Ecstatic Dance Oakland: Marcel Surreal

Musician and dancer, born into a musical family, Sly & the Family Stone, Marcel was raised in a diverse background of sound, entering the arts of dance (breaking and house), and dj’ing (disco and deep tech) as a teen at local parties, later evolving his sound with other electronic and world music. As a musician, Marcel also occasionally performs live Afro/Arabic based percussion in his dj sets, adding an organic feel to his music curation for the dancer. Marcel has Dj’d and danced at ecstatic dance events from Tulum to Haifa, from Tel-Aviv to Atitlàn, from Sacred Valley to Sacramento, and from Nevada City to the birthplace and mecca of ecstatic dance, San Francisco, and consistently brings fresh new vibes from his global experiences to his music curations. As a dancer, Marcel looks for music that will inspire movement within the dancer and aims to curate sounds that accentuate the vocabulary of every dancer’s movement, whether it be salsa, belly dancing, Balkan, Senegalese, house, vogu