Resistant and Support
As we transition from 2024 to 2025 we offer the theme of Resistance and Support. These complementary qualities underscore the tension between individual perspectives and collaborative action. Through classes, jams, and conversation, we will engage with the evolving form of Contact Improvisation, and celebrate how it informs and strengthens our ability to push back, pull with, lean it, turn away, resist, and support. We also pay tribute to the recently published book by the same name: Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50, edited by Ann Cooper Albright, which contains 20 articles by our peers and mentors that challenge, evolve, and honor this dynamic dance form.
What do you resist or can’t resist?
What do you support or need support for?
How does what we practice on the dance floor prime us to resist and support as we move into 2025?
Come to rest, play, and connect. Come to party in the kitchen, gather around the bonfire, sweat it out in the sauna, and to lift and be lifted in the umbrella studio.
Winter Jam Details
- The Winter Jam is one of the four main Earthdance seasonal jams. It often has around 100-140 participants, is open to all movement levels and backgrounds.
- Ticket Options: We offer full jam, commuter, camping and 2 drop-in day options.
- Drop-In Days: We are offering 2 drop-in days (no overnight) on Monday, December 30th and Tuesday, December 31st Drop-Ins (15 ticket limit per day). This option is only available for folks who have been to Earthdance before. We ask that you check-in with ED staff during lunch between 1-2pm.
- Nine Mountain retreat center is just across the field and is available once you purchase a Commuter Ticket with Earthdance. You will need to contact robyn@ninemountain.com to reserve a bed at an additional cost per night. ***ALL participants staying at Nine Mountain MUST check-in at the Earthdance Farmhouse during registration times BEFORE settling into Nine Mountain. Thank you for understanding.***
- Children: We are encouraging children to stay home for this jam. We are not providing child care, children’s programming, or kids pricing. Join us for the Summer Jam, which offers many children focused offerings!
- NEWCOMERS!!! We will be offering classes on embodied consent and CI fundamentals. Please take a look at our What to expect at an Earthdance Seasonal Jam, Jam Guidelines, and Nudity Policy on our website to help orient you to this full experience.
Arrival, Onsite Check-In, Opening Circle, and Departures
- Arrival and Onsite Check-In: The welcoming will commence for Full Jam participants on Friday, December 27th from 4:00pm-7:00pm. Dinner is at 6-7pm. If you arrive late, please find Olive to pick a chore.
- Opening Circle: Saturday, December 28th at 10am. We ask that ALL Newcomers to attend this.
- Mid-Jam Tidy Up Clean: Monday, December 30th from 9-10am. All Participants join in on the a Tidy Up Clean.
- Drop-In Days: Arrive to check-in at the front of the farmhouse Monday, December 30th and Tuesday, December 31st at lunch between 1-2pm. Only available for folks who have been to Earthdance before.
- Closing Circle and Final Clean: Closing Circle is at 12:30pm on Wednesday, January 1st. Lunch from 1-2pm and Final clean from 2-3 pm. All participants will depart after the final group clean at 3pm.
Our Fees Explained
Earthdance is a Public Charity that relies greatly on ticketing income to fulfill its Artistic, Cultural and Educational mission. We want to make our work available to folks with varying economic realities and offer a sliding scale payment for participation in most of our events. Please take a moment to reflect where you best fit on that scale. We ask everyone to stretch where they are able so that those who cannot may still have access to our events.
As you choose your rate please consider the following factors:
- Your access to income and wealth, as connected to family and partnership(s), past, present and future.
- The historical, systemic impacts of wealth accrual based on culture, race and other marginalized intersections 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.
Equity & Access Tickets
We are excited to offer up to 10 FULL JAM Equity & Access Discounts to individuals who have a financial need. We know that for those who come from marginalized populations showing up to spaces filled with primarily privileged groups can be a challenge and prioritize such individuals when granting these discounted tickets.
Application Deadline is over.
Earthdance makes efforts to support Equity & Access at all its events, this jam offers particularly strong support for diversity, equity, and inclusion through:
- Reduced pricing offered to people with a financial need and self-identifying as being underrepresented and/or marginalized in CI.
- Classes and discussions that aim to presence 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.
Opening Circle: Saturday, December 28th at 10am. We ask that ALL participants attend this.
Housing Options
SOLD OUT – Gratitude Lodge at Earthdance Tickets
Includes a bed in the Gratitude Lodge, jam offerings, 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 Tickets
Includes a spot to camp at Earthdance, jam offerings, and food during the jam.
Commuter & Nine Mountain Tickets
You will have access to the jam offerings including food for the event.
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.
SOLD OUT – Nine Mountain (Across the orchard from Earthdance)
Nine Mountain has beds available in their spacious dorms for the Winter Jam.
The additional rate is $70 per night per person, which includes use of the hot tub, access to the kitchen for personal cooking, and we provide all bedding and towels. There are a few private rooms available.
You will need to contact Robyn at robyn@ninemountain.com to reserve a bed AFTER you’ve registered for a Commuter Ticket with Earthdance.
***ALL participants staying at Nine Mountain MUST check-in at the Earthdance Farmhouse during registration times BEFORE settling into Nine Mountain.
PRICING
We offer below a sliding scale of your choosing:
Full Jam Tickets:
Gratitude Lodge: $525.00 to $1025.00 SOLD OUT
Camping: $485.00 to $985.00
Commuter: $445.00 to $945.00
Drop In Days Tickets:
Monday, Dec 30th: $125.00 to $500.00 – For only those who have been to Earthdance before. No overnight stay. SOLD OUT
Tuesday, Dec 31st SOLD OUT
Cancellation Policy
Refund available up to 14 days (December 13th) before the event less a $75 (full jam) & $35 (drop-in) processing fee.
No refunds available less than 14 days (After December 13th) 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
Dey Summer
Dey Summer first went to Earthdance in 2000, and it has for many years been her home away from home.
She’s a body worker in Arlington, MA and recently renovated her home in Florence, MA with a crew of dancing builders that also built Earthdance!
Her current interests center around open scores, sincerity and letting go.
Gabrielle Revlock
Gabrielle Revlock, MFA, is an internationally touring postmodern dancer/choreographer and the creator of Restorative Contact, a mindful touch-based movement practice. She developed the form by synthesizing key elements of various somatic techniques including Contact Improvisation, Restorative Yoga, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Tai Chi, Klein Technique, Yin Yoga, Authentic Movement, and Deep Listening over her 20+ years as a professional dancer, choreographer, certified yoga teacher, and movement educator. As a choreographer, Revlock is the recipient of a New York City Bessie Award and numerous grants including an Independence Foundation Fellowship and project grant from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Her choreography depicts complicated but relatable interpersonal relationships, developed through meticulous character study and improvisational structures. Presenters include The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, New York Live Arts, JACK, The Flea, Joyce Soho, Gibney, Philadelphia Dance Projects, Center for Performance Research, ODC, FringeArts, Velocity Dance Center, Provincetown Dance Festival, The School for Contemporary Dance & Thought, Chop Shop and American Dance Festival. Internationally she has toured to Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, Hungary, Russia and India. Her research on the therapeutic applications of touch is compiled into an essay, co-authored with Aaron Brandes, and published in the book, Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50, edited by Ann Cooper Albright. Revlock has been an invited speaker at CI@50 at Oberlin College, the Embodiment Conference, the Dance & Somatics Conference and the Future of CI Conference at Earthdance. Previously offered on Airbnb Online Experiences (2020-2024), Restorative Contact was one of the highest rated experiences in the category of wellness and is now an on-demand offering on Happily, a site dedicated to relationship-building. Revlock has been a practitioner of Contact Improvisation since 2003 and has taught the form through Movement Research, the School for Contemporary Dance & Though, Philadelphia Dance Projects, DNE Dance Camp, Soho Contact Improv Collective, Montreal Annual Jam pre-festival, Smith College, Hampshire College, and Salt Spring Island Contact Improvisation Festival. She will be teaching CI at Amherst College in Spring 2025. Revlock holds a BA in Art History from Vassar College and MFA in Dance from Smith College. More at GabrielleRevlock.com