Ritual Community Dance on Sunday, April 17th

[Guest guest]

Ritual Community Dance

Please join me for a Ritual Community Dance 

on

April 17th

3:00 to 6:00pm

at 

The Bridge for Dance

2726 Broadway # 3, 

New York, NY 10025- between 104th & 105th - 2 blocks North of 103rd St Stop on the 1-train

You are invited to dance in community- traditional Balkan, Greek, Romanian, Armenian, and nearEastern sacred circle dances. Throughout all ages and cultures,traditional circledances were used to honor the divine, to heal, to

affirm connection to the earth and each other, to build community andcelebrate rites of passages and life transitions. The danced patternsilluminate the web of these connections. It is where personal anduniversal healing can occur.

We will use the traditional dances as a platform for heighteningawareness of body/self, self to community and self to cosmos. We willexamine the dances on multiple levels to indulge in these connections.The expressive and improvisational aspects of Dance/Movement Therapy

will support further exploration such as sensations, images, feelings,and stories in order to deepen and expand our experience. We will alsohave the opportunity to celebrate the spring in free expressive dance as well.

We will be celebrating the Spring's unfolding. Our dances will reconnect us intothis ancient way of honoring the earth’s rhythms. We will seek notonly guidance from the dances but from those who created these dances,

the ancestors of the dances. The wisdom of the ancient ones are heldwithin the dances. As we attentively dance and plug into this wisdom

we reweave ourselves into the time honored web of life.The dances are joyful, meditative, mournful, full of beauty, longing,life and celebration!Space is limited!Advance Registration is recommended!

Adv rate- $35Day of - $45To get the adv rate pre-payment is req by 11:45pmthe night before the event at-

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/170294

About Nada:Nada Khodlova MA BC-DMT LCAT is a Board Certified Dance Movement Therapist and

Licensed Creative Arts Therapist. Nada has worked in the humanservices field for the last 17 years in a variety of settingsincluding mental health clinics, nursing homes, day treatment centers,homeless shelters, and school/community based programs. Presently,

Nada works as a Supervisor of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Dance/Movement Therapist on an acute adult inpatient psychiatric unit in the

North Bronx. Nada has danced with the Duncan Dance Collective, RinaRinkewich/Return of the Sun, PURE, and the Thais Mazur Dance Company.

Recently, Nada has trained with in a 2 year Women’sRitual Dance intensive program and received a certification. Nada has

experienced many gifts of homecoming through these dances. She hopesto honor the wisdom and potency of these dances and to pass this on toothers.Testimonials-“Nada's ritual dance workshop was one of the most self-nurturing,

inspiring, and significant dance experiences I've had in my whole

life. Her thoughtful introduction of each traditional dances isespecially rewarding and helped me to feel connected to centuries of

women who have danced these dances before.” Goldsmith-Dance/Movement Therapist

“Nada’s invitational spirit is seen in her warm eyes and smile, in hergentle and generous manner of teaching and in her passionateenthusiasm for dance. The musical offerings traveled us round the

globe and in this way, she honored our collective ancestral spirits.The dances provided pathways for us to come home within ourselves.Moriah Vecchia“Nada leads us through our dance together into a deep sense of our

connection with each other and with the Earth, our mother. We senseour sacredness in our movement as one.” a