'Dance Like A Child' AMC Sunday Ecstatic Dance Waves w/ DJ Ted Riskin

Sunday, January 4th

1st Dance Wave 8:30-10:30am | Warmup 8:30am | Opening Circle 9am
2nd Dance Wave 10:30-12:30am | Warmup 10:30am | Opening Circle 11am
Facilitator Ted Riskin

Intention: Dance Like a Child
“Babies don’t perform movement — they discover it.” - Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

From a recent NYTimes article:
Babies and toddlers are un-self-conscious when they dance. They’re spontaneous, present, unconcerned with who’s watching them. This approach brings us back to our own intelligent bodies, our own basic understanding of what it is to be alive.

Do adults perform movement when they dance? They do. We do. We have no choice — we’ve done it before, so each time we dance we’re re-enacting the remnants of every time we’ve danced previously. We try and fail and try again to catch the rhythm; we think about how we’re being perceived. But what a privilege it is to move, even if it’s awkward, to be embodied and expressing and trying to be responsive to a beat, to be more subject and less object.

So much of our movement is just using our bodies like reliable vehicles to get ourselves from one place to another. Dancing is an act of remembering that, once, when we were small, everything was new. Once, we moved our bodies primarily in order to play, express and discover. The more online we become, the farther we drift from our earliest soundtrack, the rhythm that’s in us before we’re born, the basslike thump-thump of our mother’s heartbeat and the oontz-oontz of her circulating blood. You can watch adults learning from a toddler here and here.

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** Please note that the dance starts at Warm up. The doors close promptly at Opening Circle and people who arrive late will be turned away. Please be on time to ensure a safe and secure container. **

Location: Evergreen Community Charter School, 50 Bell Road, Asheville NC, 28805

Ticket Price: $15-30 or name your price.
No one turned away for lack of funds!

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Pre-registration Recommended:
https://ashevillemovementcollective.org/event/

VOLUNTEER!
We need volunteers. Volunteer and dance for free! Register to volunteer at: https://ashevillemovementcollective.org/volunteer/

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Door will close at the beginning of the opening circle. Please note: NO ENTRY AFTER OPENING CIRCLE BOTH WAVES!

Collective agreements:
https://ashevillemovementcollective.org/our-dance/

About AMC:
Asheville Movement Collective envisions a world that moves in harmony where all are free to be their authentic selves within a loving community. Our mission and aim are to inspire authenticity and healthy community through free-form dance by hosting dance waves for personal and community transformation. AMC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

See you on the dance floor!