✨ Ecstatic Dance Arlington presents: A Midsummer Night’s Dream ✨
🧚♀️ Saturday, August 15 | 2:00–5:30 PM 🌿
Step into an enchanted afternoon where fairy tales, forests, and imagination come alive.
Inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream, this month’s dance invites you to awaken your inner mystical creature—whether fairy, forest guardian, woodland animal, elf, fae, or something entirely your own. Come adorned in wings, flowers, glitter, flowing fabrics, or simply bring your imagination.
Together we’ll journey through movement, music, and magic as we celebrate wonder, play, and the wild spirit within.
✨ What to Expect
🧚 Mystical Creature Embodiment Warmup with Ari
Ari (DJ Electro⚡️Cute/Lumra Wellness), founder of Ecstatic Dance Arlington, will guide an immersive movement journey to awaken your imagination, connect with the natural world, and embody the magic of your chosen forest being.
🎶 Ecstatic Dance Journey with Zenglish
Zenglish is a DMV-based producer and DJ whose original music blends ambient textures, deep grooves, and organic rhythms into an immersive sonic journey. Inspired by nature and the human experience, his all-original ecstatic dance sets unfold like a story—inviting you to slow down, drop into the present moment, and move with curiosity, flow, and heart.
🪄 Live Harp Sound Journey with Bri
Close the afternoon with Bri, whose ethereal, fairy forest-inspired harp weaves a gentle soundscape of serenity, wonder, and deep restoration—the perfect ending to our magical journey together.
🌿 Community Altar
Pull an oracle card, set an intention, and connect with our shared altar before entering the dance.
🧺 Relax in our cozy chill-out space with pillows, and blankets
☕️ Enjoy offerings from vendors offering tea, cacao, tarot, bodywork, and more.
📍 Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington
4444 Arlington Blvd., Arlington, VA
🎟️ Early bird tickets are on sale now!
Volunteer opportunities are available—DM us if you’d like to help co-create the magic.
We can’t wait to frolic with you. ✨💚
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~~ What is Ecstatic Dance? ~~
Ecstatic Dance is a freeform movement meditation where all ages and experience levels are welcome. There are no choreographed steps—just an invitation to move authentically, reconnect with yourself, and experience the healing power of music, movement, and community.
Hosted by Ari (DJ Electro⚡️Cute), founder of Ecstatic Dance Arlington, each gathering offers a thoughtfully curated journey through embodiment, dance, and sound healing in a welcoming, substance-free environment.
✨ The Journey Includes:
⭐ Opening Circle
⭐ Embodiment Warmup
⭐ Ecstatic Dance Journey with Live DJ
⭐ Live Sound Healing
⭐ Community Closing Circle
Our two-room experience includes:
💃 Dance Floor for full expression
🫖 Chill-Out Room for rest, tea, blankets, pillows, and local vendors.
Our Community Agreements:
✨ Consent first—always ask before dancing with someone and wait for a clear yes + respect soemoen's no
✨ Barefoot dance floor.
✨ No talking on the dance floor (joyful sounds encouraged!).
✨ Substance and alcohol free space.
✨ No photos or videos of dancers.
✨ All forms of movement—and rest—are welcome.
Schedule:
2:00–2:15 PM Arrival & Settle In
2:15–2:20 PM Opening Circle
2:20–2:45 PM Mystical Creature Embodiment Warmup with Ari
2:45–4:15 PM Ecstatic Dance Journey with Zenglish
4:20–5:15 PM Live Harp Sound Journey with Bri
5:15–5:30 PM Community Sharing Circle
Plenty of free parking is available in the church parking lot.
Come as you are—or as your favorite enchanted forest being—and let’s create a little magic together. 🌿🧚✨
