Ritual Dance w/ Marques Wyatt
🌜 Lunar Legacies 🌛 presents an evening with one of the pioneers of conscious dance music.
This summer, we are honored to welcome Marques Wyatt to Kauaʻi for a rare three-hour Ritual Dance journey.
With decades behind the decks and a lifelong devotion to dance as a path of connection, Marques creates experiences that are both deeply rooted and profoundly expansive. His sets are known not only for their masterful musicality, but for their ability to transform a room of strangers into a unified dance floor.
Expect an intentional progression through deep percussion, organic rhythms, soulful house, tribal textures, and moments of stillness and release. Whether this is your first dance or your hundredth, the evening is designed to invite presence, expression, and genuine human connection.
Ritual Dance...
...is a sacred dance experience created by Marques Wyatt. A space where rhythm becomes ritual, and music becomes medicine. Known for his aural alchemy, Marques weaves soundscapes infused with ancestral pulses and tribal influences from Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and beyond. Regardless of tempo, the drum is a driving force throughout, connecting dancers to the heartbeat of the earth, the rhythm of their own being, and the collective spirit that moves through all. With impeccable intuition and a vast sonic palette, his sets transform even the largest dance floors into intimate, transcendent rituals.
💿 Listen here: https://soundcloud.com/marques-wyatt
🕒 Schedule
6:00 pm – Experiments in Rhythm facilitated by Alex Milewski
7:00 pm - Welcome blessing & guided meditation
7:15 pm – Ritual Dance w/ Marques Wyatt
10:00 pm – Sound Healing by TBA
Dance Lab: “Experiments in Rhythm” — Facilitated by Alex Milewski
Join us for a dance lab with Alex Milewski, a movement artist and educator exploring rhythm as a language of connection. This playful, embodied warm-up blends somatic awareness, rhythm games, and creative movement to awaken the body and attune us to one another.
Through guided improvisation and interactive exercises, we’ll listen with the whole body — to self, others, and space — remembering rhythm as a bridge to presence, curiosity, and flow.
With over two decades in martial arts, contemporary dance, and embodied play, Alex invites participants to move beyond choreography and into direct, intuitive communication through rhythm — preparing us to enter the dance fully alive.
🥥 Food & drinks: TBA!
🌺 Other details
Alcohol/substance-free event
Main dance floor is a talk-free zone.
Kanaka maoli always receive free entry.
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