About Alternative Dance Network of South Florida

the Alternative Dance Network is for people who love to move. It focuses on alternative dance environments.

• Many dancing styles are posted on the calendar
  
• the dancing most often is free-form and improvisational, although cultural dances certainly have there own styling
  
• No partner is needed - the dancing is most often solo and/or group format
  
• Has no judging, no worries, no questions - prior experience is not necessary
  
• No special clothing or fashion is necessary - wear what's comfortable for you, dance barefooted!

EVENT SPONSORS AND NETWORKS
Many of the events are sponsored by groups with their own newsletters and networks - we join them for the dance!

Drum Circles
The South Florida Drum Circle Newsletter list drumming events throughout South Florida. Authored by Michael Goodman

Bellydance
Bellydancing is transforming the dance world with great music, original choreography, incredible costumes, a rich cultural tradition, top-notch instructors, remarkable performers and enthusiastic audiences. Add to this the unleashing of the Goddess energy in a beautiful artform, and bellydancing will change the world for the better.

Palm Beach Bellydance Meetup
Broward Bellydance Meetup
Miami-Dade Bellydance Meetup

Trance Dance is an ancient healing tradition, as old as humanity. The Dance takes you naturally and effortlessly from thinking to being. The music is based in deeply-rooted historical dance music - tribal trance beats - and is often accompanied by live tribal drumming. The rhythm of the drum guides the dancer to a healing place of deep trance - Leaves you feeling renewed and transformed. Learn more

Nia Technique
Nia - Neuromuscular Integrative Action - is a transformational movement practice that celebrates the joys of free movement, individual expression, and the innate wisdom of the body. Done barefoot to diverse and inspiring music, Nia integrates Latin, African, Jazz and Modern Dance, Martial Arts, Tai Chi and Yoga. Listing of South Florida Nia Classes

Reggae Festivals The comprehensive guide to live Reggae music in South Florida, Jammin Raggae website, includes poetry readings and African dance classes. Lovingly authored by Debbie Allen

The Music
"Many Afro-Latin music forms propel and ignite the lower body, the hips, the butt, the pelvis, etc. by letting the downbeat float. By de-emphasizing the first beat of each measure, a rhythm becomes more sensual and ethereal; one floats outside of the time and space of earthly existence. Repetition creates a timeless, communal otherworld, a cycle that is both rooted in biological rhythms and in the beyond or the meta-biological.
Any activation of the hips-sex-butt-pelvis relates to the source of all life, the womb. This kind of music is definitely a respectful prayer in honor of the sweet, the feminine, the great mother-the sensuous life-giving aspects of ourselves and our lives-and to the Earth, the mother of us all. To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware!" - David Byrne, Composer and lead singer of the group Talking Heads

Dance Classes
The Alternative Dance Network is about living in the moment, feeling the music and moving spontaneously. For classes that may help see Dance Class Listing