Drip & Dance: Ecstatic Painting Experience

Saturday, September 20th, 2025 | 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM📍 MNTD Artists Studios – 800 Union Ave, Bridgeport, CT

Looking for something fun, creative, and unique to do in Connecticut this fall?Whether you’re coming solo, with friends, or just curious to try something new, Drip & Dance offers a joyful, immersive experience where ecstatic dance meets expressive painting—inviting you to move, create, and connect in a whole new way.

🔊 Silent Disco Ecstatic Dance🎨 Enamel Drip Painting Workshop✨ Immersive Art + Music Ritual💫 Intention-Setting & Soul Activation🖌️ No Art or Dance Experience Needed

Guided by international artist Julia Isabel and music alchemist Zoel, you'll step into a high-vibe, fully-immersive environment that awakens your creativity and activates your body through movement.

As you wear wireless headphones, you'll be guided on a powerful dance journey—moving freely to live-mixed soundscapes that shift your energy and open your heart. From this space of liberation and joy, you'll flow into a soul-led drip painting process, using enamel and intention to create a piece of art that reflects your inner world — and you’ll have the option to take home a piece of the final communal masterpiece as a beautiful keepsake of your journey.

This isn't just an art class or a dance party — it’s a transformational experience that connects you with yourself, your senses, and a conscious community of like-hearted people.

• Solo adventurers and soul seekers
• Groups of friends looking for a memorable night out
• Birthday celebrations or special occasions
• Date nights with a creative twist
• Creatives, dancers, and anyone craving something different
• Anyone searching for fun, unique things to do in Bridgeport, CT, or Fairfield County

• All painting materials provided
• Drinking water available
• Option to take home a piece of the final collaborative artwork
• Free parking across the street for studio guests
• Safe space, beautiful energy, and vibrant memories
• Your artwork will need to dry overnight, requiring at least 24 hours before it’s ready for collection.

🎟 Get your ticket early—limited space available!Come as you are. Leave inspired, connected, and lit up from the inside out.

👟 Dress to dance. 🎨 Dress to get messy (paint is permanent once dry)

“It was fun, freeing, and deeply healing. I danced, I laughed, I painted my heart out—and made real connections.”“It felt like a creative ceremony and a wild celebration all in one.”

Julia iSABEL is a Ukrainian-American contemporary artist known for her bold, kinetic enamel works that fuse movement, emotion, and social commentary. Based in Connecticut, she explores the intersection of art, activism, and healing, using raw canvas and expressive drip techniques to invite deep reflection and creative liberation.

Her work has been showcased at international institutions such as the Venice Biennale, LA Art Show, Art Miami, and Yale University, and is featured in collections across the U.S. and Europe. Julia’s mission is to create art that awakens awareness, empowers self-expression, and sparks meaningful dialogue — making her the perfect guide for this immersive ritual of paint and intention.

Zoel is a conscious music artist, producer, and DJ known for guiding transformative dance journeys and immersive sound experiences around the world. Her work blends intention, rhythm, and healing, inviting participants to reconnect with their emotions, awaken their spirit, and move from the inside out. With a background in film and a deep devotion to sound as medicine, Zoel creates spaces where music becomes a portal to presence, release, and joy. Her magnetic energy and signature sound have made her a sought-after performer, facilitator, and creative force in the global conscious movement.

• The studio is filled with original artworks to inspire you
• We recommend that you avoid wearing your best clothes, as this is a splatter class, and you might get splashes or pick up some paint along the way. Splashes happen—wear something comfortable that you don’t mind getting paint on!
• Beginner-friendly – no experience or skills required!

• Just come with an open mind and positive energy—you’re about to have a great time. Be an artist in a real artist’s studio.
• We will have water available , you are welcome to bring your own bottle water.
• Your artwork will need to dry overnight, requiring at least 24 hours before it’s ready for collection.

Begin the night with an introduction to Jackson Pollock’s iconic drip technique in a large-scale collaborative format. Guided by Julia, you’ll pour emotion into movement as you paint — expressing yourself through color, flow, and intuition in a shared ritual of creation. No experience needed — just a willingness to let go and create from the heart.

With headphones on and intention activated, Zoel will guide you into an EPIC silent disco dance journey. Through immersive music, you’ll be invited to move through emotions, release limitations, and call in your deepest desires — using dance as a tool for liberation and self-connection.

Then comes the final act: with your energy activated and your spirit expanded, you’ll return to the canvas. This is your moment to express everything you’ve felt — painting from a place of embodiment, gratitude, and connection. Your brush becomes your voice, your colors your truth.

Ages 16+ welcomeLet’s create, sweat, paint, and PLAY together — the Drip & Dance way.

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