Movement Medicine for Social Change
Movement is Medicine that all people deserve.
Create or gain access to dance through our communally supported sliding scale. ~
Gain Access: If the requested contribution for dance class is prohibitive for you, come on in and contribute whatever you’re able. Nobody is turned away for lack of funds.
Create Access: Support Movement Medicine for Social Change:
Folks with the means are encouraged to choose an “add to your appointment” option when you register for class, OR Link Here to contribute directly without even shaking a leg! ~ We create equity collectively. Your generosity helps create dance access for others, pay the artists and rent.
Any surplus in this fund annually is equally distributed between community initiatives doing social change and anti-racism work, including the following initiatives in 2023:
Gedakina:
Equality Maine Community Center:
Khmer Maine:
Hamana Arts Center (via Namory Keita):
Hamana Arts Center is Namory Keita’s project in the Hamana region of Guinea ~ A place for study and preservation of Guinea’s traditional music, dance, arts, culture!
Learn more about the important work of each organization & contribute directly by visiting the links above!
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At Embody the Rhythm we contribute in solidarity:
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To honor the legacy, culture and people of Guinea, from which the music and dances in our classes originate.
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To honor the legacy and culture of the Indigenous people’s of Maine, who’s ancestral land we are standing/dancing/drumming on.
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To honor people of the Global Majority (including Black, Indigenous, People of Color) and LGBTQIA human family members who continue to struggle for the same respect, safety and opportunity that many take for granted in this country and beyond.
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To cultivate the healing energy we generate on the dance floor and send it beyond ourselves into the world; contribute to much-needed healing between people within our human family; affirm the healing power of Love.
Embody the Rhythm 