OCURA
Community, Ecstatic Dance & Conscious Events in Málaga & Andalucía, Spain
What is Ocura?
We are two things:
1. Ecstatic Dance & Conscious Events Organizers in Málaga & Andalucía, Spain (check out our instagram here)
2. A Community of likeminded people
Ocura means many things, but mainly a combination of the word Crazy (Locura in Spanish) and to Cure (Curar in Spanish), where our events aim to be something in between those two words 🙂
Our Events
Laboratorio – Málaga
This is our weekly ecstatic dance event on Thursday nights (20-22h) in Málaga. We call it a Laboratory because it is a space to play with a concept of ecstatic dance. We invite people from our community to create intros and outros, as well as to DJ and to share their gifts and talents at our events.
15 min intro (meditation, movement, breathwork or similar activities. 1,5 hour ecstatic dance. 15 min outro (meditation, sound healing, gong bath or similar). And we end with a sharing & name circle to leaarn to know each other.
We can only fit 20 people in our space, called Uruamaya, in ciudad Jardin.
La Nave – Coín
This is our open air dance place in Coín where we do longer events on the weekends. It is not yet a consistent schedule but we are aiming at 1-2 times a month.
We meet, do facepainting, welcome people to the space, we start with a meditation or a intro from someone in the community then do ectstatic dance for 2-2,5 hours and end with mediation or live music/an outro from community members. Afterwards we have shaared food together in our chill out zone (everyone brings food to share). Open for kids to join and small dogs if they behave ok around other dogs and people.
The place is Antonios beekeeping industry which is not in use anymore – however there are still some active beehives on site.
Women’s Circle – Málaga
This is my weekly women’s circle where we meet on Wednesday’s in Málaga city center (20-22h).
We have a opening circle, 45 minutes dancing, 45 minutes sharing circle and free connection time with other like minded women.
We can only fit 20 people in our space, called Uruamaya, in ciudad Jardin.
Meet Our Team
Filippa Levemark
Filippa is the founder of Ocura and is also under training to be a proffessional ecstatic dance DJ. She hosts most of the music and faciliation at Laboratorio.
When Filippa DJs you can expect: high energy, high contrast between slow and fast, a lot of drums and different beats from around the world, from bhangra to kletzmer to electro cumbia – the one thing you will know for sure is you will sweat 🙂
Antonio Jesús Gonzáles López
Antonio is a co creator to Ocura, he is our main DJ and responsable for our music and sound system.
Antonio used to DJ electronic music back in the days and has studied two years of 5 rhythms as a dancer. Now he is focused on bringing a proper ectstatic dance experience following 5 rythms so that the dance serves as a healing modality as well as an epic dance!
Antonio is our DJ at all of our external events.
Gabriel Sánchez
Gabriel is our host, our extra hand and occasional content creator and he helps promote our events. He is always at the door at Laboratorio as well as at our external events if needed.
Do you want to DJ or host an activity at our events?
We invite people from our community to DJ and to host intros and outros at our dances. The best thing to do is to first join one of our events so we can learn to know you in person and you can learn to know the community.
DJ at our Events
As for Dj:ing we have the following requirements:
1. That you know of and follow 5 rythms correctly so we follow traditional ecstatic dancing.
2. That the music is as much as possible non commercial, world music with good energy.
We will either attend your ecstatic dance event to first get a feeling of your style or we will ask you to send a set where you clearly demonstrate that you know 5 rythms and your music selection as well as your DJ:ing skills.
Hire Us For Your Event
We are also open to host ecstatic dances at your event, retreat, festival, wedding, birthday party or similar occassions. We bring the whole concept, intro and outro, facepainting, decorations, proffessional DJ’s and if needed an epic sound system to create a conscious party at your venue. Contact us below for more information if you are interested in hiring us.