When necessary, our facilitators swap dances or bring in substitute facilitators. For the most up-to-date information, please check event invitations posted a few days before each dance on the Ashland Dance Community facebook page.
Dinah Breakell
Dinah Breakell
The Dance Ground
4th Sunday 9-11am
Studio Z in Ashland
Dance Medicine
2nd Wednesday 8-10pm
The Dance Space, Ashland
ABOUT DINAH:
My dance lineage birthed out of 5Rhythms, Continuum and Contact Improvisation, the movement teachings that have been my dance practice education for the past 20 years.
My biography and biology change each time my feet meet the floor, to practice the dance of letting go, dissolving and returning again to the beautiful mystery of being alive in a body. I love creating an inspiring musical journey, holding a safe and fun space so we can dance together with abandon, alive and pulsing with the full human experience...to practice the art of deep listening in the living community web that dance weaves. To share our joy, loss, celebration, prayer, wildness, stillness. My gratitude is without end...for the happiness of dancing our lives together and the sacredness of our dance as a way to heal ourselves. Surrender to your warm animal body, let's dance!
Ryan Ginn
The Dance Ground
1st Sunday 9-11am
Studio Z in Ashland
ABOUT RYAN:
Ryan is a trained Dancing Freedom Facilitator, a Contact Dance enthusiast and magical weaver of the full spectrum of world music. He strives to create a grounded, sacred (yet not too serious) atmosphere for dancers to fully arrive in their body, their heart and their soul.
Over the years he has refined the art of orchestrating a gentle and smooth ramp up to wild ecstatic dance expression. Nothing gives him more pleasure than to see a roomful of dancers losing it to the music he put together.
Sarah Bly
Dance Medicine
First and Third Wednesday nights 8-10pm
The Dance Space
ABOUT SARAH:
Sarah, AKA 'DJ Honey' is wildly in love with dancing and the exquisite creative potential of of these delicious bodies we inhabit. She is devoted to practicing and teaching others various ways of listening to the body and to the earth to receive the deep wisdom and joy they offer. She has studied various dance modalities, both choreographed and free-form for over 20 years, but finds her love of dance most rooted in the Gabrielle Roth's five rhythms practice. She shapes her dances and her diverse musical sets for deep personal refection as well as community celebration of embodiment and life. She was trained as a dance facilitator by Carola Marashi (BodyChoir) in 2009 and has been offering bi-monthy dances in the Ashland community since then. Sarah is also a women's health educator and a trained midwife (www.graceofthemoon.com). Sarah is also availalbe for guest DJ'ing on the west coast and welcomes your inquiry!
Victor Warring
Dance Medicine and
Dance Ground
ABOUT VICTOR: Sound & Movementscape Artist
VONOBO (Victor) has been a sound and movementscape artist for over a decade sculpting movement landscapes for human primates at many levels from large, 300 dancer tribal ecstatic dances to quiet, intimate somatic explorations of self and other. He considers himself a somatic anthropologist and brings this intelligence to the work/play of inviting people deeply into their dance experience. VONOBO’s background also includes somatic psychology, group facilitation, contact improvisation, theatre/stage improvisation, relationship & sexuality coaching. His joy is to provide opportunities for we apes to dive deeper into our connection to self, to the world and with each other; bypassing the modern, cognitive cultural defenses we have crafted that limit our sense of community and possibility.
Kristyl Heineken
The Dance Ground
2nd Sunday morning 9-11am
Studio Z in Ashland
Dance Medicine
4th Wednesday 8-10 pm
The Dance Space, Ashland
ABOUT KRISTYL:
Kristyl has been dancing since she was in the womb. After 7 years of dance training growing up, she ventured out of the Rocky Mountains to find home in The Ashland Conscious Dance Community. Kristyl has been a facilitator in Ashland for over three years now. Much inspiration for the playlists comes from local roots community artists, deep rhythmic soul jams, and popular eclectic songs. The Dance Ground,and Dance Medicine are both safe spaces held with the invitation to anchor in and explore the magic of our own rhythm and cells. With the deep practice of listening within and embodying change, we open to receive support from our community field. All are welcome. There is always an altar to drop in with and the knowing and hope that everyone will take good care of their bodies however feels most authentic.
Eden Luz
The Dance Ground
Sunday 9-11am
Studio Z in Ashland
ABOUT EDEN:
Eden is a little busy being a mother and will get right back to us with her photo and bio