Dance Church :: MicroFest
Sunday, June 1st | 12PM – 10PM | The Cedar Circle, Nevada City
After a cozy winter season inside at The Elks Lodge, Dance Church is stepping back into the sunlight for our Spring/Summer re-launch—and we’re doing it with a full-day microfest under the open sky at The Cedar Circle!
Expect a wholesome, family-friendly day pulsing with joy, movement, connection and community togetherness. This is your invitation to reconnect with your body and the earth beneath your feet.
We’re starting the day with the little ones in mind:
12:00 PM – Kids Class!
Daphne Saliba
A playful, engaging movement session designed especially for children (and their lucky guardians!)
1:00 PM – Inner Child Activation
Joshua Hathaway
Let go and tap into your joy with a class meant to awaken your curiosity, laughter, and freedom.
Then, we dance:
2:00 PM – DJ Aleh eases us into the rhythm with inviting jungle beats.
Class
3:30 PM – Usha Rose turns up the sensual volume, guiding us deeper into the body.
And dance some more…
4:30 PM – Bex Naj drops an energizing set to elevate the vibe.
6:00 PM – Tëté Bero bringing us together with a powerful set of spiritual song to harmonize the heart.
6:30 PM – Shaman’s Dream takes us on a transformative sonic sunset journey through tribal rhythms and sacred soundscapes.
8:30 PM – NOETiK’s production closes the night with a heart-expanding final set to celebrate our return to the land.
Throughout the day:
Sip soul-nourishing tea at our beloved tea service by TBA
Enjoy delicious bites and conscious elixirs from Elixart
Explore creations from local artisan vendors offering handmade treasures
Whether you come for the movement, the music, the community—or the dance floor alchemy—this is the re-birth of Dance Church surrounded by cedar trees and grass beneath our feet.
Bring your blanket, your open heart, and your dancing feet.
Let’s celebrate the return of the sun, the circle, and each other.
This is a no alcohol event
Children under the age of 12 are welcome for free! Please see ticket link for other ticketing options…
Please keep the fur babies at home!
Embark on a transcendent odyssey with Shaman's Dream, guided by musical pioneer and visionary artist Sahuna Love. This musical endeavor seamlessly weaves shamanic influences, world music, nature and electronic soundscapes into a tapestry that beckons listeners to explore self-discovery through healing melodies. Sahuna's roots in a family marked by deep loss and his connection to nature profoundly shape the project's soulful, transformative sound.
Alchemical beat maker, DJ and instrumentalist, Noetik, brings a culture fused in deep, lush, break beat atmosphere. Painting landscapes with rich sonic tones and textures of fine recordings with a mixture of percussive originality. Influenced through indigenous roots, tribal bass, grime, neo soul and turntablism, he invokes a unique and hypnotic experience while delivering deep alchemical sound waves to the dance floor.
Bex Naj’s dance floors are permissive and playful body laboratories where she explores her own edges to support you in discovering yours. From 52 to 180 bpm, Bex is genre-fluid, omnivorous, versatile. Whether she’s mixing future bass, NUKG, Afro house, or dembow, her distinct style is unmistakable. Out beyond ideas of conscious dance and the club, there is a field. She’ll meet you there. https://soundcloud.com/bexnaj
Born and raised in Brazil, Aleh has called the rolling hills of Nevada County home for the past few decades. Aleh's musical journey has been shaped by his diverse roots. His sets are a unique fusion of world beats, deep house, and the sexy bass vibes of Nevada County. Aleh invites you on a journey where earthy tones of the Brazilian Jungle and the bassy rhythms of Northern California intertwine.
After a lifetime immersed in music and the blessings of traveling and performing around the world, including on stage with STOMP, Tëté Bero had the privilege of beginning his apprenticeship in the Shipibo shamanic tradition in 2009 and has become a Maestro Curandero, officially recognized by the Shipibo-Conibo tribal council. Through the healing and uplifting melodies and energies of plant medicines, Tëté weaves his experiences as a world musician into the fabric of his work, expressing his music from a deeply transformative place. Recently relocated to Penn Valley with his fiancée, he is excited to share his gifts with the Dance Church community!
Meet Usha Rose, founder of the Erotic Embodiment Institute and globe-trotting facilitator with the International School of Temple Arts. For over 20 years, this movement magician has been lighting up dance floors and healing spaces alike with unique alchemy of partner dance expertise, somatic wisdom, and certified sex & relationship coaching.
When Usha guides a room, the energy shifts—you'll find yourself dropping out of the mental chatter and surrendering to the juicy wisdom of your body. Her playful approach invites you to dance your way into delicious embodiment, unlock your authentic expression and claim pleasure as your birthright.
Step into her trauma-informed, body-celebrating space where movement becomes medicine, and every body gets to shine.
Joshua Hathaway, M.A. is part Holistic Psychologist and part Somato-Shamanic Bard. He is the Founder of TheHumanThrivingProject.org, an organization devoted to piloting a Regenerative Culture and Economy rooted in one simple Truth: LOVE>Fear. By scaling FREE access to Holistic Healing and Reconciliation Modalities, innovating (R)Evolutionary Land Trust and Stewardship Practices, and sharing Music and Movement experiences that awaken a deep Regenerative Remembering in Humanity, HTP is Growing our Collective and Individual Thriving, one Breath at a time.
The Ecstatic Playground is a somatic sandbox of discovery and delight! We will shake ourselves loose from the Matrix, sink into Organic Time, and explore Breath, Sound, and Movement from the perspective of our Ancient Innocence. We will play with weighted balls!!! (in a way that reorients us to the shape of our bodies in direct relation to the forces of gravity and levity!) We will Creature our way through imaginal realms and remember the mythical landscapes our animal bodies dance within. We will touch the ecstasies of laughter and tears in a space of radical permission and curiosity! Come PLAYYYYYY!!!
Sama Mama will be curating an exciting start to our day with a class for the children. It’s our favorite way to ground the space at Dance Church. Sama will also be creating a kids zone full of activities and crafts. Come and play!