tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40381707857254588812012-01-08T12:29:27.541-08:00a conscious-dance celebrationJulia Lyn Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07628119497947358739noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4038170785725458881.post-87150189891167050762009-07-20T07:03:00.000-07:002012-01-08T12:29:27.552-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">New to the Dance? Check out the 'What to Expect' lower right column</span></span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span><span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-weight: bold;font-family:'lucida grande';font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">Next Monthly DanceIn at Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast 7pm-9pm:</span></span></span></span><div><span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b><br /></b></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: 'lucida grande'; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> Friday 27 Jan, 24 Feb, 23 March 2012</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: 'lucida grande'; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: 'lucida grande'; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " >Next DanceIN in Beautiful Ravensdale, between Dundalk and Newry at</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 130%; "><span><span><span>Ravensdale Community Centre</span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> ~ 8-10pm </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 21px; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-family: arial; ">Wed 18 January 2012</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Arriving on time enables us </span>ALL<span style="font-style: italic;"> to <span>be FREE</span> of distractions</span></span><br /></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Doors open <span style="font-weight: bold;">7:00pm</span>: for group warm-up at</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">7:10</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:130%;">pm</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);">SHARP<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">Please arrive and be settled by that time or catch us next month</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);">: )</span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:130%;">We continue until <span style="font-weight: bold;">9pm</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);font-size:130%;">Door's close once we begin (<span style="font-style: italic;">its a stay in the room, bring bottle of water kinda thang</span>)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">LOCATION</span>:</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">the BEAUTIFUL refurbished reopened CRESCENT ARTS CENTRE<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">2-4 University Road, Belfast <a href="http://www.crescentarts.org/about/opening-hours-maps/">www.crescentarts.org/about/opening-hours-maps/</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Drop-in when you choose dance price now £8.50</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">(<span style="font-size:100%;">concession £5</span>)</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">/13 euro</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>Do you need a partner?</i> Not for this! Come as you ARE! Friends welcome, yet be free to have your own experience.<br /></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">For fun and inspiration:</span> Check this site again before each dance to get a flavor of the theme</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">All welcome ~ no one will be turned away for cost, contact me<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">*********************************************************</span><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"></span></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4038170785725458881-8715018989116705076?l=ecstaticdancein.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Julia Lyn Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07628119497947358739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4038170785725458881.post-63150510946046926382009-05-07T02:03:00.000-07:002011-07-17T04:01:55.565-07:00<span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">MAY DAYS BE DANCING<br />In the Spirit of the Ancestors of this land rich in legend and lore, the Invitation is to Dress To Impress the Queen of the Fae or the King of the Wood...OR BOTH of course!</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Festive Inspired Dress</span> welcome and encouraged~not at the expense of free movement but as a tool to PLAY INTO BEING aspects, angles, elementals, (you name it)....YOU wish to explore.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">This can come about by intentionally wearing/bringing something that you feel inspired by OR perhaps, just grabbing something or putting on what jumps out and then seeing how It moves you...</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">DANCE DATES: Please Honor the Time frames</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">FRIDAY 8 MAY </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:100%;" >Southbank Playhouse</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">SUNDAY 17 MAY The Rowing Club, GALWAY 9:30-11:30pm</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">****************************************************************************</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >JUNE</span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">CRYSTAL MOON - DANCE IN JUNE</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Celebrating Crystal Sun ~ Preparing for Summer Solstice</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">We gather in the Realm of Possibility</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">In the Round we table our truth...</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">A powerful day to share our adventures... in the Dance</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Inspired Fancy Dress (see above)</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">IF your NOT inspired to fancy dress- FINE! come get inspired</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">Get SOLAR-IZED!</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);">solar eyes</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">sol arize</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Midsummer Magic stirs in the glade...friends of the fae still welcome!<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">FRIDAY 12 JUNE </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Southbank Playhouse </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">7:30-9:45pm</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">£5 (or exchange-no one turned away)</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">(offered through Crescent Arts Centre) Kimberly Drive, off Sunnyside Street, off the Ormeau Road- South Belfast - ALL welcome</span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Doors close once we begin...(its a stay in the room the whole time bring a water bottle kinda thang)<br /></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">18 September, Autumn Equinox, Celebrating the Harvest of ALL the universe has to offer, we are invited to explore balance...and prepare for the next cycle of winters embrace.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">23 October, We near the last harvest, the summer's end...drawing towards the new Celtic year and the Festival of the Dead...celebrating and releasing into the 'dark' half of the year</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">11 December, 10 more days until the Sun stops, before the slow journey back upwards begins...we dance IN the joy of releasing into the darkness...embracing stillness<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">05 February 2010, Loving ourSelves pre-valentine style while Celebrating the fire and snowdrops of Brigid - goddess ...saint... powerful archtype</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">05 March, Warming towards Spring...thawing the bones...Claiming the Heat...Opening Heart<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">14 May, Dance In the Beauty of the Flowers, the Fey, and the reopened Crescent Arts--wow! Bring some blossoms...if you fancy...reminding us to stretch open to the Sun *</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">18 June, Celebrating the Inner Sun dancing in the fire of becoming</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">10 Sept, </span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">Autumn berry bliss speaks sweet invitation,<span style="font-style: italic;"> angel</span> wings calling... OPEN, RECEIVE, FLY!!!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);">2 Oct, </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);">Hips &amp; Haws, oooze &amp; aaahs...5 year anniversary dance calling YOU awake, shake, awake!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">5 Nov The Elderberry ripens...Honoring Elders, Celebrate the Dead, the last harvest, the beginning of the dark half the year...Costumes encouraged~what aspect(s) would you like to play?</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">3 Dec</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-style: italic;">Take a moment for YOU to celebrate the inward spiral, acknowledge the dancing flame, access the gratitude...to express and share this season*</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">4 Feb </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);font-family:lucida grande;" ><span><span>Celebrate the hint of spring lightness resurrecting from the cold... at the turning of the season honoring Saint/Goddess Brigid in our dance of healing, poetry in motion.<br /><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);font-family:lucida grande;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 204);"> 5 Mar</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);font-family:lucida grande;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 204);"><span> Celebrating Mother...on all levels...entering into power of Spring Whispers...breaking ground on our inner garden</span></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br />1 April </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);font-family:lucida grande;" ><span>Spring forth~Play the Fool~Surprise YourSelf</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Georgia,serif;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128); line-height: 15px; font-weight: normal;font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;" > 6 May Freeing the body </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; font-weight: normal;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);font-family:Arial;" >Welcoming the Sun </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);font-family:Arial;" >Weaving a Vision United Unique</span></span></span></span><br /></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"></span></div><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">1 July Rainy SUN Shine! Rainbow Waters Dancing through Me, I Sway, Spin and Dive Deep</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4038170785725458881-6315051094604692638?l=ecstaticdancein.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Julia Lyn Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07628119497947358739noreply@blogger.com