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: 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 - June 8th, 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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Skimming the Surface: A Movement Healing Retreat with Valerie Green – REGISTER NOW!
May 2nd - 4th, 2025
“Skimming the Surface” Movement Healing Retreat will support adults that may be overcoming diverse forms of stress and trauma through somatic based expressive movement exercises. These workshops will help participants release blocked and repressed energy causing stress or discomfort in one’s life by integrating movement, feelings, and emotions. Continue reading
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Being With: The Axis Syllabus with Claire Turner Reid and Kerwin Barrington – REGISTER NOW!
May 15th - 19th, 2025
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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Dancing the Landscape Week Workshop with Frieda Kipar Bay and Dana Iova-Koga – REGISTER NOW!
May 23rd - 29th, 2025
To be alive is to be in constant, reciprocal relationship with our environment. We shape and are shaped; we move and are moved by our landscapes. In this immersive workshop we ask the question- what happens when we consider this relationship as a dance? How do we dance a landscape? How… Continue reading
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5Rhythms Meets Tantra 2025
June 12-15th, 2025
5Rhythms Meets Tantra is returning to Earthdance in Western Mass after a wildly beautiful, potent, and sold-out inaugural 5Rhythms edition of Dance Meets Tantra in 2024. We cannot wait to see who will join us in 2025 at this majestic venue and time of year. Continue reading
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Introduction to Rage Club – Register Now!
Thursday, June 26th, 6-8:30pm, potluck to follow
Rage Club is a space to come alive. Most of us have spent our lives being told that it’s not ok to feel Anger—that it’s aggressive, dangerous, destructive, etc. This is an outdated relationship to feeling that keeps you numb and cuts you off from a powerful source of energy and information for your life. Continue reading
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Summer Jam! with hosts Alli Ross and Cody Strauss – Registration Coming Soon!
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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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
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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SAVE THE DATE: Femina Kinetica with Valerie Sabbah
September 11th - 14th, 2025
Interwoven: The Axis Syllabus and Dynamic Partnering with Daniel Bear Davis – 3 Class Series – REGISTER NOW!
Second Sunday - June 8th, 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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