Conscious Dance with AXIS MUNDI @ ASHKENAZ - Sunday, July 20th

Hot Time... Summer in the City!
A LIVE Shamanic Sacred Sound Experience for the
Conscious Dance Community...

Belly Dance Lesson &
TranceFusion Deep Groove
with
AXIS MUNDI & Friends
Sonic Shamanic World Trance
at
ASHKENAZ
Berkeley's home for world music & dance since 1973

Sunday, July 20th - 2008
1317 San Pablo Ave. @ Gilman
Berkeley, CA 94702
$12.00@ the Door - $10 Students
8:00pm Doors - 8:30pm Show

Tickets available in advance & on show night
from the Ashkenaz front desk at the Door

Ashkenaz Show line: (510) 525-5054
http://www.ashkenaz.com


Join us for a plunge into the deep end of the pool as we
revive the untamed longings of the Eternal Dance, the
Spontaneously Arising ecstatic agony of endless bliss
born at the dawn of consciousness. Axis Mundi has
long been enticing Bay Area audiences to flow into
Trance Dancing and Moving Meditation as our completely
original improvised music recreates the ancient cave rituals
of Vedic India. Merging Kundalini Trance Chant, Didjeridu
& pulsing World Beat Percussion, this "haunting frightening
beautiful wild ground breaking Muse-sic" metamorphoses
throughout the set in a journey of whirling sacred sound and
seethes with the pure power of primal energy erupting from
the cauldron of deepest inner space.


First Act ~ 8:30pm
BELLY DANCE LESSON!
With Special Guests:
Jennifer 'Roz' Rozwood - Belly Dance
Kevin Cloud - Oud
with Sangita & Auntie Matter on Percussion

Bring your Dancing Veils and get your shimmy on!
http://www.Rozwood.com


~ OPENING CELTIC INVOCATION CASTING SACRED SPACE
with Druid James, Ovate of Taliesin

~ NYASA THIRD EYE ANOINTING with Kimba

and...
~ TRANCE DANCING for MOVING MEDITATION ~ 9:30pm
with
AXIS MUNDI
Ecstatic Tantric Trance Chant
A yogic dance journey through the mystical dimensions of
Devotion, Coherent Emotion & Primal Yearning.

Stuart Sovatsky > Kundalini Trance Chant with Live Looping
Sondra Slade > Doumbek, D'Jembe, Klong Yaw, Gongs
Lisa Sangita Moskow > HandSonic World Drums & Samples
Vlad Cardema > Didjeridoo, Vortex Mouth Harp

http://www.ashkenaz.com
http://pweb.jps.net/~axismundi


"DO NOT MISS AXIS MUNDI PERFORMING LIVE! They are better
than anything naughty you could eat, drink or smoke. Amazing,
knee weakening, intense and deep. We danced like entranced
things and blissed out to the nth degree." Chris & Robert


"I've never felt so alive and so in myself - such in-spiring dancing.
Many many thanks for the inspired concert of your moving and
outrageous music. My whole being is happy this morning, having
had the experience of all-out, all-in, all-chakra trans-dancing in
a beautiful setting." Catherine

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Perennially voted the 'East Bay's Best Dance Club':
*Ashkenaz is all ages and family-friendly
*All programs are open to children - kids 12 & under get in free
*100% smoke-free
*Wheelchair accessible

*The ASHKENAZ CAFE is open during performances. The cafe
serves organic vegetarian light fare, cookies and cakes, beverages,
beer (draft and bottles) & wine. Have dinner or snacks and drinks
while you enjoy the music and dancing!


DIRECTIONS to Ashkenaz:

By Car
*Take I-80 to Gilman Street exit.
*Drive east on Gilman (approximately 6 blocks).
*Turn right on San Pablo Avenue.
*Turn right into the Walgreen/REI parking lot for evening shows - FREE!
*Street parking also available on Gilman, San Pablo & neighboring streets.

By Bus
*The bus stops near the corner of San Pablo and Gilman.
*Bus lines #52, #72 and #73 run north and south and stop on San Pablo Avenue.
*Bus Line #9 runs east and west on Gilman.
*From University Avenue: Transfer at San Pablo and University Ave. from Bus Line #51 to
Lines #52, #72 or #73.

By Bart
510 465-2278
*The closest Bart Station is North Berkeley Bart.
*Walk north on Sacramento to Hopkins (4 blocks).
*Turn Left on Hopkins for 2 blocks.
*Go Right on Gilman and walk 8 blocks to San Pablo.
*Turn left and Ashkenaz will be on your left.
You may also get a bus from the Bart Station to Ashkenaz.
Note: Trains stop running from North Berkeley Station at 12:20 at night.