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
SEPTEMBER
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Sarita Sol, Dj, singer and music producer, blends genres and beats like a musical avatar. She is here to represent more Latin women in music and unite communities together as one on the dance floor. Sarita weaves her cultural heritage with global sounds feeding your body and soul. Her original music combines her soulful sultry voice with lush rhythmic beats and is supported on Mƶonbabe Records and High Vibe Records. Not limited by genres she spans from Global Bass to Latin House, Hip-Hop to lush Downtempo and beyond.
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His prolific career in studio production and stage performance has forged pioneering explorations into tribal-ethno-electronic flavours. Freelancing as a producer, DJ, and sound healer, he draws from an instrumental spread of beats, percussion, ethnic melodic instruments, synths, vocals, and bold use of bass. Seamlessly, worlds are blended and timelines merge, all through the language of his music. The artist insists on sound as sacredāa vibrational, alchemical tool. With it, he evokes states and feelings that invite audiences to embrace full creative expression
Temple Step has collaborated and remixed with artists such as Dub FX, Desert Dwellers, Deya Dova, Peruquois, Nessi Gomes, Ganga Giri, Murry Kyle, Wild Marmalade, Raio, and Darpan and satisfied local and international festival circuits including Beloved Festival (USA), Sonic Bloom (USA), Rainbow Serpent (AUS), Earth Frequency (AUS), Woodford (AUS), Earthdance (AUS), and Bali Spirit Festival (INDO). He is the principal producer of Motiv Music, an international music production company. The Temple Step studio is based in Melbourne, serving clients locally and abroad.
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Yemanjo is a project of producer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Ben Harris. Raised in the rich culture of Californiaās Bay Area, Harrisā work is influenced by the global music styles he has encountered through extensive world travels.
Yemanjoās music is a unique fusion of downtempo and organic house beats with traditional sounds from Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. The previous five years have seen Yemanjo touring the globe while releasing prolifically with top labels in the genre such as Cosmic Awakenings and Cafe de Anatolia. 2024 saw the release of āLa Misma Fuenteā, an acclaimed full-length album on NYC-based imprint Wonderwheel Recordings.
In performance, Yemanjo combines his original music with live singing in many languages, trumpet, percussion, and other instruments in an electro-acoustic hybrid DJ/live set.
In an industry where so much music sounds the same and most DJs offer little in the way of performance value, Yemanjo brings a refreshing sonic diversity and decades of experience as a dynamic live performer and frontman.
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DTO is an award-winning music producer, designing inspirational music that raises the vibrations of the planet. DTO kicked off his career with a spark with his remix of āLove Meā by Grammy-nominated producer, StoneBridge. DTO followed up with Nameless Energy, a yoga soundtrack for the kirtan project āJai Ramā ft. Tara Devi. Nameless Energy is a music playlist guiding yoga instructors and students through a 60-minute yoga class. This album has integrated into the yoga world as an inspiring, healing, and transformational musical journey which lead him into the Ecstatic dance scene after playing in multiple festivals internationally. Co-Visionary with Hemalayaa at Embody Wellness & Retreat Center located in the heart of Costa Rica where he resides and produces music in his professional recording studio. DTO also offers Music and Mentorship Programs. DTOmusic.com.
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
