Get Ready for Fusion! It's Time!
**EVERY FIRST SATURDAY**

When: First Saturday of each month!
$7-15 sliding scale

NOV 3rd//
8pm Lesson w/ Aubrey Griffith-Zill & Aaron Hawkins - Rhythm & connection!
DJs: Aaron Hawkins, Dave Warner!
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DEC 1st//
8pm Lesson Robert
DJs: (tbd) …… ? maybe you?
What would you like to contribute?
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JAN 5th//
Lesson TBD
DJs: (tbd) …… ? maybe you?
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Where: In the LAC Movement Studio (downstairs). This studio has a yummy sprung cork floor, powerful sound system, good vibes and new lighting!
Enter: *down the ramp next to Cocoa Cinnamon

Post below if you wanna work a door slot in trade to entry:
Door slots –
8:45-9:30 : Available!
9:30-10:15 : Available
10:15-11:00 : Available!

Fusion Crew holding it down and creating safe space for ALL:

Aaron Hawkins
ErinRenee Murphy
Kay Holloway
Candance Bae
Alan S Best
Shantel Richardson
Alix Arcuni Wicker
Gareth Dicker
Lydie Vanessa
Aubrey Griffith-Zill
Alegra-Ray Dilone
JJ Hurst
Dave Warner
and more....!

What is Fusion?

Fusion is an improvised lead-follow approach to dancing to any style of music that does not have a strictly defined dance aesthetic. Just as music…

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.

SUNDAYS: 
Doors open: 11:11am
Open Circle: 11:33am
Closing Circle: 1:11pm

FRIDAYS:

Doors open: 7:00pm
Open Circle: 7:30pm 
Close Circle: 9:30pm

Cost $7- 15

Read more about the Durham Dance Wave and the weekly Monday Night Durham Dance Wave here.

Check out the Durham Dance wave Facebook Group to find out more about this week’s dance!

Welcome to Djembe FUNdamentals

In Africa life moves to the beat. Make rhythm the soundtrack of YOUR life.

This upcoming course will be short, in 3 weeks we will will focus on the DUNUN family of drums and get charged up before the long break! Our specific focus will be on village style playing. Using the music of Guinea, West Africa, we will begin to hone the basic techniques to enjoy playing Djembe music comfortably. Come jam!
Walk-ins Welcome all 3 weeks
Let's close out 2018 by drumming big!

December 3rd - December 16th
Living Arts Collective 410 W Geer Street Durham, North Carolina
Cost: $42.00 for the course, Walk-ins: $19.00 per individual class
Payment can be made in two $21.00 installments
5:00 pm-6:30 pm
Adults & Mature youth
Drums are available for rent, $5 for the course, $5 per walk-in
please contact me ahead of time to reserve a drum
Family rates available, for more info please contact me

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.

Hosted by Abstract Emergence & Living Arts Collective

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.

See more details on the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1448814385217489/

When: Tuesdays 5:30-7pm (Final Tuesday, Oct. 30 & Nov. 27 will be followed up with an open-level CI jam)

Instructor: Aubrey Griffith-Zill

Cost: $7-20 sliding scale
Contact Improv (CI) Introductory October Class Series -
a place to explore and grow your Contact Improvisation practice within a structured lab setting. Holding a goal of creating familiarity and confidence in the form so dancers are empowered, aware of their choices relating to safety and comfort, and understand expressions of consent in the context of CI.

The introductory-level class series welcomes newcomers to contact improvisation as well as those movers who wish to refresh their skills in a low-stakes, low-risk environment. A broad variety of rotating, Triangle-based teachers will teach basic skills to help movers acclimate to the jam setting and build basic skills such as entering and exiting a dance, rolling point of contact, light-to-moderate weight sharing, and proprioceptive responsiveness.

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

$10 suggested donation

iBreatheConsciously.com
SoundCloud.com/xylem89

CI Practitioners Lab - a place to explore and grow your Contact Improvisation practice within a structured lab setting of intermediate to advanced peers. Each week, we will hone in on different skills, dance with multiple partners and practice holding the attention of our shared dance.

Details for November & December:

Classes Tuesdays, November 13, 20
(Final Tuesday, November 27 will be an open-level CI jam)

Classes Tuesdays, December 4, 11, 18
(Final Tuesday, December 25 will be an open-level CI *Holiday* jam)

November Instructor: Megan Yankee

This LAB is ideal for CI practitioners with approximately six months of experience or more. If unsure of placement, please contact Megan. email:

(Practitioners with beginner level skills should seek the beginner series offered at LAC Tuesdays: 5:30-7:00pm Instructor: Aubrey Griffith-Zill)

Drop in classes' slide scale cost $15-25. The whole series (including 3 classes and a jam) sliding scale cost $50-75. No one will be turned away for inability to pay: contact Megan directly to discuss options. LAC CI facilitators can attend free of charge. Payments can be made in cash or by PayPaling .

Students will be guided through contact-based improvisation scores in duets, trios and large groups to increase safety and risk-taking, proprioception and responsively. Topics will range from relating and responding within dances to high-table lifts. We will also focus on identifying boundaries and generating consent practices in the Durham CI community.
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Storytelling from Around the World will be each Wednesday from 4:30 to 6:00 PM at the Living Arts Collective. Come hear stories from our world community. Would you like to share your story? Join us in this exciting space.

Come Buti with us! Every week, donation-based Buti yoga class with proceeds going to good local causes. Buti yoga is a combination of yoga, dance and plyometrics designed to break a sweat and build connection. Bring a mat, towel and water, recommended donation $10-15 per class.

Wednesdays at 7:00 - 9:30 PM

The Durham/Chapel Hill International Folk Dance Club is a fun social group for international folk dancing. Newcomers welcome!

Schedule

7:00 - Easy dancing

8:00 - Teaching of a new dance

8:30 - Announcements

8:40-9:30 - More dancing

See website for more information: http://www.trianglefolkdancers.org/chifdc/chifd.html

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.

Find out about the next Zouk Night on the Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1705199716425459/

Back by popular demand, our Weekly Community Shaga Class kicks off Thursday, October 18th, at Living Arts Collective!

Shaga is inspired by the movement language of Gaga, developed by Ohad Naharin. Durham-based Shaleigh Comerford, who trained with Ohad, has created an accessible, empowering and fun practice for anyone interested in liberating their body & their mind.

In this community class we will learn to approach movement as a dynamic, healing, and ever-changing power, using evocative ideas and imagery in a safe, non-judgmental environment. Class begins slowly and builds in intensity to continuous motion, providing enjoyable exercise for both body and soul. Shaga allows us to actively explore our habits, expand our range and discover the endless possibilities of healing ways of moving in a welcoming, accepting atmosphere.

This community class is open to ALL and is designed for individuals who wish to open themselves to movement in new ways. Dancers, yogis, and movers of all kinds and abilities are invited to participate. No prior experience necessary.

Participants are encouraged to wear comfortable clothing and to move barefoot or in socks.

Price: Sliding-scale $15-25 (no one will be turned away for lack of funds)

About ShaLeigh:

ShaLeigh Comerford is an Irish & Native American dancer, choreographer and artistic director of ShaLeigh Dance Works in Durham, NC. ShaLeigh was personally invited to train in the Gaga movement language with Ohad Naharin and the Batsheva Dance Company in…

Join us for a fun pre-jam class on partner conditioning and handstand training! Katie Veleta, certified AcroYoga instructor, and Aimee Kresica, certified Lift Acrobatics instructor, will offer partner and group exercises and drills which increase strength, alignment, grip, balance, and dynamic movements fundamental to the practice of acro.

No experience needed for this all levels class! Partnerships will be honored but no partner is required. Cost is $15 cash at the door. Stay for the jam for free if you come to the class!

UPDATE: Please bring socks or a towel/rag for some of the drills we will do tonight in class! Thanks 🙂

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 $7-15 sliding fee at the door!

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 free form movement in community.
Every Friday, 7:30-9:30pm at The Living Arts Collective, near downtown Durham. The 90 minute practice takes us on a movement journey with musical texture and form.

Suggested donation, $7-$20

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.

Advance booking required. Learn more about what to expect and schedule your appointment online: http://www.durhambodywork.com/massage-clinic/

*SPECIAL cacao offering provided by Silvermoon Chocolate*

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.

SUNDAYS: 
Doors open: 11:11am
Open Circle: 11:33am
Closing Circle: 1:11pm

FRIDAYS:

Doors open: 7:00pm
Open Circle: 7:30pm 
Close Circle: 9:30pm

Cost $7- 15

Read more about the Durham Dance Wave and the weekly Monday Night Durham Dance Wave here.

Check out the Durham Dance wave Facebook Group to find out more about this week’s dance!

"Contact Improvisation (CI) interrogates its history and currency,” facilitated by Karen Nelson, is an inclusive lecture-demonstration-participatory jam event that inquires into the evolution of CI as a living, breathing, changing dance form. This platform— part ritual, part performance, and part social club— calls on experienced practitioners of CI to share embodied stories centering on intersectionality, passion, identity, and one’s own history in the form.

Audience will be invited to at first witness, and later to choose to join (or not) into the dancing. As well, screenings of archival video documentation of early CI practice and performance will provide a context for one creation myth of this work.

Welcome to Djembe FUNdamentals

In Africa life moves to the beat. Make rhythm the soundtrack of YOUR life.

This upcoming course will be short, in 3 weeks we will will focus on the DUNUN family of drums and get charged up before the long break! Our specific focus will be on village style playing. Using the music of Guinea, West Africa, we will begin to hone the basic techniques to enjoy playing Djembe music comfortably. Come jam!
Walk-ins Welcome all 3 weeks
Let's close out 2018 by drumming big!

December 3rd - December 16th
Living Arts Collective 410 W Geer Street Durham, North Carolina
Cost: $42.00 for the course, Walk-ins: $19.00 per individual class
Payment can be made in two $21.00 installments
5:00 pm-6:30 pm
Adults & Mature youth
Drums are available for rent, $5 for the course, $5 per walk-in
please contact me ahead of time to reserve a drum
Family rates available, for more info please contact me

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.

Hosted by Abstract Emergence & Living Arts Collective

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.

See more details on the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1448814385217489/

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

$10 suggested donation

iBreatheConsciously.com
SoundCloud.com/xylem89

CI Practitioners Lab - a place to explore and grow your Contact Improvisation practice within a structured lab setting of intermediate to advanced peers. Each week, we will hone in on different skills, dance with multiple partners and practice holding the attention of our shared dance.

Details for November & December:

Classes Tuesdays, November 13, 20
(Final Tuesday, November 27 will be an open-level CI jam)

Classes Tuesdays, December 4, 11, 18
(Final Tuesday, December 25 will be an open-level CI *Holiday* jam)

November Instructor: Megan Yankee

This LAB is ideal for CI practitioners with approximately six months of experience or more. If unsure of placement, please contact Megan. email:

(Practitioners with beginner level skills should seek the beginner series offered at LAC Tuesdays: 5:30-7:00pm Instructor: Aubrey Griffith-Zill)

Drop in classes' slide scale cost $15-25. The whole series (including 3 classes and a jam) sliding scale cost $50-75. No one will be turned away for inability to pay: contact Megan directly to discuss options. LAC CI facilitators can attend free of charge. Payments can be made in cash or by PayPaling .

Students will be guided through contact-based improvisation scores in duets, trios and large groups to increase safety and risk-taking, proprioception and responsively. Topics will range from relating and responding within dances to high-table lifts. We will also focus on identifying boundaries and generating consent practices in the Durham CI community.
…

Storytelling from Around the World will be each Wednesday from 4:30 to 6:00 PM at the Living Arts Collective. Come hear stories from our world community. Would you like to share your story? Join us in this exciting space.

Come Buti with us! Every week, donation-based Buti yoga class with proceeds going to good local causes. Buti yoga is a combination of yoga, dance and plyometrics designed to break a sweat and build connection. Bring a mat, towel and water, recommended donation $10-15 per class.

Wednesdays at 7:00 - 9:30 PM

The Durham/Chapel Hill International Folk Dance Club is a fun social group for international folk dancing. Newcomers welcome!

Schedule

7:00 - Easy dancing

8:00 - Teaching of a new dance

8:30 - Announcements

8:40-9:30 - More dancing

See website for more information: http://www.trianglefolkdancers.org/chifdc/chifd.html

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.

Find out about the next Zouk Night on the Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1705199716425459/

Back by popular demand, our Weekly Community Shaga Class kicks off Thursday, October 18th, at Living Arts Collective!

Shaga is inspired by the movement language of Gaga, developed by Ohad Naharin. Durham-based Shaleigh Comerford, who trained with Ohad, has created an accessible, empowering and fun practice for anyone interested in liberating their body & their mind.

In this community class we will learn to approach movement as a dynamic, healing, and ever-changing power, using evocative ideas and imagery in a safe, non-judgmental environment. Class begins slowly and builds in intensity to continuous motion, providing enjoyable exercise for both body and soul. Shaga allows us to actively explore our habits, expand our range and discover the endless possibilities of healing ways of moving in a welcoming, accepting atmosphere.

This community class is open to ALL and is designed for individuals who wish to open themselves to movement in new ways. Dancers, yogis, and movers of all kinds and abilities are invited to participate. No prior experience necessary.

Participants are encouraged to wear comfortable clothing and to move barefoot or in socks.

Price: Sliding-scale $15-25 (no one will be turned away for lack of funds)

About ShaLeigh:

ShaLeigh Comerford is an Irish & Native American dancer, choreographer and artistic director of ShaLeigh Dance Works in Durham, NC. ShaLeigh was personally invited to train in the Gaga movement language with Ohad Naharin and the Batsheva Dance Company in…

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 free form movement in community.
Every Friday, 7:30-9:30pm at The Living Arts Collective, near downtown Durham. The 90 minute practice takes us on a movement journey with musical texture and form.

Suggested donation, $7-$20