Event Type: Workshops & Trainings

In this workshop we will explore Being With our bodies through dance.

Being as living, bringing forth, and causing to grow.

And With-ness as a multiplicity of potential in relating – that being in relationship can include to oppose, vary, or unify.

Our movement investigations will bring us through varied terrain of inquiry: bridging instinctive, intuitive, and intellectual ways of being with. How can we orient towards intimacy and interconnectivity for the long-game of our moving lives?

With information from the Axis Syllabus© – such as principles of the Tri-Axial body, Spiral and Fractal patterns, and Dynamic Alignment – we’ll call in clear choice-making, physical readiness, and enlivened awareness.

We’ll play and engage through rhythm, collective groove, unison, spontaneity, variation, and heart perception as ways to connect with the varied knowledge our bodies hold. There will be motifs and movement sequences, meditative scores, guided improvisations, reflection and journaling, and collective mapping. Join us as we delve into ways of calling forth the wisdom of the body through shared dance experiences.

What is The Axis Syllabus©?

The Axis Syllabus© is a collection of information pertinent to the human body in motion. This information can be applied to any context of movement. It is an effort towards empowered self-sovereignty and informed choice-making with our bodies. Begun by Frey Faust, with contributions from members of the Axis Syllabus Research Meshwork, the information is reviewed and updated based on emerging, evolving understanding and research related to the moving body.

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Arrival, Onsite Check-In, Opening Circle, and Departures.

• Arrival/Check-In: Thursday, May 15th from 4-7pm front of the Farmhouse. Dinner is at 6-7pm.
• Opening Circle: Thursday, May 15th after dinner at 7:30pm.
• Closing Circle: Monday, May 19th from 9-9:30am, Brunch 9:30-11am.
• Final Clean: Monday, May 19th at 11-12pm.
• Departure: Monday, May 19th by 1pm.

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.

PRICING: Sliding Scale

GRATITUDE LODGE
Financially Strained $500.00 to Financially Abundant $975.00

CAMPING
Financially Strained $475.00 to Financially Abundant $950.00

COMMUTER
Financially Strained $450 to Financially Abundant $925.00

Equity & Access Tickets 

We are excited to offer up to 3 FULL 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.

Apply Here! Deadline is May 8th, 2025

Earthdance makes efforts to support Equity & Access at all its events, this event 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.
• Classes and discussions that aim to presence awareness and inclusion at the event as a whole.

Housing Options

Gratitude Lodge at Earthdance Tickets

Includes a bed in the Gratitude Lodge, event offerings, and food.

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 event cost. Beds are available on a first come basis.

Camping Tickets

Includes a spot to camp at Earthdance, event offerings, and food.

Commuter Tickets

You will have access to the event offerings and food.

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 event participants.

Nine Mountain

Nine Mountain is not available.

Cancellation Policy

Refund available up to 14 days (May 1st) before the event less a $75 processing fee. 

No refunds available less than 14 days (After May 1st) 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.

Earthdance’s Nudity Policy

HOST BIOS

Kerwin Barrington

Over the past 17 years, I have facilitated dance experiences in a variety of contexts, where I encourage a main focus of exploring new ways of understanding the body in movement through the knowledge that it already holds. Certified to teach the Axis Syllabus, I have been in alliance with its Research Network (ASRM) for over 10 years and am inspired by the pedagogical philosophy of learner centered learning which is inherent to its community. I hold a Master’s degree in dance from the Université de Québec à Montréal  —  a deep investigation of the expression “To Learn by Heart” —  looking into possible relationships between the heart and meaningful, embodied learning in a dance class. These days, I am driven by the curiosity of how tradition, ancestry, territory and music live inside my dance and the dance I share with others.

Claire Turner Reid

Claire is a movement artist and educator in Dance, Qigong, and Internal Martial Arts. She is a Certified and Certifying Teacher of the Axis Syllabus. Claire currently teaches Qigong courses at the Ontario College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Qigong, Taijiquan, and Falling Negotiation programs through the City of Guelph. She has a Diploma of Acupuncture from OCTCM Toronto and a BFA in Acting from the University of Windsor. She is a member of Spiritwind Internal Arts where she is a certified instructor in Qigong, Taijiquan, and Dao In Lung Shen and also practices Baguazhang and Gongfu. She is a Level 2 Certified Radiant Lotus Women’s Qigong instructor.

Claire uses movement and healing practices to deepen awareness, honour the integrity of the body, and enrich inter-relational possibilities. In movement research, she invites open-inquiry and curiosity and values lineage and creativity, rigour and play, somatic sovereignty and collective collaboration. Her teaching encourages exploration of the body in motion for more connected living. She teaches online, internationally, and locally in Guelph and Toronto.

To be alive is to be in constant, reciprocal relationship with our environment. We shape and are shaped; we move and are moved by our landscapes.

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? How do we practice moving with and through the world with elements we might search for in any partner dance- listening, sensing, responding, give and take, composing, witnessing and being witnessed?  And most importantly, what arises from that kind of attention?

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.  

All of this juicy depth will be integrated with amazing meals, sauna and quarry plunges, and sleeping with the bountiful stars of Western Mass.

“Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost”. -Pina Bausch

Dance is a universal common language that belongs to us all, regardless of age, ability or experience level.  All bodies are welcome, no prior ‘dance’ experience required.

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Arrival, Onsite Check-In, Opening Circle, and Departures.

• Arrival/Check-In for Full Week and 1st Half Week Workshop: on Friday, May 23rd from 4-7pm front of the Farmhouse. Dinner is at 6-7pm.
• Opening Circle: Saturday, May 24th at 10am.
• Departure for 1st Half Week Workshop: Monday, May 26th by 2pm sharp.
• 2nd Half Workshop Arrival/Check-In: Monday, May 26th at 4-7pm, Dinner is at 6-7pm.
• Final Clean: Thursday, May 29th at 2-3pm. Lunch 1-2pm.
• Departure for Full and 2nd Half Week Workshop: All participants will depart after the final group clean at 3pm on Thursday, May 29th.

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.

PRICING: Sliding Scale

Week Long Workshop: May 23rd – May, 29th, 2025

• Gratitude Lodge: $750.00 to $1250.00
• Camping: $725.00 to $1225.00
• Commuter: $700.00 to $1200.00

1st Half Workshop: May 23rd – 26th, 2025

• Gratitude Lodge: $390.00 to $890.00
• Camping: $365.00 to $865.00
• Commuter: $340.00 to $840.00

2nd Half Workshop: May 26th – 29th, 2025

• Gratitude Lodge: $390.00 to $890.00
• Camping: $365.00 to $865.00
• Commuter: $340.00 to $840.00

Equity & Access Tickets 

We are excited to offer up to 3 Equity & Access Discounts for the weeklong workshop and 3 Equity & Access Discounts for the half weeklong workshops 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.

Apply Here! Deadline is May 16th, 2025

Earthdance makes efforts to support Equity & Access at all its events, this event 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.
• Classes and discussions that aim to presence awareness and inclusion at the event as a whole.

Housing Options

Gratitude Lodge at Earthdance Tickets

Includes a bed in the Gratitude Lodge, event offerings, and food.

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 event cost. Beds are available on a first come basis.

Camping Tickets

Includes a spot to camp at Earthdance, event offerings, and food.

Commuter Tickets

You will have access to the event offerings and food.

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 event participants.

Nine Mountain

Nine Mountain is not available.

Cancellation Policy

Refund available up to 14 days (May 9th) before the event less a $75 processing fee. 

No refunds available less than 14 days (After May 9th) 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.

Earthdance’s Nudity Policy

HOST BIO

Frieda Kipar Bay

Frieda Kipar Bay is a weaver of plants, movement, parenting, and the written word.  She has found many of the deepest wells of this body of knowledge through non-linear, non-academic pathways, including performing as a dance artist for 8 years professionally, mentoring with Daoist medicine pulse diagnostic master William Morris and herbalist Matthew Wood, unschooling two incredible kids, and reading Ursula K. LeGuin at a ripe young age alongside a high alpine lake, 10 miles in.   Find her full bio at www.friedakiparbay.net., but essentially, she’s simply learning to live like a landscape.

Dana Iova-Koga

Dana Iova-Koga began dancing at the age of 4, and her first role was a cloud. Over 40 years later, her research in being cloud continues. 

She is a multi-disciplinarian creature practicing performance, writing, teaching, gardening, creative midwifery, and listening.

She studied Experimental Theater at NYU, danced and farmed with Min Tanaka in Japan for many years, had the deep privilege of working with dance legend Anna Halprin, and has been a member of dance/theater company inkBoat since 2005. She is 17th generation Wudang San Feng Pai lineage holder through her Shifu David Wei of Wudang West, is certified in Holden Qigong and Mov Nat, and is an “Inspired by FM” teacher in the Fighting Monkey Practice. She currently teaches with Frieda Kipar Bay under the name “Elemental Vessel” and works one on one with folks in her choose-your-own-adventure style program called “Unfolding.” 

“All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you.”  – Octavia E Butler 

This workshop delves into the therapeutic potential of Contact Improvisation (CI), Authentic Movement (AM), and Restorative Contact (RC), as well as other somatic practices, demonstrating how their principles can enhance somatic intelligence, attunement, and co-regulation. 

Areas of CI that will be covered include compression, reciprocal touch, bonding with the earth, spherical space, attunement, and weight-sharing. Sessions on AM will include embodied practice as well as historical and theoretical contextualization, highlighting how AM can be scaffolded to support emotional and psychological healing. 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.

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Arrival, Onsite Check-In, Opening Circle, and Departures

• Arrival/Check-In: Thursday, April 10th from 4-7pm front of the Farmhouse. Dinner is at 6-7pm.
• Opening Circle: Friday, April 11th at 10am.
• Final Clean: Sunday, April 13th at 2-3pm. Lunch 1-2pm.
• Departure: All participants will depart after the final group clean at 3pm on Sunday, April 13th.

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.

PRICING: Sliding Scale

GRATITUDE LODGE
Financially Strained $400.00 to Financially Abundant $950.00

CAMPING
Financially Strained $375.00 to Financially Abundant $925.00

COMMUTER
Financially Strained $350 to Financially Abundant $900.00

Equity & Access Tickets 

We are excited to offer up to 3 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.

Apply Here! Deadline is March 27th, 2025.

Earthdance makes efforts to support Equity & Access at all its events, this event 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.
• Classes and discussions that aim to presence awareness and inclusion at the event as a whole.

Housing Options

Gratitude Lodge at Earthdance Tickets

Includes a bed in the Gratitude Lodge, event offerings, and food.

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 event cost. Beds are available on a first come basis.

Camping Tickets

Includes a spot to camp at Earthdance, event offerings, and food.

Commuter Tickets

You will have access to the event offerings and food.

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 event participants.

Nine Mountain

Nine Mountain is not available.

Cancellation Policy

Refund available up to 14 days (March 27th) before the event less a $75 processing fee. 

No refunds available less than 14 days (After March 27th) 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.

Earthdance’s Nudity Policy

HOST BIOS

Aaron Brandes

Aaron Brandes (Brando), LCSW, M.Ed, is a movement educator, psychotherapist, and bodyworker dedicated to fostering healing and resilience through somatic practices. With over 20 years immersed in dance, yoga, and body-based therapies, Brando has both taught and performed internationally, sharing his passion for movement as a tool for emotional and physical well-being. Together with Gabrielle Revelock, Brando co-authored  an essay  on the therapeutic applications of touch is published in the book, Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50 edited by Ann Cooper Albright, and presented  at CI@50 at Oberlin College. His journey includes a two-year residency and yoga teacher training at the renowned Kripalu Center, which solidified his dedication to integrating mindful movement into his work.

As a nationally certified Structural Integration practitioner, Brando brings a unique approach to his body-based psychotherapy practice, blending extensive experience in Contact Improvisation (CI) and other somatic modalities. CI remains central to his research and professional evolution, inspiring him to explore how movement can serve as a deeply therapeutic practice for navigating the complexities of modern life. Brando’s work continues to innovate within the field, encouraging others to use movement as a pathway to self-discovery and resilience.

For more insights and links to Brando’s videos, visit his website: BodyandBeing.net.

Gabrielle Revlock

Gabrielle Revlock, MFA, is the creator of Restorative Contact, a mindful touch-based movement practice. She developed this 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. 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 at 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. 

As a choreographer, Revlock is the recipient of a New York City Bessie Award. Her  work 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, Chop Shop and American Dance Festival. Internationally she has toured to Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, Hungary, Russia and India. Revlock holds a BA in Art History from Vassar College and MFA in Dance from Smith College. More at GabrielleRevlock.com

“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.   

Each movement journey is handcrafted to best support the participants. Green serves as a guide to help open doorways where each individual will do their personal work, leading them to a heart centered and intuitive place, finding a physical expression and release of emotions and energy whereby a healing process can begin. 

Ms. Green’s approach helps participants confront emotional wounds and bring them to the surface in a gentle and compassionate way. When using the language of movement rather than words, different images or emotions may arise, which bypass the controlling and censoring mind. This experience leaves participants feeling expanded and curious about their emotions, with new insights to move forward from. 

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. 

The weekend will also allow time in sauna and nature to journal, reflect and integrate, and create community connection among participants.   

*This retreat experience is open to adults of all bodies and abilities.

Workshop Themes 

Friday Evening: Identity & Embodied Transformation 

Saturday Morning: Becoming Unstuck & Overcoming Fear  

Saturday Afternoon: Self-Exploration through the 4 Elements 

Saturday Evening: Forgive/Accept/Surrender ~ Ancestral Healing Ritual

Sunday Morning: Group Healing & Individual Processing 

Sunday Afternoon: Closing ~ Courage 

 Participant Testimonials

“It is such a fruitful journey. Staying present with all of the material you generously offer allows for big insights and ‘aha’ moments.” 

“A new experience is a way in; the class opened up a door that I needed to go through on a path I hadn’t been.” 

“Powerful journey & positive, deeply connective, experience” 

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Arrival, Onsite Check-In, Opening Circle, and Departures.

• Arrival/Check-In: Friday, May 2nd from 4-7pm front of the Farmhouse. Dinner is at 6-7pm.
• Opening Circle: Friday, May 2nd at 7pm after dinner.
• Final Clean: Sunday, May 4th at 2-3pm. Lunch 1-2pm.
• Departure: All participants will depart after the final group clean at 3pm on Sunday, May 4th.

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.

PRICING: Sliding Scale

Gratitude Lodge: $375.00 to $925.00
Camping: $350.00 to $900.00
Commuter: $325.00 to $875.00

Equity & Access Tickets 

We are excited to offer up to 3 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 coming soon! Deadline is April 25th, 2025.

Earthdance makes efforts to support Equity & Access at all its events, this event 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.
• Classes and discussions that aim to presence awareness and inclusion at the event as a whole.

Housing Options

Gratitude Lodge at Earthdance Tickets

Includes a bed in the Gratitude Lodge, event offerings, and food.

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 event cost. Beds are available on a first come basis.

Camping Tickets

Includes a spot to camp at Earthdance, event offerings, and food.

Commuter Tickets

You will have access to the event offerings and food.

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 event participants.

Nine Mountain

Nine Mountain is not available.

Cancellation Policy

Refund available up to 14 days (April 18th) before the event less a $75 processing fee. 

No refunds available less than 14 days (After April 18th) 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.

Earthdance’s Nudity Policy

HOST BIO

Valerie Green

Valerie Green is a Certified Practitioner in Core Energetics, CCEP, and Body/Mind Fitness and  is a Movement Healing Coach who has traveled the world as a performer, choreographer and teacher. Combining more than 30 years of movement and healing work, she has developed a new modality for stress relief and transformation called Skimming the Surface.  She also leads a series of movement workshops for non-dance populations rooted in the philosophy that all bodies can benefit from movement. Whether it’s working with the professional or aspiring dancer or leading workshop and performance residencies for trauma survivors, older adults, persons with differing abilities or at-risk youth, Green fosters creativity, physicality, and healing beyond the stage. 

She is the Artistic Director of the professional dance company Valerie Green/Dance Entropy and founder of Green Space Studio, an unparalleled dance hub in Queens. She has been an active dancer, choreographer, and movement educator in the New York City dance community since 1995.