Earthdance

Earthdance Earthdance is a center for movement, somatic & interdisciplinary arts. Earthdance is mainly open for private events and not to the general public at this time.

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https://www.earthdance.net/spiral-root-earthdance-professional-ci-training/ If you are interested in renting the facility please email: [email protected]

Claire is a movement artist and educator whose practice draws together dance, internal martial arts, Chinese medicine, a...
09/07/2026

Claire is a movement artist and educator whose practice draws together dance, internal martial arts, Chinese medicine, and theater. A certifying teacher of the Axis Syllabus, she has trained in Qigong, Taijiquan, and Baguazhang since 2010, and has spent years teaching movement in settings ranging from a Toronto college of traditional Chinese medicine to a seniors center in Guelph. Across all of it, her throughline stays the same: movement and healing practices as a way to deepen awareness, honor the integrity of the body, and open new possibility between people.

At the Nomadic College, she teaches Phase One: Common Ground with "TO-GATHER," a session drawing a parallel between the earth's tilt and orbit and the tilt and rotation within human movement. Framed by autumn as a season of gathering, the class moves into questions of assembly and agreement — dancing with design, and moving with the season.

Claire is one of several faculty teaching across the program's two phases, Common Ground and Fractalicious, running September 30 through October 11.

Link in bio for class descriptions and registration!

Second Sunday Jam: Center, Breath, Awareness with Helena Zhao 🌿Next Sunday! 9/13In this class we will practice core aiki...
09/06/2026

Second Sunday Jam: Center, Breath, Awareness with Helena Zhao 🌿

Next Sunday! 9/13

In this class we will practice core aikido principles through different exercises so that they may inform our dance. These principles will include peripheral awareness, moving from the center, and chi flow breath work among several others. Throughout the class we will propose inquiries into perception and awareness through meditation, solos, and duets. Come dance!!! 🙂

Helena Zhao is a multidisciplinary artist, craniosacral therapist, and aikido practitioner based in western Massachusetts. She dedicates her life to dance and the creative process as a contemplative practice, a place for experimentation, inquiry, curiosity, play, and equanimity.

Potluck at 5pm, class at 6:15pm, jam at 7:30pm. Sliding scale pricing. Pre-registration not required.

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FALLING LEAVES JAM 2026 • Hosted by Asa Benjamin + Faith RathbunOctober 22 to 25, 2026This fall, we gather to celebrate ...
09/04/2026

FALLING LEAVES JAM 2026 • Hosted by Asa Benjamin + Faith Rathbun

October 22 to 25, 2026

This fall, we gather to celebrate 40 years of Earthdance and turn our attention toward what comes next.

What seeds are we gathering now for the generations to come? How might we tend our relationships with greater intention?
What becomes possible when we bring our creative potential into relationship with one another?

The Falling Leaves Jam is an invitation to remember Earthdance’s lineage while continuing to shape a living, adaptable community for the future.

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Early Bird pricing ends September 16.

Equity & Access applications are open through October 8, with up to 4 full jam discounted tickets available.

Additional access pricing includes BIPOC tickets, 25% off for dancers 30 and under, and discounted teen tickets.

Registration closes October 21.

Come dance, gather, celebrate, remember, and imagine what the next 40 years might become.

Registration + Equity & Access applications at the link in bio.

Compositional Awareness in Contact Improvisation, with Andrew Harwood.Weight finds weight. A body leans, another catches...
08/26/2026

Compositional Awareness in Contact Improvisation, with Andrew Harwood.

Weight finds weight. A body leans, another catches, and a shape emerges that neither person planned alone.

This workshop moves between duet and group — the same principles of falling, supporting, and listening scaled up into ensemble composition. Andrew’s decades of practice bring a rare clarity to reading what’s happening in real time and responding with the whole body.

Base pricing ends September 2nd! Sliding scale rates available.

📍 Earthdance, Plainfield MA | September 10–13
🔗 Link in bio to register

Last chance to register 🌿Co-Creating Transformational Communities begins Friday.Three days of practical tools for the ki...
08/25/2026

Last chance to register 🌿

Co-Creating Transformational Communities begins Friday.

Three days of practical tools for the kind of collective life many of us are reaching toward, drawn from Internal Family Systems, Non-Violent Communication, Circling, and Possibility Management.

Meet the three people holding it.

Swipe through to get to know Jonas Ratza, Nina Chausow, and Hannah Hirsh.

Aug 28–30, 2026 · Plainfield, MA
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Hannah Hirsh and Maura Quinn will be holding space for this September's Rage Club — an invitation to feel, express, and ...
08/17/2026

Hannah Hirsh and Maura Quinn will be holding space for this September's Rage Club — an invitation to feel, express, and reclaim your anger without judgment.

Saturday, September 19th, 3–5:30pm, potluck to follow.

Link in bio to register!

Meet Francesca, teaching Phase One: Common Ground this fall.Her session, "Enquiring Beyond Form," sits with the layered ...
08/14/2026

Meet Francesca, teaching Phase One: Common Ground this fall.

Her session, "Enquiring Beyond Form," sits with the layered perception of a moving body: the actions and reactions unfolding at once, how individual morphology shapes the way each of us experiences movement, and how our structures learn to absorb, resist, push, pull, draw close, or move away. At its center is a simpler question — how do we share a moment, and how do we share space?

Francesca is one of several faculty teaching across the program's two phases, Common Ground and Fractalicious, running September 30 through October 11.

Link in bio for class descriptions and registration.

We're each shaped by the path we've walked, and the one we're still walking. At Spiral & Root, we ask what that shape be...
08/14/2026

We're each shaped by the path we've walked, and the one we're still walking. At Spiral & Root, we ask what that shape becomes when it meets another body on the floor.

Curiosity becomes a way of moving. A question is a duet. The dialogue that usually happens in the mind — proposing, exchanging, listening — becomes something the body does too: an impulse followed before it's named, a moment of being guided, of being surprised.

Three weeks of practice and reflection, held together.

January 8–29, 2027 – link in bio!

We're back with another Garden Day! 🌱Join us Sunday, August 16th, 10am–5pm, to get your hands in the soil. Earthdance's ...
08/13/2026

We're back with another Garden Day! 🌱

Join us Sunday, August 16th, 10am–5pm, to get your hands in the soil. Earthdance's garden is grown organically, tended with the same presence and care that shape everything else here: soil work as its own form of creative living. Come learn a bit about sustainable growing, help with whatever the beds are asking for that week — bed making, planting, weeding, compost turning, harvesting — and share in the abundance. No tools or experience needed, just outdoor workwear and a willingness to get a little dirty.

Hosted by Neal and Shosei.

Stick around after, the day flows right into Second Sunday CI Jam, led this month by Dylan Cowie-Haskell.

Link in bio for more details!

08/12/2026

The Nomadic College is a traveling international intensive grounded in the Axis Syllabus, an interdisciplinary research framework that draws on anatomy, biomechanics, and somatic inquiry to deepen how we understand and inhabit movement. Each chapter convenes an international faculty and a dedicated cohort of practitioners for an extended period of immersive study. Chapter 3 arrives at Earthdance this fall.

Details: The program runs September 30 through October 11, 2026, with an arrival day on September 29th and departure on October 12th. The two weeks are divided by a free day on October 6th.

Lear more & register: https://www.earthdance.net/axis-syllabus-nomadic-college-earthdance/

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