celebrating 15 years of dance
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celebrating 15 years of dance ć°ļø
the Foundry, stewarded by the City of Nevada City, preserves the historic Miners Foundry as a living historic treasure serving Nevada County as a cultural arts and community events center.
MINERS FOUNDRY : 325 SPRING ST NEVADA CITY
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June 2 SHELAJIT Doors open : 7:20P $20 Cash or Venmo Warm Up Class : 7:30-8P DJ 8-10P Sound Healing 10P Closing: 10:15P 7:30-8P Class William Phelan Awakening the fire within the body mind and spirit. Exploring the inner experience of dance as opposed to the external appearance. Approaching dance as a spiritual practice for achieving states of Satoric Trancendence. Putting the Muse back in Music. SHELAJIT 8-10P Like the medicinally rich black tar from which their name is derived, shelajit (Nikaya Tang) channels a deep, refined essence into everything they create. A visionary music producer, dancer, and performer, they fuse electronic production with the organic resonance of the guzheng, crafting sonic landscapes that feel both timeless and innovative. Rooted in emotion and atmosphere, their compositions seamlessly weave ethereal vocals with intricate sound design, blending traditional Chinese instrumentation with modern electronic textures. Their music is an exploration of contrast: organic and synthetic, delicate and raw, structured yet deeply intuitive. https://www.shelajit.com/ SOUND HEALING: Xuun (Calvin Luu) is a Vietnamese intuitive sound alchemist. He offers unique live-looping sound healing journeys weaving acoustic and electronic sounds. Tea + Cacao in the Social lounge Mayaās Kitchen Witchin Snacks and goodies We regard our dance floor as a place of movement meditation and practice. Youāre invited to leave conversations in the Social Lounge and turn your attention to the body and your non-verbal movement practice. We request that you practice consent when dancing with others and mindfulness about the dancers sharing the space around you. Please leave your phone in your bag and refrain from taking photos or videos. āThis revolution will not be televisedā If you need support of feel uncomfortable in any way, please let someone at the front desk.
the soundsystem the dancers the floor
the legendary nevada city ecstatic dance
EVERY TUESDAY 7:30-10P
$20 Cash or venmo
NO SHOES NO BOOZE JUST DANCE
CELEBRATING FIFTEEN YEARS OF DANCING
CELEBRATING FIFTEEN YEARS OF DANCING
meet
the founder
It wasn't always just me.
In the beginning, there were five of us.
Four of us had come up from the Bay Area, where we'd been dancing the 5Rhythms practice in Sausalito. I can still feel what that did to me ~ dance had become my oxygen, the thing I couldn't imagine living without. None of us could. So we did the only thing that made sense: we decided to build a place where we could keep breathing.
We danced for the first time on August 19th, 2010.
It was one room at St. Joseph's Cultural Center in Grass Valley. Metal-tiled walls. A sound system we hauled in and out with our own hands, week after week. It was scrappy. It was intimate. It was ours.
In 2013, I moved dance to the Miners Foundry in the heart of Nevada City, and everything changed. A bigger room. A sound system that could finally hold all of us. I remember standing in that space for the first time and feeling something open up. That move put EDNC on the map.
Word began to spread, and people started finding their way to us. Some were just passing through. Some came for work. And some ~ this still moves me ~ packed up their lives and relocated just to be a part of this community. They'd come to dance on this floor, and then they'd carry a piece of it back out into the world.
Over the years, I've watched ecstatic dance ripple out across the globe. There are hundreds of ecstatic dances now, each one carrying this lineage forward. And so many of the people holding space in their own hometowns today first discovered their practice right here, on our floor in Nevada City. We never set out to be a training ground or an incubator. It just happened. People came, they felt something real, and they took it home with them.
Not long ago, a visiting DJ called EDNC "the mecca of ecstatic dance." I don't take that lightly. I feel the weight of it, and the gift of it ~ to be one of the spaces that has held this practice since the very beginning, one of the floors that helped shape what ecstatic dance has become.
Fifteen years later, I'm still here. Still holding space. Still dancing.
This is EDNC.
Welcome home.
hi ~ iām wendy
