{"id":199,"date":"2009-10-19T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2009-10-19T07:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T14:54:00","slug":"dance-dance-wherever-you-may-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"Dance Dance Wherever You May Be"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few nights ago I attended a Dance Gathering. A Dance Gathering is exactly what it sounds like: the coming together of persons for the sole purpose of dancing. The outcome is often a form of Ecstatic dance<\/em>, which is also known as trance dance<\/em>, “a unique spiritual experience with roots in Shamanism.”<\/p>\n

It’s blissful.<\/p>\n

My love of dance goes back a long way. When I was a very young girl my mother gave me a book called A Very Young Dancer<\/span>. It was about a ten-year-old student at the School of American Ballet in New York preparing for her role in the ballet “The Nutcracker.”<\/p>\n

I had dreams of being that girl. I even called up the Ontario School of Ballet one day and inquired about auditions. I never pursued the dream. Somehow I knew I’d never make it as a dancer. Or I was too scared to try.<\/p>\n

Today social dancing is probably my most favourite thing in the world to do. I love it to pieces. I have a gal pal who also loves to get down and boogie and we were talking recently about the dearth of opportunities in this city to social dance in a sober environment. Dancing in bars is fine but it’s a last resort for the non-drinker.<\/p>\n

So she and I were brainstorming ideas and we ended up discussing the possibility of renting a space, advertising the event and inviting anyone and everyone who wished to come. The iMac would be the DJ and we’d just get down<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Exactly three weeks to the day, such an evening took place. Only she and I had nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n

I had seen a notice on a community listserv for an upcoming Dance Gathering and immediately forwarded it to my friend with the simple message “Ask and we shall receive.”<\/p>\n

We both showed up and danced our hearts out. It was ecstatic dancing at its best. A roomful of people shaking the booty and feeling the love.<\/p>\n

My friend had come in late and so it was only after it was all over that we hugged and began to laugh together. It was no joke: we knew we had manifested this night.<\/p>\n

Inspiring Message of the Day: Sometimes when you desire something with enough passion and commitment the Universe will move mountains to make it happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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