Workshops and Trainings

Throughout the year we host intensives ranging from 3-day workshops and week-long intensives to longer courses of study such as Figure Space, Nomadic College, and the annual Nancy Stark Smith Open Training.  If you are interested in teaching at Earthdance contact sarah [at] earthdance [dot] net.

"After a delicious dinner, I paused on the trail back to my room—crescent moon rising, leaves shivering—to see the spilling light illuminating the word “Gratitude” cut in metal over the entrance to our living quarters.  And if there was a word for the uprush of emotions I felt in that pause—for the space, the friendships, and the movements of the day—that surely encapsulates it."

Christy Smith 
Dancer & Workshop attendant, Donna Mejia's Transnational Dance Immersion

Nancy Stark Smith OPEN Training

Nomadic College

Past Projects

Western Mass Moving Arts Festival

Upcoming Events

Nomadic College 2013

Monday, June 3, 2013 - 4:00pm - Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 3:00pm

The Nomadic College (NC) is a bi-annual gathering organized by the Axis Syllabus International Research Community (ASIRC) which provides workshops, lectures, a choreographic laboratory, jams and...

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Nomadic College Conference: The Proprioceptive System's Role in Learning Dynamic Movement

Jun 5 2013 - 8:00pm - 9:30pm

June 5, 2013

With Miranda Janeschield

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Nomadic College Conference: That pain you feel – its all in your head!!

Jun 11 2013 - 8:00pm - 9:30pm

June 11, 2013

  With Matthew Smith :  

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Axis Syllabus Children's Classes

Jun 15 2013 - 2:00pm - Jun 16 2013 - 4:15pm

June 16, 2013

Saturday & Sunday June 15th & 16th 6-8 years 2:00pm-4:00pm 9-12 years...

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Nomadic College Conference: Tradition and Contemporaneity in West Africa - real or fabricated dichotomy

Jun 18 2013 - 8:00pm - 9:30pm

June 18, 2013

  With Francesca Pedulla:  

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Nomadic College Conference: The art of writing dance

Jun 25 2013 - 8:00pm - 9:30pm

June 25, 2013

With Catherine Lavoie-Marcus:

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Moving Arts Lab

Thursday, August 8, 2013 - 5:00pm - Sunday, August 11, 2013 - 3:00pm

Register before June 1st to get the Early Bird Rate at 15% off! Join us for a weekend of Interdisciplinary movement workshops and performances with local, national and international artists including:

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Transnational Dance Immersion with Donna Mejia

Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 5:00pm - Monday, October 14, 2013 - 3:00pm

All proceeds go Earthdance!We extend a jubilant THANK YOU to Donna Mejia for her generosity in offering this workshop as an annual fundraiser for Earthdance.

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Say It Out Loud: Owning Whiteness, Performing Engagement

Friday, November 1, 2013 - 5:00pm - Monday, November 4, 2013 - 3:00pm

This intensive provokes questions about blackness, whiteness, and other kinds of other-ness in America.  Join us for a weekend of performance, discussions about race, and hands-on workshops in...

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EARTHDANCE PRESENTS An Evening of Performance: Any Resemblance

Saturday, November 2, 2013 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Any Resemblance by Jen Abrams is a multi-platform serial performance project following Maddy and Audrey, a queer interracial couple trying to get pregnant. The story unfolds over four live episodes...

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The Living Room Context

Friday, November 8, 2013 - 5:00pm - Sunday, November 10, 2013 - 3:00pm

The practical question we will explore in this workshop is: How do we create in our communities the conditions for the ongoing emergence of a culture of generalized trust?  We can get the land...

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