Earthdance welcomes guests from around the world to engage in events that center movement and embodied practice, Contact Improvisation, and collaborative art making.
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Second Sunday Jam
2nd Sunday of the Month: Class at 5pm, Potluck at 6:30pm, Jam at 7:30pm
Bring your movement gifts to share along with a yummy dish to nom on after class. Let’s commune and practice during our sweet jam. And, relax together in the sauna while we rest our bones. Registration not required. Continue reading
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Monthly Contact Tango Fusion with Daniel Trenner and Erica Roper – March 31st class postponed to April 26th!
Friday, April 26th, 2024, 6-8pm, Jam 8-10pm
Contact Improvisation and the Argentine Tango are two improvisational forms and emerging dance vocabularies gaining worldwide popularity. They have vastly different roots, and yet have many interesting intersections which offer opportunities for dancers of each form to expand their social consciousness and movement skill sets. They are both forms which have performing arts and social trajectories, offering their dancers a wide range of explorations in which to build dance as both an art form and a social container. Continue reading
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Community Grief and Song Ritual with Charlotte Malin and Chaya Leia Aronson, Jam + Music by Stephen Katz
Saturday, March 30th, 2024 - Ritual 3-6:30pm, Potluck 7-8pm, Music+Jam 8-10pm
We offer an invitation to come together in community to grieve, assisted by music and song. What is the medicine of grieving in ritual containers? Unprocessed grief compounds and becomes a toxic emotional energy, which can create violence and perpetuate intergenerational trauma and violence. Singing and sounding together helps vibrate our grief loose from these stuck places in our individual and collective bodies and make more space within us. This gives us a sacred opportunity to choose aligned action and to show up in the ways we truly want to show up in the world. Continue reading
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Spring Jam! with hosts Lilianna Kane and Anna Vomacka
April 4th - 7th
Post Jam Lab 7th - 9th
In honor of Springtime, we will return to foundations – laying fertile ground for rebirth and re-entry into committed and focused Contact Improvisation. We will let go of what no longer serves us, and metamorphosize our practices.
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Layers of Presence: Skin| Flesh| Bone| Floor – A Contact Improv Basics Workshop with Olive Frank and Tal Shibi
Saturday, April 27th, 2024 Workshop 3-6pm, Dinner 6:30-7:30, Jam 8-10pm
This workshop is designed to introduce participants to some of the basics of this captivating movement art-sport that is Contact Improvisation. We will research some of the underlying principles which lead dancers to move with more nuance and listening so they can enhance the possibilities within their dance. Continue reading
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Being With: Axis Syllabus Weekend hosted by Kerwin Barrington and Claire Turner Reid
May 16th - 20th, 2024
In this workshop we will explore Being With our bodies through dance. Our movement investigations will bring us through varied terrain of inquiry: bridging instinctive, intuitive, and intellectual ways of being with. How can we orient towards intimacy and interconnectivity for the long-game of our moving lives? Continue reading
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Introduction to Mask Weekend with Akil Apollo Davis – Register Now!
May 24th - 26th, 2024
Whether you’re stepping onto this path for the first time or you’re a seasoned traveler in the realm of masks, this will be a unique and immersive experience on your quest for knowledge, creative self-discovery, and transformation. This is an opportunity for a journey of Self. Open new doors to unexplored dimensions and experiences. Revel and reflect on new inspiration and knowledge. Continue reading
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5Rhythms Meets Tantra
May 30th - June 2nd, 2024
We are coming to let go of our masks, build our capacity and explore the vulnerable, messy, sweaty, beauty of our bodies, hearts, & souls. Led by an attentive and experienced facilitation team, we will establish a foundation of consent, attunement, and self-responsibility to allow us to connect and play with our greatest capacity for embodied authenticity, sensuality, and creativity. Continue reading
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Dreamshadow® Transpersonal Breathwork Weekend Workshop with Teresa Smith and Jace Langone
June 7th - 9th, 2024
Open to your Psyche and somatic landscape. Dreamshadow Group offers a weekend workshop of holotropic breathwork, as developed by Stan Grof and Christina Grof. (Breath-assisted inner journeying in 3hr sessions). During this special Earthdance weekend, dance meditation and process philosophy and a collective sound circle will be included to support your breathwork experience. Continue reading
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SAVE THE DATE – Dancing The Landscape with Frieda Kipar Bay and Dana Iova-Koga
August 30 - September 2nd, 2024
We reside in a living world shaped by reciprocity. Nature responds to every single thing we do. In this 4-day, immersive workshop, we will center these deep connections between how we move and how we relate to the ecologies we are a part of. Continue reading
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SAVE THE DATE – Radical Resonance: A Workshop in Butoh Dance hosted by Julie Becton Gillum
September 12th - 15th, 2024
During this workshop, participants will investigate the possibilities of their bodies in their natural form, including floating, hanging, and various qualities of movement or stillness. Continue reading
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SAVE THE DATE – Fall Jam – October 17-20th, Post Jam Lab – October 20-22nd
October 17-20th, Post Jam Lab 20th-22nd
SAVE THE DATE – Winter Jam – December 27th-January 1st
December 27th, 2024 - January 3rd, 2025
Save the Date: Spiral & Root: Earthdance Professional CI Training
January 6 - 26, 2025
For those who are longing for a deep and durational dive into CI research, pedagogy, and professional training, you’re invited to gather with us for three weeks from January 6th through 26th, 2025. More information Continue reading
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