MAGMA

Dancehall Workshop
2024-04-18 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | MA
We’re hosting a Dancehall workshop series with Jeff Jean-Phillipe to bring the heat this Spring!
Dancehall is a high-energy style of dance emanating from Jamaica. These workshops will be open to all experience levels, working on the basic moves and rhythms in the style.
$20 per class
DATES: April 18, 7:00-8:00pm SIGN UP
May 2, 7:00-8:00pm SIGN UP
About Jeff Jean-Phillipe: Jeff Jean-Philippe, a versatile artist, is quickly becoming one of New England’s premier Hip Hop educators and choreographers. Originally from Montreal, Quebec, and living in northern Massachusetts, Jeff’s passion for the art of dance grew quickly while studying under some of North America’s top and original Hip Hop teachers, including Amari Marshal, Super Dave, Jamar Hopkins, and Brian “Footwork” Green. His training in hip-hop and street dance culture is extensive and includes dancehall, break dancing, Chicago footwork, house, popping, locking, animation, whacking, Afro-house, Krump, and more.
Jeff has taught at a series of masterclasses, workshops, conventions, and colleges throughout the East Coast and Canada; Jeff also judges at various dance competitions and battle events. His high-energy classes strongly focus on Hip-Hop foundation, technique, and fundamentals keeping the essence of the culture and contemporary and modern elements. He is also the leading pioneer of a new form of Latin dance called, Kimpada, which is a fusion of Kizomba, Kompa, Bachata, and Zouk.
Jeff has performed with numerous local dance companies from Boston, in ballets, in commercials, and on tv shows (SYTYCD season 12, top 30), as a backup dancer, and in musicals. He Has recently been featured in music videos of big names such as the hip-hop artist Joyner Lucas and The legendary Dancehall artist Mr.Vegas. Jeff is the founder and director of his own hip-hop, contemporary/modern-focused company, The Expressive Movement, which recently toured the East Coast, Canada, and went international.
Since opening his business, “Our Space” a holistic and multicultural Arts center, Jeff enjoys sharing his knowledge and passion for art, holistic wellness, and Afro-diasporic lineage, most importantly, guiding, coaching, and mentoring the health and wellness of all humans.

April Music Show
2024-04-20 19:00 - 22:00 | MA
PlannComm Events presents
Sailor Down
hey i’m outside
Pete Lindberg
U-ey Buoy
$10 at the door

Dancehall Workshop
2024-05-02 19:00 - 20:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
We’re hosting a Dancehall workshop series with Jeff Jean-Phillipe to bring the heat this Spring!
Dancehall is a high-energy style of dance emanating from Jamaica. These workshops will be open to all experience levels, working on the basic moves and rhythms in the style.
$20 per class
DATE: May 2, 7:00-8:00pm SIGN UP
About Jeff Jean-Phillipe: Jeff Jean-Philippe, a versatile artist, is quickly becoming one of New England’s premier Hip Hop educators and choreographers. Originally from Montreal, Quebec, and living in northern Massachusetts, Jeff’s passion for the art of dance grew quickly while studying under some of North America’s top and original Hip Hop teachers, including Amari Marshal, Super Dave, Jamar Hopkins, and Brian “Footwork” Green. His training in hip-hop and street dance culture is extensive and includes dancehall, break dancing, Chicago footwork, house, popping, locking, animation, whacking, Afro-house, Krump, and more.
Jeff has taught at a series of masterclasses, workshops, conventions, and colleges throughout the East Coast and Canada; Jeff also judges at various dance competitions and battle events. His high-energy classes strongly focus on Hip-Hop foundation, technique, and fundamentals keeping the essence of the culture and contemporary and modern elements. He is also the leading pioneer of a new form of Latin dance called, Kimpada, which is a fusion of Kizomba, Kompa, Bachata, and Zouk.
Jeff has performed with numerous local dance companies from Boston, in ballets, in commercials, and on tv shows (SYTYCD season 12, top 30), as a backup dancer, and in musicals. He Has recently been featured in music videos of big names such as the hip-hop artist Joyner Lucas and The legendary Dancehall artist Mr. Vegas. Jeff is the founder and director of his own hip-hop, contemporary/modern-focused company, The Expressive Movement, which recently toured the East Coast, Canada, and went international.
Since opening his business, “Our Space” a holistic and multicultural Arts center, Jeff enjoys sharing his knowledge and passion for art, holistic wellness, and Afro-diasporic lineage, most importantly, guiding, coaching, and mentoring the health and wellness of all humans.

Dance performance: Broadchannel
2024-05-24 19:30 - 20:30 | MA
Broadchannel
a dance performance, choreography by Mia Martelli, in collaboration with Sophia Dunzelman
Broadchannel is a dance that visits childhood bedroom performance-making. The 2000s-era sounds, drawings, lighting, poems, and unfinished choreographies created in private are put on display and repurposed as a platform for contemporary questions around aging, spirituality, and environmental collapse.
Improvised dances emerge in response to the rhythm, colors, and temperatures of Massachusetts Peninsulas. The rapture and horror of intensifying tides serve as non-fiction mythology, shaking the prospect of building a future in a place surrounded by water.
$15 at the door or online: BUY TICKETS NOW

Flowport - live music
2024-05-31 19:30 - 22:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
R&B, hip hop night, only $10 at the door
with Julian Mendoza @julian.i.mendoza
Kr!thi @kr.i.thi
and Monaveli @realmonaveli
7:30pm

Vogue Workshop
2024-06-01 15:00 - 16:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Learn the basics of slay with a beginner-friendly Vogue workshop led by Alejandro Ramirez
Cost is $20, open to adults and teens ages 14+
SIGN UP
This class is part of #CapeAnnPride – CLICK HERE to find out about all of the other events and happenings!

Dead End
2024-06-01 20:00 - 21:00 | MA
Dead End
by Solstice Lauren
a special preview production of the new original play
High school senior Faye is stricken with grief after the sudden death of her former best friend, Foley. The night after Foley’s funeral, the deceased eighteen-year-old comes to Faye in the form of a ghost or hallucination. As Faye’s world becomes ridden with guilt, she turns to the unhealthy
coping mechanisms taught to her by her Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Meanwhile, Faye’s sister, Rita, and best friend, Sara, attempt to prove that Foley’s death was a suicide covered up by his parents. Dead End explores themes of youth mental health and friendship, with a focus on the
ways children and teenagers often have their thoughts and feelings overlooked by the adults in their lives. This show runs approximately 90 minutes. FREE
mature audiences only

Reduce, Reuse, ReSCRIBBLE
2024-06-02 15:00 - 17:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
SCRIBBLE announces REDUCE, REUSE, RE-SCRIBBLE, a creative, immersive open house in which the SCRIBBLE artistic community confronts the problem of CLIMATE CHANGE in interactive art installations, performances, and videos.
Sunday, June 2nd from 3-5 pm at MAGMA, Movement Arts Gloucester Massachusetts, 11 Pleasant St, Gloucester, MA. Expect thoughtful, provocative, interactive work from Erika Sutter, Jude Johnson-Shoucair, Sarah Slifer Swift, Peter Littlefield, Sophia Dunzelman, Nick Neyeloff, Christine April, Michael Lamarche, Hannah Krieger, Chris Lyman and Pamela Ellis Hawkes.A scavenger hunt leads participants through an immersive environment, following clues found within the artwork that speak in one way or another to climate change. It all begins with a confession booth in which guests can have a one on one with Mother Nature. The whole experience should take about one hour.
This program was made possible with funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Gloucester Cultural Initiative, with support from NOAA.

Rock Show
2024-06-07 19:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Riley’s Bday Bash with
Rolling Stony
cigarette cam
Jonee Earthquake Band
Exposed Ass
Doors 7:30pm
All Ages, $10 at the door – cash, venmo, PayPal only!

Experimental Sunday
2024-06-16 19:00 - 22:00 | MA
Live music with an experimental bent. All Ages, $10, doors 7pm
with
Steve Lacey
Randi Woodele
Abner
Law Years
Dead Clinician

Nia Workshop
2024-06-28 18:30 - 19:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Nia with a world music Twist
with Alice Heller , Brown Belt Nia and Moving to Heal instructor
Friday June 28th from 6:30-7:30pm

at MAGMA, $20

Please contact the instructor to reserve your spot:
aliceheller15@gmail.com

African Dance with Alice Heller
2024-07-06 16:00 - 17:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Join us for an African dance celebration with live drummers on Saturday July 6th at 4pm led by Alice Heller
Open to teens and adults- all levels !
Register with Alice- www.alicehellerdance.comCost: $20 ($25 at the door ), VENMO : Alice-Heller-1For more information contact : aliceheller15@gmail.com

Improvisation & Performance Series
2024-07-11 17:30 - 19:00 | MA
Starting July 11, every Thursday in July and August, MAGMA will offer a free improvisation workshop series as part of Gloucester’s Culture Splash. Dancers will then take to the streets and do a short 15-20 minute performance outdoors near another Culture Splash event.
No Workshop on July 18 because MAGMA’s Dance Team will be performing at Harbor Loop at 7pm.

Simonson Technique Workshops
2024-07-18 14:00 - 2024-07-20 20:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
With Te Perez Ceccon from NYC
Find all the info and sign up schedule at:
https://www.linesofenergy.com/event-details-registration/simonson-workshop

MAGMA Dance Team performs for Culture Splash
2024-07-18 19:00 - 19:30 | MA
Please come support MAGMA Youth Dance Team and others at Harbor Loop tonight as part of Culture Splash.
The dance performance will happen from 7-7:30pm. FREE! Bring lawn chairs or a picnic blanket and stay for the music afterwards!
Please note there is NO improv workshop tonight because of this special performance of the Dance Team.

Improvisation & Performance Series
2024-07-25 17:30 - 19:30 | MA
Every Thursday in July and August, MAGMA will offer a free improvisation workshop. As part of Gloucester’s Culture Splash, dancers will then take to the streets and do a short 15-20 minute performance outdoors near another Culture Splash event.
performance locations:
7/25: Dance on Main Street, near the Sargent House Museum, 6:30-7pm
8/1: Dance on the docks, Rogers Street near Blue Collar Lobster, 6:30-7pm
8/8: Dance at the Cape Ann Museum Courtyard, Pleasant Street, *6:00pm start time
8/15: Dance at Maritime Gloucester, Harbor Loop, 6:30-7pm
8/22: Dance location tba

Improvisation & Performance Series
2024-08-01 17:30 - 19:30 | MA
Every Thursday in July and August, MAGMA will offer a free improvisation workshop at MAGMA as part of Gloucester’s Culture Splash. Participants will then take to the streets and do a short 15-20 minute performance outdoors near another Culture Splash event.
performance locations:
7/25: Dance on Main Street, near the Sargent House Museum, 6:30-7pm
8/1: Dance on the docks, Rogers Street near Blue Collar Lobster, 6:30-7pm
8/8: Dance at the Cape Ann Museum Courtyard, Pleasant Street, *6:00pm start time
8/15: Dance at Maritime Gloucester, Harbor Loop, 6:30-7pm
8/22: Dance location tba

Day of Dance
2024-08-04 09:00 - 16:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Oh yeah, Day of Dance is looking HOT for 2024!
Join Jeannette Neill, Jim Viera, Sue Murray, Sarah Slifer Swift, and Laura Dow for an amazing day. Group pricing and a la carte options available.
9:00-10:00am Active Stretch and Strength with Sarah Slifer Swift
10:00-11:45am Jazz with Jeannette Neill
12:00-1:00pm Tap with Laura Dow
1:15-2:45pm Lyrical Jazz with Sue Murray
3:00-4:30pm Jazz with Jim Viera
SIGN UP at https://www.jndance.com/special-events

Improvisation & Performance Series
2024-08-08 17:30 - 19:30 | MA
Every Thursday in July and August, MAGMA will offer a free improvisation workshop at MAGMA as part of Gloucester’s Culture Splash. Participants will then take to the streets and do a short 15-20 minute performance outdoors near another Culture Splash event.
performance locations:
8/8: Dance at the Cape Ann Museum Courtyard, Pleasant Street, *6:00pm start time
8/15: Dance at Maritime Gloucester, Harbor Loop, 6:30-7pm
8/22: Dance location tba

Squall House - Peabrain
2024-08-09 19:00 - 21:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Rock music from local college kids, an eclectic mix of covers and originals.
All ages. $5 at the door

Contemporary Dance Workshop
2024-08-10 12:30 - 16:00 | MA
Saturday August 10, 12:30pm-4:00pm
An Intermediate level workshop for ages 13-18 exploring expressive dance improvisation, as well as honing technique with contemporary dance. Expect challenging material in a supportive environment, helping young artists unlock their artistic potential.
Led by Myles Kercher
$75 SIGN UP
photo of Myles by little house dance

Improvisation & Performance Series
2024-08-15 17:30 - 19:30 | MA
Every Thursday in July and August, MAGMA will offer a free improvisation workshop at MAGMA as part of Gloucester’s Culture Splash, ancers will then take to the streets and do a short 15-20 minute performance outdoors near another Culture Splash event.

Culture Splash - Splash Mob
2024-08-22 18:30 - 19:00 | MA
Find MAGMA dancers along the West End of Main Street from 6:30-7pm as part of Culture Splash.

Ideokinesis Workshop
2024-08-28 17:30 - 19:00 | MA
The Thinking Body: Discovering Your Posture through Ideokinesis with Kate Tarlow Morgan
“Movement resides in thinking and not in muscle.”
From Andre Bernard’s Ideokinesis Class, 1982
$20 suggested donation – BUY NOW
Through movement, touch and imagery, Ideokinesis opens the door for somato-emotional change, releasing holding patterns and relieving injury. At its best, Ideokinesis broadens a person’s mental awareness, with clear and simple engagement with the body, through feeling, perceiving and action.
The practice has been in development for many decades! Author of The Thinking Body (1937), Mabel Ellsworth Todd called it Natural Posture (1923) work, but she began her studies in 1906. Her student, Barbara Clark called it Mind-Body Integration, but it wasn’t until 1974 that Lulu E. Sweigard, also a student of Todd, used the term Ideokinesis for her book Human Movement Potential. For those of us who attended Andre Bernard’s classes at New York University in the ‘70s and ‘80s, Ideokinesis was the word we used to address what was yet to be identified as a wholly embodied experience.
There will be time to move, to play, and to learn ‘constructive rest.” No experience necessary. For further information: katetarlowmorgan@gmail.com

Kate Tarlow Morgan is a dancer, author, and teacher. She is editor of Currents Journal for the Body-Mind Centering Association. As sole archivist of The Rhythms Fundamentals®, based on the study of human and animal natural movement, Kate teaches the Rhythms approach and Body-Mind Centering© in schools and studios. Her book, Circles & Boundaries, was published the same year that she co-edited the Body-Mind Centering Anthology, 2011. Since that time Kate and Sarah Slifer Swift have collaborated, performed, and mused together on the history of dance, the alchemy of anatomy, the wiles of motherhood, and the many airs of cats.
photo: Ernest Morin
drawing: Eric Franklin

MAGMA Showcase Fundraiser
2024-09-12 19:00 - 20:30 | The Cut, 177 Main Street, Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
MAGMA Showcase Fundraiser – at THE CUT
Come celebrate MAGMA on September 12 with a special fundraiser performance, featuring work performed by students in the adult dance program.

Choreography by Sarah Slifer Swift, Carey McKinley, Dawn Pratson, Sophia Dunzelman, Laura Dow, Jillian Chavez-Oliveira, and Myles Kercher.

Proceeds go to supporting performing artists presenting work at MAGMA, and need-based scholarships for youth dance classes.

$20 Tickets via The Cut – BUY NOW
Want to make a bigger donation to MAGMA?
MAGMA is fiscally sponsored by Boston Dance Alliance, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit tax-exempt organization. Contributions in support of MAGMA’s work are greatly appreciated and may be made to Boston Dance Alliance, Inc., earmarked for “MAGMA.” All contributions are fully tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. DONATE TO MAGMA via BDA

SING
2024-09-20 18:15 - 19:30 | MA
Our monthly, participatory singing meet-up! Led by Lisa Bouchie, SING is based in improvisatory scores that require no prior musical training, tapping into the joy of singing together!
$10 suggested donation at the door

Dance Performance: Sarah Rose, Holly Stone & J.Michael Winward
2024-09-21 19:30 - 21:00 | MA
Canvas – Sarah Rose / Insider Ballroom – Holly Stone & J. Michael Winward
TICKETS $20 suggested donation BUY NOW
sliding scale pricing available at the door day of show

Canvas is a trio dance performance exploring ideas for spatial design and movement quality from Dotty Kyle’s (Sarah’s grandma’s) oil paintings of New England flora. The movement is paired with close up projections of the paintings which are displayed on the dancers’ bodies. Original sound score by Ross Daniel.

Insider Ballroom
Having worked for each of the major American franchised schools, Holly and Michael are now recovering salespeople, seeking an alternative means of practice. Insider Ballroom: A Free Introductory Lesson combines professional ballroom dancing of the “American Smooth” category with personal storytelling from the performers: Queer perspectives from their time spent inside this decidedly hetero-industry.

Bios:

Sarah Rose is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on movement and performance. Her current research focuses on the intersection of movement habit and the modern dance canon. She holds a BA in Classics from Princeton University (2014) and an MFA in Choreography and Performance from Florida State University (2019).
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Helen Greider is a Queens based contemporary freelance dancer. Since moving to New York she has performed with Tabula Rasa Dance Theatre, AFFEKT Dance Company, Go.Co, and choreographer/performer Sarah Rose. Helen graduated with a BFA in Dance and Economics from Florida State University in 2021 where she studied under Anjali Austin, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Gwen Welliver, Donna Uchizono, and Ilana Goldman. Helen is dedicated to exploring and pushing her boundaries of the physical challenge of dance and also in how artistic values impact life experiences and vice versa.
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Ross Daniel is a Georgia born artist based in New York with an M.F.A. in Dance from Florida State University and a B.A. in theatre from Georgia College & State University. Ross is a 2019-2020 New Directions Choreography Lab Fellow at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and a recent participant of the “MANCC Forward Dialogues” at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography where he developed a dance collective with choreographer Sarah Rose entitled DanielRose Projects. Ross has performed in Then She Fell with Third Rail Company, with 277 Dance Projects, Alexis Zacarello (Center for Performance Research A.I.R,) and Katelyn Halpern and Dancers, on tour with Urban Bush Women (2019 Winter Tour,) and on tour with Fox and Beggar Theatre, a contemporary circus company based in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Raised in rural Vermont, Holly Stone (they/them) creates dance and theater throughout Greater Boston, and teaches at both Tufts and Boston Universities. As a performer, Holly has recently danced for Kathy Hassinger, Jo-Me Dance Theater, Lowell House Opera, Tim Glenn, and with many, many others from their time in the American Ballroom Dance Industry. Holly has a B.S. in Bioengineering and Neuroscience from Syracuse University and an MFA in Dance from Florida State University.
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J Michael Winward (he/they) is an interdisciplinary artist: dancer, storyteller, organizer: working at the intersection of movement, memoir, memory, and care. Michael is the director of Steps in Time®: an organization that brings social partner dance programs to assisted living & mind care communities, as well as the lead coordinator of Dancing Queerly: a platform for LGBTQ+ dance & performance artist support. Michael has a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Bennington College, and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College.

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photo credit: Elizabeth Mertz

Rock Show
2024-09-22 18:30 - 19:00 | MA
with music from
Tiffy, Reklama, Beach Plums, Herbaceous Liquor
proceeds go to Gaza relief fund, $5-10 suggested donation

Punk Jazz Art Show
2024-09-27 19:30 - 22:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
with music from
Law Years, Pierce Fountain Trio, Red Glare, and OrchidBB
plus art show and sale
$10 at the door

Lindy Hop workshop
2024-10-13 17:00 - 18:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Lindy Hop with Maria Kakolowski

October 13 & 20, 5-6:00pm

Please join us for a special 2-day workshop series on Lindy Hop, a swing partner dance style that is infectiously fun!

Cost: $20 per class, or $30 for both. SIGN UP

BIO: Maria was introduced to Lindy Hop in 2004, and has been exploring vintage jazz dancing since then, as well as various forms of solo and improvisational partnered dance. She currently teaches with Boston Lindy Hop, Ignis Arts, and Balter Dance as well as drop-in lessons for Boston Swing Central, Eclipse Fusion, and Second Sun Rising and loves seeing how different dance styles grow from and influence one another.
