Earthdance welcomes guests from around the world to engage in events that center movement and embodied practice, Contact Improvisation, and collaborative art making.
Calendar of Events
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Second Sunday Jam
Potluck at 5pm, Class at 6:15pm, 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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Interwoven: The Axis Syllabus and Dynamic Partnering with Daniel Bear Davis – 3 Class Series – REGISTER NOW!
Second Sunday - Sept 14th & Nov 9th, 2025 - Workshop 3-6pm, Potluck 6:15pm, Jam 7:30pm
This series of workshops, threaded through the year, will ground our explorations in The Axis Syllabus (AS) and Dynamic Partnering Practices. The AS explores details of our own anatomy, refined over thousands of years of evolution, to gain clues about how to move in collaboration with our own fascinating design. Continue reading
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Earthdance Garden 2nd Sunday Community Work Day
Join any time between 10am - 5pm
Come get your hands in the soil…then jam!
Hosted by Neal and Shosei, come connect with the Earthdance community. Learn about sustainable gardening, share in the abundance, help us continue building and maintaining the Earthdance garden vision. Continue reading
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Summer Jam! with hosts Alli Ross and Cody Strauss – SOLD OUT
June 28th - July 5th, 2025
We’re dreaming a jam of joyful connection and embodied expression—where families, movers, and magic-makers of all kinds can gather for dance, ritual, pageantry, and moments of meaning. We hope to co-create something alive, inclusive, and full of heart. Continue reading
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Touch&Play: Essence and Edge
July 8-13, 2025
We return to our essence—the spark that ignites this journey, the playfulness, the deep relational explorations, the dance, the commitment to presence and community. Continue reading
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Build & Connect: A-Frame Tiny Home Workshop with the Permatours – REGISTER NOW!
July 24-27th, 2025
Join us in the beautiful Berkshire hills of Western Massachusetts to learn construction skills, build community, and dance! Continue reading
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LoomSong! Vocal Workshop, Performance and Jam – REGISTER NOW!
Sunday, July 27th, 2025 - 3-5pm Workshop, 5-6pm Potluck, 6-7:30pm Performance, 7:30pm Jam
Loom Ensemble has brought Dance Music and Theater workshops and performances to Earthdance since 2017. This year we are thrilled to welcome LoomSong! Loom Ensemble’s newest project has been slow cooking for a decade – LoomSong is a fresh constellation of longtime collaborators, and a new approach to songs which have been in development for years. Continue reading
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Divine Rebellion: A Mini Tantra Festival
August 14th - 17th, 2025
A festival where joy, connection, and radical inclusivity become powerful acts of resistance. Rooted in the rebellious spirit of ancient Tantra, we gather to replenish, celebrate diversity, and build authentic community. Our offerings are the antidote to these times, inviting you to restore yourself, so you can return home inspired to spark real, lasting change. Continue reading
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FREEDOM: Breakthrough Intensive with Sohini Live Well
Thursday, August 28th - Sunday, 31st, 2025
The Breakthrough Intensive Retreat Program is the culmination of Sohini’s dedication and devotion to the healing path of self-realization and overcoming trauma and addiction – while embodying and mastering the disciplinee, education, skills and tools that can create real lasting change. She has created her own unique and powerful transformative healing… Continue reading
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Radical Resonance: A Workshop in Butoh Dance with Julie Becton Gillum – Register Now!
September 4th-7th, 2025
During this workshop, participants will investigate movement and stillness by exploring the body’s natural anatomical potential, including floating, hanging, and strings. Exercises from Noguchi Taiso water body practice and aspects of butoh will help remove customary societal and cultural behaviors, guiding dancers toward bodily emptiness. Without the constraints of old habits, the unconscious body can freely respond to sensations, forces, and states of emotions to become a fully expressive body. Continue reading
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Femina Kinetica with Valerie Sabbah – Registration Coming Soon!
September 11th - 14th, 2025
This container offers an immersive time and space to engage with contact-improvisation as a powerful gateway for getting closely acquainted with your personal physiology and kinetics. Carefully curated sessions will blend theoretical knowledge of female biomechanics with the playful study of weight, gravity, momentum and connecting with moving bodies, notorious… Continue reading
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Queer COCO Jam! with hosts Hilary Kennedy and Eddy Levin – REGISTER NOW!
September 18th - 21st, 2025
Come join us to explore what it’s like to do CI in a community of queers.
We will shape the weekend together. Offerings from Hilary and Eddy can include Contemplative Dance Practice, sensory magic, play with costumes, drag, material for the spine, CI Basics and CI play. Continue reading
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Nomadic College 2025 – Registration Now Open!
September 27th - October 9th, 2025
About The Nomadic College: The Nomadic College is an itinerant school for the principle study and application of The Axis Syllabus. Rather than a festival, or celebration, the Nomadic College is what its title suggests; an intensive study context. Our Philosophy is: Conscientiousness towards commitments, self organization and voluntary participation…. Continue reading
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Interwoven: The Axis Syllabus and Dynamic Partnering with Daniel Bear Davis – 3 Class Series – REGISTER NOW!
Second Sunday - Sept 14th & Nov 9th, 2025 - Workshop 3-6pm, Potluck 6:15pm, Jam 7:30pm
This series of workshops, threaded through the year, will ground our explorations in The Axis Syllabus (AS) and Dynamic Partnering Practices. The AS explores details of our own anatomy, refined over thousands of years of evolution, to gain clues about how to move in collaboration with our own fascinating design. Continue reading
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Gravity’s Contour: Drawing The Dancing Body with Aaron Birk
Saturday, November 15th, 2025: 10-4pm, potluck lunch
Join Aaron Birk for an afternoon of illustration and dance! Let’s dilate our awareness to describe a curving spine, a floating pelvis, an arching rib, or a supporting limb, all with soft lines of charcoal and sweeping strokes of ink. Let’s dissolve our analytical mind and harness the power of gesture — to draw as an embodied witness.
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Spiral & Root: Earthdance Professional CI Training
January 8 to January 29, 2026
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 8th through 29th, 2026. More information Continue reading
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