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✨ Ecstatic Dance @ Sweets Ballroom ✨
🌀Wednesday Nights 7pm-10:30pm
☀️ Sunday Mornings 10am-1pm
Stewarded by @arula_artistry & @nick.johnson.poetry

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DJ Bae Bay, fulfilling a dream she didn't even know she had as a young child digging through her daddy's records and spinning wax.

Soul music, jazz, blues, classic rock and so much more filled her heart and.... she danced.

Growing up in the 80's she would ask to rent vhs tapes from Video by the Oak on breakdancing. With the fearlessness of an eight year old and strength to body weight ratio, she loved spinning around on the kitchen floor or the Sagebrush Cantina.

She grew up loving hip hop and not much has changed.

As an adolescent, she would record MTV raps, and would get in some heavy "discussions" with her mom when they got recorded over for cooking shows. (thanks mom for being a bad ass cook btw).

At Crew Up this Sunday, she will be mixing tracks for a debut offering of her bliss, and she has to send a field of flowers to her DJ sensei, @davy_smiles along with @arula_artistry @heatherchristie.love and Dreamy for the all women dj training programs.

A big bundle of flowers to @musicbyquintessence @izzy_wise and last but not least Sorrel for the technical software help, inspiration, selfless love and guidance.

Deepest bows of gratitude.

Join us this Sunday, July 26th at Sweets Historic Ballroom Oakland from 3-6:30.

Bring your crew and slide in for the dance, stay for the communi-tea.

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Hello beloved dance family! Here is the live recording from my set at Ecstatic Dance Oakland at Sweets Ballroom last Wednesday.
It was an amazing night of dance alchemy and the dancers loved it so much!
So here it is to re-experience or enjoy for the first time! I hope it carries some of that live magic.

(clickable link in bio) https://soundcloud.com/vesica-ecstatic/throw-some-ass

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DJ JUAN LOVE (he/him)

So pumped to bring Juan back to DJ D2D, an amazing dancer who I always enjoyed at fusion events as a DJ. So much so, that he was one of the DJ's at the first Down 2 Dance!!!

The diversity of genres that he brings to the decks is what made me truly appreciate his delivery to the dance floor. Before him I rarely if ever heard hip hop at fusion events, so naturally grateful to have him DJ for CREW UP.

Ever since he can remember, Juan Washington has loved all things music and dance.

Juan grew up in California’s East Bay in the 1980’s, and at 4 years old he was watching his brothers breakdancing with the other neighborhood kids. He took up street tumbling at the age of 5, took martial arts classes in elementary school, became dedicated to breakdancing in high school, along with joining the cheer team, and studied: swing, hip-hop, jazz and capoeira.

Juan started DJing while he was in the Air Forced stationed in North Dakota, where he DJed for mainstream dance clubs and weddings. After moving back to California, Juan took a break from DJing and immersed himself back into dance. He liked learning Salsa, Bachata, Cumbia, and Kizomba.

In 2015, he found the Fusion Dance community and started DJing again in 2017. DJing is such an important part of Juan’s creative expression, he is always on the hunt for new music that will challenge and inspire the dancers. He’s not afraid to take risks or think outside the box. He enjoys blending EDM, Trap and culturally diverse World Music to keep everyone on their toes (pun intended)!

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I'm playing Oakland Ecstatic Dance this Sunday!! 🎶🎼 💜 😁

I am excited, honored, nervous, and ready. I'm loving the preparation and look forward to sharing an eclectic, delicious musical journey.

Come dance with me at Sweets before the World Cup final! ⚽

Sunday 7/19, 11-1 pm, Sweets Ballroom in Oakland 🌞🦋🌻

(Ps- i gave guest passes available if anyone is in need, DM me)

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Holy shit, guys. This being seen thing is real.

I came into Ecstatic Dance Oakland this morning wanting to bring warmth, wanting to hold sun energy and joy for two hours. What unfolded was so much bigger than that…

There’s a particular kind of magic that happens when a room of people decide to move together with full presence. When they show up not just physically but with their whole hearts. That’s what we created this morning. 🤍

The set was earthy and worldly, bright and luminous, weaving between low tempos and up tempos, between soulful and tribal and multidimensional. The energy in that room was reciprocal, alive, electric. Dancers were deeply embodied and vocal, yelling and singing, expressions of joy throughout the space.

Toward the end, I shed a tear or two on that stage. I was so touched to be received with my art and heart. To be truly seen, Oakland, I felt you. You felt me. That was beautiful. ☀️✨

This set was born from honoring the call to bring warmth and light, anchored in presence and love. 🤍

Shoutout to the dope local producer @jpoyzner DJ Recognize for his drum and bass remix that I played in the set. It was awesome to watch the room light up when that track dropped.

And the BIGGEST thank you to Ecstatic Dance Oakland for having me!!

The set is now on SoundCloud:
Soundcloud.com/avirapearl/ed-oakland

🤍🙏🪩😘✨

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Ya boy is makin moves 🪽🪽 I have two very special gigs here at home before heading out to connect with beautiful dance communities on mainland. Come dance w me tonight on the rooftop at HiFi Lanai 🎆🎆🎆

Shout out to all the dope event producers out on West coast, Southwest, Colorado. Can't wait to see y'all, and if you wanna collab send me an email. Let's make magical movement events fer da ppl!

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I’ve been wanting to play at Ecstatic Dance Oakland for years and Sunday is finally the day!

Day after the 4th, Sunday morning, come dance it out with me…
Expect bright, bold, warm energy and a set that will move you ~ body, heart, soul... all of it.

Oakland, I’ve got some sunshine for you. ☀️🪩✨ Santa Cruz fam, I know it’s a trek, but would love to see some of your faces on the dance floor too!

(more details / ticket info in the comments below)

@ecstaticdanceoak

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Down 2 Dance Summer Swing TODAY!!!!

Deeply honored to share Jazz music for swing dancers of both Lindy Hop and West Coast Swing in this 100+ year ballroom that legends such as Ella Fitzgerald, Franky Manning, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and many more have filled with live vibrations so many decades prior.

Beginner and Intermediate/Advanced classes before the social with Heather Powers, Shantala Davis and Ren Enby.

Live Jazz with Auditory Anna and Vaughn Cannon.

DJ sets that journey through swing classic from legends who have played here, contemporary jazz and Electro Swing by yours truly, DJ Bae Bay!

#swingswing #lindyhop #wcs #sweetsballroom #blissformations

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Absolutely thrilled to have Auditory Anna alongside Vaughn Cannon playing classic swinging jazz for our dance tomorrow!!!

Bay Area native born in Berkeley, Anna was constantly surrounded by music and art of all varieties. Her parents met while working at Zellerbach Hall Cal performances. Her father as an audio engineer, and mother as a stagehand. Anna fell in love with music and began taking professional lessons and training after the middle school talent show where it became apparent performing would be an important part of her life.

People enjoy her voice just as much as she does, yet one can hear the muscle memory and hours spent practicing with the accuracy and flexibility of her tone. With a background in classical music, choral chamber arrangements as a first soprano, jazz, and her attachment to her Greek heritage, there are so many layers to her musical journey. She has even studied Jazz locally at California Jazz conservatory and abroad with the director of the renowned Athens Big Band Pianist and conductor Sami Amiris.

Anna has expressed her love of funk and pop while she experiments with her original compositions collaboratively and individually. She thrives to perform and keep the love of music alive while honoring friends, fellow musicians, and mentors that are no longer with us but seem to be brought back every time their favorite song is played on a bandstand. Anna currently lives and works in San Francisco as a performer, Audio Engineer, and RF technician who produces shows for herself and fellow musicians.

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Vaughn Cannon is a jazz guitarist based in San Francisco. He’s written two original jazz albums, with his most recent blending original modern jazz compositions and jazz arrangements of Armenian folk songs. He plays regularly around San Francisco, and leads a jam on thursdays at a bar called Gestalt in the mission district.

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Wrapping up my June of nonstop festival weekends and the week of my birthday with my first Wednesday night at sweets tomorrow. Excited for some more big emotive arcs

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Coming up on July 5th, I’ll make my debut at Ecstatic Dance Oakland. 🙏

I’ve been reaching for this one for five years. This feels like a “made it” kind of benchmark for me, a real testament to persistence and the steady work of improving my craft. I have so much excitement for this one! ✨

I recently moved to the East Bay, and this dance is one of the first places I get to show up as a local. How sweet is that?!

Sunday morning, full circle, full energy. ☀️🌀
Expect bright, warm, and big energy from me on the decks...

Santa Cruz fam, if you’ve been wanting an excuse to make the trip, this is it. Would love to see your faces on the dance floor!

(more details / ticket info in the comments below)

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