Boston DNE Weekend

Come help us celebrate our journey of change: after thirty years in Watertown we will be saying farewell to this suburb and moving to the more urban Brookline.

Saturday May 31st, the DNE evening Dance will be at the Brookline Tai Chi Center, then thereafter Dance Friday will be in this lovely space every week (starting June 6th).

Dance this Journey of change with us at our DNE weekend.

Thank you - see you soon on the dance floor!


The Dance Friday Community invites you to the Dance New England Weekend!

May 30- June 1st, 2008

The Schedule:

Friday, May 30
Dance Friday, May 30- Phillips School, 30 Common St., Watertown, MA
Parking in the 31 Marshall St. lot
8:00-midnight DJ'd Dance: Mark Landry, Alkemi

Saturday, May 31
Workshops: Unitarian Universalist Church, 35 Church St., Watertown
9:00-10:00 Registration; Opening Circle: Tea and coffee available
10:00-noon Contact Improv - Dey Summer
10:00-noon African Dance - Wyoma
10:00-noon Live Action Role Play (LARP) sword-making; ages 10+. Tyler Bigonet and Alex Cook
10:00-5:00 Open Play: Art, Recess and Snack Ben Cunningham
Lunch: 12:15-1:30 Vegetarian lunch: by Tricia Cooper
1:30-3:00 Journey Dance - Suzy Spivey
1:30-3:00 The Power of Two - Olivier Besson
1:30 5:00 LARP Character Development and Melees; 10+.
3:30-5:00 Salsa Rueda - Danny Trenner
3:30-5:00 Nia - Barbara Niles; kids welcome

Dinner: 5:00-7:00 Off-Campus: Watertown Square or Washington Square, in Brookline.

Dance Setup* 5:30-7:00 Brookline Tai Chi Center 1615 Beacon Street in Brookline

Saturday Evening Dance held at the Brookline Tai Chi Center, 1615 Beacon St., Brookline, 7:30-1am
7:30-8:30 Salsa Rueda - Danny Trenner
8:00-midnight Magic Tournament ages 10 and up; Movie and Card Games in kids' room.
8:30-1:00 DJ'd Dance - David Sheppard and Steve Carter

Sunday, June 1
Sunday Morning Phillips School 30 Common St., Watertown
10:00-11:30 Yoga Dancing Rhythms TM - Margaux Medicine Dancer
10:00-5:00 Magic Tournament continues; 10+
10:00-5:00 Outdoor games - Ben Cunningham (younger kids)
11:30 Lunch
12:30-2:30 Community Meeting
2:30-5:00 Dance Church: Grooving with Gratitude – Community-Led

The Descriptions:

Saturday Classes
35 Church St., Watertown
10:00-noon Wyoma- African healing dance:
COME….We will create a safe space together... sharing our healing stories through dance, music, song, and sweat! Learn dances of initiation and celebration from a master instructor. Only experience necessary... is Life (feel free to bring instruments!).

Wyoma is a dance performance artist and facilitator of the African healing dance. She offers a huge creative canvas to explore the human and divine forces of nature through traditional African, Caribbean, Brazilian dance… and improvisation.

10:30-noon Contact Improv- Dey Summer
"Start the weekend by dropping in to your body, the simple sense of your own shifting weight, balance, and movement through the space in relation to the floor and other moving, sensing beings. Contact Improvisation gives the gift of body awareness and sensitivity for your dancing. Some things we might explore are rolling, following through with the flow of the dance, playing with being off-balance, lifting and being lifted...all in the context of sensing from within, maintaining that connection with self that allows a connection with another."

1:30-3:00 Journey Dance - Suzy Spivey
Experience this high-energy movement process—release, shake loose, let go to freedom. Access your inner power, aliveness, and passionate heart. Burst forth with energy, expand freely into space, vibrate with joy and celebrate your life! Rejuvenate body, mind, and spirit in ritual and prayer dance to create the life you want. Access your inner desires and manifest your dreams! All levels are welcome!

Suzy Spivey shares her passion and joy through dance as a Certified Dance Instructor of Journey Dance™, Kripalu Danskinetics™, Shake Your Soul™, Yoga Trance Dance, and Zumba Dance. Committed to helping others live the life of their dreams, Suzy is the Host & Producer of a local access TV show--Daring to Dream™. She also serves others as a Dream Coach and Inspirational Speaker. For more information, visit suzyspivey.com.

1:30-3:00 *The Power of Two* - Olivier Besson
Improvisational partnering is a compassionate dance of reciprocity. How do we surround a dance with space, allowing it to flower in our presence? Through the practice of following and leading one another, we eventually join forces and evolve the traditional duet format into a simultaneous collaborative gesture.

Olivier is on faculty at the dance division of the Boston Conservatory and teaches regularly at Canal Danse (Paris). He has taught and performed in France, Japan, Russia, Taiwan and throughout the US. He continues to run the Movement Improv Jams with Live Music (Cambridge, MA).

3:30-5:00 Salsa Rueda - Daniel Trenner
Rueda (Wheel) is a Cuban partner passing game that gets us started on the basics of Salsa in a fun and relaxed environment. And, we can have multiple circles to accommodate more experienced dancers. So please come; all levels, with or without a partner, teens and adults, and bring dance shoes or socks.

3:30-5:00 Nia - Barbara Niles; kids welcome
Nia offers both traditional fitness benefits (cardiovascular conditioning, flexibility, strength, balance, endurance, and relaxation) and more esoteric benefits (concentration, playfulness, self-discovery, creativity, and healing).

Barbara Niles is an expressive body-mind movement and lifestyle practice, embracing fitness and health.

Sunday Events

30 Common St., Watertown

10:00-11:30 Yoga Dancing Rhythms TM - Margaux Skalecki Medicine Dancer
On the mat, we begin with a luscious warm-up to connect to and awaken our inner and outer landscapes. Off the mat, we step into deeper sensations and explorations of the expressive and divine self as while as the performing artist. All levels are welcome; adults and teens. Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Free Style Movement, Roth 5 Rhythms, and Jazz Dance Combination. Bring yoga mat and dancing shoes/feet and extra layers of clothing.

Margaux Skalecki Medicine Dancer, a master facilitator MFA, RYT, Certified 5 Rhythms teacher, Reiki Master, Medium and Shamanic Agent of Change is also the director of Being Seen Being Heard, a multicultural and intergenerational performance ensemble that she created to build bridges to all ages. For 28 years, Margaux has been offering her workshops as pathways to transformation, divine connection, and making dreams come true. Some of these shape shifting workshops are Dance Your Sacred Journey, Ecstatic Vision Quest, Wild Women Dancing the Art of Dream Change, Sweat Your Prayers and Star Dance Rising. For more info please see dancingoutloud.com

12:30-2:30 Community Meeting, with lunch break.
All are encouraged to attend!

Topic for discussion: This is our year of not living dangerously… wearing clothing at DNE summer camp 2008. Creative approaches to non-nudity, how DNE can turn lemons into lemonade.

The DNE community meeting is open and free for anyone, If you have registered for the weekend or not. DNE is a special non- profit organization: our community meetings are a great place to get a taste of DNE governance and how we operate! Both locally and for DNE Summer camp!

3:00-5:00 Dance Church Grooving with Gratitude - Community-Led
Join us for our last event in Watertown after 30 years Dance Friday is moving on. Come move with us. Exploring sacred, transcendent music, letting it take us on our individual and collective journeys and find inner peace, Come raise your spirits, shake your soul, and give thanks!