, Body-Mind Centering and Authentic Movement. Opening pathways to the source of our creativity and imagination through embodiment. Come play, enjoy, and have fun with others. It requires no [...]
Tuesday, June 26th, 7 – 9:30pm The space is open at 7:00pm, and there will be an opening circle at 7:30pm and a closing circle at 9:15pm. Live music by John Osburn, a professional musician for dancers who has played for universities and for the summer school at the American Dance Festival (bio below). You [...]
Sunday, May 20th, 8 – 9:30pm Known as the most powerful documentary ever made, I like to show this film once a year or so, to share with others, but also to remind myself... It concerns maybe the largest, yet most hidden aspect of our daily lives. "The definitive animal rights movie. EARTHLINGS is a [...]
Sunday, June 3, 6:30 – 8:30pm “My music is my thought, and my thought is my emotion; the deeper I dive into the ocean of feeling, the more beautiful are the pearls I bring forth in the form of melodies.” ~~Hazrat Inayat Khan There is indeed a Music of the Heart; a subtle, ever changing [...]
Thursday, June 14th, 9:30pm – 12am Join us for CoboBrothers Salsa Thursdays at LAC!!! Beautiful spacious dance floor for a night of Salsa, Bachata & Kizomba to get the weekend started!! LOCATION: - Living Arts Collective Center (LAC): 410W Geer St, Durham ( 5 minute drive from DPAC) EVENING ITINERARY (21 and Over): - 9:30p [...]
