Sunday July 7th
(1st Sundays of the month)
10:10 AM – 11:11 AM
@ Living Arts Collective
410 West Geer Street, Durham

Schedule:
10:00 AM Arrival
10:10 AM Opening Circle
11:11 AM Closing Circle

You’re invited to come together and sing, as we honor this sacred life we are blessed to share, recognizing the range of grief and joy.

You’re encouraged to bring a song to share, one that we can learn and sing together. Instruments are optional.

You’re also welcome to come in silence, bask in the beauty, stretch, and prepare for the Living Arts Dancewave that will follow.

This event is free and serves as a gift to the community. If you feel called to contribute, your support is appreciated.

*Please see website calendar for song circle guidelines and requests. Thank you.

Sunday, July 7th
5:30 – 7:30 PM
@ LILA
Latinx LGBTQI Initiative inc
112 Broadway St, Durham

¡Bailemos Dancewave! 🌟 Únete a LILA Latinx LGBTQI+ y Living Arts Collective para una celebración de danza que honra nuestras raíces diversas y nuestra conexión.💃🏽
Se invita a personas latinas y familiares y amistades de todas las razas a unirse y compartir en movimiento corporal, danza, artes curativas, sentir de comunidad, alegría y amor. 🌈 ❤️
¡Deja que el ritmo de nuestros corazones nos guíe hacia una ola de expresión extática! 🎶

Cuando: 7 de julio de 2024, de 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Dónde: LILA Latinx LGBTQI+💃🏽 112 Broadway Street, Durham, NC 27701
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¡Bailemos en comunidad! 🌟”
Join LILA Latinx LGBTQI+ and Living Arts Collective (LAC) for a dancewave that celebrates our diverse roots and connection! 💃🏽

Latine folx and kin of all races are invited to come together and share in embodied movement, dance, healing arts, community building, joy, and love. 🌈 ❤️

Let the beat of our hearts guide us into a wave of ecstatic expression!

Sunday, July 7th
3:30 – 6:30 PM
@ Living Arts Collective
410 West Geer St, Durham

After ending a fruitful weekend intensive with Irene Sposetti, we are excited to announce another opportunity for our local community to meet and dance with her before her departure.

This event, in collaboration with Living Arts Collective, is an invitation to all movers who are actively engaged in the study of the dance form of Contact Improvisation, and who already have a foundation in its principles and techniques.
We invite you to a time for deepening themes of interest and practicing them together, bringing your questions and inquiries; Irene will set a container for a LAB-informed structure and will facilitate a time for improvising in a Focus Jam towards the end of the process.

– The contribution for this event will be on a sliding scale of $20-40, please pay the highest amount you can comfortably afford.
– Registration for the event will be finalized with a cash payment, or through payment to ‘Raleigh Ecstatic Dance’ via Venmo (@RaleighEcstaticDance) using the “Friends and Family” option. Last 4 digits of the phone are: 7-3-8-6

Saturday, July 13th
8:00 – 10:00 PM
@ Living Arts Collective
410 West Geer Street, Durham

8pm – Arrival
8:15pm – Opening circle
8:30-9:45pm – Dancewave (setweavers – Bex and Jay Schnaak)
9:45-10pm – Closing circle followed by restoration of the space

Sliding scale $5-25* (suggested $15)
*No one turned away for lack of funds

This event is a fundraiser to support the LGBTQ Center of Durham! https://www.lgbtqcenterofdurham.org/

REGISTER HERE: https://livingartscollective.as.me/queerdance

Queer and Trans Dancewave is a non-judgmental creative space for queer, nonbinary, gender non-conforming, and trans folx to practice authentic self-expression and embodied liberation in community. Inspired by ecstatic dance, queer and trans dancewave is an immersive sound and movement experience with curated music woven in a wave format to help you get out of your head and into your body.

Come as you are: whatever mood or emotions are present are welcome. You may use this queer and trans community container to explore sound and movement with your body and practice attuning to your own energy or to others through non-verbal means. This is a place for improvisational non-prescriptive movement, playful experimentation, to practice gaining comfort with uncertainty, radical vulnerability, authenticity, courage, unlearning perfectionism, and letting go. Explore what it’s like moving just for pleasure, together. This is a safe place to be weird and different. This is healing in community.

All dance abilities or lack thereof are fully welcome.

Dancewaves start slowly, build to a peak and then return to stillness, during which time you will get to experience the euphoria of music, rhythm and connection.

We co-create an environment intentionally free from verbal conversation and cell phones to support a more fully embodied experience.

There will be a facilitated movement warm-up by Dr. Bex Pattowitz, SEP prior to the dancewave. The Dancewave lasts for 75 minutes, during which we encourage you to take care of your well-being, to move at the pace and in ways that feel best to your system and to honor others by always seeking consent in your interactions.

This is an inclusive, accessible and intergenerational space for people to move freely and express themselves creatively. We embrace all forms of diversity, including gender, neurotype, race, religion, age, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, and we work to understand and dismantle all kinds of oppression present within our community. Please feel free to bring whatever accommodations will best facilitate your authentic participation, such as earplugs (although the music won’t be super loud!).

Masking is optional and highly encouraged. If folx are sick or have been in large crowds, we ask that they test before coming to the event.

Sundays
11:33 AM – 1:11 PM
@ Living Arts Collective
410 West Geer St, Durham

Inspired by Ecstatic Dance through the lens of Ousia (oo-see-ah), the Living Arts Dancewave is an immersive dance experience with curated music woven in a wave format. Living Arts Dancewaves are inclusive and intergenerational spaces for people to move freely and express themselves creatively.

The Living Arts Collective facilitates experiences that are welcoming of all ages, physical bodies, cultural backgrounds, identities and dance abilities. We stand in authentic, lasting solidarity with our BIPOC & LGBTQ+ friends and family. Dancewaves start slowly, build to a peak and then return to stillness, during which time you will get to experience the euphoria of music, rhythm and connection. We co-create an environment intentionally free from verbal conversation and cell phones to support a more fully embodied experience.

CARE TO SHARE: build community and share resources.
Bring items you no longer need and feel free to take what you like! (NO MONEY EXCHANGE)

Sliding Scale: $10-30 (suggested $20) *no one turned away for lack of funds.

If you’d like to support the dancewave, feel free to show up early or stay late to help us set up and break down <3

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

(click on date when registerings)

Thursday, September 12th
6:30 – 9:00 PM
@ Shared Visions Retreat Center
3717 Murphy School Road

This is a participatory singing adventure and everyone is invited–absolutely no experience required. Laurence and ahlay are song carriers and grief tenders. They blend song, body percussion, dance, stillness, breath and silence with the deepest intention to support others in remembering their inherent birthright to singing and rhythm. Their songs are invitations to move stagnated emotions through our bodies.

Sliding Scale Tickets: $22-66 ($33 suggested)

REGISTER HERE

Friday, September 13-Saturday, September 14
6:30 – 9:00 PM
@ Shared Visions Retreat Center
3717 Murphy School Road

Alexandra “ahlay” Blakely and Laurence Cole will be facilitating a two-day grief retreat. In this powerful ritual, we will use singing, poetry, movement, practice in sacred listening, sharing, witnessing and being witnessed to help each other move through grief. This space is an opportunity to move through grief in whatever shape or form it comes in–perhaps numbness, shame, rage, trembling, stillness, wailing or something else.

The song circle is included with the grief retreat ticket, or you can purchase a ticket to the song circle separately.

Sliding Scale tickets start at $475

REGISTER HERE