Name: DRAGONFLY @ LOS ANGELES ECSTATIC DANCE - 2 YEAR ANNIVERSARY by DR∆GONFLY in ECSTATIC DANCE
Duration: 2 h 6 s
Description: An awesome crew hosts a really high-vibin' get-down in a very sweet part of L.A. Lots of great juice bars, yoga studios, shops and hang outs...right near the beach, too. This set was was for their 2-year anniversary. What a great day!

Before it was called "Ecstatic Dance" there was Dragonfly. His mixes are constantly taking dance floors to the ecstatic edge of terra incognita, a place defined by that familiar place of emotional depth, where it resides in the exhilaration of exploring music and movement. And at the same time, his sets - always unplanned, always a mystery - are a like a "trust fall", an experience where the dancefloor surrenders to a DJ whose love of the dancefloor is what comes first. Dragonfly's own initiation goes back to a metaphyshical and metaphorical rebirth in 1980, during the explosion of the punk and New Wave music scenes...and is true today, where the dancefloor is still a place he calls home.

All genres, tempos and cultures weave with deep bass, gossamer groove and beckoning beats for an inexplicable, exciting, soul-crafting session of empathogenic sound. Breathe deeply, go deep, dance hard.

PAST ECSTATIC DANCE APPEARANCES INCLUDE: Berlin, Bucharest, Amsterdam, Costa Rica, Jordan, Antwerp,  Portugal, New York (NY), Montreal (CDN), Oakland (CA), Nevada City (CA), San Francisco (CA), Portland (OR), San Diego (CA), Los Angeles (CA), Big Island (HI), Bend (OR), Eugene (OR), Ashland (OR), Palo Alto (CA), Sebastopol (CA), Sacramento (CA), Cambria (CA), Willits (CA), Global Eclipse Festival (OR), Lightning In A Bottle Festival(CA), Beloved Festival(OR), Burning Man Festival (CA) and many more...

About me:
I never plan sets. And I never will. One reason is that Ecstatic Dance is an adventurous dialogue between the dancers and the DJ. And just as the best conversations are not planned, but rather intimate explorations inspired by mutual respect, wonderment, curiosity, expression and mystery, I feel that the opposite is true for a planned set. It's a monologue. As a DJ whose first love is dancing, I am invested in the dance floor. And, to dance is to be vulnerable. To Never plan a DJ set also is vulnerability. To share in that place of raw unpredictability, is intimate connection. Dancers and DJs need each other to reside in that place in order to feel empathy , to stay connected. So, this approach to DJing may not work for everyone, but that's just me.... As it relates to preparing, that's an entirely different subject... in order for the dialogue to work as a place of connection, I have an unabridged encyclopedia of music dripping with sonic emotion and the rhetoric of rhythm. So being prepared means arriving at the decks with a broad range of taste in music, and an understanding of how dancers can become over saturated with tempo and tone. On a personal note, When it comes to music, well, that is where I am polyamorous...and under the covers is a veritable orgy of genres just waiting to make love to the sound system.

ECSTATIC DANCE

Expect the unexpected: Two hours & seven minutes of genre-hopping, tempo-morphing dance music. A slow build, followed by mid-tempo bump and groove gives way to driving tribal house , then collapses in to funk, twerk and eventually a grand, downtempo exhale

Designed and informed by the dancefloor, channeled by yours truly and mixed live, unplanned and uncharted on CDJs and with live percussive elements on my Roland Handsonic. Welcome to a journey of beat-huffing bass music, mystic glitch, electroswing, twerkhop, tribal house, Afrofunk,Balkan trap and dreamtempo!

Recorded at PDX Refuge, Jan 1st, 2014. Day of Intention with  Alex Grey and  Dragonfly, live music with https://soundcloud.com/peia-1

Partial Artist List Includes:

Anchor Hill
Plantrae
Drumspyder
Whitebear
Chris Komus
Push Pull
Marie Boine
Will Magid
Maga Bo
Buku
Keith Baker 
Jus Now
Psy-Fi
Synthetic Epiphany
Mnemesoyme

DRAGONFLY ECSTATIC DANCE SET- PORTLAND  JAN 1, 2014

There are not too many things I love more than house music and champagne!  And this set reflects how happy I was while throwing it down! Its chalk full of fun bouncy house & nudisco tracks, including the debut of one of my very own remix mash up!  This was played at Burning Man for Bubbles and Bass's famous all girl line up closing party on Saturday!  What a way to round  out such a fabulous week in the dust!

2025-08-30 LeTigra's Bouncy Bubbles & Bass-At Burning Man 2025-Closing Party

Wednesday night! 9PM! 3:00 & B at the LoHi Diner!

Burning Man 2025: End of the World Party @ Lost Highway

Burning Man 2025 Camp FUEGO 7:30 & B Gatsbys Party
Mud Party Tuesday Night

Burning Man 25' Mud Set

Burning Man 2025 Pep Rally

The set was Reordered LIVE at Burning Man 2025 on 8/28 at 5:55am PDT on the Golden Gate Art Car Deep Playa

Jonny Wild LIVE On The Golden Gate@Burning Man 2025 (Sunrise Set)

This set was recorded LIVE at Burning Man 2025 on 8/29/2025 12:48am PDT on the Golden Gate Art Car out on the Deep Playa at the Rambo Party!

Will Nye LIVE On the Golden Gate at the Rambo Party@Burning Man 2025!

I recorded my set on Fluffy the Floating Cloud Bank Art Car after the man Burned and the fabulous art car was giving me a ride over to my Opulent Chill set 

Fluffy the Floating Cloud Bank Art Car Burning Man 2025

Burning Man. The hardest place on earth and yet at the same time somehow the most amazing place on earth. I must have had a little magic playa dust in my pocket on Saturday as I somehow found myself DJing on the beloved Axolotl (BRC’s favorite flaming amphibian on wheels) from the moment the car left camp at 5:15 pm through sunset into the night, whilst parked at the Man on burn night, until YROC took over just before 9:00 pm.  Hands down one of the best experiences of my life and by far the best DJ experience of my life and thus the set absolutely needed to be re-created as it wasn’t captured live.  Thank you to everyone who had a hand in slightly tilting the universe in my favor that day, particularly my favorite three gals on earth, YROC, Jim, Preston, and all the beautiful people at Camp AXO. 

Leroy @ ¡AXOLOTL! - Sunset on Burn Night at the Man - Burning Man 2025

Was able to record about 2hrs 44min and 30 something seconds of this 8hr set on a secret art car that my friends made. All bass music. Was a long crazy friday night that's for sure.

Credit to Ariana S for coordinating this experience to happen.
Pic by Ariana S.

Secret Art Car BM2025 Bass Set (2hr45min out of 8hrs) - Mix Session #25 by Smoke-Sama SFX

Sup ya’ll. Here’s my sunrise set that was recorded live at Burning Man 2025 on the golden Gate artcar on Wednesday through to Thursday morning. This was one of my most special moments of the whole week at the burn. Thanks to all who came to support. As always this set is completely improvise except this time not much/any sleep was had. Hope you enjoy 💜



JONNY WILD Sunrise Set - Live On The Golden Gate Art Car - Burning Man 2025

LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE - FESTIVAL-STYLE ECSTATIC DANCE SET
Unlike most ecstatic dances this set reflects the open dancefloor and permeable container that comes with 20k beautiful and crazy people attending Lioghtning In A Bottle. As such, I adhered to what I would call a "traditional" approach by mixing up genres, vibes and tempos in order to keep the core dancers fully activated, regardless of their place in their flow... http://lightninginabottle.org

DRAGONFLY - ECSTATIC DANCE - LIGHTNING IN  A BOTTLE 2016

An awesome crew hosts a really high-vibin' get-down in a very sweet part of L.A. Lots of great juice bars, yoga studios, shops and hang outs...right near the beach, too. This set was was for their 2-year anniversary. What a great day!

DRAGONFLY @ LOS ANGELES ECSTATIC DANCE - 2 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

Oregon rocks. Eugene Ecstatic Dance was no exception. This set features an all world music Ecstatic Dance journey featuring: Latin, African, Balkan, Celtic, Indian, Middle Eastern...

DRAGONFLY - EUGENE GLOBAL ECSTATIC DANCE

DEEP MAGICK RITUAL MOVEMENT....2 hours, 46 mins of hypnotic, worldy, percussive and shamanic ékstasis ( @ Oakland Ecstatic Dance ). From its traditional slow warm-up to its conclusive grand exhale, traditional and contemporary Eastern, African, European and Asian motifs, instruments and voices weave through this serpentine mix of magical peaks and valleys.


DRAGONFLY - DEEP MAGICK:  PRIMORDIAL ECSTATIC DANCE - OAKLAND

2025:
10/24-10/26: Bloom Festival Sebastopol, CA
https://www.sebastopolbloom.com

9/20: Ecstatic Dance - willits:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1508772770150357

9/11: SYNERGY @ SOFT MEDICINE - SEBASTOPOL
https://www.facebook.com/events/1172153334721233

Burning Man
> HOOKAHDOME: FRIDAY 1am-2am @ 7:30 & ESPLANADE (GLOBAL BASS SET)
> SOUND GARDEN:  SATURDAY 1:00-2:30AM @ 2:00 & ELLISON (GLOBAL HOUSE SET)
>DISORIENT: WEDS: 1PM-2PM supporting: AMPLIFIED YOGA @ Esplanade & 2:15
> Cuttlefish art car: tbd

Aug 3: Ecstatic Dance San Rafael: https://www.facebook.com/events/4177420649154296

July 18-20 Northern Nights Festival
https://northernnights.org/nnmf2025/
May 21-25 Lightning In A Bottle 
https://www.libfestival.org/
April 22 - Nevada City Ecstatic Dance
April 18th - Sacramento Ecstatic Dance
March 30th - Salt Lake City - Ecstatic Dance
https://www.facebook.com/events/957214139827736/
March 7th - with Beats Antique in Arcata, CA https://www.facebook.com/events/590483817146050/590483820479383/
Feb 16: Daybreakers - Yoga set w/ Nat Kendall
Great American Music Hall. SF
https://www.daybreaker.com/event/san-francisco/
Jan 25th - Soulplay Party @ 
Lake Merritt Dance, Oakland
https://events.humanitix.com/soulplay-soiree-connect

2024
Dec 31 - NYE @ The Flamingo - Santa Rosa
Dec 17 - Nevada City Ecstatic Dance
Dec 8 - Marin Ecstatic Dance - San Rafael
Nov 15 - Soft Medicine Sanctuary with Equanimous
https://www.facebook.com/events/2439626586226329
Sept 21 - PORTAL w/Janet Stone (Mill Valley)
https://www.theportal.house/
Sept 21 - SF How Weird Street Faire
https://howweird.org/
Sept 15th - Venice Beach
https://www.ecstaticdancela.com/
Aug. 26-31 - Burning Man
https://burningman.org
June 21-23 - June Jam (AZ)
https://www.june-jam.com
June 9 - Soulplay (CA)
https://www.soulplay.co
May 22-27, 2024 - Lightning In A Bottle (CA)
https://www.libfestival.org/experience
May 2-6, 2024 - High Vibes Festival (CA)
https://highviberecords.ticketspice.com/highvibefest2024
April 4-9, 2024 - Texas Eclipse Festival (TX)
https://seetexaseclipse.com/
March 4-10, 2024 - Envision Festival (Costa Rica)
https://www.envisionfestival.com/
Oct 5, 2023- Joshua Tree Music Festival (CA)
https://joshuatreemusicfestival.com/oct-event-info/


Music without a map: Showcasing travelogues from the global turntable...

Taste is trust.  DJing is trust. 
wHo: Hailing from the West Coast and serving sound as one of the most sought after Freestyle selectors in the Festival, Club and Ecstatic Dance scenes. A magic carpet ride of sound transports the dancefloor when Dragonfly throws down his full-spectrum, body-mind-soul transglobal sound experience. Think cutting-edge, polyrhythmic akashic bass meets primordial sound, elastic dreamtempo, tribal mayhem, and ecstatic bliss. 

wHAt: Each mix showcased is a unique snapshot or portrait of the dancefloor. No mixes are alike, no dancefloor is alike...and no set ever preplanned, recorded or mixed. This is raw.

hOw:  As a consummate crate-digger his days are spent down the rabbit-holes of sound, constantly discovering emerging talent and the hidden gems of sonic possibility. With an ear for the exotic and a background in movement arts, his approach is through the emotive keyhole of the psyche, while unlocking the heart of the dancefloor community. As a percussionist who’s adventured extensively throughout the near and far east, his mixes span all tempos and all genres of electronic dance music. His selections are drenched in global idioms, accented with tribal motifs, and interwoven with relentlessly intoxicating rhythm and groove.   

wHEre:
Past festival appearances include. Lightning In A Bottle,Symbiosis Gathering, Envision festival, Joshua Tree Music Festival, Hogfarm Hideaway, Enchanted Forest Festival, Lucidity Festival,Wanderlust Festival, Beloved Festival, Northern Nights, Stilldream Festival,Eclipse Festival (Australia),Great Convergence (Egypt), Envision Festival (Costa Rica), Shambhala Festival (Canada),Manifest, June Jam, Power to the Peaceful, Peace Village, Burning Man, Raindance, Earthdance, Harmony Festival, Awaken,OMIES Fest, Mystic Garden Gathering, Mystic Island Festival, Foreverland, 
Ecstatic Dance Retreats and Ecstatic Dance in: Berlin/Amsterdam/Budapest/Antwerp/Bucharest/Portugal, Jordan, Oakland/Nevada City/Portland/Cambria/Los Angeles/New York/Salt Lake City/Hawaii/Palo Alto/Berkeley/Santa Barbara. YOGA JOURNAL Conference, A-FEST Portugal & Jordan, SOULPLAY, Austin Yoga Festival, Science & Non Duality Conference, No. California Sufi Camp, Creating Enlightened Society (hosted by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche), David Deida, Bioneers Conference, No California Permaculture Gathering, Julia Butterfly Hill fundraiser, Santa Cruz Film Festival, and many more.

wHy:
Life is short; may your dance be long.


((((*´`*´¯`·.¸¸o*o¸¸.·´¯`*´`*))))
~~~!!!~~~~dRAGONFLy~~~!!!~~~
booking:
djdragonfly@gmail.com

DRAGONFLY @ LOS ANGELES ECSTATIC DANCE - 2 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

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