CACAO DANCE TRIBE: Afro-House/Brazilian infused Friday Night Dance & Cacao

ECSTATIC DANCE LONDON presents:
🌎CACAO DANCE TRIBE: Afro House & World Beats Ecstatic Dance + Cacao Ceremony + Wellness Space (Downstairs)
with Seth (DJ & live percussion set) & Master Brazilian percussionist Romario
Friday Night: 7PM–10PM
Fruit Social: 10PM–10:30PM
Maida Vale, London

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Immerse yourself in an ecstatic dance journey infused with Afro House rhythms, world beats, and live percussion. Move freely, connect deeply, and let the music take you on a powerful journey of embodiment, release and ecstasy.
We’ll open the evening with a dance movement warmup, then shift to a heart-opening raw vegan cacao ceremony and positive intention setting ritual, tuning in together before the main dance Wave begins.

Expect:
✨ Uplifting Afro House, Brazilian grooves, and organic world rhythms
🥁 Live percussion bringing fire and soul to the dancefloor
🍫 Raw ceremonial cacao to open your heart and elevate your energy
💃 Freestyle, expressive movement & moving meditation
🍉 Optional fruit social afterwards to nourish and connect
No alcohol, no drugs, just rhythm, breath, and community.

This is one of London’s most loved sober Friday night dance experiences, where you can shake off the week’s stress and celebrate life through movement.

About Cacao Dance Tribe
Founded in 2017, Cacao Dance Tribe was one of the world’s first Cacao Ceremony + Ecstatic Dance events, originally held in Camden. After a pause during the pandemic, we’re thrilled to have revived the tribe in Tufnell Park since 2023, co-created by the Ecstatic Dance London community, pioneers of the UK’s sober dance movement since 2009.
No dance experience needed - everyone is welcome.

Music Vibe: Afro House | World Beats | Brazilian | Organic Rhythms

WHY CACAO?
At Ecstatic Dance London, we adore raw ceremonial cacao. It’s a natural heart-opener and gentle energiser that supports emotional flow, creativity, and embodied presence on the dancefloor.
Your complimentary raw vegan cacao is lovingly prepared using ethically sourced, high-quality cacao from Guatemala.
Free from gluten, dairy, nuts, and refined sugar, velvety, nourishing, and deeply delicious.
Cacao + Ecstatic Dance is a potent combination for transformation, connection, and joyful expression.

ECSTATIC DANCE GUIDELINES
• No alcohol, no drugs
• No shoes
• No phones on the dancefloor
• No talking while dancing
• Move however you wish
• Respect yourself, others, and the shared space

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This is a zero-tolerance sober space. Please arrive clear-headed; anyone arriving intoxicated will be refused entry or asked to leave. No refunds.
Dancers participate at their own risk. Ecstatic Dance London accepts no responsibility for spontaneous joy, open hearts, or sore cheeks from excessive smiling (or for injury, loss, or damage).

THE PRACTICE
Arrival & Warm-up: Gentle stretching, movement, and intention-setting to ease into the body.
The Journey: A full ecstatic dance soundwave guided by a live DJ set, with light facilitation to support flow and presence.
Integration: The dance typically closes with a deep relaxation to land the experience.
Late arrivals disrupt the shared container. Entry closes 30 minutes after the start, please arrive on time so we can journey together from beginning to end.

SCHEDULE
7:00–7:30pm Doors open & warm-up
(No entry after 7:30pm — please arrive early)
7:30–10pm
Cacao Ceremony • Chakra Journey • Ecstatic Dance Soundwave
(Complimentary raw vegan cacao provided)
10pm–10:30pm
Optional fruit social to nourish and ground after the dance

✨ The Journey
A guided movement warm-up → our heart-opening cacao ceremony & connection ritual → a slow build into a euphoric, high-energy dance peak → softening into spacious, grounded integration → closing together with a gentle landing and fruit social.

The music moves across afro, rhythm-infused, latin-rich soundscapes, designed to take you out of your head and into your body: with live percussion woven in to ignite rhythm and release.

✨ What to Expect
🎶 Uplifting, immersive global/percussion-driven/afro-inspired ecstatic dance journey
🥁 Live percussion to deepen rhythm and embodiment
🍫 Cacao ceremony & intention-setting to open the night
🔊 High-quality sound in a stunning, atmospheric venue
💃 A safe, playful, non-verbal space to dance freely, express, release & connect
🍉 Complimentary fruit social to ground and reconnect after the journey