The facilitators of the Cincinnati Branch are

Peggy Shimko (Mysterious Ways)
Suzanne Gerard (Gaiananda)
Avasa (Synthia Richardson, Avasa Tribal)

PURE: Public Urban Ritual Experiment…Centering ourselves, communicating with each other and reaching out to the audience through dance. PURE is a community of dancers and musicians who have come together to share their love of dance and music for the purposes of healing and peace. The name PURE acknowledges that we are “going back to the source” of Middle Eastern Dance. We pay homage to the dance’s origins as a communal ritual. The name also highlights our process of distilling the healing essence of many traditions into one PURE offering. It is PURE’s goal to affect positive change within ourselves, each other, with the audience witnessing the event as well as the greater society.

http://tribes.tribe.net/purecincinnati