CONTACT/BOOGIE DANCE NIGHT – Peterborough
Monthly – next date is Friday, February 28th
Contact Improv followed by free-form Boogie
7:15-9:45 pm
Sadleir House, Hobbs Library Room, 751 George St. N.
$10 (or $5 if ten is too much)
Contact: celiajanemcbride@gmail.com
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Lila Familia – Toronto
A few times per month
$15 to $20 sliding scale.
8pm till 9pm ~ Arrival, gentle warmup
9pm ~ Opening circle and guided meditation
9pm till 11pm ~ Dance journey
11pm ~ Closing circle
11 till 1am ~ Music, mingling, snacks
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Ecstatic Dance Toronto
Mondays and Thursdays from 7:30 – 9:30 pm
Ecstatic Dance is freestyle dance. You move as you wish with respect to yourself and others. It is a time to drop into your body and dance freely to all kinds of music with a room full of beautiful people doing exactly the same thing! Find yourself dancing for the love of community, music & dance! Find yourself dancing!
$15-20 sliding scale http://www.tribaldancecommunity.com
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The Move – Toronto
Fridays from 7:20 – 9:30 pm @ 805 Dovercourt Rd, 2nd floor
No experience necessary, only the willingness to dance free style and listen to the teachings of your own body, heart, and soul through movement.
Limited space so arrive early
$15 www.themovecollective.org
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Life Beats Dance – Toronto
Last Saturday of the month from 8:45-10:15 pm
Free-style dance to all types of music. Feel the music, dance your own dance.
$10 • Karen @ 416-505-6710 Call/Text
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Boogie On! – Toronto
Monthly- ish
Dance to a variety of fun music in a friendly, relaxed environment. Oldies, jazz, swing, pop, blues, R & B, world beat, etc. Freely express yourself in movement.
$7 or pay what you can www.facebook.com/boogiecommunity/
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Chocolate Groove – Toronto – a Community Ecstatic Dance Celebration where we indulge in an elevating and heart opening “Cacao Elixir”
Wednesdays – check http://jessebuck.ca/the-movement-movement/ for dates
Advance: $15 — Door: $20
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The Guelph Groove – Guelph
The second Saturday of every month. Sept – June 7:30 – 9:30. Doors open at 7:15.
$10 each http://www.guelphgroove.com
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Ecstatic Dance St. Catherines
Last Wednesdays of the month from 7-10 pm @ 36 James St. – St. Catherines – 2nd Floor
http://ecstaticdance.org/niagara/
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Ecstatic Dance Orangeville
First Saturday of every month – 7:15-9:15 pm @ Citrus Dance Studio – 62 Broadway, Orangeville
$10-$20 sliding scale Info: 905-601-8033 or ecstaticdanceorangeville@gmail.com
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Groove Tonic – Picton
Tuesdays from 6:30-8:30 pm @ Picton Town Hall, 2 Ross St at King St, 2nd floor
Barefoot, free-form movement and dance in Picton, Prince Edward County
All welcome.
$5 donation requested.
https://www.facebook.com/Groove-Tonic-PEC-1873059959628912/
Tamara newmoonfarm@kos.net 613-476-1830
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Groove Pocket – Picton, ON
Monthly – Contact Tamara newmoonfarm@kos.net for details
https://www.facebook.com/Groove-Pocket-PEC-731479216988157/timeline
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Moving Santuary – Toronto
See http://www.nadiastolpner.com for details and dates.
A sacred space and community for connecting with the embodied spirit/peace, wholeness, love and wisdom within and beyond through mindful movement, conscious dance and music – to be supported and empowered on one’s life journey.
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Rhythmwood Groove – Lion’s Head, ON
Last Friday of the month 7:30 – 9:30 pm . Date may shift so please check http://www.Rhythmwood.ca
An evening of free style dance which is very lightly facilitated.
Sliding scale $8 – $13 wendy@rhythmwood.ca 519-793-4687
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OTTAWA
Group Dance and Movement Improvisation
Lola Ryan leads a weekly drop-in class http://www.facebook.com/events/208810982876494/ on Monday
evenings through to December 5 2016.
$25 (Student rate available – talk to Lola.)
Contact: Lola mcryanster@gmail.com
Biodanza http://www.biodanza.ca/
Weekly Mondays at 7:00 pm – Gatineau Biodanza en français
Weekly Wednesdays at 7:00 pm – Ottawa Biodanza in English
Biodanza, meaning to dance with life, is a fusion of music, natural
movement and emotion. It is a scientifically proven method of human
development aimed at uncovering the passion, beauty and love for ourselves,
others and the world that was always there.
Contact: Anne Marie annemarieriel@icloud.com
The Move – La Peche region
Normally meets the first Friday of each month but due to holidays/hall bookings, some of our dances fall on different Fridays. Also, we sometimes dance in Wakefield, sometimes at the nearby Rupert Hall, and even outdoors in the summer, so please check the address
each time before you come. Suggested donation $10. No one is turned away for lack of funds.
Contact: Owen owentuf@yahoo.ca
Authentic Movement http://www.authenticmovement.ca meets many Saturday mornings
Wendy authmvmt@sympatico.ca
Ottawa – Dance to Nature
http://www.facebook.com/groups/1522188478077142/
Outdoor dances among the trees at Mooneys Bay. Express, create and surrender the dance from within! Let go of all inhibitions and come Dance to Nature!
Alana alanaod@hotmail.com
Ecstatic Dance
http://www.facebook.com/groups/1636141113283461/
$15 breath@kaia.ca or be.dance@live.ca
Creative Dance/Movement Events
http://www.facebook.com/CreativeDanceandMovementOttawaGatineau
http://www.sites.google.com/site/creativedanceottawa/
(includes an event calendar and a mailing list)
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5Rhythms® Classes
with Layah Jane Singer-Wilson – Toronto – Layah@layahjane.com
with Rhondda Snary – Toronto – Rhondda.snary@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/treedancerproductions/
with Taeji – Toronto – 5R@windovergrass.com
with Kate Huband – Peterborough – katehuband@gmail.com 705.750.0411
https://5rhythmstoronto.com/ http://www.5rhythms.com
https://www.facebook.com/5rhythmstoronto/
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Dance Your Bones Ecstatic Dance – Peterborough
Thursdays from 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Holding space for you to Explore, Connect, Express in Dance
http://www.danceyourbones.com for updated schedule
Doors lock 6:45 Thurs & it’s very hard to get our attention after that.