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EARTHDANCE SCORE: october
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In this SCORE...
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Earthdance is an artist-run workshop, residency, and retreat center located in the Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts. We provide a dynamic mix of dance, somatic, and interdisciplinary arts training, with a focus on sustainable living, social justice, and community. Earthdance has been spearheading innovative arts programming and maintaining a beautiful facility for rental groups in the Pioneer Valley for over two decades.
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 Director's Loft: What is Community anyway? |
This Fall, we're looking at many notions of what it means to live in community. How can we dialogue around the concept of "living in a community" in a way that is accessible, supportive, and real?
Studies show that communities who dedicate a third of their time to celebration are more likely to thrive. Earthdance is heeding this advice by kicking off our exploration of community with celebratory dance! Donna Meija's Transnational Dance Immersion brings high-spirited dances across diasporas as a fundraiser for Earthdance. Then we continue the celebration with the Falling Leaves Jam, co-facilitated by myself and my good friend, Paul Singh. I'm so excited I can hardly stand it.
A main benefit of all "communities" is that they bring people together. But what happens when the common values that bind a community also unintentionally exclude others or unnecessarily create barriers? Say It Out Loud: Owning Whiteness, Performing Engagement provides the platform to engage in frank conversation about our beliefs, needs, and capacity for risk, particularly in relationship to race. Urban Bush Women, a world-renowned Brooklyn-based dance company, leads an interactive workshop called "Entering, Building, and Exiting Community" followed by an afternoon multi-media performance by Any Resemblance. Sign up today! Or, if you cannot come yourself, consider sending a donation to create a scholarship for others who are poised to attend but financially prohibited. By taking care of and supporting one another, we elevate our collective strength!
The Living Room Context continues our season-long research by offering models for creating rich communal experiences and resources for staying connected. Extend your stay as a volunteer to experience living in the Earthdance community as we continue discovering ways of nurturing coexistence.
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We'd like to give a wholehearted THANK YOU to Gopi Krishna, Wendy Young, Peter Heller, and Kara Walsh for becoming Earthdance Sugar Mamas!
Sugar Mamas are Earthdance's monthly donor program, giving Earthdance a steady stream of support and constant reminder of the generosity enveloping our beloved center.
Why is monthly giving so important?
Currently, 75% of our development income comes from individual contributions. This foundation of support is what provides us with the strength to sustain the programs, staff, and facilities that cultivate connections through Contact Improvisation, experiential learning, and creative exchange.
Want to help?
Become a Sugar Mama to show appreciation for the work we do, invest in our collective values, and participate in the future successes of this community center and home for dance.
To all of the many hands that take part in our daily growth, THANK YOU SO MUCH!
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Community Sing & Potluck | with Penny Schultz
October 13
Penny Schultz, Earthdance Co-Founder and community member, brings us together one Sunday a month to raise our voices and move our bodies in celebration and blissful harmony. We sing songs from around the world to celebrate love and life. All are welcome - no singing expertise is required, and people of all ages are invited to join!
Sing 5:30-7pm ($5-$10 suggested donation)
Potluck 7-8pm (bring a dish or pay $5)
Falling Leaves Jam: Harvesting Diversity | facilitated by Sarah Young & Paul Singh
October 24-27
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Featured
Artists-in-Residence
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Poetry by
Earthdance Staff
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This month, New York City based company
creative residency in the idyllic woods of Earthdance to develop their newest work, Under the Tangle - a dance mystery for youth premiering in May, 2014.
Choreographed and conceived by Emily Bunning, this visually vibrant production tells the story of an adolescent girl lost in a mysterious maze using modern dance, absurd costuming, and minimal text. The forested maze not only provides an intriguing set of challenges to dance through but is also a metaphor for her journey into adulthood. Throughout her journey, she twists along the shadowy pathways finding numerous clues, which lead her to meet many unusual characters: a flock of whispering black birds, a haunting shadow that plays hide and seek on an unusual door, and an old woman dangling from a forbidding tower. Under the Tangle, is an artistic adventure filled with obstacles, relationships, and discoveries, which strengthen the young girl's character and enlighten her path.
About the Company
Treehouse Shakers is a dance-theater company committed to creating work that encourages people to experience their feelings and their connection to the greater community. They achieve this by creating humanistic stories, experimenting with narrative styles and exploring the story's elements through the abstractions of modern dance. Treehouse Shakers is unique in its offering young audiences a guided look at modern dance through meaningful and fun storytelling.
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How do we paint the landscapes of our world with words?
To Know Myself By Heart
To feel it's all true
the hurt, the lies, the warmth,
the confusion that rests like a bulbous cloud of fluff
drawing me into its sweet murkiness,
whipped cream puffs that hide the richness below.
I can dive down and suck it all in
submerging myself in the sappiness of the unknown
and emerging out of the swirling drunkenness to breathe in light again
that casts a shadow on my former self.
I look around to see the new landscape
the peaks and valleys, river and forests,
growth and decay,
and go back up and down again
into new territories that beg to be devoured
by the pulse of becoming delighted
in my fullness.
- Hilary Lake
Read more! >>
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JAMS This Month:
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2nd Sunday Movement
& Music Jam
with John Hughes
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4th Sunday Contact Improvisation Class & Jam
with Saliq Savage
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Once a month the Umbrella Studio fills with a celebration of movement and music. A live soundscape is provided by a local musician (see bio below). All dance levels and styles are welcome!
* Bring your own instruments to join in after 10pm.
John hughes John Hughes is an innovative composer, kora player, percussionist and vocalist whose style ranges from traditional west African rhythms and melodies to quirky and original hypnotic grooves that cross cultural boundaries and fuse disparate influences. Playing ancient traditional instruments not often heard in the United States, many of which he builds himself, John takes his audience on an intimate tour of universally musical expressions of joy and hope, at once soothing and uplifting.
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3:30-5pm Class | 5-7pm Jam
An opportunity to learn and practice the form of Contact Improvisation (CI) with an afternoon class led by a CI practitioner (see class description and bio below), followed by an open improvisational space to dance and move your body. Beginners are welcome!
Contact Improvisation and Body-Mind Centering�
Utilizing foam rollers as props, we will explore body surfing, spiralic pathways of the bones, rotation and relation, coming and going, ascending and descending and we will apply this embodied experience to the dance.
 Saliq Savage
Saliq Francis Savage is the co-Director of Wire Monkey Dance and an inveterate CI dancer and teacher. He works with infants helping them to learn many of the same things that he teaches adults, is a certified teacher of Body-Mind Centering� currently teaching in the certification trainings in North Carolina, and teaches DanceSomatics BMC and Dance at the Ponderosa TanzeLand Festival outside Berlin in the summertime.
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December 28-January 2 | New Year's Jam facilitated by Ari Kriegsman & Helen Tocci
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There are many ways to support Earthdance...
By giving a donation to support Earthdance programs, staff, and facilities you nurture our endeavor to strengthen connections between people, communities, and the earth through Contact Improvisation, experiential learning, and creative exchange.
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125 acres of land and facilities provide a beautiful, rustic environment including delicious meals, beautiful studios, a sauna, hiking trails, and warm accommodations. Retreats and private events can range from one day to a month, or can occur at multiple times throughout the year.
We're currently filling our 2014 calendar. Inquire today!
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Sales & Rentals
Studio Revolution: Studio Space for Rent is a beautiful oasis on the top floor of the Arts and Industry building in Florence - a space to dream, dance, draw, restore, gather, teach, celebrate, express - with a birch floor, tall ceilings, amazing light, and good energy. Hourly rentals and discounted pricesavailable. Contact Lani at lanilisa@gmail.com or (413) 212-0521 Dance Classes & Events Dance Spirit is a sacred gathering of inclusive connection to Spirit expressed through inspired eclectic contemporary music and freeform movement held every Sunday from 10am-12pm and every Wednesday from 7:45-9:45pm in Northampton. Sliding scale $5-10. www.dancespirit.org Dance Spree is a barefoot, tobacco-alcohol-drug free community-run dance every Friday night in Northampton from 8:30pm-12:30am. Children of all ages welcome! Sliding scale $6-10. www.dancespree.org Dancing Outside is a restorative movement class including exploration in nature, playful group improvisation, writing, and drawing in a supportive, creative community. Local choreographer Terre Parker will guide participants in the creation of a new environmental dance and an informal showing for family and friends. Ages 16+; All abilities and levels welcome. Thursdays 5:30-7pm from September 12th - October 17th ($89) at Kinsey Memorial Garden, Jones Library, Amherst, MA. www.lsse.org Course #341213 Dancemediation is an innovative, inspired movement practice that frees the body, mind, and spirit; develops seamless concentration that leads to clarity within oneself; and awakens the heart to clear a path for our own inherent ability to heal. Classes range from deeply meditative, inward-focused movement through to free-style boogie-ing. Classes and workshops are on-going monthly in Western Massachusetts and New England. Weekly series for deeper study beginning in September in Greenfield and Florence. FamiliesDancing! A Creative Dance Workshop for All Ages is a creative dance workshop designed for children and adults. Play with creative movement responses to the sculptures and landscape at Park Hill Orchard to LIVE MUSIC! No experience necessary. All ages welcome. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Saturday, October 19th 10:30-11:30am at Art in the Orchard Festival Park Hill Orchard, 82 Park Hill Rd, Easthampton, MA. Suggested Donation $5-10. www.tairarestar.com Greenfield Contact Improv Dance Jam is a Contact Improvisation jam with a warm-up structure led by Moti Zemelman that flows into open dancing in Greenfield every Tuesday of every month from 7:15-9:15pm. All levels welcome - feel free to come watch and/or join in! $5-15 sliding scale. www.greenriveryoga.com/workshops.htm#ContactImprovJAM
Mandala Dance is an inter-generational community dance full of great world music beats and drumming in the beautiful Octagon Room at the Sirius Community. Together, we co-create a sacred space with song, dance and ritual giving birth to a real mandala. Sliding scale $5-15. https://www.facebook.com/events/638242572855752 or contact (617) 800-3633 Movement Ritual and Dance Explorations is a restorative somatic awareness and movement class based on the work of dancer and expressive arts therapist, Anna Halprin. Adults of all ages, abilities, and levels welcome. Tuaght by certified instructor and local choreographer Terre Parker. Thursdays 9:30-11am at Studio Helix, 150 Main St., Thornes Market, 3rd Fl. $10 first class, $15 drop-in. www.terreparkerdance.net Job Postings Contact Quarterly seeks an organized, detail oriented Operations/Office Manager at our sunny office in Florence, MA for a 22/hr a week position. Please look for a full job description in Earthdance's next weekly email. No phone calls, please. |
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Staff
Sarah Young, Executive Artistic Director: sarah@earthdance.net
Lamont Stephens, Operations Director: operations@earthdance.net
Hilary Lake, Office Manager: contact@earthdance.net
David Sharp, Building & Grounds Manager:
Jason Comcowich, Head Chef & Kitchen Manager: executivechef@earthdance.net
Lindsay Swan, Marketing & Development Coordinator: development@earthdance.net
Victor Mistretta, Building & Grounds Assistant: vmvmisty@gmail.com
Ali Skalli, Community Liaison: alibadance@yahoo.com
Gary Powsner, Bookkeeper: bookkeeper@earthdance.net
Julia Handschuh, Marketing & Design Consultant: juliashoe@gmail.com
Jake Wise, IT, Web & Media Assistant: jake@earthdance.net
Rachel Saudek, Gardener
Kelsey Hobbs, Office Assistant: intern@earthdance.net
Beu Tornaghi, Operations Assistant: opsassist@earthdance.net
Brentley Michael Davis, Buildings & Grounds Assistant
Tamara Parvizi, Household Assistant
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Score Editor: Lindsay Swan
Please send community dance events and announcements to development@earthdance.net
Earthdance receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council
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