Elemental Existence
Elemental Existence
An immersive ritual and art performance festival exploring humans omnipresent interwoveness with the 5 natural elements of earth, water, fire, air, and spirit.
Held by Chantelle of soluna medicines
and Coco of Art As Experience.
Saturday, May 31 at 5pm
to Sunday, June1 at 2pm
- Held at Earthdance in Plainfield MA -
A ritual & festival experience.
Join us on Saturday, May 31 for an art performance in devotion to exploring our existence as elemental beings. Well dance late into the night with 3 electronic musicians guiding us to move as nature.
Spend the night and wake up amongst the community on Sunday, June 1 to sauna, eat a catered brunch, participate in an outdoor fire ceremony, and find freedom through the air-ritual dance.
Photo of Vestal Visions Ritual Theatre Performance by Murry Echo & Leela featuring Chantelle & Murry who will both be performers for EE.
More Details
Elemental Existence is equal parts a celebration of life and a call to humanity to remember we can do better. Come expecting to witness performance art that explores themes of nature, emotions, climate change, collective healing, collective chaos, abuse of power, personal power, beauty, and magic.
At Elemental Existence we open to the interwovenness of humanity and our primal reliance on one another for world peace to prevail.All guests will have a chance to interact with the elements during the performance. All will become clear upon arrival. There is no need to prepare on your end outside of arriving open to art and curious about co-creation.
Photo from Forest & Village at the temezcal where Chantelle of soluna medicines is smoke cleasning participants. Taken by Dania Trejo.
We kindly and firmly request that all guests dress and adorn themselves as the element they feel is closest to their heart for our art performance on Saturday – Earth, Water, Fire, or Air. Did someone say immersive theatre ritual? Did someone say costume party!?
On Sunday all guests are invited to dress as SPIRIT... Meaning dress in a way that makes you feel ALIVE and embodied as a spirit in your human body. All answers are correct!
Together we unite for a night and day of deep feeling, play, contemplation, and experiential connection to the elements. Together we take one step closer to wholeness and the right relationship to the Earth. Together we are open to elemental connection, power, and existence.
Flow of Event
Join us for only Saturday or Saturday & Sunday. See ticket options for more details.
Saturday, May 31
5 to 7pm : Guest Arrival, Set Up Camp, & Personal Land Offerings
Water prayer : Receive your water soluble paper at check in. Write a prayer to the waters of life and release it into the brook or quarry on sight.
Land offering : Everyone brings their own herb, flower, or rock to offer the land.
We kindly and firmly request that all guests dress and adorn themselves as the element they feel is closest to their heart for our art performance on Saturday – Earth, Water, Fire, or Air.
Please no late arrivals, as every person is part of the ritual and art creation.
7:45pm : Enter into performance space to be seated.
8pm - 9:30pm : Immersive Theatre Ritual Performance showcasing – Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Spirit
9:30pm - 10:45pm : Elemental Dance Journey DJ set by Omar Aena of Dance Beyond NYC
10:45pm - 12:15am : Sexy and Groovy Elemental DJ set by Matt Carey of The Reliquarium
12:15am - 1:45am : House music & elemental come-down soundscape by Brandon Esteves of Sunshine [At Night]
– set times are subject to shift as electronic musicians collaborate and jam with one another
Sunday, June 1
On Sunday all guests are invited to dress as SPIRIT.. Meaning dress in a way that makes you feel ALIVE and embodied as a spirit in your human body. All answers are correct ;)
8am to 1pm : Sauna is lit and available for use
9am to 10:15am : Brunch is catered and served in farmhouse
11am - 12pm : Fire ritual with Juan Pablo of Domo Kuraca & Chantelle of soluna medicines
12pm - 1pm : Air-Ritual Dance with DJ Trusty Rusty
12:30pm - 2pm : Work exchangers clean
1pm - 2pm : Packing cars, saying goodbyes, and closing out the space.
2pm : Departure. Thanks for coming.