Jam Details
- Attendance: An average of 40-80 people will attend this jam and is open to all movement levels & backgrounds.
- Jam Options: Full Jam, Saturday Drop-In, and Integration Days (Drop-In Day & Integration Days are available only to folks who have been to Earthdance before).
- Integration Days – October 20th-22nd: Stay at Earthdance after the jam to integrate your experience in a small and lightly held container. This will be an unstructured time to be together, use the studios, be on the land, sauna and share meals. Participants will self organize around meals and studio time, without hosts, staff or CICO organizing the spaces. We offer this as a way for participants to relax into the setting of Earthdance in a less busy atmosphere, so that your landing back into the world can be as smooth as possible.
- Newcomers: If you have never been to Earthdance, we ask that you only sign up for the Full Jam. This will allow us to better welcome and orient you to Earthdance.
Arrival, Onsite Check-In, Opening Circle, and Departures
- Full Jam: Arrival/Check-In on Thursday, October 17th from 4:00pm-7:00pm front of the Farmhouse. Dinner is at 6-7pm.
- Opening Circle: Friday, October 18th at 10am. We request that ALL Newcomers attend the Opening Circle.
- Saturday Drop-In (Only for folks who’ve been to Earthdance before): Arrive Saturday, October 19th at 8am. Check-In from 1-2pm during lunch in front of the Farmhouse. Departure at 10pm day of.
- Closing Circle/Final Clean: Sunday, October 20th Closing Circle at 12:30pm, Lunch 1-2pm
- Final Group Clean at 2-3pm.
- Full Jam Departure: All participants who aren’t staying for the Integration Days will depart after the final group clean by 3pm on Sunday, October 20th.
- Integration Days (Only for folks who attended the Fall Jam) October 20th-22nd.
- Integration Days Final Clean/Departure: ALL house clean 2pm, Departure at 3pm on Tuesday, October 22nd.
Our Fees Explained
Earthdance offers a sliding scale payment for participation in this event, please take a moment to reflect as you decide on where you best fit.
Your level of contribution is self selected and does not need to be advocated for. However, we invite you to remember this contribution is currency and we ask that you stretch where you are able so that those who cannot stretch as far of a financial distance may also have potential access to community events. As you choose your rate please consider the following factors:
- Your access to income and wealth, as connected to family and partnership, both currently and anticipated in the future.
- The historical, systemic impacts of wealth accrual based on culture, race and other intersection marginalizations for you and your family.
- The regional ease of your attendance, while some community members can drive to Earthdance, others will need to consider tuition based on their ability to travel longer distances.
- Earthdance is a community and rental funded organization which recently, historically and uniquely through the Covid-19 pandemic has struggled to have viable income.
Equity & Access Tickets
Although we’re not able to offer any full scholarships this year, we’re excited to offer up to 6 FULL JAM Equity & Access Discounts to individuals who feel part of an underrepresented and/or marginalized group in CI and have a relationship with CI. We know that for those who come from marginalized populations showing up to spaces filled with primarily privileged groups can be a challenge, and can feel vulnerable.
APPLY HERE! Application deadline is October 3rd.
For those who do not identify as marginalized and are in a represented group of CI, we invite you to stretch in your payment to help support those who cannot stretch and create a more diverse jam experience for all.
Note: While Earthdance is making efforts to better support Equity & Access at all its events, this jam offers particularly strong support for diversity, equity, and inclusion through:
- Reduced pricing offered to people self-identifying as being underrepresented and/or marginalized in CI.
- Classes and discussions that aim to bring up the level of awareness and inclusion at the jam as a whole
- Affinity spaces (jams, discussions, etc.) for particular groups of people to connect, share CI space together, and rest from the pressures of being in a minority status at the jam.
Housing Options
Gratitude Lodge
Includes a bed in the Gratitude Lodge, Jam offerings, and food during the jam.
The Gratitude Lodge (a.k.a. the Earthdance dorm) is the main lodging facility, connected to the Farmhouse by a short wooded trail. The lodge includes large and small rooms featuring dormitory-style bunks and beds (twin & queen size) and is included in the base Jam cost. Beds are available on a first come basis.
Camping
Includes a spot to camp at Earthdance, Jam offerings, and food during the jam.
Commuter
You will have access to the Jam offerings including food for the event.
Commuter Health Care: We ask that you please use caution when commuting and limit, if possible, to just commuting to and from your home and Earthdance, staying away from large crowds to maintain the health and well being of the other Jam participants.
Nine Mountain is NOT available.
PRICING
Cancellation Policy
Refund available up to 14 days (October 3rd) before the event less a $75 processing fee.
No refunds available less than 14 days (October 3d) from the start of the event.
Partial refunds might be given if a cancellation takes place under extenuating circumstances (e.g. a death of a 1st or 2nd degree family member, serious non-preventable illness or accident requiring hospitalization). Refunds in such cases remain at the discretion of the local organizers and will be decided on a case to case basis according to the timing of the cancellation and other factors. We do not offer refunds if you catch a cold, the flu or COVID after the cancellation date.
Health Precautions
No specific requirements on vaccination status are needed to attend this event. Please take adequate measures to limit your exposure in the days before arriving. If you are feeling sick, or have a known close exposure to someone with COVID in the past 5 days, please sit this one out to keep the community well.
COMMUTERS: We ask that you please use caution when commuting and limit, if possible, to just commuting to and from your home and Earthdance, staying away from large crowds to maintain the health and well being of the other Summer Jam participants.
Participant Community Support
Earthdance runs as a community, thus part of the participation is that all individuals contribute to 1-2 work shifts (typically meal cleans) throughout the event and participate in a final house clean on the last day of the event. These are great ways to connect more with your fellow participants and Earthdance staff, and to feel more at home in the Earthdance buildings & grounds. Your contributions to this collective caring of this space are invaluable!
Earthdance’s buildings are ADA accessible. More info here.
HOST BIOS
Yun Lee
Yun is a performer, maker, and facilitator from Seoul currently based in Western Massachusetts. Their journey in dance started by taking part in Seoul International Improvisation Dance Festival with a group Dance Power Plant led by Young-Cool Park and then working with Hyeong-hee Kim. Having studied comparative literature with postcolonial scholar Helen J.S. Lee as their advisor, yun was also active in the Seoul art scene as an interpreter and translator-editor of text on stage.
As an improviser and facilitator they value diving in and out of states of awareness activated in the process of being present with others. As a MFA candidate and teaching fellow in Choreography and Performance at Smith College, yun is committed to offer non-white perspectives into art-making, referencing their own artistic and academic research in South Korean art and cinema.
Jonah Leslie
Jonah Leslie is a multi-directional creative from Montreal (Tiohtiå:ke) who grew-up in CI gatherings (namely Earthdance!) with his father Andrew Harwood. Being raised by dancers has enabled a feedback loop between early life influence and cultivated learnings in somatics, authentic movement, tai chi chuan, street and contemporary dance, and of course, contact improv.
Jonah facilitates workshops and experimental events between Canada, Mexico and Costa Rica centring self-care through movement, bodywork and improvisation.
Jonah is founder and programmer of White Wall Studio Montreal; an independent dance space inter-connecting creative communities around health and wellbeing since 2007. (IG @whitewallstudiomtl)
To view his work visit www.jonahleslie.info