Ecstatic Dance Melbourne

✨⛩️✨Well here we go … upon the cusp of this winters solstice - we weave sutra - a soirée of many elements… 🌀
Bringing the opportunity to awaken deeper as a tribe that love to gather to move and shake, connect , create! & integrate 🤍

Bringing together some fine artists and talent alchemists and offerings all preparing to deliver an evening of splendid ecstatic expression & community connection ✨

Only a handful of tickets left
Will you be joining us ? 😍⚡️

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7PM ~ DOORS OPEN
7:30 ~ SOLSTICE CEREMONY CABERET
8PM ~ RITUAL THEATRE DANCE
✨LIVE PERCUSSIVE ENSEMBLE
8.30 ~ ECSTATIC DANCE
10PM ~ ✨LIVE PURCUSSIVE DECENT
10:22 ~ SOUND HEALING
10:44 ~ INTEGRATION
11PM ~ CLOSE

⚡️Musician | DJ Temple Step Project 🎶
⚡️Musician CHRISTIAN DIMARCO
⚡️Live Drum Rhythm’s Grant Smith

🪶Performance Artists
Madhu Honey | Nectar
Peta Melanie
🪶Shamanic trance
Brendan O Connor

✨Elixir Bar Alchemists
Shekinah3 Dwelling of the Divine
✨Reiki & Readings soulfulom
✨Help Me Sleep Help Me Sleep
✨Ear seeds & Guasha
Lonne Van De Keere

See you there 🤍

SUTRA | Poetry in Motion ✨

Peta Melanie is a movement artist, embodiment facilitator, and creative producer whose work explores presence, poise, and transformation through dance and ritual performance.

Through SUTRA, she offers an embodied storytelling, exploring the threads that connect us to ourselves, one another, and the ever-changing rhythms of life.

A performance woven through the language of the body, inviting audiences into a space of surrender, freedom, and connection to the unseen currents that move through us all 💫

Join us this Friday for.a special evening of elevation !

Meet G” Force Grant Smith
Bringing live rhythms to the dance floor !

Grant Smith is a Melbourne-based percussionist whose musical journey spans more than three decades. A self-taught contemporary percussionist, he performs on a unique custom-built hardwood percussion setup handcrafted from Australian timbers, creating organic rhythms that blend groove, texture and improvisation.

Beginning his professional career in the late 1990s, Grant has performed across Australia and internationally through projects including PAN, Katamaran, TnG and Mista Savona, sharing stages with artists such as Lee “Scratch” Perry, Horace Andy, Prince Alla, The Abyssinians and The Congos.

Today, Grant channels this wealth of experience into immersive rhythmic journeys that invite presence, movement, connection and collective expression. Bringing an earthy, dynamic energy to every performance, he creates percussive landscapes that inspire exploration, freedom and the joy of coming together through music and dance.

Come get amongst it this Friday 19th June

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Brendan O’Connor - evoking the trance

Brendan Is an Irish-born professional dancer, performer, and somatic dance therapist based in Melbourne. Trained in the Netherlands, he has performed throughout Europe, Southeast Asia, India, and Australia, bringing over 20 years of experience in movement, improvisation, breathwork, and embodied practice.

His work has been deeply influenced by traditional performance cultures across Indonesia, particularly the trance dance traditions of East Java. Fifteen years ago, he was invited to participate in a traditional Bull Trance ceremony, becoming the first Westerner welcomed into this sacred community practice. Central to the ritual is the crack of the whip, accompanied by frankincense, powerful drumming, and rhythms that invite participants into a deeper connection with instinct, spirit, and collective energy through dance.

At the heart of Brendan’s work is the belief that dance is medicine. Through movement, he supports the release of tension, the cultivation of presence, and the awakening of creativity, vitality, and self-awareness. He has worked with neurodiverse children, aged-care communities, and performers, helping people reconnect with confidence, expression, and embodied wellbeing.

Join us for a powerful opening of sutra !

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MADHU HONEY | Sutra ~ Evoking the Dance

For over two decades, Madhu Honey has been devoted to the art of transformation through movement, music, ritual, and embodied expression. As a facilitator, performer, ceremonial space holder, vocalist, DJ, and founder of Ecstatic Dance Melbourne, she has guided thousands of people into deeper connection with themselves, each other, and the living pulse of life.

Her work weaves ritual theatre, dance, prayer, voice, sound, and performance art into immersive experiences that invite authenticity, liberation, and remembrance. Drawing from years of holding sacred spaces across festivals, retreats, ceremonies, and dance floors, she creates experiences where art, healing, and ritual converge.

In Sutra, Madhu offers an embodied prayer through movement, voice, and creative expression. Together with Temple Step and Christian DiMarco, she co-weaves a rich journey of live music, dance, ritual, and sound healing ~ inviting participants into a transformative shared experience. ✨

Are you joining us ?
A rich experience awaits

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Your DJ - RIVKA - .honeybee.worth
This Friday 12th June

🐝 Honeybee doesn’t play genres. She tells stories through sound.

Drawing from an expansive palette of global rhythms, organic grooves, tribal percussion, bass, electronica, medicine music, afro beats, deep house, downtempo, world fusion and unexpected sonic treasures gathered over decades, she weaves journeys that are immersive, unpredictable and alive.

With an instinct for reading the room and a gift for creating transformational dance floor experiences, Honeybee guides dancers through waves of tenderness, power, playfulness, mystery and release.

A Rivka set is an invitation to remember yourself through movement.

Deep roots. Open skies. Full flight. 🐝✨

This Friday @ our lady’s hall
49 Nicholson st , East Bruns

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✨ Welcoming Christian Dimarco, multi-instrumentalist, sound therapist & guide of immersive sound journeys.

Drawing from years of deep practice in sound healing and world music traditions, Christian weaves together didjeridu, ethnic flutes, handpan, singing bowls, percussion, synths, Spanish guitar and voice through the art of live looping. His evolving soundscapes invite audiences into meditative, trance-like states of movement, presence and connection.

Join us for SUTRA - a winter solstice soiree
an ecstatic dance ritual theatre experience unlike any other. 🎶🔥

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There is something that happens when we gather to dance.

The layers begin to fall away.
The stories loosen their grip.
The body remembers.

Not who we should be…
but who we are beneath it all.

This Friday, RIVKA takes us on a journey through sound, rhythm and feeling, creating a space to move what has been waiting to move and express what words cannot.

Authentically free
No pretence.
Just a room full of humans meeting themselves and each other in motion.

Come as you are , create some shapes
Dance your joy, your grief, your fire, your tenderness.

The dance floor can hold it all.

Friday night at Our Lady’s Hall.
See you in the dance.
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