Spirit-Rhythm 2011: Drumming & Dancing in the Forest
Posted by Dustin Horton // July 2, 2011 // News
Spirit-Rhythm will be focused on Ritual Dancing and Drumming in a freestyle fire dance format made popular at numerous well known pagan and magickal festivals.
We also have just added anRitual Woekshop which will cover ritual dance, working the fire and intergrating ritual movement into a magickal space.
The ritual focus is “beyond the beyond.”.
We will create and celebrate community through American Pagan Freestytle spirit and trance drumming and sacred magickal dance.
The dancers will be free form flowing around the fire clockwise while the drummers drum together in a group shaped like a horseshoe.The drumming is open and free style with the understanding that the dancers, whether there is one or twenty, are the focus. The workshops are there to gain knowledge about the mechanics/basics of drumming and dancing but you are free with in the henge to dance and play the as your spirit feels is the best way to encourage the dance.
This is a space to bring our talents into the service of divine rhythmic interplay. While we may play slower rhythms and the dancers may be semi-stationary, during day jams for instance, the intensity and energy are always focused. DANCERS YOU WILL BE LOVED!! Be ready to throw down and make memories!!!
The space where this will take place is being called the ‘Well’ as in a kind of spirit well we can all dip our cup in for sustenance. The space may also be referred to as the henge as it is a simple wood-henge type structure.
But the main indegrediant is us. For it is us who will create the supreme personality, to take root and grow.
Directions: “Tea Garden Ithaca”.
Located just a short drive from downtown Ithaca, NY at 133 Jersey Hill Rd Ithaca, NY. Tea Garden Ithaca is a beautiful forest like quiet oasis where guests can share in the serenity and beauty of nature.
Directions: From Ithaca: 96B South, past Ithaca College to stop light at W. King Rd. & Upper Butte…rmilk Falls sign. Turn right, travel 3.1 miles until Jersey Hill Rd. Turn right on Jerseyy Hill and go 1000ft Blue mailbox, Tea Garden sign & 700ft. driveway on the left.
Check out the Spirit-Rhythm facebook page or http://spirit-rhythm2011.webs.com/ for more info, directions, registration etc.
