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CLASSES & EVENTS

For more information on any of the following events
or to be on the mailing list, please call (857) 544-3583
or e-mail dancingoutloud@yahoo.com.

The SACRED LINK connects the ancient practices of yoga, dance and healing. We
awaken and breathe deeply into a vivid and focused connection to the body, mind and
spirit. Within The Sacred Link we are individuals holding space on our yoga mat, our
prayer mat. Together we step onto the sacredness of the dance floor our movements
invite us to trust ourselves in the journey through time and space. The healing sounds of
our voices create a profound community for the healing circle. Each of these ancient
practices, are already rooted in our DNA. Sometimes we just need to remember the
power within.

Flow Yoga, Movement, Sound Healing, The Roth 5 Rhythms ™,
and Healing Circle. This gathering is open to all people who are
ready to journey into this sacred link that offers bliss and healing
for all Beings. Please bring a yoga mat, a journal, water (soft soled
shoes if you like, other wise dance barefoot) and of course your
curiosity.

STAR DANCE RISING ™
Improvising and Shape-Shifting with Spirit

First Monday of the month (October through June)
8:00-9:30 p.m.
LIVE MUSIC!
No Dance on Mon. May 5th. (Dance Complex Closed)
Next Dance on Mon. June 2nd.

"There is more to see here then what meets the eye! There is more to see here, I am willing to try. I call to mother and father sky to paint us with vision and to see through their eyes. I seek protection, I am filled with love I ask for guidance I am shown the flight of doves. My body is dancing as I move with the stars, my body keeps dancing as I step on Jupiter and Mars There is more to see here then what meets the eye. There is more to see here, I am willing to try." (MMD)

We are made of pure vibration, there is no doubt about it. We are fully able to rise up into the star dust and gold we are made of and shape shift into whole health, balance and bliss. As we let go of what appears to be the truth and dance into pathways much more sacred and profound we spontaneously rise up to higher levels of conscious creativity. We deepen and trust our intuitive connection to all life. Clearer focus and compassion is offered up to us as we find out what truly matters to us as we continue to be the keepers of the earth.

Star Dance Rising an experiential gathering may include structured and unstructured warm-ups, yoga, dance, improvisation, journeying, journeying, chanting and The Roth 5 Rhythms ™ Wear comfortable clothes , bring journal & curiosity.

Please feel free to bring an object or photo of someone or something that needs healing/energy to place on the healing altar.

Your musical guides: Andy Bergman, David Hero, Grant Smith & Margaux Medicine Dancer and guests

Location:
The Dance Complex
536 Massachusetts Avenue
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
(on the Red Line)
For directions call 617-547-9363
www.dancecomplex.org

NEW SPRING 8 WEEK SESSION BEGINS
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
(no class during Brookline School vacation)

Creative Movement/Pre-Ballet/ Yoga

2:30 p.m. - 3:20 p.m. ................. ages older 3-5
3:30 p.m. - 4:20 p.m. ................. ages 5-7

Explore spatial awareness, tempo, directions, observation, listening & leadership skills, movement, song, fundamentals of dance, yoga postures and even spelling. Tons of Fun!

Facilitator: Margaux Skalecki, MA (Click for bio)

Location:
Brookline Tai Chi
1615 Beacon Street (Washington Square)
Brookline, MA

Cost:
Full Session - $110 per child

For More Information, Please:
Call (857) 544-3583
E-Mail DancingOutLoud@Yahoo.com

Ants in The Pants Dance ™ for KIDS presents

A Teacher's Path
Magical Movement for Children

A Two Day Workshop (One Level)
Saturday & Sunday
April 14th & 15th, 2007

A gathering/training of like minded persons who would like to enrich their own lives while they are creating space for the flourishing of our next generations.

While you are learning more about teaching children you will also have the opportunity to learn more about your own expressive, creative and fun side. When we feel confident and alive with our own free- spirited self it is easy to create the space for all types of children to find their own empowered, confident expressive self. My aim is to support and inspire you to become the best teacher you can be. And as a teacher of children you not only teach the creative/performing arts you also wear many hats including teacher, student, mommy, daddy, mediator, band-aid giver, hugger, leader, listener, provider of inspiration, tear wiper, psychologist, boundary keeper, manners reminder, artist, choreographer, singer, actor, visionary, etc, etc., and you may wear most of these hats within one class. Phew! We really do all have the capacity to wear all of these hats - it just takes practice and practice and then some more practice. In this especially designed course you will have many possibilities to practice.

Our world is getting faster and faster and more and more mechanical with a lot of sitting and sitting and eyes glazing over as our children gaze at the windows of computers, videos/games, TVs, etc.... It is important to continue to provide environments where kids can explore the magic of movement, dance, song, physical- expression, etc.

This course also gives you the opportunity to become one of the keepers (or enliven who you are as a keeper already) of the magic, sparkle and grace that a teacher of children automatically receives...When you work with children you shine! And as you shine you will continue to inspire children and yourself to keep dancing into the shining light that they/you already are!

f you are interested or know someone who is ready for this adventure please contact me at (857) 544-3583 or MMedicineDancer@Yahoo.com.

Location:
Brookline Tai Chi
1615 Beacon Street (Washington Square)
Brookline, MA

Dates & Times:
Saturday, April 14.... 2:00 pm-7:00 pm
Sunday April 15........12:00pm-5:00 pm

Cost:
Pre-registration required...$160 before March 24, $185 after that
Work Materials included

For More Information, Please:
Call (857) 544-3583
E-Mail DancingOutLoud@Yahoo.com

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I Believe in Faery Folk Day
Saturday, October 14, 2006
12:30 - 3:30 p.m.

On this special day we will build faery houses, decorate yummy things to eat, and have a faery tea party with songs and story dances. If you are a boy or a girl or believes in the Faery Folk, come and join in on the fun.
Feel free to wear your wings, pointed hats, and pointed shoes.

Facilitator: Margaux Skalecki, M.A.

Location:
We will meet near Jamaica Pond - More information upon registration.

Cost:
Pre-registration required - $39 per child

Send Check or Money Order to:
Margaux Skalecki
P.O. Box 400-852
Cambridge, MA 02140

For More Faery Information, Please:
Call (857) 544-3583
E-Mail MMedicineDancer@Yahoo.com

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Ecstatic Vision Quest
I am the deep breath before you leap off the edge into your gut level of power, beauty, and bliss.

Here in our dance we find reason, we find worth and talents to be shared. Ecstatic Vision Quest invites us into sacred moments where we find the heartbeat of our feet and the music of our souls. We dance into new visions that await us on our journey into the unknown wilderness of possibilities for our communities and ourselves. As we give ourselves permission to be the seeker on a vision quest, we let go, and become clearer vessels filled with health, creativity, and intuition. This experiential workshop is open to all, the only thing you need is a sense of willingness and curiosity. To guide us on our quest we will bring in dance, improvisation, yoga, guided journeys, ceremony and other treats.

Where: The Dance Complex 536 Mass Ave Central Sq
When, Cost: Stay tuned...

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Wild Women ™
Dancing The Art of Dream Change

This workshop supports each individual in a safe, non- judging sacred space. A class that invites you to dream it & do it! The time is ripe to give our wildness permission to step forward and become clear vessels so that our dreams and creativity flourish in the here and now!

We will find our dreams in movement, yoga, meditation, dialoging, living theater, improvisation and more. We will conclude our time together with a celebration and a rite of passage.

STAY TUNED!

For More Information, Please:
Call (857) 544-3583
E-Mail MMedicineDancer@Yahoo.com

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Sweat Your Prayers ™ (On Hiatus... Stay Tuned)
Ecstatic Dance Jam
LIVE MUSIC!

There is a divine prayer in each step that we take. We are sounding boards, tuning forks that invigorate the universe to take notice. We are light and shadow, and we are the ones we have been waiting for. It will not be the other person who will make a difference. It is you and the dance, and your dance, and your commitment to show up and move! Who is to say when it will happen, that moment when we take a stand and let go of what we think we know, and move into the possibility of taking a chance that movement will move us... that our prayers will be answered even when our faith has gone on holiday without even a note of departure.

"To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of our innermost self. The more you pray, the closer you come to ecstasy."
- G. Roth

Your musical guides: Andy Bergman, David Hero, Grant Smith & Margaux Medicine Dancer and guests

Open to all people who are on or seek a journey of a spiritual path and desire co-create an ecstatic ceremony From this sacred space we dance into intentions of healing, shape-shifting and the commitment to be the change we want to see in the world. , Come to shake it out, shake it in, have fun, get grounded or come to fly. Come to deepen your practice of the Roth 5 Rhythms™ come to bring your yoga practice to the dance floor. Come dance alone or with others.

Please feel free to bring an object or photo of someone or something that needs healing/ energy to place on the healing altar.

Location:
The Dance Complex
536 Massachusetts Avenue
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
(on the Red Line)
For directions call 617-547-9363
www.dancecomplex.org

The Westwoods
590 Gay Street, Westwood
Call (781) 329-0711

Thursday 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

Inner Strength
309 Main Street, Watertown
Call (617) 924-0111

Tuesday 5:45 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday 7:15 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

The JP School of Dance
284 Amory Street, Jamaica Plain

10-Week Session begins October 10th ($100 for 10-Classes).
Pre-Registration Required. Call (857) 544-3583.
$5 Trial Class on October 3rd.

Tuesday 7:15 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.

Forever Fit
191 Watertown Street (in the Stop & Shop plaza)
Newton, MA
Call (617) 964-1188

For Info on Private, Semi-Private, & Corporate Classes, Please Call (857) 544-3583.
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Being Seen Being Heard is an intergenerational, multicultural and mixed abilities performance ensemble. The cast members range from ages 5 to 85. In all life there are continuous rites of passages. Let us be part of the honoring of these rites with a concert filled with dance, improvisation, song, and theater that builds bridges to connection, communication and fun.

For many years Margaux observed how the creative arts built community, communication, artistic collaboration, trust, and deep fun when various generations of new and seasoned performers were brought together by dance, singing, theater and improvisation. No matter what one's age, we all need to be Seen and Heard. And Margaux believes that there is performer in each and every one of us. And, if we look closely, most adults have rich, child-like spirits, and children have a lot of wisdom that goes way beyond there young years. Put these ingredients together and magic happens.

Creative movement, Pre-Ballet, and Yoga will be the vehicle to explore self-expression, spatial awareness, tempo, direction, observation & leaderships skills, imagination, songs, fundamentals of dance, dance, dance!!!

Location: Brookline Music School (See contact info below)

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Dance and Yoga Classes for Kids & Adults

"Music & More" summer program for ages 3-7

Call (617) 277-4593 ext 235 Teri for more information
or visit www.bmsmusic.org

kids must be accompanied by adult....ages 5 and up suggested
Wear clothes to boogie in, soft soled shoes or bare feet.
Our free style dance jam includes a warm-up and a cool down.

July Dance Jam and Jelly Roll

In this wonderful open space a time to gather is afoot. A time to dance on your feet, roll close to the earth and dance more towards the sky. A time for old friends to greet and to meet someone new. Come alone or bring two, it is time to schmooze, have a snack and just relax. July is a time for that!

You musical guides: Andy Bergman, Grant Smith, Margaux Medicine Dancer and guests of Sweat Your Prayers tm ecstatic dance jam.

Come & join the band weave it's musical magic & soulful rhythms onto the dance floor and into the night!

17 Spring Street in Watertown Sq near CVS parking lot ( you can park there too) we are next door to Verona restaurant ....8:00 pm-11:00 pm Sliding scale ...$9- $20

Music and ecstatic dance guide us to the sacred space of feeling alive in our bodies. The ancient rhythms of our hearts and breath pulsate to the beat of the drums as we unwind into the power of the dance. In this workshop we focus on the Roth 5 Rhythms™ of movement, flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness. The only way to dance the Roth 5 Rhythms is your way. This is possible because each rhythm is a state of being that invites you to move until you are moved. And as we dance in each moment of movement, our energy and states of consciousness rise to higher levels of release, balance, possibility and divine waves of celebration. This class invites all seekers, teens and adults from all walks of life who wish to explore and experience free-spirited connections to the body, mind and soul.

Dancing Out Loud is an improvisational and structured lab that invites participants to dance into the unanticipated possibilities of our innate dynamic expression. As we arrive at the depths of intuitive connection, our inner most voices begin to surface and the sacred space of writing begins. As artists and seekers we dance the daily and the divine parts of ourselves. We create pathways for the untold stories and poems that await our pen in hand to make contact with the waiting sheets of paper.

This workshop is open to anyone who has an desire to dip more deeply into themselves and the blessed and transformational spaces when we are seen and heard.

This is a class that gives you a chance to chill out, stretch out and heat up. The practice of yoga brings us to a place of relaxation and deep breathing. We then focus on an ecstatic, aerobic body warm-up and a jazz dance combination. As we bring focus, breath and movement to places within us, we experience bodies full of life and energy. Some movement background helpful but not required.

Waves: The Roth 5 Rhythms ™ Practice
(A Weekly Class)

About Waves:
Ecstatic Dance for Body & Soul In WAVES we explore the dynamic practice of the 5Rhythms. This cathartic form of ecstatic dance is a workout for body and soul - a moving meditation - a spiritual practice where we "sweat our prayers." Gabrielle Roth has developed the 5Rhythms dance practice over a lifetime of study in dance, theater and the healing arts. Entering into the rhythms of (Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, Stillness) is to embark on a pilgrimage of self-revelation rooted in action and movement. When we free the body, the heart begins to open. When the body and heart taste freedom, the mind won't be far behind. And when you put the psyche into motion, it will start to heal itself. This practice is for elders and young people, passionate dancers and reserved toe-tappers, people who like to show off and those who can barely show up, survivors of bad backs, bum knees or broken hearts. The only goals are moving until we are moved, finding the still point within and becoming free spirits once again.

About the Teachers:
Gabriella Salvatore and Margaux Skalecki are were both trained and certified by Gabrielle Roth. They both have been teaching since 1997.

Sacred creative space unfolds as we celebrate and honor the profound mystery of life and death and those who have come before us, ourselves, and those who will come after us. This class is open to all people of all ages. Live music, the Roth 5 Rhythms^TM, deep listening, improvisation, ritual theater and other treats will evoke the creativeness of each moment.

“As a spirit dancer I have a vision where past and future step forward when we have an ongoing trust of the present moment. Each step is a new moment where we can dance into the possibility of communication with our ancestors and receive answers to asked or unasked questions. Trusting ourselves to dance with spirit into the invisible spaces and acknowledge these unknown spaces as guides and angels, we make the choice to just be curious and rooted. As we follow our dancing feet in the moment, we journey into our own energetic states of grace. In this sacred space we feel our connectedness and oneness with all, and the purity of our ecstatic heart invites us to feel the lightness and lengthening of our own wings which have always been with us.”