New Beginnings with DJs Spruce Lee & Abheeru + VJ kashub and 2 Sound Baths with Navin Sahjpaul
Schedule
Fri, 10 Jan, 2025 at 09:00 pm
UTC-08:00Location
2114 W. 4th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada, British Columbia V6K 1N6 | Vancouver, BC
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Happy New Year everyone! Join us for our first dance of the year featuring 2 DJs, 2 Sound Baths and our resident VJ! 2025 will be the Chinese year of the Snake which brings qualities of wisdom, intuition & rebirth combined with inspiration and flexibility.
What old skin am I still shedding from last year, to make space for renewal? How can I listen more to my body’s intuition, and move through life more embodied? How can I build resilience and remain adaptable to change? Dance is the antidote! Come dance your way into a new year, and a new you."
Just Dance is stoked to welcome again DJ Spruce Lee who will take you on a musical journey. Come brighten your Light in whatever color it wishes to radiate. Experience new beginnings on the dance floor with a like-minded community that believes in healing, joy and love.
Opening the evening will be DJ Abheeru sharing some deep, grooving and tribal sounds, infused and inspired by the diverse musical traditions. He will be selecting cuts from a palette of fresh global music and intuitively weave a unique full evening set for your dance odyssey.
There will be 2 Sound Baths experiences; one before and one after the dance. Our very special guest Navin Sahjpaul will lead these using music & sound with the intention of creating a soundscape within which one can find stillness, tranquility, and peace. The music is a restorative experience, opening the heart and creating space for one to connect to their inner landscape in terms of emotions, thoughts, sensations, and memories, providing an opportunity for the body to release anxiety, tension, and stress that has been stored and accumulated within one’s nervous system over time. Navin will use his voice, acoustic guitar, flute, singing bowls at 432 HZ and keyboard. All of the music will be created live and be improvised.
Be prepared to experience a broad spectrum of tempo, rhythm and intensity in the sonic fabric. Expect to hear extravagant and exotic sounds from every continent, fused with hip-shakin' basslines and solid beats - a perfect synthesis of the traditional and contemporary.
Lush radiant visuals will be crafted live by the talented VJ Kashub.
**Please consider sharing this event with your friends and community **
See you on the dance floor!
The Just Dance team
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More details:
7:30 Optional 1 hr Active Meditation
(doors will be locked during meditation)
8:30 end of meditation
8:35 First Sound Bath with Navin
9:00 DJ Abheeru
10:15 DJ Spruce Lee
11:45 Second Sound Bath with Navin
12:15 end of evening.
Cost: $20 at the door (cash only)
As a twice a month event, many of our regulars do not RSVP on FB. As such, attendance is consistently much higher than what is reflected on the FB event page.
Just Dance is a nonprofit organization that thrives because of our volunteers. Helping for only 45 minutes gets you in for free and connects you with our other volunteers and core team. We always welcome fresh support to keep our events running smoothy. If you love Just Dance, please consider supporting it by jumping in!
More info at https://www.justdance.ca/volunteering
:: BIOS ::
:: SPRUCE LEE ::
As DJ Spruce Lee, I infuse my sets with these philosophies so that it feels like a ceremonial journey. I will take you through musical landscapes that speak to the ineffable spectrum of emotions within you, allowing them to come alive and be expressed through movement.
My musical journey begins with grounding music, before traversing the charged genres of ethnic and organic house, trance, funk and west coast bass, before integrating it all with relaxing ambient sounds.
:: NAVIN SAHJPAUL
Amongst many other interests, Navin Sahjpaul is a Music Therapist (BMT), Certified Yoga Teacher and Artist (musician, writer)
For the past two years, Navin has been actively working as a Music Therapist (BMT) within Vancouver, BC, focusing on how music and sound can be utilized in therapeutic, healing environments in an effort to improve one's quality of life.
He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Music Therapy from Capilano University and a Foundations of Music Therapy Diploma from Douglas College, receiving the Amanda Todd Legacy Award during his time at Douglas College. Navin also holds a 200 Hour+ Yoga Teacher Training Certification from Arkaya Yoga,
As a musician, Navin is a multi-instrumentalist who records, composes, and performs original music with his latest album release on Bandcamp, Medicine Music, consists of 26 original compositions that are designed to be used in conjunction with other healing modalities and serves as an album within which one can seek solace in, a place of calm away from the busyness and chaos of life, an auditory haven to be conducive for inner rest, stillness, and growth
@navinsahjpaul
https://linktr.ee/navinsahjpaul
:: ABHEERU ::
Abheeru has cultivated a profound and rapturous relationship to Global Fusion music, DJing, community service and dancing. As the founder of Just Dance, he has produced, promoted and DJed more than 600 events for over 55,000 dancers, all in the spirit of service as he has always wanted for JD to donate all of its proceeds to local charities and nonprofit groups. For over two decades, he has continued to innovate, inspire and promote new musical concepts for the Vancouver dance community.
As a DJ, Abheeru is known for taping into an extensive palette of genres and styles from far-reaching locations around the world. His main passion is to infuse and mix a wide range of musical organic elements and instruments from many diverse cultures and to blend those with delectable and powerful modern dance beats. The results are exquisitely creative dance sets that will keep your dancing soul and shoes happy.
:: VJ KASHUB ::
Kashub's name stems from the tribe of his ancestry situated along what is now the Baltic Coast of Poland. The tribe, now dispersed and displaced, lived peacefully isolated amidst sand dunes and swamps along the Baltic since before the dawn of the State of the Teutonic Order some 800 years ago. VJ Kashub brings powerful visual projections to induce a spiritual scene so as to reacquaint long lost souls of his ancestry onto our dance floor.
:: ABOUT JUST DANCE ::
Just Dance is a positive party community event. It offers a unique opportunity to dance to an eclectic selection of music from around the world. Held twice a month, Just Dance can be described as a refreshing alternative to the bar and club scene. It is a place where you are free to be yourself, connect with a vibrant community and dance the way you want!
Just Dance is also a non-profit organization and has donated thousands of dollars to local charities over the last 30 years! http://justdance.ca/
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Where is it happening?
2114 W. 4th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada, British Columbia V6K 1N6Event Location & Nearby Stays:
