Women's Ritual Outdoor Summer Solstice Dance-June 13th

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Women's Ritual DanceAncient Forms Modern TimesSummer Solstice Outdoor Dance!I invite you to share in my love for traditional Balkan, Greek, Rom, Armenian, and Near Eastern dances in a special outdoor Summer Solstice celebration. Throughout all ages and cultures, traditional circle dances were used to honor the divine, to heal, to affirm connection to the earth and each other, to build community and celebrate rites of passages and life transitions. The danced patterns illuminate the web of these connections. It is where personal and universal healing can occur. In this workshop we will use the traditional dances as a platform for heightening awareness of body/self, self to community, self to cosmos. We will examine 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. The dances are joyful, meditative, mournful, full of beauty, longing, life and celebration. come, join me.This workshop is suitable for women who are comfortable exploring through improvisational dance. Date: Sunday, June 13th, 2010 (Solstice actually takes place June 21st)Time: 1:00-4:30Fee: $30Place: Central Park, “Sacred Groveâ€Directions to Sacred Grove:From the West side:Enter Central Park at Central Park West and 100th St. Walk straight ahead (east) and cross the Park Drive West at the light. You’ll see ball fields in front of you and you’ll keep walking east following the sidewalk so that the fields will always be on your right. Keep walking past the ball fields and as you near Park Drive East, you’ll see a hill rise up on your left. Look for a colorful striped windsock and climb up the hill (no sidewalk now!) to the Sacred Grove. From the East side:Enter Central Park at 5th Avenue and 99th St., right across the street from Mount Sinai at 1176 5th Ave. Make a right and follow the sidewalk as it winds around the meadow, keep the meadow on your left. You’ll end up at a traffic light where you’ll cross over the Park Drive East and see playing fields in front of you. Stay on the sidewalk veering right, with the playing fields on your left until you come to the top of the playing fields. At that point you’ll see a small hill in front of you. Look for a colorful striped windsock and climb up the hill (no sidewalk now!) to the Sacred Grove. If you get lost, call Nada’s cellphone: Fee: $30Please RSVP, so I know who to expect. Thanks!Weather permitting!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 human services field for the last 17 years in a variety of settings including mental health clinics, nursing homes, day treatment centers, homeless shelters, and school/community based programs. Presently, Nada works at a psychiatric hospital in the South Bronx. Nada has danced with the Duncan Dance Collective, Rina Rinkewich/Return of the Sun, PURE , and the Thais Mazur Dance Company. Recently, Nada has trained with in a 2 year Women’s Ritual Dance intensive program and received a certification. Nada has experienced many gifts of homecoming through these dances. She hopes to honor the wisdom and potency of these dances and to pass this on to others. "Thru dance our Vision for the Earth becomes alive... The spirit calls it and the body manifests it, opening mysteries thru the heart and showing the way..."-Crow Tewa (Ushéen)Nada Khodlovamokosh@...