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Dance Camp 2009

2009-06-30T03:34:18Z

Dance Camp 2009

Dance New England Summer Camp 2009

DNE will be at Camp Robin Hood

August 14 - 25th, in Freedom, NH!

This yearly community dance retreat has been going since 1980

DNE summer camp offers a wide variety of classes including contact, African dance and drum, yoga, partner dance, music, healing arts, theater, and so much more!

We enjoy nightly barefoot boogies, Salsa Rueda for teens and adults, contact jams, drum circles, and other nightly surprises.

People of all ages are welcome!

Besides our full days of classes, swimming at the waterfront, eating delicious vegetarian food, hanging out with friends, and of course, dancing,

We have a certified and fun childcare program for kids 0-12 daily, so parents can take classes, as well as programming for our teen and young adult community.

Camp is very affordable for individuals and for family vacationing! We operate on a sliding scale for camp fees, based on registrants' income.

All classes, amazing vegetarian food and lodging are included. There are cabins that we share or if you bring your own tent you may choose to tent in the designated spaces. We are happy to report that in this camp there are lots of community showers and bathrooms for all!

For more information on DNE, our history and Mission Statement, please go to dne.org

This year in our attempt to save paper and expense, we are hoping that folks register (and pay) on line:

For this years schedule of classes, activities, programming and information or the various ways to register.

http://dne.org/camp/2009/

You can also find there a printable PDF registration form.

To contact our registrar Samantha for additional questions: registrar at dne dot org

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Erica's Tribal Classes Canceled

2009-01-31T23:44:40Z

My Cambridge Tribal classes are canceled indefinitely due to a really cruddy market - Thank you to all of you who supported me and came to classes. I would love to offer classes again soon - I just need a few people to preregister, so if you're interested, please let me know, and maybe we can work something out.

Erica teaches the basics of belly dance movement with a Tribal Style accent and stylistic influences from Spanish, Gypsy (Romani), and early Jazz forms. Learn the fundamentals of belly dance with an emphasis on posture, alignment, precise isolations, and theatrics. Learn to project a professional and unique stage presence in a nurturing environment. Erica’s classes embrace people of all dance levels and backgrounds, all body shapes, genders, and sexual orientations. Leave your inhibitions and anxieties at the door.

About Erica:

While living in San Francisco in the heart of the Tribal Belly Dance scene, Erica studied belly dance under Jill Parker of UltraGypsy for five years. Erica has developed her own belly dance style, borrowing movement and technique from her other interests in ballet, early jazz, flamenco, Turkish Roman, and tango.

In addition to belly dance, Erica has studied a variety of other dance forms, and also had years of theater training. The resulting aesthetic is dance choreography that moves like theatre, creating meaningful and substantive stories that seek to inspire as well as to entertain. Erica now dances with Snake Dance Theater.

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Bye Bye Bushie Video

2009-01-04T01:24:20Z

Please check out a video we made on utube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1IaHT26Tg8

Thanks,
Jimi Two Feathers

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Old communities, new communities, flexibility, and change

2008-09-03T00:19:14Z

First, I went to spend a week with my Dance New England beloveds. We have been in relationship for 16 years, my DNE community and me. It has been an up and down experience.
The highs of this camp were Community Day (which I facilitated-- yay, ME), and The Sacred Temple Dance (which I facilitated-- Yay, me , again!).
The low for me was the Fire Circle. I heard through that wonderfully gossipy grapevine that IS DNE that Mr. Micheal felt that i hijacked the drum circle.
Hijacked? Ouch.
Shades of Mareba, have I become my own worst nightmare!
Enough folks commented afterwards that what I said about Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton moved them that I have no regrets.
AND, I will not go to fire circles in that community, any more.
16 years is enough time to try to stay in dialogue. I consider myself divorced from DNE fire circles, due to an "irretreviable breakdown" and "irreconcilable differences"...
THANK THE GODDESS that I am a polyamorous person! I can still love what I love about DNE and go find what I need that is not attainable at DNE.

So, I left on Friday, and went to Forest Dance, in Petersham, Mass.

I am now 24 hours and counting, back from the land of the Fey. back from the experience of creating a loving community of free spirited Star Children, at Earthlands. Back from an experiment being "off the grid", FOR REAL.
My introduction to the Forest Dance tribe left me inspired, awed, and deeply grateful.
You see, as ALisa Starkweather said towards the end of the gathering, we over fifty year old types have been waiting a long, long time for this to actually happen. We have been faking it until we make it. We have been pushing and pulling and manipulating the energy for years and years and years...dragging ourselves around fire circles so "young" that we had to politely ask folks not to stand in one place in front of the fire, as if they were at a weenie roast. And every now and then, the energy would "gel" for a moment. Maybe 20 minutes. Maybe an hour or two.
I went into the Sunday Forest Dance ritual, and experienced sacred space to trance, dance, sweat, and pray from the moment Whitney blessed me at the gate near midnight, until the drums stopped around 7 a.m.
Wow.
They were mainly in their 20's and 30's. They all make it look so natural. And I was delightfully surprised by how easy it all was.
I continue to ride waves of magical synchronistic adventures. A phone message from my boss, reminding me that my new work schedule has started, and I don't have to go to work until wednesday. A lovely interaction with the morning D.J. of a program I start my day with. "Did you miss me?" I tease. "I was away dancing all night in the woods". He calls me back a half hour later, asks if I am still listening (he knows that I don't have a radio in my car) and plays a special song for me. It is Kim Field's "In a Whisper" and moves me to tears.
I live in beauty. With my day off, I took time to record a 10 minute piece on "passion", for my radio show. To do this, I went out into the woods with a digital recorder and stood by a babbling brook. I read an AMAZING poem that was spoken in the wee hours of the morning at the fire, "We have come to be danced" by Jewel Mathieson Not fifteen minutes later, a friend called in some distress. Although my day was clear to connect, his day was not lear to meet me. So we made a date for Thursday, and I read him that poem. He was in tears by the end and he sobbed, "But I don't know how to DO that..."
"I do". I told him. And it is a teacheable thing. And we are all learning.

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!!
I remain-- in the literal translation of my name-- Eternally Grateful!

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Camp 08

2008-08-14T14:34:15Z

Wheeeeeee! It's almost here!

Can you feel it already, that Maine air, that call to dance, sing, play, eat, swim, sun, swat mosquitos, can you hear it?

There's still room. Register now if you haven't!

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Smart people post regarding The Amen Break

2008-04-26T16:35:10Z

Meaning, those of you not as geeky as me might not appreciate it, but here goes:

Hello My Lovelies!

My partner in audio engineering/ recording crime has definitely turned me on to something... Check out the you-tube site quoted (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac) where you can actually hear this break.

It 's gonna be a hot time in the fire circles this summer, as those of us who WANT TO come to understand the science of what we are dancing, singing, drumming, and loving!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Daniel Singer <fnoxib@gmail.com>

You all know I don't generally forward random crap from my inbox... this was of sufficient interest that I thought I'd share.

---------- Forwarded message ----------

>
> The Amen Break
> and the
> Golden Ratio
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> by Michael S. Schneider
> M.Ed. Mathematics
> Author of A Beginner's Guide To Constructing The Universe
>
> A student recently asked if I had any insights into why the "Amen Break" is so popular in some modern music. "What's that?" I had to admit that I hadn't heard of it. But when we listened to it, a drum break beat, I recognized the rhythm right away. I'd heard it in television commercials and the music of James Brown, and elsewhere. You probably have too. I became intrigued when I saw an image of the audio waves themselves because I immediately recognized the Golden Ratio in the structure of its timing. And I was surprised to find an even deeper relationship to the structure of the human body.
>
> Click on this picture of its audio waves to hear the Amen Break in a work.
>
> The "Amen Break" is 5.20 seconds long in four bars. It was created and performed by Gregory Cylvester Coleman in the 1960's funk-and-soul band The Winstons in their song "Amen, Brother". (They've never received royalties from the hundreds of bands which have sampled and used their creation.)
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> A history of the Amen Break can be found here, and the term googled here and here.
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> A video explaining the Amen Break can be found here.
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> What I first noticed in the wave picture are the distinct peaks representing the beat. I considered the biggest peaks near each end as the limits of a whole.
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> Having looked at the geometry of the Golden Ratio a great deal, and its expressions in worldwide art, I have a decent sense of its place along a line. The Amen Break had that feel. For a quick check I used homemade Golden Ratio calipers to examine the peaks. Indeed, peaks pop up at Golden Ratio intervals, as do smaller peaks within them, reminsicent of the fractal structures in nature.
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> For more exact visual analysis I examined the wave image in my computer, in which I have a palatte of geometric forms and proportions for quickly identifying an object's ratios. Sure enough, Golden Ratio relationships were indicated among the different peaks. Am I seeing things? You decide. But the appearance of the Golden Ratio may help explain its popularity.
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> To appreciate this relationship between the Golden Ratio and sound, it's worthwhile to consider some of the ideal, eternal, unchanging principles of Golden relationships which can only be approximated in nature, and byartists, architects and musicians. I'm not going to re-teach here everything there is to know about this wonderful ratio since some great websites already tell you everything you want to know, such as this and this. Most pertinently, information about the appearance of the Golden Ratio in worldwide music, such as in the work of the classical composers Mozart, Beethoven, Bartok, Debussy and Satie can be found here.
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> For our interests, the main principle to appreciate about the Golden Ratio is this: A whole line may be divided in such a way that the length of the whole relates to its large part in the same way that the large part relates to the small part. In other words, the same relationship appears on different scales, comprehending a mathematically balanced whole.
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> This visual linear relationship has only one solution, when the large and small parts are in the numerical relationship of 1.6180339... to 1 (symbolized by the Greek letter Phi). Simultaneously, the whole relates to the large part this same way. Our wrist divides our forearm and hand at the point of the Golden Ratio, and our finger bones form an expanding Golden Ratio sequence. It extends through the entire body (as I've illustrated in A Beginner's Guide To Constructing The Universe and the Constructing The Universe Activity Books). What the Golden Ratio does is provide balance among the parts and whole, allowing a harmonious elegance to emerge among the changing relationships among the parts, maintaining a balanced whole, whether in the motions of a dancer or the growth of a tree.
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> Another relevant point to help us understand the Amen Break is how this Golden Ratio balance expands to maintain its balance. It's a remarkable mathematical truth that when unity is added to the Golden Ratio, the result is the Golden Ratio squared! This occurs among no other ratios. (Try it on a calculator to see that 1.6180339 times itself is the same as adding one to it!)
>
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> This process can continue to produce an expanding sequence of powers of the Golden Ratio, each power always equaling the sum of its two previous powers. (All this is expanded upon in Constructing The Universe Activity Book Volume 3). So on the computer I simply laid down lengths divided at the Golden Ratio (yellow and blue lengths are in Golden Ratio), and Golden Proportion expansions, to see how many peaks appear simultaneously at Golden divisions. Here's what I saw:
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> Further dividing the whole length (between extreme beat peaks) and subdividing those parts in Golden Ratio relationships results in these images. They don't account for all minor peaks, although in their approximation of the ideal many are very close. But the timing betwen the major peaks show clear correspondence. Investigators of the Golden Ratio in art have remarked that even without "knowing" anything about this ratio, it is what creative people intuitively discover and aim for and express in many media anyway. Its harmonious wholeness and balance satisfies something deep within us.
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> When I saw the divisions and subdivisions of the whole indicate Golden Ratios in an expanding sequence, I immediately thought of the expanding Golden Ratio seen in the dimensions of the ideal human body as discovered and used in art and architecture by the ancient Greeks. Here are pictures taken from my books (Golden Ratio Man drawn by Libby Reid) showing a few of the Golden Ratio relationships in the harmonious whole called our body.
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> Because the ideal body's parts are in Golden Ratio relationships (everyone is stretched or compressed) each two levels (beginning at the brow downward) add to equal the length of the next level. I've turned the Amen Beat's waves vertically and put them next to the levels of the human body. It seems to me that the popularity of the Amen Break must have something to do with this appearance of the Golden Ratio in its timing structure. And furthermore, its expanding (and subdividing) Golden Ratios resemble the Golden divisions of the human body but in audible form. I suppose it might appear in music most conducive to dancing. And also singing and chanting, since a great deal of sacred architecture around the world had been consciously designed in the Golden Ratio to make such use of it's self-reflecting internal harmonious relationships.
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> Human bodies and created sounds, like flowers, crystals and galaxies, can never exactly equal any ideal mathematical template. But the major wave peaks of the Amen Break, and many of its smaller ones, seem reasonably close to being an expression of the fractal nature of the wonderful Golden Ratio. I wonder what it would sound like if it was more precisely proportioned to the ideal, but I also know that slight differences are what make it human and alive.
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> (c) 2007 Michael S. Schneider
>

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Shout out

2008-02-14T19:21:28Z

Hey Mikio,

Joining you here, as invited! Go Tribe!

love,
hrana

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Beyond ATS Tribal Classes Resume!

2008-01-12T23:52:16Z

It's back! Beyond ATS Tribal Fusion classes are back and resume on Tuesday, January 15th!!!!!

Building on the American Tribal Style (ATS) foundation that Shakti Rowan instilled within the heARTbeat Collective, this class will endeavor to introduce the dancer to the most current ATS-style movements as well as Vadalna improvised fusion movement that can be performed within the ATS format. Who are Vadalna's latest inspirations? Domba, Unmata and Mardi Love to name a few. :-)

Every Tuesday 8:00-9:30pm
35 Wyman Street, Jamaica Plains, MA
www.heARTbeatcollective.org

$12 drop in, $110 for a 10 class card (almost one class free!)
Payments can be made in cash day of class or via PayPal to the following address: INCUSINFO@EARTHLINK.NET. Please place "Tribal Dance" in the subject line!

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Class Updates!!!!!! (Boston)

2007-12-11T03:46:12Z

Beyond ATS Tribal Class UPDATE!
Last class of the session December 18th.

With the Holidays already upon is, it's that time again folks! Time to do some of what we like to call...class SHIFTIN'!!!! Check it....

Classes for this session END on December 18th!!! So ifins you can't get enough of that "Beyond ATS" goodness, you best be comin' out before the 18th!

Classes resume on January 15th where we will begin on new material.

Building on the American Tribal Style (ATS) foundation that Shakti Rowan instilled within the heARTbeat Collective, this class will endeavor to introduce the dancer to the most current ATS-style movements as well as Vadalna improvised fusion movement that can be performed within the ATS format. Who are Vadalna's latest inspirations? Domba, Unmata and Mardi Love to name a few. :-)

Every Tuesday 8:00-9:30pm
35 Wyman Street, Jamaica Plains, MA
www.heARTbeatcollective.org

$12 drop in, $110 for a 10 class card (almost one class free!)
Payments can be made in cash day of class or via PayPal to the following address: INCUSINFO@EARTHLINK.NET. Please place "Tribal Dance" in the subject line!

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Tribal Belly Dance Classes in JP!!!

2007-12-11T03:45:39Z

JP's brand spankin' new tribal classes continue after an first couple of weeks! Want in? Here's the info....

“Beyond ATS” – Tribal Belly Dance with Naraya of Vadalna Tribal Dance Co.

Building on the American Tribal Style (ATS) foundation that Shakti Rowan instilled within the Heart Beat Collective, this class will endeavor to introduce the dancer to the most current ATS-style movements as well as Vadalna improvised fusion movement that can be performed within the ATS format. Who are Vadalna’s latest inspirations? Domba, Unmata and Mardi Love to name a few. :-)

CLASSES ARE ON A CONTINUING BASIS!!! (Woo-hooo!!!!)

Every Tuesday thereafter... 8:00-9:30pm
Classes located at: THE HEARTBEAT COLLECTIVE, 35 Wyman Street, Jamaica Plain,MA
www.heartbeatcollective.org
$12 drop in, $110 for a 10 class card (almost one class free!)
Payments can be made in cash day of class or via PayPal to the following address:
INCUSINFO@EARTHLINK.NET. Please place “Tribal Dance” in the subject line!

Stayed tuned for TRIBAL INTENSIVES!!!
.....advanced workshops to challenge the beginner/intermediate student and to offer a deeper level of study for the advanced.

For More Info Contact: Naraya, Vadalna Tribal Dance Co. vadalna@yahoo.com, www.vadalna.com

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11/ 2-4 DNE weekend in Kingston, NY

2007-10-24T23:27:19Z

DEADLINE & PRICES
The postmark deadline has passed, but we have decided our Paypal deadline is Friday October 26. Register on-line now to get in, we still have some spaces but registration is filling up swiftly!
We decided to not raise the price, but people registering after Oct 26 just may not get meals.
Weekend info is here: http://www.freestylefrolic.org/weekend2007.pdf
On-line registration form is here: http://tinyurl.com/2f75t7

FOOD
Our caterer, Emily needs to know how many people she will be cooking for by 10/26. Emily will be tapping the delicious bounty of the Hudson Valley with a large percentage of locally grown foods. Please let Emily know if you want the Vegan option (added to the form later) - see links

CLASSES & CONCERT INFO
http://newyorkstate.tribe.net/event/FrolicDance-New-England-Weekend-class-descriptions-more/kingston-ny-12401/63e0594a-a03c-440b-b6c6-f240a9447ce0?nextpage=http%3A%2F%2Fnewyorkstate.tribe.net%2Ftemplate%2FHomeListings.vm
If not attending the entire weekend, you may register for individual classes, contact our registrar (on above) links) Meals are not included in class fee. Everyone is welcome to arrive for the Concert Saturday at 8:00pm, which is part of the Frolic.

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New Boston Tribal Classes Cont. THIS WEEK!

2007-10-21T12:53:25Z

JP's brand spankin' new tribal classes continue after an AMAZING first day. Want in? Here's the info....

“Beyond ATS” – Tribal Belly Dance with Naraya of Vadalna Tribal Dance Co.

Building on the American Tribal Style (ATS) foundation that Shakti Rowan instilled within the Heart Beat Collective, this class will endeavor to introduce the dancer to the most current ATS-style movements as well as Vadalna improvised fusion movement that can be performed within the ATS format. Who are Vadalna’s latest inspirations? Domba, Unmata and Mardi Love to name a few. :-)

CLASSES ARE ON A CONTINUING BASIS!!! (Woo-hooo!!!!)

Every Tuesday thereafter... 8:00-9:30pm
Classes located at: THE HEARTBEAT COLLECTIVE, 35 Wyman Street, Jamaica Plain,MA
www.heartbeatcollective.org
$12 drop in, $110 for a 10 class card (almost one class free!)
Payments can be made in cash day of class or via PayPal to the following address:
INCUSINFO@EARTHLINK.NET. Please place “Tribal Dance” in the subject line!

Stayed tuned for TRIBAL INTENSIVES!!!
.....advanced workshops to challenge the beginner/intermediate student and to offer a deeper level of study for the advanced.

For More Info Contact: Naraya, Vadalna Tribal Dance Co. vadalna@yahoo.com, www.vadalna.com

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Website Designer Wanted

2007-10-21T12:48:41Z

Hey Everyone...does anyone know of a website designer extraordinaire that I might contact in the Boston(ish) area? Any info would be much appreciated! -Naraya :-)

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NEW Tribal Classes hit Boston!!!

2007-10-07T01:58:02Z

STAND BACK!!! For God(des) sakes stand back!!!!

A brand spankin' new tribal classes hit Jamaica Plain (Boston)!!! Okay...okay...FINE! Here'e the info:

“Beyond ATS” – Tribal Belly Dance with Naraya of Vadalna Tribal Dance Co.

Building on the American Tribal Style (ATS) foundation that Shakti Rowan instilled within the Heart Beat Collective, this class will endeavor to introduce the dancer to the most current ATS-style movements as well as Vadalna improvised fusion movement that can be performed within the ATS format. Who are Vadalna’s latest inspirations? Domba, Unmata and Mardi Love to name a few. :-)

CLASSES START Oct. 16th!!

Every Tuesday thereafter... 8:00-9:30pm
Classes located at: THE HEARTBEAT COLLECTIVE, 35 Wyman Street, Jamaica Plain,MA
www.heartbeatcollective.org
$12 drop in, $110 for a 10 class card (almost one class free!)
Payments can be made in cash day of class or via PayPal to the following address:
INCUSINFO@EARTHLINK.NET. Please place “Tribal Dance” in the subject line!

Stayed tuned for TRIBAL INTENSIVES!!!
.....advanced workshops to challenge the beginner/intermediate student and to offer a deeper level of study for the advanced.

For More Info Contact: Naraya, Vadalna Tribal Dance Co. vadalna@yahoo.com, www.vadalna.com

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The M room returns!

2007-06-06T02:48:09Z

The M Room
Friday, June 22nd
8pm to Midnight

Opening Ceremony at 8:45pm

Live/DJ'ed Dance Music * Dancing!
Drum Circle * Pot-Luck * Interactive Art
Massage * Closing Meditation

Held at and co-sponsored by the
Center for Conscious Living
471 Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange, NJ(at Eagle Rock Ave).

$10 Entry
Bring a drum, meditation mat/blanket,
healthy finger food to share, dancing feet,
and a smile.

973.728.2112www.theMroom.com <- more details

Connect with us at Tribe: tribes.tribe.net/themroom
Connect with us at MySpace: www.myspace.com/themroom

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The Return of Kenny, Haj & Mikio in an all night global groove exploration

2007-01-20T21:00:05Z

Twas a time when to the delight of many, the dismay of some and the confusion of others, late nights at DNE Summer Camp were transformed from sleep time to shimmering temples of the mythic realms, where waves of electronic funk and the chants of forgotten tribes were woven into extraterrestrial ballrooms and graceful beings of love and light danced through the velvet corridors of night to seduce back the sun at every dawn.

The three primary sonic alchemists of this ritual after many years of happy service in DNE then departed leaving a tradition to be nurtured & developed by many others of unique voice & talent.

Since then Kenny Rhythmystic, Haj and Mikio have performed together and apart in all the corners of this land and at times abroad and the vitality of this music and way of dancing in ritual & community were experienced by many others along their way and were embraced. Most recently Freek Factory, the beloved tribe of said alchemists composed the music for the "East Coast Tribal" BellyDance with Sera DVD which presold 12,000 copies and held the #1 best selling bellydance DVD slot on Amazon for months. A companion CD follows this very month with contributions from Bassnectar, Kraddy, Pedro, SubSwara, David Starfire, Kush Arora and more.

In celebration Rhythmystic, Haj and Mikio will with their fellow musicians and Tribal BellyDance partners will for the first time on the east coast since summer camp 2004 weave once again those shimmering temples of global beats and twilight. This message is a signal fire in the first minutes of dusk seeking to summon those dancing beings of yore (and ALL those whom from their hearts voice are called to the Beat)

thus:

Grandspace hosts Liquid Tribal, Sat. Jan. 27th
(see web flyers in this tribe's gallery)

Grandspace invites you to...
Liquid Tribal: An Exploration of Dance and Psyche
Sat. Jan. 27th 9pm til the dawn and beyond

at Grandspace, 778 Bergen St. Brooklyn
$10 at the door

An alchemy of experimental visionary culture and middle eastern sheik style through the imaginal realms.

The community at Grandspace invites you to join us for a night of dance, wicked beats, performance, and psychic play. We're bringing the music home on Sat. Jan. 27th, "Liquid Tribal: An exploration of Dance and Psyche", a house party to benefit residents and friends of Grandspace.

Soundwizardry for the journey guided by:

Haj (Sub Swara,Freek Factory)
Mikio (Freek Factory, Disorien7)
Rhythmystic (Freek Factory, Beatstream)
Ayo (Mulatta Records)

with live music performances by Spiro, Blacklight, and Mz. Imani

East Coast Tribal Bellydance performance at 10pm with
Sera & Solstice
Vadalna
Darshan
Sarah Locke & Alchemy

celebrating the much-anticipated companion CD and DVD releases....

Freek Factory V.1: The Balance
Bellydance: East Coast Tribal with Sera

Special space lushification and lounge for your psychosensory pleasure. Freek dancers on the prowl. Liquid minds encouraged and fascilitated. Oh, yes. Come play.

Remember who you are.

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Get Up and Dance

2006-12-11T17:18:09Z

Please join my tribe to discuss ways to bring "pre-dancers" out and see if dance has been that missing energy in their life.

http://tribes.tribe.net/getupanddance

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dude, which country is that exactly?

2006-09-12T00:58:35Z

The opening screen says:

"This Tribe is for ALL DNE Members or those who attend DNE style
Dances throughout the country"

Oh dear. I'm not a DNE member (though I do format the annual DNE member
directory every year before camp), nor do I regularly attend dances
"throughout the country", since I dance here in Canada, a rather different
country. The tribe inclusion language excludes dancers from other
countries, which seems odd since many of us Canadians are geographically
closer to the heart of DNE than people in the western states...

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Berimbau Advice?

2006-06-19T03:09:39Z

Hi Folks,
Does anyone know how to assemble a berimbau, or know someone in New York who might? Muchas gracias,
Marty

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INVITE: July Women's Event* Wild WisdomMagicWoods Skills*

2006-06-07T05:02:28Z

Sacred Sisters of the Wild Wisdom
Three open workshops 2-9pm in a beautiful hidden valley 10 minutes from New Paltz, NY. The Center for Symbolic Studies. Summer home of the Freestyle Frolic
Join us for wildcrafting, drumming, chanting, guided meditation, learn to communicate with the faeries, archery, firemaking, moonlore, sacred circle dance, energy work, deep ecology, magick of fragrance, hiking. Stew dinner in a cast iorn cauldren over an open fire. Women's Mysteries and Fun!
July 8,22,29. *2-9 pm $50
overnight camping for $5 a night available
Teen women group Sunday July 9,23,30 - $35 a day 2-9pm
Facilitated by :
Alexandra Tait, CHT, Naturalist, Spiritual Counselor, Professional Healer and Ordained Interfaith Minister. She is also an Archery & Outdoor Skills Instructor.
Lindya Geiger, MA, Expressive Arts Therapist, Reiki & Tantra practitioner, dancer and world explorer.
Pre registration required and more information -remembersisters@yahoo.com or Tribe
845-658-8105
AlexandraTait.com

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come out to California!

2006-05-05T20:24:00Z

hey there, DNE family --

If you'd like to check out California this summer and dance for a week while doing it, I know of two great options. One is the West African drum and dance camp that I just posted a listing about, and the other is NCDC, of course! I'm involved with organizing both of them and can guarantee you a rockin' good time.

If you want more info about NCDC, check out our website at ncdcdances.org -- the first registration cut-off is May 16, so prices go up after that. It's an especially wonderful treat if you're someone who organizes DNE -- this way you can come to a camp that you're not working at. That's what DNE Is for me now, so many thanks to all of you who are making camp happen again in Maine this summer!

be well --

christina

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reminder- DNE Weekend- price goes up on sunday!

2005-11-11T19:43:33Z

Register by Saturday for the lowest price!

FLYER/REGISTRATION FORM AT:
http://freestylefrolic.org/dne.weekend.flyer.pdf

the freestyle frolic community invites you
to a DNE Weekend
november 18-20, 2005
kingston, new york

join us for a weekend of dancing and community-building

Friday:
8:30 pm - 1:00 am Freestyle Frolic! DJs: MARY/MIKIO

Saturday:
11:00 am - 11:30 am Opening Circle
11:30 am - 1:30 pm Dance Your Prayers w/ Root Cuthbertson
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm LUNCH
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm Mixed-level Contact Improv w/ Ellen Jahoda
OR Sacred Circle Dance w/ Alexandra Tait
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm DINNER
8:30 pm - 1:00 am Freestyle Frolic! DJs: DAVE, ROOT & HRANA

Sunday:
11:00 am - 1:00 pm Partner Stretching & Shiatsu w/ Daniel Orlansky
OR Partnering Fusion w/ Danny Trenner
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm LUNCH
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm Council
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Closing Circle

Postmarked by Nov. 12: $65.00: DNE members / $70.00: non-members
[includes 3 meals]
Postmarked after Nov. 12: $85.00: DNE members / $90.00:
non-members [includes 3 meals]
Please register as soon as possible - registration is limited to 100 people!
*some work-exchange opportunities are available - please contact Dana
as soon as possible*
**there will be no official children's or teens' program, but parents
are invited to strategize creatively**
for more info, contact Dana at 845.626.4253 or dana_rudikoff@yahoo.com
--
For more info & directions go to:
http://www.freestylefrolic.org

Thank you,
The Freestyle Frolic

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DNE/FROLIC WEEKEND Nov 18-20 in Kingston, NY

2005-10-26T18:17:17Z

info & flyer at http://freestylefrolic.org/dne.weekend.flyer.pdf

I am so psyched at what Dana has put together!!
great teachers, great classes, great community
Everyone come out and plaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy!

love,
hrana

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7th Annual Women's Belly and Womb Conference

2005-10-11T18:01:51Z

Hello dear DNE family,
A reminder to many of you that I am holding the 7th annual Women's Belly and Womb Conference in Massachusetts on November 5th at Sirius in Shutesbury. Here is the website for more info. http://members.aol.com/alisastar/BellyWombConf2005.html
Thank you for helping me get the word out about it. We are always amazed at what a beautiful day it is in our lives as women. Sheri Winston (Maps of the Clitoris),
Shawna Carol, Shakti Rowan, Opeyemi (Camilla), Julie Woods, and many other wonderful women will be teaching. Thanks again. ALisa

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Anybody Going to Burningman from New England

2005-08-24T02:39:16Z

Hi Everybody,

Eileen Jager has a ticket and she wants to connect with others who are planning the adventure. :)

On the Burningman 2005 list:

Patrick
Kenny
Haj
Eileen
Dana?
?

I'd love to see you guys on the Playa!
Sendin y'all warm West Coast love.

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Would you help me name my book?

2005-06-27T03:32:58Z

I have been busy finishing up my book. I am really excited about how it has turned out. Last weekend, I went to a book marketing conference, and learned all kinds of cool stuff about how to self publish a book.

My biggest problem right now is coming up with a title that is both descriptive and catchy. Will you help me come up with a title? The title is supposed to have two parts, the heart, and the head.
The heart is something juicy that grabs you.
The head is some thing descriptive that explains what the book is about.
Great titles are both tricky to come up with, and very, very important.
I would really appreciate your help.
Below is a description of the book as a whole. At the URL listed, you will find the outline, and the first page of the book. Please give it a look over, and tell me what title you would make you want
To look inside the cover if you saw it in a bookstore.
I'll give you a free copy of the book when it comes out if you can come up with a great title. Heck, if you are the first to come up with a word that is used in the final title, I'll give you a book.

Here are some tips:
How can you describe it without sounding too intellectual.. but intelligent?
What is a title that is catchy, but not kitschy?
The title should imply some kind of coming together,
a synthesis, a merging of some sort.
Fewer words are better.

Here is the way I describe the book as a whole:

This book is an integrative approach to psycho-spiritual transformation. It weaves together philosophies and techniques from a variety of schools of thought in a new way, creating
an overview that touches on many aspects of the human experience. Some of he prevalent resources for information that I have drawn from are Tantric and Buddhist philosophy, Jungian and transpersonal psychology, core shamanism, western mystery school traditions, as well as the new physics, a la 'What the Bleep." It is a holographic approach to personal growth.
The book presents ten basic metaphysical principles, separated into ten chapters. The chapters are organized by principles of numerological correspondences. For example, the first chapter deals with the basic unity of all creation, the second relates to duality and polarity, and so on and so forth.

To find out more or to participate, please go to this URL
http://www.tantricshamanism.com/name.htm

Thanks so much.

Warm regards,
Sylvia Brallier

The Tantric Shamanism Institute
http://www.tantricshamanism.com

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Anyone going to the DNE weekend--this next weekend?

2005-05-31T02:11:35Z

I'm going, Dave & I are DJing Friday at Earthdance!
for more info on the weeknd go to:

http://216.7.189.14/~dancespr/weekend.html

love,
hrana

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Greetings & question

2005-03-20T05:45:45Z

Fabulous! I hadn't realized DNE had a tribe.

I spent a lot of time at Dance Friday and Dance Freedom last summer and while I'm in Santa Barbara I'm a regular at Dance Away. So hello to new friends - and maybe old ones who I'd recognize by their dancing bodies but not by their pix on the membership list?

My question is this - I'm going to be in Montreal next week and don't want to miss my dancing fix (I dance at least once a week but often more like 3 times). I understand there's a CI jam on Wednesday evenings which is too bad because that's one of the few times during the week that I have definite plans. Does anyone know whether there's another CI jam or a barefoot boogie or a Five Rhythms dance or any such thing in Montreal? Seems there must be and it's just not easy to Google . . . My sweetie lives in Montreal so info good beyond this week is also useful.

Thanks! Keep moving *

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Jorelle Pome in hospital

2005-02-16T06:29:33Z

Jorelle-- dark-haired quicksilver who has graced the Frolic's (& DNE's this last camp) dance floor --was in a car accident yesterday, and is still unconscious. Please send thoughts & love her way.

photo of her dancing:
http://jorelle.com/view_doc.php?view_doc=20

there is also a photo of her face on her bio page.
(and more photos on her tribe profile)

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Hey who's our moderator?

2005-02-05T18:01:17Z

Can you have a tribe without one? How do we get a shot of us dancing in the place of the grey dude with the orange question mark without one?

{{{Hi everybody! I love you! - Mikio}}}

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ride upstate on Saturday after Bass Nympho's Ball?

2005-02-05T17:05:16Z

couple of brothers (dawg & shady) needed a ride back up Saturday morning the 12th in the aftermath of the Ball. They're not members in this tribe but they're still cool so I'm cross posting for them. :-)

Message me if you got a ride.

Thanks!

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he Bass Nympho's Ball: Haj & Kenny back to back with California's & DC's shining stars

2005-02-01T16:20:37Z

Hi All,

I'm writing to spread the word of one of our own poised to rocket into the stratosphere and to persuade my tribe to be on hand to dance, party & cheer at the point of lift-off.

Our boy Haji has been busy. Really busy.

Mark Skawler's work of love, the Brooklyn alt-disco "Body Temple" for whom Haj is house beat-meister has been doubling in popularity and buzz in up spiraling 3 month cycles.

NYC underground dance and breaks sites , forums and zines regularly feature Haj's fabric crowned countenance as NYC's clubs find out what DNE and New Paltz have known for years: "When Haj is on the decks the floor blows up."

On Friday February 11th Haj's cadre of creative collaborators "Freek Factory" with host(ess) their first solo event "The Bass Nympho's Ball"

http://www.grandspace.com/events/bassnympho.html

Now this is definitely the only e-list on the planet where I would have mention our brothers Haj and Kenny (Rythmystic) in the header before I invoked the headliner Lorin BASSNECKTAR wunderkind of the Bay Area, Burning Man's favorite DJ, superstar of the rising nu-funk nu-breaks scene.

Fort Knox 5 are on the bill, leaving a flaming trail out of their native DC, with Africa Bambaataa royally guesting on 4 tracks of their internationally acclaimed new CD.

As a matter of fact after 10 years of DJing for y'all theirs not a DJ or crew of the 6 on this bill who I would not be sweating a river having to go on the same stage with.

Then their's the Galaxy Girls: think Goddess, tantra, the body as art, sacred sexual theatre, dance as moving painting and "with hostesses like these who's looking at the DJ?"

Anyway whether you're a veteran Burner or old school DNE tribe who wonders what "those damn fool kidz are up too? (kind of looks like fun)" come and expose yourself in the warmest, fuzziest, sexiest, funkiest, most ecstatic way possible. and support our Brother as he widens the circle of the the community/ritual dance tradition.

Ticket link is below. Looking forward to dancing with you there. Let's show deez kidz what contact improv is, yo!

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/822

$15 for the first 100 sold. $20 after. could be a few of the bargains left.

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Jorelle Pome in hospital

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ride upstate on Saturday after Bass Nympho's Ball?

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