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URUBU Dance Tribe presents: DRUM MANTRA – LIVE Ecstatic Dance + Cacao
October 22, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm BST
ECSTATIC DANCE LONDON & URUBU Dance Tribe presents: DRUM MANTRA- LIVE ☆
We started Ecstatic Dance in the UK way back in 2009 with our amazing live musicians. And since then have offered Londoners safe, fun, alcohol and drug-free spaces to dance, move and feel free in. So we are excited to announce that our pioneering live music, ecstatic dance journey is back on Saturday, 22 October 2022!
Join our resident band, URUBU Dance Tribe for a wild evening of live music, ecstatic dance & movement meditation, beautiful cacao ceremony, and relaxing gong bath. This very special event to celebrate 13 years of our community ecstatic dance events here in London! Come ready to sweat, move, shake, free your body, ignite your creativity, open your heart. You’re gonna love it!
****THIS EVENT WILL SELL OUT SO GET YOUR TICKETS IN ADVANCE! NO TICKETS ON DOOR!****
BOOK HERE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/urubu-dance-tribe-presents-drum-mantra-live-ecstatic-dance-cacao-tickets-395046995197
- a 3-hour Live Music & DJ Ecstatic Dance experience featuring our master Afro-Brazilian percussionists and Saxophone player
- Cacao Ceremony
- Relaxing Gong Bath /Sound Journey
- Celebration social with fruit and other delicious things to nourish you after the dance!
DRUM MANTRA is the call to dance. Through the medium of rhythm, and with the power of the Drum, we turn our attention inwards towards this body, these feet, this earth. Breath by breath arriving into our human experience, here now, here now.
This will be a beautiful & powerful evening of conscious & ecstatic dance, featuring outstanding professional musicians assembled for your dancing delight. Come prepared to move, sweat, and come alive!
The evening will end with a beautiful Crystal Singing Bowl and GONG bath where you’re invited to just lay down and let the sounds wash over you. It’s incredibly relaxing and a fantastic way to end an evening of ecstatic dance! Please bring a blanket so that you are warm and cozy!!
“Global music phenomenon the URUBU Collective has taken London by storm with their monthly ecstatic dance events!! URUBU delivers a captivating blend of exotic improvisational world grooves from ambient, meditative piano & vocal pieces through to high octane Afro-percussion. Expect tribal wildness and beautiful songs, Gongs, sound healing and more. You’re gonna love it!” – Time Out
Our Ecstatic Dance sessions have guidelines of: No booze, No Shoes, No phones, No Chit Chat, Move However You Wish, Respect yourself and others. (More info about what is Ecstatic Dance – further down)
No late comers please. This is a shared journey from the beginning to the end and we aim to create a safe container for all dancers. If you are more than 30 min late from the start of the session, unfortunately you won’t be able to join the session, please respect this and arrive on time. Thank you
****Alcohol, drug, psychedelic & smoke free space!!! We get a natural high through dance and cacao!***
SCHEDULE:
◈ 7pm-7:30pm Doors open/ Arrival/ Optional Face Paints by our creative artist team
◈7:30pm -10pm URUBU Drum Tribe: Drum Mantra DJ & Live Ecstatic Dance and Cacao (No entry after 8pm sorry, this is so we can all journey together)
◈ 10:00pm -10:30pm Gong bath/ Sound Healing Journey/ Closing circle
◈ 10:30pm-11:15pm Optional celebration social with refreshing fruit & other delicious things to nourish you after the dance!
WHAT YOU WILL NEED:
1. Please come already dressed in comfortable clothing suitable for movement/fitness and dress in layers, changing rooms are located on the 1st floor. Bring a set of dry clothes/small towel as you will probably get sweaty during the session. Showers are available in the changing rooms.
2. We dance barefoot, in soft indoor shoes or grip socks.
3. a Reusable water bottle. Tap water & lemon water refill available at the venue.
4. A healthy snack to have after the dance.
Ecstatic Dance “LIVE” featuring URUBU’s Amazing Musicians:
♥ SETH NEWMAN (Urubu Dance Tribe, Ecstatic Dance London): Dj & Facilitator. As a musician, Seth is passionate about how rhythm & trance and meditation work to heal the body, he has an MA in Community Music from Goldsmith College, worked as a world music percussion teacher in East London schools for almost 20 years and started URUBU Collective back in 2009 as a Live Music Ecstatic Dance experience with Afro-Brazilian drummers & musicians. Seth has a life-long passion for 5 Rhythms and other movement and Ecstatic Dance practices.
♥ ALUA NASCIMENTO (Urubu Dance Tribe): Alua is a multi-instrumentalist, music teacher and performer who studied popular Brazilian percussion and vibraphone at Free Music University of Sao Paulo and classical percussion at Sao Paulo Municipal School of Music. Alua is an ex-member of STOMP. His first public performance was at the age of 8, having learnt percussion from his father, the percussionist Dinho Nascimento.
♥ JANSEN SANTANA (Urubu Dance Tribe): Percussionist multi-instrumentalist from Salvador-Bahia-Brazil based in London. Love to afro-jazz, soul, R&B and of course Brazilian flavours. He began his music career very early, with only 3 years of age he accompanied his father, the Artist Peu Meurray on his shows, who is his biggest musical influence, as well as his mother, Cida Nunes, who is also a singer. Jansen has been involved in projects with different concepts and music genres, national and international percussion festivals, cultural and environmental projects. MUSIC is his 1st priority and way of life!
♥ CARL DAVIES (Urubu Dance Tribe): Saxophone supremo, vocalist, songwriter, keys player & producer at Horman, an East London based four piece band who create Alt-pop. Carl has have worked in various school, youth centre, residential and day centre settings since qualifying as a music therapist in 2006, currently works as a Clinical music therapist in schools and for Chroma arts therapies and the Edpsy practice Marylebone.
VENUE:
Siobhan Davies Dance Studio, Roof Studio (2nd floor), 85 St George’s Rd, London SE1 6ER
-Nearest station is Elephant & Castle, venue is also walking distance from Lambeth North and Waterloo. Please check tfl .gov for latest travel updates.
-If you are driving, please be aware that the venue is in an Ultra Low Emission Zone and you may be liable to pay the daily fee. Find parking on parkopedia.
-There is a bicycle rack in the courtyard on the side of the building to lock your bike if you are cycling.
-Venue is mostly accessible to wheelchair users with a lift to all floors.
PRICES: (limited availability, no tickets on the door)
- Earlybird £25
- Lower waged £30
- Regular waged £35
EVENTBRITE ORDER CONFIRMATION: Email might be in the spam folder. Please check. Do not print any paper tickets, we will check you in by your name.
FREE CREW SPACES: We also offer limited FREE *crew spaces in exchange of you helping us set up and/or pack down. (*Requirement – you need to have attended at least two of our indoor events at Siobhan Davies Studios before you can join the crew) Please complete the crew sign up form and we will get in touch: https://forms.gle/uXVr8kK9Eos7hjbK6
CANCELLATION POLICY:
We do not offer refunds if you cannot attend if less than 72h notice if provided. You are welcome to pass on your ticket to a friend, colleague or family member however please let us know the date & time of the booked session, name and email address of the person attending in your place for track & trace purposes. Send us an email with replacement person’s details to: youareyoubeyou@gmail.com
If we need to cancel the class due to unforeseen circumstances, we will issue a full refund.
Seth, Dee & Ecstatic Dance London team
DJ & FACILITATOR:
◈ Session is facilitated and DJed by Seth Newman – the pioneer of Ecstatic Dance in the UK since 2009!
Seth Newman: As the founder of the URUBU School of Transformational Arts, he integrates the roots of Humanistic therapies, Bioenergetics & Body Psychotherapy, Transpersonal Psychology and Tantra in creative and life-transforming workshops, retreats and trainings. As a coach, Seth is dedicated to helping people calm, empower and rejuvenate their busy minds and bodies to achieve the best versions of themselves. Seth brings a wealth of experience holding heart-centered spaces.
His in-depth studies, trainings, personal experiences of many therapeutic modalities such as Humanistic & Body Psychotherapy, the Human Potential Movement, 5 Rhythms, Active meditations and the teaching of the Indian Mystic Osho who he grew up with in India in the 1970s, infuse his approach to living a creative, holistic & embodied life and sharing his unique offerings with others. Seth has been facilitating regular workshops for many years.
As a musician, Seth is very passionate about rhythm & drumming, has an MA in Community Music from Goldsmith College, worked as a world music percussion teacher in East London schools for almost 20 years, created URUBU collective back in 2009 as a Live Music Ecstatic Dance experience with Afro-Brazilian drummers & musicians and started his journey as an avid DJ with a love for Afro-Beat, Cuban and Brazilian music and created an Ecstatic Dance scene in London and the UK. Seth has a life-long passion for 5 Rhythms and other movement and Ecstatic Dance practices.
URUBU has since evolved into a School of Transformational Arts – offering a variety of powerful holistic body-mind tools and practices.
The small print, always read the small print!
- Dancers enter at their own risk. Urubu School of Transformational Arts accepts no responsibility for spontaneous joy, open-heartedness, or sore cheeks from too much smiling.
- We do not refund tickets. Sorry. Please give them to friends or family if you cannot attend. Any questions, please contact us directly.
- Waste is not cool – please remember to BYO reusable water bottle!
WHY CACAO?
At Ecstatic Dance London we LOVE chocolate, RAW chocolate-CACAO! We will provide complimentary Raw Vegan Cacao to superfood charge your dance with us!
Cacao is the ultimate heart opener, it will give you energy, revitalise your BodyMind inviting you to express, release & unleash your creativity during the dance!
Our Raw Vegan Cacao is prepared lovingly by Diana (who makes the best, velvety-tasting cacao in town for sure!). She uses ethically sourced, highest quality ingredients from Guatemala, directly from a reliable cacao bean farmer.
Join us to explore Cacao + Ecstatic Dance as a potent synthesis for Transformation!
Our youtube videos:
- URUBU’s 10-Year anniversary celebration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwM2H2OJpHE
- Ecstatic Dance Festival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfkBWdMIV4o
- Cacao Dance Tribe https://youtu.be/PGC7pkS9sHU
- What is Drum Mantra? https://youtu.be/WoUyu7-x1is
- A taste of Drum Mantra https://youtu.be/Z24qFGWByDo
- Urubu @ Festival of Life https://youtu.be/rh0mbrlQKkI
- Another Taste of Drum Mantra https://youtu.be/we0bVCp049U
WHAT IS ECSTATIC DANCE?
MUSIC – MOVEMENT – COMMUNITY!
Brought to you by: Ecstatic Dance London – We love to dance. We love music. We love to inspire, to connect, to heal and transform!
Ecstatic Dance is a dance/movement practice to explore the exhilarating feeling of moving your body freely. You are invited to move, play, connect, sweat, stretch, sound, unwind, renew, release, improvise, transform. Be true to yourself, while respecting your body, in this space that we co-create together. Move your body, unleash the wild dancing self without caring what people think, claim your freedom, open your heart & touch the infinite!
Our Ecstatic Dance classes create a safe and respectful environment that embraces ‘all ways’. We offer a movement practice that supports your free expression of emotions and inner space through movement and music. Our intention for these Ecstatic Dance classes is self-exploration, connection, fun, healing, expanding human potential and community building through freestyle ecstatic dance.
Enter an open space…and with your bare feet explore the exhilarating feeling of moving your body freely. You are invited to move, play, connect, sweat, stretch, sound, unwind, renew, release, improvise, transform. Be true to yourself, while respecting your body, in this space that we co-create together.
PRACTICE SPECIFICS: Warm-up: stretch, move/dance and reflect on the intention for the dance to a gentle sound wave. The Practice: freestyle dancing to a large sound wave featuring Live DJ set. Some guidance & facilitation will be provided. And then we will let the music, the community and our own inner space direct our steps, our movements, our expression, our journey. Relaxation: Ecstatic Dance usually ends with a deep relaxation.
ECSTATIC DANCE GUIDELINES:
No late comers please. This is a shared journey from the beginning to the end and we aim to create a safe container for all dancers.
1. No talking during the dance (if you wish to talk, you are welcome to chat before/after dance outside the main dance space). When we dance without the chitchat, something alchemical can happen on the dancefloor. A unified field of Being emerges and we feel both wild and free, contained within ourselves And connected to something much, much greater than our individual selves.
2. Drug-Free, Smoke-Free, Alcohol-Free environment
3. No photos or videos, Mobile phones muted and out of sight
4. Care/Awareness for the co-created space and each other
5. Move your body however you wish
6. No spectating. Stay connected to your own body, sensations, emotions, and feelings. Ecstatic Dance is about you and your relationship to the Dance. Dancers feel uncomfortable when being spectated at. Come prepared to Dance yourself free from inhibitions!
7. You can dance alone, or with as many partners as (you) like to join. (If you’d rather not dance with someone, thank them for the offer by placing your hands in prayer position at your heart – Namaste. Thank you, no thank you.)
8. This is not a pick up place. Please respect all dancers (especially women) and do not ask for anyone’s contact details. If you wish to stay in touch with someone, give them your email instead of asking for their contact details. No means no.
“Our bodies instinctively know what feels good or bad, right or wrong. However, often our heads get in the way. Ecstatic Dance is about finding our way through to what feels good. How can we use dance to consciously transform towards finding joy, without denying our anger or sadness? Ask yourself: what’s my body feeling in this moment? Does it feel good moving this way, or that? Does it feel nourishing to dance with another, or dance solo? Where do I most feel connected with Self? Let your body lead the way.” ~ Abigail Harris
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