WANDERING IN THE WILDERNESS YEAR 4 PERFORMANCES

For our fourth year of wandering in the wilderness we are prioritizing ease and intimacy. Our year 3 performances of Seder Apokálypsis were a wonderful explosion of creativity, but also took a great deal of energy, resources, organizing, and emotional processing. We’re pulling back in scale in order to reconnect to some of the core values of this process.

We are offering monthly participatory performances called Wandering in Circles (on purpose), usually held on Saturday evenings in the CSU East Bay PE 140 Dance Studio from 7 – 9pm. These circles are open to all who want to attend and participate. The performance each month emerges out of who shows up, what they are feeling and thinking about, and how the Spirit moves us as a fluid, inclusive community

Check out some excerpts of recent circles here:

Wandering in Circles (on purpose) #5 – excerpt

Wandering in Circles (on purpose) #4 – excerpt

We usually have a basic improvisation structure planned for each circle, but the reality of the unfolding is that it’s always different and more alive than we could have anticipated.

You are welcome to just show up. You can watch, listen, join-in, nap, snack, meditate, or just practice being in Presence with whatever is arising.

You are also welcome to let us know if you have performance material you’d like to share, exercises you’d like to lead, or just inspirations for the evening you are attending. We especially love when someone brings a poem or a dance or a song, and asks other artists present to accompany with their particular artistic form. For instance, if someone brings a poem and asks someone in the circle to accompany with music and another person to move to the poem, etc.

If you have a life event or rite of passage that would benefit from this kind of creative ceremony, let us know. We’d love to focus our attention and collaborative creativity on bringing forth goodness in your lives at key moments.

Feel free to bring instruments, fun outfits, snacks, and/or justyour beautiful selves. Come to all of them, or drop in on one. Stay as long asyou’d like. Partners, family members, and friends are welcome.

Here are the current planned dates for Wandering in Circles (on purpose), but please check back just to confirm before you attend, as the circles are always evolving:

  • Feb. 24th, 7 – 9pm in CSUEB’s PE 140 – An Exploration of Jewish/Palestinian Grief and Healing led by guest artists Manaar Azreik and Bruce Bierman;
  • March 23rd, at Indian Canyon with guest collaborator Kanyon Sayers-Rood;
  • April 13th, 7 – 9pm in CSUEB’s PE 140;
  • May 7th, 7 – 9pm in CSUEB’s PE 140 — End of semester community sharing and Inclusive Ensemble graduation ritual;
  • May 18th, 7 – 9pm in CSUEB’s PE 140
  • June 15th, 7 – 9pm in CSUEB’s PE 140

More info: dandeliondancetheater@gmail.com