ELECTRO⚡️CUTE (she/they) is a DC-area based, conscious event focused DJ and Producer who began her musical journey in 2011, balancing a 15‑year music career with a social justice law and policy career and a deep devotion to music, movement, and collective transformation. Emerging from NYC’s underground rave scene, she has since performed at renowned US venues including Flash, Eighteenth Street Lounge, Twelve After Twelve, and Le Poisson Rouge, while cultivating a rooted presence in the global ecstatic dance community, recently gracing the stage at Ecstatic Dances in Berlin, Philly, NYC, Nyack, and beyond.
She has opened for international heavy hitters such as Lee Burridge, Mita Gami, Monkey Safari, Awen, Rinzen, and Madmotormiquel, and is a frequent musical guide at conscious festivals including Dance Beyond, Dance Medicine Campout, Lucid Dreams, and Love Burn, a regional Burning Man event in Miami, FL.
Drawing from her Persian, German, Afghani, Mediterranean, Indian, and Egyptian heritage, ELECTRO⚡️CUTE crafts ethereal, global‑infused sets that blend ancestral rhythms with punchy, organic electronic beats sprinkled with hints of nostalgia— awakening the inner animal and inner child on the dance floor. Her performances transport listeners across cultures, languages, and eras, inviting dancers to both twirl in ecstasy and twerk in liberation.
As a certified Usui/Holy Fire Reiki practitioner, she infuses her music with healing intention to support deeper resonance, embodiment, and connection. She is the Founder and Resident DJ of Ecstatic Dance Arlington and Soul Fire Experiences, creating accessible conscious dance and meditation events for all ages and backgrounds in the Washington, DC area. She also is a Co-Founder of Soul Flow Events, a conscious nightlife initiative merging her passions for wellness, music, and social justice advocacy.
In everything she creates, ELECTRO⚡️CUTE invites dancers to remember: the dance floor is not just a place to move — it’s a place to release, rise, and return to the most playful, powerful version of yourself.
Ari Azizkhan-Gould (Illuminari Wellness, DJ Electro-Cute) is a wellness facilitator, Reiki practitioner, EFT Tapping Facilitator, DJ/producer, lawyer, and community experience curator whose work bridges embodiment, creativity, and holistic well-being. Drawing from somatic movement, mindfulness, meditation, nervous system regulation, dance, sound healing, and energy work, she has developed and facilitated transformative programming for individuals, organizations, and communities.
As the founder of Ecstatic Dance Arlington and co-creator of Soul Flow Conscious Nightlife, Ari creates intentional experiences at the intersection of movement, music, art, activism, and community healing. Across both her facilitation and artistry, she invites people into deeper connection with themselves and one another through joy, authentic expression, play, and embodied presence—ultimately creating space to reconnect with the body and inner child.