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Dance

Ecstatic Ritual with Live Music

Every Tuesday 8 - 9:30 PM    Dates: April 5 - May 31, 2011
No class: May 17
At the Sanctuary in Santa Monica (Church in Ocean Park)
Live Music: Tony Khalife (Guitar, Vocals, Tabla and Dumbek) & Afshin Mehrasa (Daf)
Information: (323) 573-2333   (310) 499-7100

Enter the sacred space of Dance and music inspired by Rumi and Hafez. From high-powered ecstatic dance and ritual to deep calm, take a journey in your inner terrain with live Middle Eastern trance music. Feel your fullest presence in the Here and Now with movement, luscious and devotional that brings you in touch with your core - calm, centered, radiant, open and free. Journey through ancient and new rituals of shaking, waves, reverential bowing and free-form. Arriving and ready for Sema, you have the option to whirl, meditate or free-dance. Open your Heart and unleash your creativity through liquid yet grounded movement, whole body undulations, and sensing your chakras.

Open to All. You can join anytime. Dress comfortably and bring soft-soled shoes or socks

Come, come whoever you are!
Wanderer, worshipper, Lover of leaving

This is not a caravan of despair.

It doesn’t matter if you’ve broken your vow a thousand times,

Still Come and yet again, Come! 
 - Rumi

Fee: $20 per session, $140 for 8 sessions
If taking both Tuesday night classes together, fee is $30 for both classes or $220 for 16
This session immediately follows Mystical Persian Dance & Flamenco

Address: 235 Hill St., Santa Monica, 90404
Parking: Church in Ocean Park parking north of the church on Hill St. or metered parking on Hill St., South of Main St.
(Please carpool, bike or walk)
                            
Price: $20.00

Shannon D'Souza

A new member of NAMAH, Shannon D’Souza has been performing through out the United States since 2005. She is currently attending California State University of Long Beach in pursuit of her Bachelor’s degree in Dance while also performing with several dance and entertainment companies ranging from cultural to commercial dance. She has been a part of musical theatre productions such as Hair, the American Tribal Love-Rock Musical and Oklahoma!, and has taught jazz dance, modern, cheer, hip hop, jazz funk, as well as fire dance in numerous public schools and studios.

Roxanne Leigh Onofre

A returning member to NAMAH, Roxanne Leigh Onofre was born and raised in California where she now resides. She graduated from the LA County High School for the Performing Arts focusing on her passion for dance. She has danced in various companies in California such as Pacifico Dance Company, Grandeza Mexicana, Y Arriba Y Arriba, and NAMAH. She has also had the opportunity to work with various artists such as Pablo Montero, Anna Barbara, and has danced on shows such as “Despierta America”, “Sabado Gigante”, and “Univision”.

Kelly Archbold

Assistant Director, Kelly Archbold has been dancing with NAMAH for 6 years and feels blessed to be part of the ensemble.  She has studied different forms of dance since she was a child and trained at UCLA's World Arts & Cultures Department, particularly in Flamenco, West African, and

Eshq - Love's Wild Fire

The essence of the Sufi path of love and of Rumi’s vision is ”Eshq,” the Persian word for ”love”— the wild passion of love that burns in every cell for the Beloved. Join Andrew Harvey and Banafsheh for a holy and explosive journey into Eshq through a marriage of Rumi’s most poignant texts, Andrew’s inspired teachings, and Banafsheh’s ecstatic dance. Let your heart and mind be branded by the fire of Eshq, so you can know what lives within you and wants to set you free.

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Price: $45.00

Banafsheh

The internationally-acclaimed dancer, choreographer, and teacher Banafsheh, communicates the universal messages of Mysticism in a passionate yet fluid, meditative way, an interplay between trance and directed movement. Her explosive movement is at once sensual and ritualistic, an organic trance of impeccable technique gone wild, yet holding a serene grounded core.Banafsheh's mesmerizing offering of the timeless Sacred Feminine inside a contemporary gypsy dervish beckons all to engage, impart, and exalt.

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