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Get Your Dance On - Movement and Music for the Masses
On a typical Saturday in New York city, you would probably find a large group of strained and stressed people at bars, drowning their problems in liquor and beer, destroying bodies, and polluting they're minds. However, on the third floor at 666 Broadway in Manhattan, you'll find a generous flock of people, positively affecting their minds and bodies, filling them with music dance, love, and freedom. Dimension 11 ascends to the 3rd floor of Yoga Vida, knowing to expect only the best from Artist Ashram and Get Your Dance On's first collaboration.
As the Dimension 11 crew sets up shop, readying our materials, the light echoing sound of a didgeridoo floats our way. It gains momentum, garnering more people, slowly building up steam. Onlookers pass us by, smiling happily, giving you the impression that they know everything is alright. Their smiles hint towards something even bigger: a network. A network that's all around you, that's inviting, enticing, a literal manifest of human nature. The crowd is likable, easygoing, and more like a large family than anything else. There's a different quality to this environment, something you can feel on your skin, as if a brush swept across it, invigorating your pores, giving your body a small awakening. You can't help but feel connected to everyone, to people you may not even have met before. One thought tends to invade my mind, one single identifying pretense; this sensibility that everything and everyone is separate but together.
Fermented Hibiscus tea in hand, we make our way towards the back room, a lounge of sorts, serving as the momentary rest stop for many Artist Ahram members. We sat down with them, and had a nice discussion concerning the conception of the group, among other things [Insert interview here]. We spread our internal thoughts, our inner feelings to give light on the subjects that we believe, essentially, give our lives meaning. A state of being is the only way you could describe a place such as this. It's here, then it is not. It doesn't have the subjective nature of being physical in any sense, but isn't nearly as transparent as a thought. You notice an exchange of abstracts becomes the focus of this area. Almost nothing stays put for very long, whether it's a person sitting in their seat, a cup of fermented tea, or a box of health bars placed on the table. Everything seems to keep moving and flowing, a literal precursor to the events that will later unfold.
ONE DREAM NYC - An 11/11/11 Celebration
By Hector Escobar
Photo Credits to Jesse Johnson
Friday, November 11th, 2011, more known as 11/11/11 nationwide, was a very normal and somewhat meaningless day for a majority of people. For anyone at the Future Antiquity flea market on Meeker and Frost, it was anything but meaningless. Your journey begins with the smell of incense burning, flower petals strewn across the floor of small greeting area, as a panel of very nice looking folk make sure you are welcome. From there, your world opens up into a vast warehouse-like space, filled with live art, tables of organic food, an open bar, a tea lounge, and many interesting markets.
As you pass by the markets, there seems to be no stillness. Everyone is moving around, nothing stays still, save for the products on the racks, and even they eventually begin to move between people as purchases are made. As you peruse through the bustling space, antiquities of the vintage variety begin to pop up more and more, filling in the negative areas left behind by the tables of the markets that have been set up. You can't help but feel as though you're in an old age bazaar, with the duality of such new age items.
Casey and Manuel warm up over hot, fermented tea.
With such a quaint environment, a knowledgeable base of minds and bodies, and a bit of fermented tea to go around, the tea lounge serves as a very valuable stop on your journey. Shifts in mindset are made constantly, and the spread of cerebral wealth is at its peak. A sort of sensibility invades the incense filled air around you, a veritable oasis of indescribable good will, and a very much known feeling of camaraderie. Even merely sitting, or more so, "brewing" over the rich tea vapor almost gives you the feeling that you're sitting in an actual cafe or lounge, and not the Meeker Flea Market.
From delighting over the earthy and robust pu'er, to discussing platonic shapes with your fellow man, or simply sitting on the comfortable couch, as onlookers pass in and out of the lounge, you can't help but feel at peace and warm on that frigid Friday night.
From delighting over the earthy and robust pu'er, to discussing platonic shapes with your fellow man, or simply sitting on the comfortable couch, as onlookers pass in and out of the lounge, you can't help but feel at peace and warm on that frigid Friday night.
