Global Grooves

Start your day with the fun-fun-fun of dance!

• No memorizing, following, concentrating on the right steps
• Sweat, move, and go wild for an amazing workout…like Cross-Fit!
• No teacher, no method, no choreography
• Dance like nobody’s watching
• Move your body differently than you ever move it for the entire rest of the week
• Drop your inhibitions
• Dance out your feelings, whatever they are–express yourself!
• Connect with other humans without talking
• Be inspired by fabulous, eclectic, sometimes familiar, engaging music
• Participate in a group while doing your own thing
• Make new friends
• Practice keeping your personal boundaries and then letting go of them, whatever feels right
• Experiment with expressing yourself physically in brand new ways
• Steal dance moves from other people
• Stretch, do your yoga moves, meditate, rest
• Community!
• Freedom

  Listen to the fusion of disparate musical styles in ways that are only possible from a globalized, multicultural perspective. The results can range from Westernized pop or dance music to wild, genre-hopping global experimentalism. Free-form dance is very simply, people dancing with no planned steps or moves, no choreography, no memorization, no goals, no expected form or sequence. We play a wide and eclectic, dance-able range of music  from around the globe. Dance together or Alone!. You might hear tunes from any era in which music has been recorded! The genre will be wide….and you can be sure that it will be very danceable and very fun! People participating in the dance may move in any way they want, jump, spin, skip, do ballet, modern, hip hop, freestyle, swing, tap (with invisible tap shoes), clown, dubstep, contact dance or salsa. People might also lie down, hold still, freeze, move very slowly, do yoga, stretch, or sit quietly for parts of the dance. Any dancing movement that comes from you is welcome. You may find a partner spontaneously and dance with that person. You may find three or four partners, or dance in a large group. A circle may form of fellow dancers. You may connect and move apart right in the middle of the same piece of music. You can make physical contact with other dancers, or never make any, and choose partners or choose none. Of course as ever be safe, hang tough and feel better. You are not in this alone. Healing can be fun. It is also a great workout. You can be totally pumped up without alcohol or drugs. However if that is your thing, that is fine with me. Dancing can be sooooo good. 

When you’re feeling down on yourself, do you ever put on music to lift your spirits? If the answer is yes, you are certainly not alone. Music has the power to brighten our mood, reframe our perspective, and turn that frown upside down.  At times this stream will be old school World Music, Reggae, Dance, Fusion and more. Others it may be Shamanic, Fusion, Dance, Electronica, Ambient. After 2020 I can only guess where we are going! "Woyaya" 

 From the song by Osibisa. A song I love and use as inspiration. As 2021 comes around I look forward to a New Year and many fresh starts.  We are going, heaven knows where we are going, but we know within. and We will get there, heaven knows how we will get there, but know we will. yes We will get there, heaven knows how we will get there, but know we will.It will be hard we know And the road will be muddy and rough, But we'll get there, heaven knows how we will get there, but We know we will. woyaya, woyaya, woyaya, woyaya, woyaya, woyaya, woyaya, woyayaWe are going, heaven knows where we are going, but we know within and We will get there, heaven knows how we will get there, but know we will.

It will be hard we know And the road will be muddy and rough, But we'll get there, heaven knows how we will get there, but We know we will. woyaya, woyaya, woyaya, woyaya, woyaya, woyaya, woyaya, woyaya woyayadiyaya, woyaya, woyayadiyaya, woyaya, woyaydiyaya, woyaya, woyayadiyaya.