We did it! Between the auction, the gala, and our anonymous matching donor, our community managed to raise over $30,000 from all our collective efforts! And perhaps best of all, we did it with a spirit of play, fun, and connection. It's been truly heartening seeing winning bidders now being put in touch with those who donated, and knowing that the spirit of community and creativity will continue to ripple out in all kinds of ways. Thank-you sincerely to everyone who donated items or their time and energy into this amazing coming together.

It's with sadness that, amidst all the celebration of the holidays and so much to be grateful for, we are sharing the news of the death of a longtime member of our community:

Keith Harmon Snow passed on to the ancestor realm on December 8th, 2024 in the early hours of the morning. Keith battled cancer for some years, and now his suffering is over. He is free. Keith lived with conviction for justice for all beings. He was a gifted photographer, journalist and proud father. His son, Birch, age 11, and Birch's mother, Chaya, also members of the Earthdance community, are deeply mourning this loss. Chaya wrote a eulogy if you would like to read more. The family will host a memorial in the new year. You can visit this site to receive an update about that. 

In honor and celebration of February’s Black History Month, Earthdance annually offers two free week-long residencies to two selected black dance-based artists. This annual program is part of our commitment to equity & access and one of the ways we are using our unique resources to further the careers and artistic development of black dance-based artists.

Applications for 2025 are now open. Please click here for more info and to apply.

Come for just the night or sleepover and enjoy Sunday brunch. The theme is “Come Home to Earthdance”. We are raising funds to expand our housing for staff, work exchangers and personal retreaters.

Welcome to Spiral & Root: Earthdance’s Professional Contact Improvisation Training. 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

After over a decade of successful work in Europe, with more than 400 trained teachers from 35 countries, we are thrilled to bring ContaKids Teacher Training to Earthdance! 

ContaKids is a unique method that enhances parent-child connection through playful movement and contact improvisation. This training offers you the opportunity to start working immediately with families and join our growing American teacher community. Don’t miss out!

During our upcoming Teachers’ Training taking place at Earthdance, we will be offering 2 free classes for parents and kids guided by the founder of the method, Itay Yatuv.

ContaKids is a unique and fun activity for parents and their children (age 2 to 5). Through playfulness, movement and touch parents and children develop a new physical form of communication, which is enjoyable for both; children enhance and improve their motor skills and self-confidence and parents develop a sense of trust in their child and themselves.

We invite you to join us for three days and nights of tending the sacred waters of our emotions, through ritual, movement, and song. We gather at Earthdance, a beloved place to many and has become home to a lineage of ever-evolving grief work.

Coming together to move, sing, and feel has great power to connect us more deeply to our wholeness and purpose, opening the door to the unique and necessary ways our Soul can contribute to healing on this planet.

This workshop delves into the therapeutic potential of Contact Improvisation (CI), Authentic Movement (AM), and Restorative Contact (RC), as well as other somatic practices. Drawing from our unique career pathways combining movement, choreography, fascial bodywork, psychotherapy, and evidence-based mindfulness practices, we have developed therapeutic material that articulates safety, empathy, mutuality and agency through movement, touch, and verbal processing.

This workshop welcomes therapists, bodyworkers, and individuals interested in personal healing and wellbeing to explore these transformative practices.

“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. 

Offerings will integrate creative movement, improvisation, body reading, energy and breath work, body/mind embodiment and consciousness exercises, shamanic journeying, somatic experiencing, parts work, use of voice, free writing prompts, intuition and Core Energetics. 

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 are we danced by a landscape? In the flush of early summer we will work indoors and out, drawing from our primary movement sources of Qigong and Butoh dance, Body Weather, Fighting Monkey, and Contact Improvisation. We will also become intimate with some of the plants, geology, and animals of the Earthdance landscape through animal track and sign, plant identification, and land stewardship tasks.  We will expand upon the many definitions of “landscape” (physical, internal, psychosocial, geological, political); we will explore the role of time, rhythm and cadence within our dance, and we will traverse the spectrum of practical to poetic implications of what it means to dance and be danced by our landscapes.  

The long-time tradition of weekly Sunday CI Jams has returned! Come for a class beforehand, or just for the jam. Stay for the sauna and potluck dinner! Registration not required. 

Class: 5:00 – 6:30pm (rotating teachers)

Potluck: 6:30 – 7:30pm

Jam: 7:30 – 10:00pm

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia.