Day of Dance Benefit

Join us for a vibrant day of dance while championing our fundraising drive in support of Bombyx. Enjoy a full menu of daytime classes and evening DJ sets featuring some of the Valley’s finest. Join for as much or as little as you’d like—every step you take supports the work we’re doing together. This event is powered entirely by generosity: with all teachers and DJs donating their time out of love for dance, art, and community.

No dance experience necessary. Just a willingness to move and be moved. Please bring water, and wear clothes you are comfortable moving in.

Daytime Dance Classes (11 am - 5 pm)

11 am - 1 pm: 5Rhythms® is a simple movement practice designed to release the dancer that lives in every body, no matter what its shape, size, age, limitations and experience. This practice itself is simple, there are no steps to follow. We dance not for a mastery of the practice, and not to “look good” — but for the medicine this practice brings. The class is guided by a certified teacher, who offers prompts, invitations and/or guided exercises to bring dancers deeper into the practice. We explore each of the 5 rhythms – Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness. The 5Rhythms experience is somewhat like ecstatic dance that is held in an intentional and spiritual container where participants can experience and meet new parts of themselves simply by engaging in movement.

1:30-3:00 pm: Journeydance™ is a guided practice set to music. A dance ceremony for your body and soul that has nothing to do with learning steps or being a “good” dancer, and everything to do with re-discovering your own natural and intuitive movement. In this transformational dance form, freestyle and guided movement come together to help you get out of your mind and into your body. Journeydance moves you through a deep, personal exploration that brings you into a more loving and intimate relationship with yourself, and therefore the world. No dance experience necessary. Just a willingness to move and be moved. This workshop is for adults.

3:15-5:00 pm: Biodanza is a gentle and powerful integrative system promoting human development both personal and collective, originally developed in Chile during the 1960's and now a global movement. Each class journeys through dances that connect with everyday life, catalyzed with carefully-chosen inspiring music from around the world. These are invitations into “vivencia,” vividly lived present moments which create a cascade of experiences opening up new ways of relating with ourselves, each other, and the world around us. A pathway to reclaim what’s most life-giving and discover new ways of moving through life, learning how to live together as human beings, and celebrating and building on all the good. Come dive in for two hours of restorative play and community care that return us to our most essential selves and create ripples far beyond our time together. ¡Bienvenides todes!

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Evening Activities (7 - 10 pm)

6:00 - 7:00 pm: Contact Improv dance is an honoring of every moment. There is a sweet surrendering that happens when our bodies stay faithful to what is happening now, and now... and NOW! In this workshop we learn to recognize and differentiate the subtle impulses in our choices and our partner's choices. We begin to decipher the cues that we give and receive which tell us when to lead or follow, when to go up, when to go down, where to touch, how to lift, when to slow down, and when to be still. Learn to stay in integrity with each choice, never forcing, never rushing. When Body, Mind, and Spirit are united in their instinctive wisdom we find our-selves at home in every moment expressing our true nature.

7:00 -10:00pm: Dance with DJs. Close out the night with three hours of dance with DJs Father Otter and Brando.