Contact Improvisation
Online Auction Contributions Needed!
Showcase your skills, experiences, or unique offerings while supporting Earthdance. This is a great way to promote your business, help raise funds, and spread the word about Earthdance to our global creative community.
We're accepting online auction gifts until November 7th. The auction will launch online and be open for bidding from November 14th through December 14th—culminating at our Gala!
Earthdance
is an arts, dance, & movement organization and retreat center in Western Massachusetts, on unceded, ancestral Nipmuck, Pocumtuc and Wabanaki Confederacy Land. Earthdance welcomes guests from around the world to engage in events that center movement and embodied practice, Contact Improvisation, and collaborative art making.
The staff and board of directors are committed to an organizational culture that values interdisciplinary collaboration, improvisational community building, and ongoing devotion to equity, access and direct response to the realities of a greater socio-cultural landscape.
Earthdance is dedicated to building awareness of sustainable living and community building; in addition to arts-focused programming, the facility is available for partnerships with other organizations, institutions, festivals, and rentals that align with Earthdance’s values and culture.
Classes & Workshops
Contact Improvisation
Artist Residencies & Retreats
Community
Earthdance Events
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Fall Jam with new hosts Ming Tsai and Juliette Gomes – Register Now!
October 17-20th & Integration Days 20th-22nd, 2024
Atmosphères We invite you to perceive atmospheres: to listen to what the space is calling for before dialing up, down or sideways. Where are the energies percolating? How do we support these shifts? This season’s gathering proposes an orientation towards plurality: creating an environment that tunes into shifting of states...
Gratitude COCO Jam – Register Now!
November 28 - December 1st, 2024
What is a CoCo Jam? Community Collaborative Jams are a new and unfolding program concept at Earthdance which launched in early 2022. This new programming thread was driven by the desire for more opportunities to dance CI and to connect with the community in smaller containers. Similar to Seasonal Jams, the...
SAVE THE DATE – Come Home to Earthdance: The Gala Fun-Raiser
Saturday, December 14th - 6pm-12am
Please save the date for this years Gala and Fun Raiser, Saturday December 14 th 6-12pm! Come for the night or the entire weekend. The theme is "Come Home to Earthdance". We are raising funds to expand our housing for staff, work exchangers and personal retreaters. We are gathering donations for our first online auction, the winners of which will be announced at the Gala. We are looking for auction team leaders for New York, Boston, Montreal, LA, and the Hill towns.
SAVE THE DATE – Winter Jam!
December 27th, 2024 - January 1st, 2025
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.
Tango Fusion for Improvisational Dancers with Daniel Trenner and Erica Roper
Sunday, October 27th, Workshop 3-5pm, Potluck 5:30-6:30pm, Costume Party 7-9:30pm
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.
Community Grief and Song Ritual with Chaya Leia Aronson and Charlotte Althaea Collins
Sunday, November 24th, 2024, ritual: 4-7:30pm, potluck: 7:30pm-8:30pm
We offer an invitation to come together in community to grieve, assisted by music and song. As we put this offering out there to the world, we hold tender awareness of its’ time proximity to this upcoming US Presidential Election.
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Independent Events
Touch&Play Bare Bones: Community Gathering
November 21 - 24, 2024
– Only for those with Previous Touch&Play Experience – This is a time where we dive into ourselves to strip away, distill and keep only those things that will help us make it through to the light on the other side. Our Bare Bones.
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More Ways to be Here
Host Your Event
With a unique combination of mixed-used indoor & outdoor facilities, Earthdance provides an ideal setting for workshops, conferences, weddings, and special events that seek a combination of focus, celebration, and intimate connection.
Private Retreats: Earthdance is a beautiful and inspiring place to rest & retreat.
Mineral Collecting: Visit the old Betts Mine site to look for minerals.
Experiences
The Value of Earthdance
A relaxing and rigorous environment, that values the pace of the body and the richness of the soul.
Lila H.
What I Learned
Inspired by a community of teachers dedicated to seeking the moving and sublime truths of existence I learned to call on my name as Artist and Dancer.
Michelle L.
Why I Donate
Earthdance is a gem in the firmament! It holds space for deep exploration of one’s current investigation and supports our light spirit as well.
Ted J.
I Love
Part of my joy is just knowing that it’s here, even if I don’t use it as much as I would like. It’s like a local home of the larger dance community. A place to meet and re-meet friends. A place to get physical contact in times when that’s missing from my life – a connection. A place to express emotion. A place I’m proud to introduce people to as a physical center for my community of people. It allows people to have a place for the stream of community members that come and go through out lives. A place of nurturing – be it food, touch, talk, dance.
Anonymous.