This is my second Live Ecstatic Dance Journey, recorded for your enjoyment and purview, at the Rainbow Movement Temple at Maui Aerial Arts, Haiku Maui, on Wednesday Night December 20th, 2023.  In attendance was a lively and emotional gathering of practitioners, each in their own way contributing to my inspirations.

I ask that, if you choose to have a listen, that You commit to the whole shebang. It’s a 93 minute journey, made for you, my dear fellow dancers. With love and care and an improvisation-ally inspired heart. May it move yours. Find a space and time and set of good headphones, or better yet a home hi-fi with some low end  frequencies.

It is not flawless, but I am proud of my work, my daring attempts of creating new sounds and music through the magic and technique of digital mixing. I am ambitious in my vision for bringing what my Dancer's Heart desires in journeys.

To my mentors, I offer you my work, an original creation of my own, second of many to come. I look forward to your critical feedback. Mahalo.🫀🙏🏼🫦


//MARK II

Ecstatic Dance Maui WNED 12.20.2023 :: Solstice Portal

My very first Live DJ'd & Mixed Dance,
At Maui Aerial Arts, November 22, 2023.
Entirely Improv'd from beginning to end.
 A bit slow out of the gates, but that's what the dancers were seemingly calling for ;-) 
Recording started 15 minutes in,
many lessons were learned,
6 technical mishaps handled swiftly.

Dancers Benchmark score; 7/10

//MARK I

Ecstatic Dance Maui WNED 11.22.2023 :: A Dancer's Dialectic

Ecstatic Being / Facilitator / DJ

 These Live Sets are intended works of art in progress, made for dancers, vulnerably offered in recorded form for you to experience & dance to on your own terms. 
While a baby-fresh new DJ, I create these entirely improvised in the moment. I stand by this method on principle, as an ecstatic dancer,  that this is a valid and thoughtful point of view on how a journey is not one way, not linear, logarithmic, nor algorithmic. It really can’t be rehearsed; the moments of dancers energy matters and make the call through the field, a ternary code : 0 : 1 : 2, inferred and decoded as :: No : Maybe : Yes.

Attunement to this field is essential for that ecstatic union between dancers, just as The fabric stretches and tears at the edges where beauty and chaos co-mingle. Yes, dance is poetry, dance is an emotion in play, and it is our partner, the music, and our facilitator, the DJ, who skillfully and deftly handle the dialectic. 

Music moves forward, beat and undulation,  horns and strings. Music is a relentless force, and we best handle with care. 

The DJ ought be a polyglot, speaking the language of Musica, Rhythm (in its infinite patterned complexities), of Frequency & Melody & Harmony, and the ineffable stories they weave. The language of technology, of the electronic machinery that carries the Music to us. 

The DJ ought be a dancer, someone who wants to move as Wild and free as the Dancers before them. 
The DJ ought be an ecstatic soul well travelled through this life and others. 
The Dj ought be a rock and a willow reed, a flowing river and massive bonfire. They Fly with the wind, and grind deep in the magma and tectonica. 
The Dj ought be attuned, with all 9 senses activated; our work is towards grasping & implementing the 10th 11th & 12th.
The DJ ought be funny, a pranskter, a jester, a social mirror to the absurd reality of our lives as we know it. 
The DJ ought be a scientist, methodical and inquisitive, impartial to right or wrong but only to what is. Posessing the competence of a mind geared toward objective truth, and gifted with the fine-tuned instruments of introspection of psyche and able to humble themselves to the subjective.  
The Dj ought be grateful. Full stop.

This is my pledge as a DJ, as a Dancer first and foremost, and as a vessel and facilitator of Musica.🙏🏼🫀🫶🏽

PULSATIO

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