Bring your heart and soles for this special sacred dance weekend as we explore the rhythms of Afro-Brazilian dance and sample other sacred dance styles too.

Our first evening will find us “tasting” sacred dance appetizers and meeting our main facilitator for the weekend, Kim Vetter. Kim is an extremely popular teacher and comes to us direct from Baltimore. On Saturday we seriously step into the Afro-Brazilian groove, learning songs and dances celebrating some of this tradition’s “Orisha” gods and goddesses and trying on some samba too! We return again in the evening for an ecstatic dance jam, where you are free to dance as the spirit moves you.

On Sunday morning we will bring a dance offering to the regular weekly service of the Neighbourhood Unitarian Universalist Congregation, our dance weekend hosts.

Come dance with us! No dance experience necessary. Light refreshments provided.

About our facilitator: Kim Vetter is a dance artist, teacher and student of life who creates work with the intention of facilitating transformation. She is the artistic director of Kosmic Dance Theatre, holds an M.A. focused on Dance in the African Diaspora in northeast Brazil and an M.F.A. from UCLA in World Arts and Culture. Kim is a facilitator of conscious dance who hopes to make dance as accessible as possible for anyone who wants to move..

About registrations: We encourage you to use our online Snapup Tickets registration service so that we can easily and efficiently keep track of who is coming and payments. If for some reason you are unable to use the service, please contact Moira MacDonald (moiramacdonald@rogers.com) to make alternate payment arrangements. Registrations may also be accepted at the door, subject to space availability and a 10% surcharge. As we have a capacity limit of 50, the organizers may need to restrict ticket sales to ensure we do not go beyond capacity.

Members of the Sacred Dance Guild receive a 15% discount on their registration fee. If you're not yet a member and would like to join (and receive the discount!), please click here.

Workshop Agenda:

Friday Evening, 7-9 p.m.: Sacred Dance Sampler, with a taste of Afro-Brazilian

Saturday, 9:30-12: Afro-Brazilian Dance with Kim Vetter

12-1 p.m.: Lunch: bring your own or try one of our many diverse local restaurants

1-4 p.m.: Afro-Brazilian Dance with Kim Vetter

7-9 p.m.: Ecstatic Dance Jam Party

Sunday, 9:45 - 12: Dance Offering with Neighbourhood Unitarian Universalist Congregation

The Sacred Dance Guild is a spiritually diverse, international, non-profit organization with a commitment to advocate for dance as a sacred art and to promote dance as a means of spiritual growth and integration of mind, body and spirit.

On behalf of its members, the SDG furthers these goals by providing sacred dance programs and resources, and by promoting sacred dance events.

The Dance Movement Therapy Association in Canada (DMTAC) is a
not-for-profit, membership-based organization dedicated to promoting
Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT) across Canada. DMTAC aims to develop and
nurture a cohesive community of DMT professionals, students and
supporters from all provinces. The organization offers advocacy,
educational opportunities, information and resources, and is focused
on expanding professional training opportunities for DMT in Canada.

For more information, please visit: www.dmtac.org.