An evening of dance, movement, connection and tea, with a live DJ, offering a saucy bass music vibe in an ecstatic dance wave in our inspiring venue, the Social Hall at the JCC at 236 Charlotte Street, Asheville 28801.Reserve your tickets here:
https://beatchurchasheville.com/beat-church-asheville-music-events/
Amazing offerings for the evening:
Doors: 6:45p
Movement lab: 6:55-7:15p
Warm up/Stretch: 6:45-7:15p
Opening Circle: 7:15-7:25p
Live DJ: 7:25-9:05p
Sound healer: 9:05-9:15p
CASTANEA:
Under the alias CASTANEA, Rising Appalachia’s David Brown takes to the stage to remix and combine acoustic and electronic sound. Along with the instruments for which he’s best known – the upright bass and baritone guitar – Brown’s skills cross over to turntables and beat making, through which a lush sound emerges. The name of the project, CASTANEA, points to a tree that is slowly recovering from the brink of extinction in the eastern forests of North America.
Listen:
https://soundcloud.com/castaneasounds
Movement lab: 6:55-7:15 p.m.
Movement Medicine; Sense - you - all Embodiment Workshop with Rhiannon
“Our souls are dancing the space where our spirit and bodies meet.” - Samantha Sweetwater, Founder of Dancing Freedom
You’re invited to engage with your unique Movement Medicine! Through utilization of sensual (sense - you - all) embodiment practices, somatic experiential techniques, Authentic Movement and Ecstatic Dance practices, we will begin to create a somatic pathway to sensual flow states. These flow states offer an avenue of awareness and meditation, allowing us to experience creative expression, embodiment, and healing through our unique transpersonal experience.
In this work, we are more curious about how the movement feels, then what the movement looks like. We begin from the recognition that the body, the emotions, the heart, the mind, and the higher self, are all facets of the one. We dance non - duality. We co - create and collaborate with everything. Nothing is not invited and everything is welcome. All experience and all sensation is raw material for enlightenment through embodiment.
Sound bath by Lillie Lumina: 9:05-9:15p
All evening:
Tea service included with admission
Massage Therapy is $2/minute
Reserve your tickets here:
https://beatchurchasheville.com/beat-church-asheville-music-events/
Sign up to volunteer here: https://beatchurchasheville.com/contact/
Guidelines
-VOICES on the dance floor: The dance floor is a talk-free zone. This allows dancers to engage in movement as a meditation, to go within, and to be more embodied without distraction in proximity.
-VOICES off the dance floor: We have created a tea lounge and chill space off the dance floor and quiet voices are encouraged in order to engage with others in a different way when you're not dancing.
-SHOELESS: We ask that you are shoeless in the space. If you have a physical reason to wear shoes, you are welcome to - we simply ask that they are not shoes you wear on the street.
-RESPECT: Be respectful of yourself, of others, and of the space/venue.
-PHONES: the dance floor and chill spaces are phone free zones. This allows dancers to be present fully.
Beat Church was started in San Francisco in the early 2000s by the amazing DJ, Neptune, who saw a need for a new cutting edge underground dance offering.
We want to continue and build on that tradition here in Asheville for the existing vibrant dance community.
Event venue
Social Hall at the JCC 236 Charlotte Street, Asheville NC 28801, 236 Charlotte St, Asheville, NC 28801-1434, United States
Tickets
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