Dance Lab & Human Instruments @ Hudson Harmonic - May 13th
Fri, 13 May 2022 (EDT)
07:30PM - 11:00PM
"You sing the song in your heart and the people it resonates with are going to dance to it." ~ Steve Maraboli
Before there were clubs. Before there were DJ's. Before there were headphones.
Before festivals. Before instruments. Even before language, we gathered around fires to create with our voices and bodies. We sang and danced from mountain peaks to ocean side, to move and express the ineffable.
Singing and dancing have never been apart. Like bee and flower, they are born from one another: a co-emergent language that is inseparable. Only in modern times, where marketing departments drive cultural cues, can we separate what is singing and what is dancing.
Join Omar Aena (Dance Lab), Nick Demeris (Human Instruments) and Emily Sause on May 13 for an evening of reintegrating that which has been severed. We will gather at the historic Hudson Harmonic in Upstate New York.
We will open our voices and bodies, harmonizing them into one full, whole expression, bringing release and liberation to that which has been stuck and stagnant within us.
Flow of the evening:
7:30PM: Arrival
8:00: Human Instruments class with Nick Demeris
9:15: Ecstatic Dance with DJ Omar Aena + live drumming with Nanu
10:30: Sound meditation with Emily Sause
10:45: Closing Circle
11PM: End
✦ Bring:
1. Loose-fitting clothes that let you move your body and free yourself
2. Water and a water bottle. You can refill it at the venue.
3. Your curiosity
Before there were clubs. Before there were DJ's. Before there were headphones.
Before festivals. Before instruments. Even before language, we gathered around fires to create with our voices and bodies. We sang and danced from mountain peaks to ocean side, to move and express the ineffable.
Singing and dancing have never been apart. Like bee and flower, they are born from one another: a co-emergent language that is inseparable. Only in modern times, where marketing departments drive cultural cues, can we separate what is singing and what is dancing.
Join Omar Aena (Dance Lab), Nick Demeris (Human Instruments) and Emily Sause on May 13 for an evening of reintegrating that which has been severed. We will gather at the historic Hudson Harmonic in Upstate New York.
We will open our voices and bodies, harmonizing them into one full, whole expression, bringing release and liberation to that which has been stuck and stagnant within us.
Flow of the evening:
7:30PM: Arrival
8:00: Human Instruments class with Nick Demeris
9:15: Ecstatic Dance with DJ Omar Aena + live drumming with Nanu
10:30: Sound meditation with Emily Sause
10:45: Closing Circle
11PM: End
✦ Bring:
1. Loose-fitting clothes that let you move your body and free yourself
2. Water and a water bottle. You can refill it at the venue.
3. Your curiosity
◀︎ GUIDELINES ▶︎
1. Respect yourself and one another
2. Dance barefoot
3. Conversation & cellphone use outside the dance space
2. Dance barefoot
3. Conversation & cellphone use outside the dance space
✦ Address:
The Hudson Harmonic
17-31 North 6th Street
Hudson NY
About the Facilitators:
Nick Demeris is a two-time TEDx participant (speaker and host), actor, singer, and facilitator of community building through music, turning audiences into orchestras around the globe. In his fourth year as a singer, creator, and teaching artist at Carnegie Hall in New York City, Nick works with master musicians, Public School teachers, aspiring artists, and young people in the juvenile justice system, to improvise, write, produce, and record original music. Nick performs original music and teaching #humaninstruments workshops at retreats and conferences internationally. Nick holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Theatre from Illinois State University. He studied clown with Paola Coletto (Jacques Lecoq alumni teacher) for two years and has completed All the Way In, the yearlong training in jazz and vocal improvisation, with master singer Rhiannon (a member of Bobby McFerrin’s Gimme 5) and is a three-time participant in Bobby McFerrin’s weeklong Circle Songs training where he also has led workshops.
Omar Aena is a world music DJ, community organizer and event producer based in NYC. He is the founder of Dance Lab, a Brooklyn-based collective that explores dance as a form of somatic therapy. He has hosted many events around the world, including retreats and group trips exploring the origins of ecstatic music and dance. His mission is to create transformational experiences through the arts that invites self-expression, connection and healing. As a DJ he mixes together traditional music of the past with electronic music of the present, with a particular focus on songs from his middle-eastern heritage.
You can listen to his DJ mixes here: soundcloud.com/omaraena
Emily SAUSE
As a sonic artist, content creator and group facilitator, Emily Sause works with adults and children alike to uplift, inspire and motivate people to feel good in their bodies. Leading with the heart, Emily has facilitated hundreds of group experiences rooted in mindful awareness and embodied emotion,
Emily is currently located in upstate New York, facilitating at the Catskill Montessori School and offering online classes for adults on the Frequency Mind platform, and for children on Raising Humanity’s virtual playground.
Emily is currently located in upstate New York, facilitating at the Catskill Montessori School and offering online classes for adults on the Frequency Mind platform, and for children on Raising Humanity’s virtual playground.
She is the co-writer and compassionate guiding voice at the SuperHeroMeditation program which is her 2nd. Collaboration with Gerald Forster founder of WelcomeEarth.tv & SuperHeroMeditations.org
www.WelcomeEarth.tv
www.WelcomeEarth.tv