Ecstatic Dance is an opportunity to connect with your body and community with free form expressive dance. Join us for an expansive Sunday morning of movement and music in the beautiful Kingston venue, Assembly!
• JourneyDance Warm Up with Arielle Diamond
• Ecstatic Dance live DJ set with Joro-Boro
• Closing Sound Meditation with Melissa officinalis & Keena Maya
We will be honoring the container of the space, which includes these guidelines:
~ this is a judgement free dance journey, feel free to express yourself!
~ limit conversation on the dance floor, this keeps the energy flowing (there will be a designated space and time to chat)
~ this is a substance free event
~ no phones, photos, or videos on the dance floor, there is so much magic in full presence
~ we invite you to explore the shoe-less experience of dancing barefoot
Our featured artist for this dance is Joro-Boro!
Joro-Boro was born and raised in Bulgaria. After moving to New York City, he was offered a DJ residency at the Bulgarian Bar (Mehanata) alongside Eugene Hütz (Gogol Bordello), where he pioneered the Balkan music and Balkan Beat scenes in the United States. He then moved on to become a part of the Brooklyn Underground and an early promoter and producer of Global Bass. He released remixes on a number of international labels. Lately, his interests have shifted to the conscious dance movement and he regularly plays at events like Ecstatic Dance.
Joro-Boro plays Earth Bass - an open format exploration of various musical traditions of celebration and devotion, hip hop beats, and the deep side of bass music. He developed a mixing style that short-circuits cultural flows and circuit bends the archaic with the futuristic, the sacred with the secular. His sets connect to the origins of music: sound energy, archetypal drama, and journey to transcendence.
He has toured with Anna Morgan, Balkan Beat Box, and Filastine and has performed with artists ranging from Omar Souleyman to Questlove.
https://www.joro-boro.org/ / https://www.instagram.com/joroboro
JourneyDance Warm Up with Arielle Diamond
Arielle will be offering JourneyDance as an opportunity to explore somatic movement, engage in meaningful self-expression, and connect with community. The space encourages curiosity, playfulness, and self-acceptance while honoring each participant’s individual experience.
Arielle is a holistic licensed psychotherapist, certified yoga instructor, and JourneyDance facilitator who has been holding therapeutic group experiences for over a decade. Arielle's approach integrates body wisdom, expressive movement, and trauma-informed principles to support personal growth and authentic connection.
We gently land our dances with a special Closing Sound Meditation with Melissa officinalis and a guest musician, featuring live instruments such as shruti box, koshi chimes, shakers, rain stick, singing bowls, vocals, and more. Please feel welcome to bring a blanket to sit or lay on for this experience.
About Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis (Melissa Scheibner) is a sound meditation practitioner, ecstatic dance facilitator and DJ, herbal medicine steward, and community organizer. Her artist name comes from the botanical name for the plant Lemon Balm, whose plant spirit medicine is uplifting and grounding. She is passionate about bringing community together for holistic experiences, connecting with mind, body, spirit, and nature. She is an event producer of Hudson Valley Ecstatic Rhythms, and Hudson Valley Silent Disco.
IG @glitter.and.sage
About Keena Maya
The depths of Keena Maya's sound are incantations, drawing us down into our roots, grounding us into our bodies, and invoking the incandescent deity within us to rise. Guided by the rhythms of Mother Nature, she calls her sound BASS BLISS: a transmission for heart expansion via the dance floor. Her work lies at the intersection of somatic embodiment, herbal craft, collective care, ceremony, and dance.
She is half of the live ritual bass ambient project b e i n g - s o u n d, a resident DJ of Ecstatic Dance NYC, a teacher in the Beyond Academy, and a pillar of the feminine-powered Collective BAE.
Roots in Brooklyn and currently stewarding life in the Hudson Valley, Keena Maya is so that we may become.
WEBSITE https://keenamaya.com/
SOUNDCLOUD https://soundcloud.com/keenamaya
BANDCAMP https://keenamaya.bandcamp.com/
INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/keena.maya
Stay connected with Ecstatic Dances in the Hudson Valley: IG @hv.ecstaticrhythms / https://www.facebook.com/groups/928362491103306/