The Groove Garden is Northern California's Bay Area Freakstop!

Every first Saturday of the Month: In a space completely transformed by delicious decor and VJs festooning walls with a splattering of pixelated hues and mesmerizing imgagery - we offer an excursion in to ecstatic dance unlike any other place in the Bay Area.

We hope you'll join us soon for an awesome night of dance and Dancetribal Community!

Our philosophy is simply this: To offer an environment that honors all who enter and to create a safe haven of creative dance expression where we celebrate the Joyful Self, Universal Spirit and Dance Community. Oh yes, all in a context of the most progressive, cutting edge dance music from the far-flung corners of the globe!

The Dance Sanctuary offers over 3,000 square feet of comfortable wooden floors on which to dance your devotion and sweat your prayers to the audio alchemy of resident DJ Dragonfly who mixes turntables, samples, electronic and ethnic percussion all into an inimitable set of rhythmic and tribal grooves with melodies from the slipstream and beats from tha' underground. It's a one-of-a-kind, self-described genre of "Gaiatronic Grooves" that'll shake yer chakra's and put you on the dance radar.

In addition to special live performances the Dance Sanctuary also hosts plenty of great guest DJ's hailing from the Bay Area and beyond.

In the Ambient Room your listening pleasure is taken on an entirely different journey as aural pharmeceuticals are mixed by resident and guest ambient DJs. It's a softly lit place where you can stretch out under a nomad's tent, drink chai and exotic teas, sample handcrafted tinctures and flower essences, have your body adorned by henna body artists, sit with tarot readers and astrologers.

The ambient room often hosts an hour of live music, featuring the exotic idioms of of the near and far east. Past artists have soothed the souls with instrumentation as diverse as cello, Tuvan throat singing, electronically looped sitar, oud, yalli tambour, sarod and mbira, bansuri flute, didgeridoo...to name a few.

The Groove Garden approaches the 7-year mark now and has served as an amazing community gathering point. There, people have met, fallen in love, moved in with each other and geez; even gotten married!

In creating a space where people can interact in an entirely wholesome way, where sweat is the common currency and the exchange rate is in your favor, who couldn't be or wouldn't be their most resplendent, shining self? Really...what better circumstances to meet the right person?

Okay, okay...really, we are a dance event first. The DJs are there as your sonic shamans to guide you through an inexplicable journey where the beats thicken like a plot and the grooves twist like a tale. A really good tale. In fact we have been graced by some of the most unwaveringly excellent DJs at our various events (just check out the past flyers on the website here). Many of the visiting bands, too, are at the forefront of the Bay Area's dance scene. In fact we have been privvy to numerous artists who have slipped us previews of their upcoming works, allowing us to spin their tracks before the public ear gets a hold.

So join us for whatever your good intention might be - we'll shake your bones in all directions, spirit your soul with a global palette of grooves and send you home with a smile and twinkle - till the next first Saturday of the month, when we'll see you again for another helping from The Garden.

The Groove Garden Crew

http://groovegarden.tribe.net