2010:  May Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec     2011: Jan Feb Mar

Limited Scholarship & Workstudy Available for many events. Click here for more information.

Weekly Classes
Mondays: Creative dance for Children: Celebrating Imagination through Movement! Please join us for playful self-expression and the exploration of dance and improvisaton concepts for growing bodies and minds. 3-5 year olds: 4:15-5:00pm, 6-9 year olds: 5:15-6:15pm.

Pilates for (everyone with a special focus on) Seniors led by Maureen Shea. Strengthen, stretch and explore movement principles. Classes are pay-what-you-can ($1-10). Maureen is a certified Pilates mat and Fletcher Towelwork instructor. Call for current schedule.

Ongoing Projects:
SEEDS - Somatic Experiments in Earth, Dance and Science

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July 2010

June 29 – July 4: July 4 th Jam | COMMUNITY. A special 5-day Contact Improvisation gathering when we welcome many of our longtime community members and their families to come and dance, as well as embrace those new to our community.

July 4 - Movement Jam with Live Improvised Music. Featured Artist: Stephen Katz. 8:00 - 10:00pm.. Musicians are welcome to bring instruments to play after 10:00pm. $7-$10.

July 9 - 18 - SEEDS - Somatic Experiments in Earth, Dance and Science. SEEDS Festival is a unique interdisciplinary summer festival dedicated to arts and ecology. The theme of this year's 10-day long SEEDS festival is NOURISHMENT: A crop's environment—including soil, topography, and climate—imparts a characteristic taste and flavor and must be taken into consideration in cultivation. With care, through interaction we hope to create an ultra-lush, enriching, and regenerative culture in which to grow our art.Come for a performance or a film, a workshop, a jam, or the whole festival!

Many SEEDS Festival events are open to the public! Films, Jams, Panels, and Performances. See the full list on the SEEDS schedule page (scroll down to public events).
$7 to $10 suggested donation; meals $10. Free to SEEDS festival attendees. No one turned away for lack of funds.

• Saturday July 10, 8 pm. Performance. Benoît Lachambre (Montreal) plus special guest performers
• Sunday July 11, 6 & 8 pm. ECO Dinner. Delicious recipes by Leslie Cerier, author of Going Wild in the Kitchen. ECO Jam. Atmosphere et Musique to dance to with Ali Skalli
• Monday July 12, 8 pm. Film Screening. Vanishing of the Bees—tracking the mysterious disappearance of honeybees across the planet.
• Tuesday July 13, 8 pm FREE! Panel discussion. SEEDS Artists-in-Residence, including dancemakers, somatics specialists, a landscape architect, and permaculturists.
• Wednesday July 14, 8 pm Film Screening. Four Women in a Tree —four successive generations of women choreographers and their influence on one another: Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, Pooh Kaye, Jennifer Monson.
• Thursday July 15, 8 pm FREE! Discussion. Paying Attention: The interdisciplinary weave of awareness in the practices of Permaculture, Contact Improvisation, and Body-Mind Centering. Just Manocchia, organizer.
  

All day: Green m-Art: Crafts Fair and Sustainability Info Swap

10 am to noon: BioZone Walk with Gopi Krishna. Kid-friendly!
Noon to 1 pm: SEEDS Research Projects: discussion and performance.
1 to 3 pm Lunch Rest & Digest. Enjoy the Green m-Art crafts fair and Info Swap.
3 to 4:30 pm Community SING: Songs for the Earth with Penny Schultz. All ages! (more on SING)
4:30 to 6 pm SEEDS Research Projects: discussion and performance.
6 pm Dinner & Discourse. Eat our delicious locally grown food and network.
8 pm Body Cartography Participatory Performance. Explore the land with group instruction.

July 18 - Our 3rd Sunday of the Month Jam is taking a break for the Summer.

July 19 - 23 Harriet Tubman Healthy Living Conference

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August 2010

Aug 1 - Movement Jam with Live Improvised Music. Featured Artist: John Hughes. 8:00 - 10:00pm.. Musicians are welcome to bring instruments to play after 10:00pm. $7-$10.

August 5 – 8 Western Massachusetts Moving Arts Festival This festival has something to offer everyone: a chance to study a variety of improvisational dance and theater forms intensively, as well as to sample both local and national teachers.

Friday, August 6 - WMMAF Movement Jam with Live Music. 8pm. $7 - $12
Saturday, August 7 - New Performance Series - WMMAF Faculty Performance, 8pm. $7 - $12

August 8 - 13 - DWELL with Chris Aiken & Angie Hauser. This year's DWELL will be a laboratory for the investigation of dance improvisation through the lens of perception, imagination, and the making of places to be and feel alive.

August 11 - Performance - Chris Aiken & Angie Hauser. As part of their DWELL Workshop, Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser will offer an evening performance, Wednesday, August 11th. Both Chris and Angie are amazing dancers and this performance is not to be missed.

August 13 - Dance Party. Following the DWELL Workshop, come up to Earthdance to dance with Chris Aiken & Angie Hauser and some of their students who stay on after the workshop. 8pm. $7 - $10 sliding scale.

Aug 15 - Our 3rd Sunday of the Month Jam is taking a break for the Summer.

August 25 - Community Sing with Penny Schultz. A SING is an opportunity for any and all ages to come together to learn part songs from around the world. You don't need to read music to participate. Songs, which will be taught by rote, include music from South Africa, gospel songs, English country songs, unusual rounds, and other songs that celebrate the earth, peace, and well-being. The SINGS are child-friendly events. Though the music is geared towards adults, adolescents and younger children are encouraged to participate. Restless children can go with an adult to the adjacent dance barn to run around. Also, the grounds are fun and safe places for children to play. $5/person (young children free). 6:30 – 8:00pm followed by a potluck.

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September 2010

Sept 5 - Movement Jam with Live Improvised Music. Featured Artist: TBA. 8:00 - 10:00pm.. Musicians are welcome to bring instruments to play after 10:00pm. $7-$10.

September 16 – 19 Body and Earth Training with Andrea Olsen and Caryn McHose. A journey in Body and Earth principles and practices: Beginning with arriving on the magical land of Earthdance and orienting through perceptual practices, we introduce a sequence of explorations to deepen inhabitation of self and place, and refresh creative energies.

Sept 19 - 3rd Sunday Contact Improvisation Jam. An opportunity to learn and practice the form of Contact Improvisation. Open Level CI Class 3:30 -5:00pm. Contact Jam: 5 - 7pm. Followed by a potluck dinner. Sliding Scale Cost: Class: $5 - $10, Jam: $5 - $10. Come join us for an exciting afternoon of dancing.

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October 2010

Oct 3 - Movement Jam with Live Improvised Music. Featured Artist: TBA. 8:00 - 10:00pm.. Musicians are welcome to bring instruments to play after 10:00pm. $7-$10.

Oct 21 – 24 - The Falling Leaves Jam.

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November 2010

Nov 7- Movement Jam with Live Improvised Music. Featured Artist: TBA. 8:00 - 10:00pm.. Musicians are welcome to bring instruments to play after 10:00pm. $7-$10.

Nov 18 – 21 - Advanced Contact Improvisation with Andrew de L. Harwood.


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December 2010

Dec 5 - Movement Jam with Live Improvised Music. Featured Artist: TBA. 8:00 - 10:00pm.. Musicians are welcome to bring instruments to play after 10:00pm. $7-$10.

Dec 28 – Jan 2 - The New Year's Jam. Please register early as the jam tends to fill up by Thanksgiving.

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January 2011

Jan. 2 Movement Jam with Live Improvised Music. Featured Artist: TBA. 8:00 - 10:00pm.. Musicians are welcome to bring instruments to play after 10:00pm. $7-$10.

Jan. 3 - 21 January Workshop with Nancy Stark Smith. A three-week "CONTINUING"* workshop
*for those who have studied with NSS in other intensive workshops A rare opportunity for dancers who have participated in previous intensive workshops with Nancy to dive deeper into the study and practice of the "states of grace" materials, including: contact improvisation, solo and group improvisation, composition, contemplation, changing states, the Underscore, listening, and performance. Please visit www.nancystarksmith.com for more information or to sign up.

Jan. 12 - 16 Dancing at the Corner of Your Eye with Barbara Dilley. How do we fertilize our intuition for the delights of spontaneous dancing? Catching glimpses of a gesture, flickers of gentle outrageousness, a song on the fringe of awareness ~ practicing at the edge of our knowing, at the corner of our eyes ~ with the mysteries. More details soon.

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February 2011

Feb. 3 - 13 E | MERGE Artist Residency

February 5 & 6 E|Merge Workshop Weekend - Open to the Public
February 11 & 12 E|Merge Performance's - Open to the Public

Feb. 6 - Movement Jam with Live Improvised Music. Featured Artist: TBA. 8:00 - 10:00pm.. Musicians are welcome to bring instruments to play after 10:00pm. $7-$10.

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March 2011

Mar. 6 - Movement Jam with Live Improvised Music. Featured Artist: TBA. 8:00 - 10:00pm.. Musicians are welcome to bring instruments to play after 10:00pm. $7-$10.

Mar. 7 - 17 Contact +/- a 9-day "OPEN"* training with Nancy Stark Smith.*open to those with previous experience in contact improvisation Contact Improvisation, Improvisation Scores, The Underscore, Composition, Contemplation, Changing States, Performance Please visit www.nancystarksmith.com for more information or to sign up.

Mar. 17 - 20 Spring Equinox Jam. Celebrate this year's spring equinox at Earthdance. Relax, renew, and rebalance by engaging in the play and flow of Contact Improvisation. More details soon.

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*In addition to the programs listed, Earthdance also rents out our facility at many other times. To register for these other rental events, please contact the group leader directly, rather than Earthdance.