Ecstatic Dance Nyack

Artist Spotlight: Kaoru Watanabe ✨
What happens when tradition and improvisation meet?

For Frequency II: A Live Music Transmission, we’re honored to highlight Kaoru Watanabe Kaoru Watanabe — composer, flutist, taiko artist, and one of the most innovative cross-cultural musicians of our time.

Rooted in traditional Japanese performing arts and shaped by decades of exploration, Kaoru’s work bridges ancient and contemporary worlds. Through taiko, flute, rhythm, and improvisation, he creates music that feels both deeply grounded and astonishingly alive.

On June 26th, Kaoru joins Chris Dingman’s Vibe Shift once again to help shape an evening of collective listening, movement, and musical emergence. Together, the ensemble will weave a living soundscape that unfolds in real time through the shared presence of musicians and dancers alike.

Whether collaborating with legendary artists across music, film, and dance, or creating his own visionary work, Kaoru brings a spirit of curiosity, mastery, and play to every space he enters.

Come listen beyond words.
Come move with the rhythm of the moment.
Come enter the transmission.

📅 Friday, June 26th
⏰ 6:30 PM
📍 The Angel Nyack
🎟️ Link in bio

🥁 Musician Spotlight: Glenn Schloss ⚡
What happens when rhythm becomes a bridge?

For Frequency II: A Live Music Transmission, we’re excited to highlight Glenn Schloss For Vibration — drummer, sonic explorer, and community builder whose work lives at the intersection of rhythm, technology, and human connection.

Glenn creates immersive musical environments that invite us deeper into presence, play, and collective flow through live percussion.

On June 26th, Glenn joins Chris Dingman’s Vibe Shift to help shape an evening of live musical improvisation, where every beat, breath, and movement becomes part of the unfolding conversation between musicians and dancers.

As the founder of For Vibration, Glenn’s work is rooted in a simple belief: rhythm is a universal language, and one of the fastest ways back to ourselves and each other.

Come listen with your body.
Come find the groove beneath the noise.
Come enter the transmission.

📅 Friday, June 26th
⏰ 6:30 PM
📍 The Angel Nyack
🎟️ Link in bio

🎸 Kevin Farrell — holding down the spine of the night.

What allows us to trust the journey?

For Frequency II: A Live Music Transmission, we’re excited to highlight Kevin Farrell — the electric bassist helping to anchor the ensemble with clarity, groove, and deep listening.

In live improvised music, there is a constant dance between structure and spontaneity. Kevin has a remarkable ability to hold both. His playing provides a steady foundation while remaining fluid, responsive, and fully engaged in the unfolding moment.

On June 26th, Kevin joins Chris Dingman’s Vibe Shift to co-create a musical landscape shaped in real time by the musicians, dancers, and shared energy in the room.

Whether he’s composing for film and television or performing live, Kevin brings a rare combination of precision, presence, and heart to his work.

Come feel the pulse beneath the music.
Come move with the groove.
Come enter the transmission.

📅 Friday, June 26th
⏰ 6:30 PM
📍 The Angel Nyack
🎟️ Link in bio

🎤 Facilitator Spotlight: Zaneta Sykes 🌿
What if listening was a way home?

For Frequency II: A Live Music Transmission, we’re honored to highlight Zaneta Sykes — a q***r, multi-Filipinx sound artist whose work lives at the intersection of ancestral wisdom, ecological listening, and sonic exploration. Rooted in the healing lineage of their great-grandmother, Zaneta creates immersive experiences that invite us to slow down, listen deeply, and remember our belonging to the living world.

Through voice, percussion, storytelling, and sound, Zaneta ZANETA helps weave the musical landscape on June 26th into a living conversation between land, body, and community. They will lead the live music and co-facilitate for the dance warm up alongside Adrea Robles, and join Chris Dingman’s Vibe Shift for an evening of collective listening, movement, and musical improvisation.

Come listen with your whole body.
Come enter the transmission.

📅 Friday, June 26th
⏰ 6:30 PM
📍 The Angel Nyack
🎟️ Link in bio

✨ CHRIS DINGMAN’S — VIBE SHIFT (live at EDN) ✨
Improvised sound in real time. Vibraphone, resonance, and attention meeting the dancers in the moment.

Chris Dingman brings an immersive soundworld shaped by presence — a live transmission that moves with the room rather than at it.

From stages across the world to The Angel Nyack, his work invites us into a listening space where every note responds to breath, to movement, to what’s emerging now.

🎶 Live band ecstatic dance led by Chris Dingman

📅 Friday, June 26th
⏰ 6:30 PM
📍 The Angel Nyack
🎟️ Link in bio

🌿 Facilitator Spotlight: Adrea Robles ✨
Before we enter the transmission, we arrive.
For Frequency II: A Live Music Transmission on June 26, we’re honored to have our very own Adrea Robles to guide our Embodied Dance Warm Up.

Adrea’s facilitation invites us to slow down, listen inward, and reconnect with the wisdom already living in our bodies. Through intentional movement, presence, and relational awareness, she helps create the conditions for deeper expression, authentic connection, and freedom on the dance floor.
As we prepare to journey with Chris Dingman’s Vibe Shift and an extraordinary ensemble of live musicians, Adrea will help us cross the threshold alongside live music from Zaneta Sykes.

A grounding.
An opening.
An invitation into deeper listening.

Come arrive in your body.
Come awaken your senses.
Come prepare the vessel for the music to move through.

📅 Friday, June 26, 2026
⏰ 6:30 PM
📍 The Angel Nyack
🎟️ Tickets: Link in bio

🌿 And if you’re already feeling the pull of summer, join us August 29–30 for Back to the Garden, our community campout featuring beloved artists and friends.

🌀 FREQUENCY 🎶

A Live Music Transmission with Chris Dingman's Vibe Shift

Some nights feel less like a performance and more like a tuning.

After the powerful inaugural Frequency gathering earlier this year, Chris Dingman's Vibe Shift returns to Nyack for the next chapter in this evolving conversation between live music and dance.

This is not a fixed set.
It is a living transmission.

Built through rehearsal, improvisation, and deep listening, Vibe Shift creates music that breathes with the room. The dancers influence the music. The musicians respond. Together, something emerges that could not exist any other way.

We'll begin the evening by arriving in the body with:

✨ Adrea Robles — Embodied Dance Warmup with love music from Zaneta Sykes

And then journey into a full live music experience with:

🎶 Chris Dingman's Vibe Shift
featuring Chris Dingman, Zaneta Sykes, Kaoru Watanabe, Glenn Schloss, Kevin Farrell, and Tomer Hagay

This is a rare opportunity to experience world-class improvisational musicians creating in real time with the dance floor itself.

Come listen with your body.
Come move with the music.
Come become part of the transmission.

📅 Friday, June 26th
⏰ 6:30 PM
📍 The Angel Nyack
🎟️ Tickets: Link in bio

🌿 And if you're already dreaming of summer, our Back to the Garden Campout is just around the corner. Early tickets remain, and the next lineup wave is coming soon.

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✨ This Friday at 6:30 PM ✨
Come move, release, connect, and sip something magical at May We Dance 🌙💃🏽Part of the *Road to Dance Beyond* series!

We’ll be serving up the dreamiest herbal + mushroom-infused treats from Moon•Ma Medicinals to keep your body nourished and your spirit lifted:
🍄 Hot or iced medicinal mushroom cacao elixirs
🌸 Lilac vanilla orange spritzers
🍓 Chocolate covered strawberry popsicles
🥥 Coconut matcha energy balls

Expect ecstatic dance, heart-opening community, embodied freedom, and a little floral spring magic 🌿✨

Bring a friend, your bare feet, and your full self.
See you on the dance floor 💫

Also check out tickets for Ecstatic Dance Nyack’s first camp out this August! An overnight camp out, filled with music, community, love and a whole lot of dancing!

May We Dance 🌿✨

We close our evening in deep integration with a live sound bath by Matthew Beck & Malerie Day—offering a truly immersive and heart-opening journey.

Together, they create layered, ambient soundscapes using world flutes, crystal bowls, acoustic guitar, frame drum, chimes, synths, and ethereal vocal harmonies. Through live looping and intuitive expression, they weave a sonic landscape that invites you to soften, receive, and journey beneath the surface.

Matthew, an intuitive reader and sound journey facilitator, guides meditations that transport you into presence and the subtle, spiritual dimensions within the body. Malerie channels her voice as a powerful form of healing—her singing creating space for deep release, alignment, and reconnection.

This is your invitation to rest, integrate, and be held in sound.

📅 Friday, May 29th, 6:30pm
📍 The Angel Nyack — 18 S. B’way, Nyack, NY
🎟️ Tickets: Link in bio

May We Dance 🌿✨

Guiding our dance floor journey this month is Marsseia—music producer, DJ, and sound artist creating immersive, high-vibrational soundscapes for movement and transformation.

Her sets are more than music—they’re an experience. Blending live instruments, spoken poetry, and global rhythms, Marsseia weaves together hypnotic beats and ethereal melodies that awaken the senses and open the heart.

From deep, meditative moments to euphoric waves of expression, her sound becomes a portal—inviting you into presence, liberation, and profound connection. This is a journey you don’t just hear… you feel.

This event is part of a series leading up to DANCE BEYOND, a 4 day dance and wellness festival in Massachusetts from June 4-7! We are so honored to be a part of the Road to Dance Beyond! Tickets are still available for this incredible event.

Come ready to move, to release, and to be carried.

📅 Friday, May 29th, 6:30pm
📍 The Angel Nyack — 18 S. B’way, Nyack, NY
🎟️ Tickets: Link in bio

Tickets for our campout in August “Back to the Garden” are also live! Join us for an overnight in Nyack, NY filled with music, magic and community. Link is in the bio.