Get Up and Dance
Dancing on Gonzales Beach at low tide with provided headsets
OUTDOOR GET UP AND DANCE 5Rhythms™:
Mornings. On the beach.
Energize, integrate, release, connect.
NEXT SESSIOn
February Session: Friday March 29 to Monday April 1, 2024
Dance from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. Registration appreciated but not required. Drop-ins welcome. Register for 4 days ($75) or single classes ($20). Email transfer to annemarie@annemariehogya.com.
WHERE
Gonzales Park Beach, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: Meet at Gonzales Beach Park. Located at 1809 Crescent Road (off of Richmond Avenue and Ross Road). Street parking is available and there are bus stops on Crescent Road. There are washrooms on site.
WHAT
Dance to a wide range of eclectic get-you-moving and stir-your-soul music transmitted through wireless silent dance headphones which are provided: music is mixed and sessions are led by AnneMarie Hogya. Light facilitation in 5Rhythms movement practice is provided.
The 5Rhythms is a dynamic movement practice—a body-based awareness practice—that ignites creativity, connection and community. It really is transformational embodiment medicine. The 5 Rhythms–Flowing Staccato Chaos Lyrical Stillness®–are states of Being and exploring them can lead us back to our real, vulnerable, wild, passionate and instinctive self. The 5Rhythms practice was created and developed by artist, theatre director and author Gabrielle Roth.
Everyone welcome. No experience needed.
City of Victoria Outdoor Commercial Use Permit in place for all sessions and silent-disco headphones are fully sanitized before and after each class.
In the News
Times Colonist Article about silent dance on the beach.
words from Participants
“Hi Anne Marie,
I am enjoying dancing on the beach with you SOOOOOO much!
Thanks for your voice, your delight, your instructions, your clarity, your authenticity, your spontaneity, your inclusivity… and I could go on and on.
I also love your music choices.
I am so deeply moved… and it is exactly the medicine I need right now.
With great gratitude.” - Lilli
“Hey friend,
I’m absolutely loving these mornings on the beach with you! Really… dancing with the clouds and the waves and the ducks is the best. I’m already feeling more things shift. It’s profound. Thanks for doing this beautiful work!” - Brooke
"Sweet Jesus! That class was so good this morning—I just absolutely love your unbridled commentary and invitations, from Jesus to West Jet and too many wonderful and amazing points in between to articulate. This beach-art wild-DJ-priestess art form is the holiest of holies. So happy to be there and to get to witness you in action “taking the beach.” YES! YES! YES! - Kristen
“Thank you so very much for the amazing class this morning not only are you so lovely and funny to listen to and be motivated by, the beach was so delightful I was drinking it up! I love what you do and how you spread your gift with the world. - Candace
“Hi Anne Marie: The class was just what I imagined, only better! The setting on the beach only adds to the experience.” - Linda
“It's been such a pleasure to be at your dance sessions this week! Thank you for being so welcoming, for being an amazing guide, for providing a safe space, and for introducing me to awesome music.” - Michelle
“What you offer on the beach in the mornings is the most reliable and palpable medicine I know. I love having your encouraging and body-supportive voice in my head, the sound of the waves, dog walkers' smiles, great music, sand underfoot and the ever changing sea and sky as dance partners. Dance in the morning sets me up for the whole day and I go into my interactions with everyone I connect to with a generous heart. I can feel the ripples of our dance magic going out ….” - Sophia
Dance on the beach, is fun, joyful, uplifting, calming and at the same time energizing.
Show up as you are. We dance in all weather: rain, snow, wind, sun. The beach changes and we change.
Open to everyone, ‘silent’ dance | movement sessions are a way to stay connected in a beautiful, outdoor, natural, ocean setting. Everyone wearing the headphones can hear the same music and guided facilitation and have their unique movement experience.
Dance on Gonzales Beach. You hear the music playlist I’ve created and mixed, and my voice, through the provided “silent dj/disco” headphones you are wearing.
Expression, freedom, permission - moving and connecting through dance.
The low tide beach dance floor keeps changing.
Optional sitting meditation at the end of the 8am to 9am session, to integrate the movement.
These dance session are a practice of being in your body. These sessions ignite creativity, connection, and community. There are no steps to follow, nothing to get right or wrong. You do you on the “dance floor.”
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