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 by simultaneously offering activities in spaces with varying moods in the Umbrella barn, the square barn, and upstairs loft.
There will be a range in types of structured/themed jams, workshops, of body-care seances, and of discussion groups to choose from. In this manner, one can actively listen to what they feel drawn to, intently attend to internal shifts, and be held in a space that supports change. Proposals will be suggestive only to aid emergent ways-of-being and becoming.
The event hosts are curious about expressions emerging from a continuous play of differences during facilitated activities as well as in in-between spaces. The upstairs loft will be utilized to hold silent breakfasts, BIPOC community lunches, body spa with musical accompaniment, and discussions facilitated by the hosting team and guests. Participants may connect with activities and densities held in three different spaces that correspond to their moment-to-moment needs and capacities.
A few notes from our former hosts Yun Lee and Jonah Leslie on their need to step down from hosting this jam:
Dear community, I am stepping down from co-hosting the fall jam due to unforeseen events that are requiring much of my attention. I’m also in hopes to bounce back from this experience and be able to hold space for others soon. I wish you joyous dances in the fall. – Yun Lee
Dear community, I’ve had to step down from co-hosting the fall jam due to health issues. In hopes to join the dance at a later moment. Wishing everyone a rich and nourishing experience! – Jonah Leslie
Support 10 BLACK, INDIGENOUS, and PEOPLE OF COLOR (BIPOC) Creatives to Attend Earthdance’s Fall Jam 2024!
Our Goal
We are seeking to raise $2,500 to cover the cost of 10 at cost jam tickets for BIPOC participants for Fall Jam. Your support will directly contribute to creating a more inclusive and diverse atmosphere at the Fall Jam, where all participants can feel seen, heard, and valued.
How You Can Help
- Donate: Any amount helps! Your contribution will go towards covering the costs of attendance, including accommodation, meals, participation fees, and overhead costs.
- Share: Spread the word! Share this campaign with your network to help us reach as many people as possible.
- Support Diversity: By supporting this campaign, you’re not only helping individual artists and movers, but also fostering a more inclusive and equitable community at Earthdance and beyond.
Join Us
Let’s come together to make this Fall Jam a nourishing experience for 10 BIPOC creatives. Your generosity will help create a space where they can explore, grow, and connect in an environment that celebrates diversity and fosters creative expression.
Thank you for being a part of this journey towards equity, inclusion, and creative exploration!
Jam Details
- Attendance: An average of 40-80 people will attend this jam and is open to all movement levels & backgrounds.
- Jam Options: Full Jam, Saturday Drop-In, and Integration Days (Drop-In Day & Integration Days are available only to folks who have been to Earthdance before).
- Integration Days – October 20th-22nd: Stay at Earthdance after the jam to integrate your experience in a small and lightly held container. This will be an unstructured time to be together, use the studios, be on the land, sauna and share meals. Participants will self organize around meals, clean-up and studio time, without hosts, staff or CICO organizing the spaces. We offer this as a way for participants to relax into the setting of Earthdance in a less busy atmosphere, so that your landing back into the world can be as smooth as possible.
- Newcomers: If you have never been to Earthdance, we ask that you only sign up for the Full Jam. This will allow us to better welcome and orient you to Earthdance.
Arrival, Onsite Check-In, Opening Circle, and Departures
- Full Jam: Arrival/Check-In on Thursday, October 17th from 4:00pm-7:00pm front of the Farmhouse. Dinner is at 6-7pm.
- Opening Circle: Friday, October 18th at 10am. We request that ALL Newcomers attend the Opening Circle.
- Saturday Drop-In (Only for folks who’ve been to Earthdance before): Arrive Saturday, October 19th at 8am. Check-In from 1-2pm during lunch in front of the Farmhouse. Departure at 10pm day of.
- Closing Circle/Final Clean: Sunday, October 20th Closing Circle at 12:30pm, Lunch 1-2pm
- Final Group Clean at 2-3pm.
- Full Jam Departure: All participants who aren’t staying for the Integration Days will depart after the final group clean by 3pm on Sunday, October 20th.
- Integration Days (Only for folks who attended the Fall Jam) October 20th-22nd.
- Integration Days Final Clean/Departure: ALL house clean 2pm, Departure at 3pm on Tuesday, October 22nd.
Our Fees Explained
Earthdance offers a sliding scale payment for participation in this event, please take a moment to reflect as you decide on where you best fit.
Your level of contribution is self selected and does not need to be advocated for. However, we invite you to remember this contribution is currency and we ask that you stretch where you are able so that those who cannot stretch as far of a financial distance may also have potential access to community events. As you choose your rate please consider the following factors:
- Your access to income and wealth, as connected to family and partnership, both currently and anticipated in the future.
- The historical, systemic impacts of wealth accrual based on culture, race and other intersection marginalizations for you and your family.
- The regional ease of your attendance, while some community members can drive to Earthdance, others will need to consider tuition based on their ability to travel longer distances.
- Earthdance is a community and rental funded organization which recently, historically and uniquely through the Covid-19 pandemic has struggled to have viable income.
Equity & Access Tickets
Although we’re not able to offer any full scholarships this year, we’re excited to offer up to 4 FULL JAM Equity & Access Discounts to individuals who feel part of an underrepresented and/or marginalized group in CI and have a relationship with CI. We know that for those who come from marginalized populations showing up to spaces filled with primarily privileged groups can be a challenge, and can feel vulnerable.
APPLY HERE! Application deadline is over.
For those who do not identify as marginalized and are in a represented group of CI, we invite you to stretch in your payment to help support those who cannot stretch and create a more diverse jam experience for all.
Note: While Earthdance is making efforts to better support Equity & Access at all its events, this jam offers particularly strong support for diversity, equity, and inclusion through:
- Reduced pricing offered to people self-identifying as being underrepresented and/or marginalized in CI.
- Classes and discussions that aim to bring up the level of awareness and inclusion at the jam as a whole
- Affinity spaces (jams, discussions, etc.) for particular groups of people to connect, share CI space together, and rest from the pressures of being in a minority status at the jam.
Housing Options
Gratitude Lodge
Includes a bed in the Gratitude Lodge, jam offerings, sauna & quarry access, and food during the jam.
The Gratitude Lodge (a.k.a. the Earthdance dorm) is the main lodging facility, connected to the Farmhouse by a short wooded trail. The lodge includes large and small rooms featuring dormitory-style bunks and beds (twin & queen size) and is included in the base jam cost. Beds are available on a first come basis.
Camping
Includes a spot to camp at Earthdance, jam offerings, sauna & quarry access, and food during the jam.
Commuter
You will have access to the jam offerings, sauna & quarry access, and food during the jam.
Commuter Health Care: We ask that you please use caution when commuting and limit, if possible, to just commuting to and from your home and Earthdance, staying away from large crowds to maintain the health and well being of the other jam participants.
Nine Mountain is NOT available.
TICKETS
10 – Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) Fall Jam Tickets
*These tickets are available only for those who identify as black, indigenous or person of color. They are for someone who does not identify as white.*
FALL JAM TICKETS – October 17th – 20th
GRATITUDE LODGE
$750 – Financially Wealthy
$600 – Financially Abundant
$500 – Financially Stable
$425 – Financially Coping
$375 – Financially Strained
CAMPING
$725 – Financially Wealthy
$575 – Financially Abundant
$475 – Financially Stable
$400 – Financially Coping
$350 – Financially Strained
COMMUTER
$700 – Financially Wealthy
$550 – Financially Abundant
$450 – Financially Stable
$375 – Financially Coping
$325 – Financially Strained
INTEGRATION DAY TICKETS – October 20th – 22nd
Stay at Earthdance after the jam to integrate your experience in a small and lightly held container. This will be an unstructured time to be together, use the studios, be on the land, sauna and share meals. Participants will self organize around meals, clean-up and studio time, without hosts, staff or CICO organizing the spaces. We offer this as a way for participants to relax into the setting of Earthdance in a less busy atmosphere, so that your landing back into the world can be as smooth as possible. Only for those who attend the Fall Jam or have been to Earthdance before.
GRATITUDE LODGE
$550 – Financially Wealthy
$400 – Financially Abundant
$300 – Financially Stable
$225 – Financially Coping
$175 – Financially Strained
CAMPING
$525 – Financially Wealthy
$375 – Financially Abundant
$275 – Financially Stable
$200 – Financially Coping
$150 – Financially Strained
COMMUTER
$500 – Financially Wealthy
$350 – Financially Abundant
$250 – Financially Stable
$175 – Financially Coping
$125 – Financially Strained
FULL JAM + INTEGRATION DAYS – October 17th – 22nd
GRATITUDE LODGE
$900 – Financially Wealthy
$700 – Financially Abundant
$600 – Financially Stable
$525 – Financially Coping
$475 – Financially Strained
CAMPING
$875 – Financially Wealthy
$675 – Financially Abundant
$575 – Financially Stable
$500 – Financially Coping
$450 – Financially Strained
COMMUTER
$850 – Financially Wealthy
$650 – Financially Abundant
$550 – Financially Stable
$475 – Financially Coping
$425 – Financially Strained
DROP-IN Saturday, October 19th (Only available for those who’ve been to Earthdance before)
$450 – Financially Wealthy
$300 – Financially Abundant
$200 – Financially Stable
$130 – Financially Coping
$85 – Financially Strained
Cancellation Policy
Refund available up to 14 days (October 3rd) before the event less a $75 processing fee.
No refunds available less than 14 days (October 3rd) from the start of the event.
Partial refunds might be given if a cancellation takes place under extenuating circumstances (e.g. a death of a 1st or 2nd degree family member, serious non-preventable illness or accident requiring hospitalization). Refunds in such cases remain at the discretion of the local organizers and will be decided on a case to case basis according to the timing of the cancellation and other factors. We do not offer refunds if you catch a cold, the flu or COVID after the cancellation date.
Health Precautions
No specific requirements on vaccination status are needed to attend this event. Please take adequate measures to limit your exposure in the days before arriving. If you are feeling sick, or have a known close exposure to someone with COVID in the past 5 days, please sit this one out to keep the community well.
COMMUTERS: We ask that you please use caution when commuting and limit, if possible, to just commuting to and from your home and Earthdance, staying away from large crowds to maintain the health and well being of the other jam participants.
Participant Community Support
Earthdance runs as a community, thus part of the participation is that all individuals contribute to 1-2 work shifts (typically meal cleans) throughout the event and participate in a final house clean on the last day of the event. These are great ways to connect more with your fellow participants and Earthdance staff, and to feel more at home in the Earthdance buildings & grounds. Your contributions to this collective caring of this space are invaluable!
Earthdance’s buildings are ADA accessible. More info here.
HOST BIOS
Ming Tsai
Ming Tsai is a dancer and a scientist living in Montreal. He started studying Contact Improvisation(CI) in 2019.
Since 2021, he has been facilitating CI jams and offering CI workshops in Montreal and other places in Quebec. After the pandemic, he took a few months off to visit CI communities in Europe and Asia where he learned about other CI cultures and way of practices.
His recent offerings in California Contact Improvisation Teacher Exchange and Georgia Silence Contact Festival had led him to explore philosophy through the lenses of soma and gravity.
He aims to continue the plurality theme where varying moods and activities will be offered in all three dance spaces at Earthdance to accompany the seasonal shift of energy from summer to winter.
Juliette Gomes
Juliette Gomes is a Cape Verdean and African American dancer, artist, and Earth scientist from Northampton, MA, based in Montreal. As an Oberlin College alum, Juliette is dedicated to the lineage of Contact Improvisation (CI) and the Black and Brown movement practitioners underrepresented in the form. Most recently, Juliette co-facilitated at the Earthdance 2024 Summer Jam in the Trans and Queer facilitator role, integrating lived experience across identities to support transgender, queer, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.
Juliette focuses on the intersectionality of race, gender, sexuality, and non-normative bodies in predominantly white CI spaces. Through somatic movement practices and CI, Juliette is interested in counteracting the impact of unchecked whiteness with embodied healing, community, and connection to ancestry and land. As one of the Fall Jam hosts, Juliette is excited to integrate these modalities to support and hold space in a non-hierarchy way through the theme of Plurality.
Entering into fall, as the energy of summer hits the slowness of a colder season, Juliette is interested in the restlessness that sits in our bodies. Juliette is curious about what happens when restlessness poses a constant question of the multiplicity of what to do, where to be, and the Plurality of staying and leaving, moving and stillness. Juliette hopes to thread these questions into movement, rest, and resilience this Fall Jam.