celebrating 15 years of dance
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celebrating 15 years of dance 〰️
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.
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J Brave is an artist in action who uses music as a vehicle of service. This former counselor for Homeless and At-Risk youth turned MC & DJ is a on mission to brake walls, and build bridges to bring people together! He is the founder of the internationally renown Hip Hop collective the Luminaries, visionary of Benevolence Festival, and has toured the world spreading messages of peace, love, and unity throughout his travels. His debut solo album "Amethyst" has peeked the ears of global listeners, and the single "Sacred" has gone viral approaching a million video views on Facebook. This multi-talented artist fuses conscious rap and singing lyrics with hard hitting beats to inspire and empower audiences! His live shows can also expand to feature instrumentalists, singers, and dancers to accompany him on stage during his riveting heart-felt performances. He is currently on the production team and a resident DJ for Ecstatic Dance LA, and as a selector seamlessly blends genres while captivating dancers with his diverse soundscape of movement medicine. He strives to use music as a means to express his personal transformation while sharing his stories of resiliency through adversity. He is an avid speaker, and leads workshops & coaching sessions under the theme "Discover Your Sacred Offering." J Brave is passionate about uplifting the masses, speaking against injustices, and rekindling our connection to nature so we may live in a more loving world.
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 moved up from the Bay Area, where we'd been dancing regularly in the 5Rhythms practice in Sausalito. Dance was our oxygen. We had to have it. So we decided to start our own.
We started dancing on August 19th, 2010.
One room at St. Joseph's Cultural Center in Grass Valley. Metal-tiled walls. Speakers we hauled in and out every single week. It was scrappy. It was intimate. It was ours.
In 2013, we moved to Miners Foundry in the heart of Nevada City—and everything changed.
Bigger space. A sound system that could finally hold us.
That move put EDNC on the map.
Word spread. Dancers traveled to Nevada City—some passing through, some coming to work, some even relocating just for the dance community. Many made the pilgrimage specifically to experience this floor. They'd dance with us, then carry the story back out into the world.
Over the years, I've watched ecstatic dance spread globally. Hundreds of floors now exist around the world, each one carrying the lineage forward. So many people who currently hold ecstatic dance in their hometowns started as dancers on this floor in Nevada City. Without ever intending to, we became a training ground. An incubator. A place where people learned what it means to hold space.
A DJ recently called EDNC "the epicenter of Ecstatic Dance."
We don't take that lightly. We're honored to be one of the originators—one of the spaces that's held this practice since the 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.
