MAGMA

Sunday Salon
2025-03-16 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Sunday, March 16, 2025 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm
MAGMA, 11 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA
Suggested Donation: $5 – 10, online or at the door
Registration link: https://momence.com/s/113986877

Join us for the Sunday Salon with Miranda Aisling and Heather Atwood at MAGMA in Gloucester. During this monthly salon series, attendees are invited to engage in thoughtful, enriching conversations with fellow creatives across Cape Ann. The aim is to create an inspiring, convivial space to foster creativity in our region.

Whether you’re a long-time practicing artist or enthusiastically art-adjacent, we welcome you to join in the conversation. We’ll break into small groups to encourage engaging discussions between attendees.

Piping Plover Film Fundraiser
2025-03-23 16:00 - 18:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
The Piping Plovers of Moonlight Bay is a 55-minute narrated documentary by Kim Smith that tells the story of the Piping Plover as it unfolds along the North Atlantic coastline. The film features a pair of courageous Plovers that overcome life-threatening obstacles while nesting at one of the region’s most popular beaches.
On Sunday March 23 at 4pm, MAGMA will host a fundraiser to help support the production and distribution of the film. This evening will include a showing of the film and a Q & A with filmmaker Kim Smith. Refreshments will be served. Suggested donation for this event is $50. BUY NOW, or pay at the door
Each spring, northward migrating Atlantic coast Piping Plovers return to breeding sites located from North Carolina to Newfoundland. Amazingly, nesting often takes place on public beaches, where anyone can observe their beautiful life story unfolding. But in such areas, where people enjoy a full range of recreational activities, nesting and raising chicks is a perilous occupation.
Set against the backdrop of the ever-dynamic Atlantic shoreline, the documentary illustrates how conservation partners have provided safe corridors that allow these highly vulnerable birds to raise chicks to fledge at even the most well-loved beaches.
The Piping Plovers of Moonlight Bay is a film for all ages, and was created especially for young people to inspire in them a love for wild creatures and their habitats, and to develop a deeper understanding of the vital role that wildlife play in our interconnected ecosystem.
Every stage of the Plover’s life cycle is experienced in vibrant HD and 4K close-up, from egg to chick to adult.
Production and distribution of The Piping Plovers of Moonlight Bay will be made possible by tax-deductible contributions from individuals, corporations, foundations, and public agencies.
To date, among other generous donations, we have received a leadership grant of $15,000 from the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife.
Gifts for The Piping Plovers of Moonlight Bay will support post production and distribution costs, including re-recording voiceover narration, color and sound editors, picture mastering, studio time, festival fees and applications, music and map rights, and an underwriting agent to bring the film to the wide audience of public television. Our goal is to raise $115,000.

Ancestral Dance with Giselle Ruzany
2025-04-04 19:00 - 20:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Ancestral Dance – finding support, connection, and unblocking creativity
A Workshop by Giselle Ruzany PhD LPC, based on her 2022 Dissertation
with Kate Tarlow Morgan and Sarah Slifer Swift
Schedule
APRIL 4TH, 7 PM: LECTURE & FILMS SHOWING, free
APRIL 5TH, 1:30 – 5:30 PM: WORKSHOP $65-Register Now
Participants will create a dance and short narrative film;
based on a gestalt empty chair work with an ancestor.
APRIL 5TH, 7 PM – WORKSHOP SHOWING AND
DISCUSSION, free
Dr. Giselle Ruzany, Ph.D., L.P.C., R-DMT, is a gestalt therapist, artist, researcher, contemporary choreographer, dance educator, and mindful movement practitioner. She is licensed to practice in Colorado, Florida, Virginia, and Washington, DC, where she currently operates in Woodley Park. In her trauma-informed psychotherapy sessions, she integrates mindful movement and embodied inquiry. Fluent in both Portuguese and English, Ruzany frequently travels between her two homes in Rio de Janeiro and Washington, DC. She is particularly interested in the intersection of dance and psychology, exploring how the somatic experience informs both fields to foster healing and connection. Ruzany has published chapters and articles, teaches at Antioch University, and has presented her work at various conferences, symposiums, theaters, and universities.
Read more about Giselle at https://www.gestaltdance.com/dr-giselle-ruzany

Ancestral Dance with Giselle Ruzany
2025-04-05 13:30 - 20:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Ancestral Dance – finding support, connection, and unblocking creativity
A Workshop by Giselle Ruzany PhD LPC, based on her 2022 Dissertation
with Kate Tarlow Morgan and Sarah Slifer Swift
Schedule
APRIL 4TH, 7 PM: LECTURE & FILMS SHOWING, free
APRIL 5TH, 1:30 – 5:30 PM: WORKSHOP $65 – Register Now
Participants will create a dance and short narrative film;
based on a gestalt empty chair work with an ancestor.
APRIL 5TH, 7 PM – WORKSHOP SHOWING AND
DISCUSSION, free
Dr. Giselle Ruzany, Ph.D., L.P.C., R-DMT, is a gestalt therapist, artist, researcher, contemporary choreographer, dance educator, and mindful movement practitioner. She is licensed to practice in Colorado, Florida, Virginia, and Washington, DC, where she currently operates in Woodley Park. In her trauma-informed psychotherapy sessions, she integrates mindful movement and embodied inquiry. Fluent in both Portuguese and English, Ruzany frequently travels between her two homes in Rio de Janeiro and Washington, DC. She is particularly interested in the intersection of dance and psychology, exploring how the somatic experience informs both fields to foster healing and connection. Ruzany has published chapters and articles, teaches at Antioch University, and has presented her work at various conferences, symposiums, theaters, and universities.
Read more about Giselle at https://www.gestaltdance.com/dr-giselle-ruzany

April Waltz Night
2025-04-06 18:00 - 20:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
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Waltz the night away at MAGMA on Sunday, April 6, 2025 with our monthly social dance night! This is not the formal, ballroom-style waltz. This is the easy going, easy to learn, and very fun to do folk waltz. Enjoy live music from Erica Pisaturo and Scott Moore so good that it’s worth the price of admission just to sit hear them play.
If you’ve never waltzed before, or would like to brush up, join for a lesson at 6:00 pm, otherwise skip the lesson and come to enjoy the social dancing and music starting at 6:30 pm.
6:00 pm – Optional Lesson with Miranda Aisling & Ed Dahlmer
6:30 – 8:30 pm – Waltz Dance Social with music from Erica Pisaturo and Scott Moore
All are welcome, no dancing experience, special shoes, or partners necessary
Tickets $10-30 sliding scale, or at the door
ERICA PISATURO
Erica Pisaturo is a native of New England, where she began her violin studies at the age of four. She performs regularly with the Lobster Cove String Quartet, Symphony by the Sea (where she is also Orchestra Librarian), and as Principal Second Violin with the Cape Ann Symphony. After earning a BA in Music and Art History from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, she escaped the harsh winters to earn an MFA at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. While in the South, Erica played violin in a number of professional symphony orchestras, including the Hilton Head Symphony and Savannah Philharmonic, both of which she also served as Orchestra Librarian.
SCOTT MOORE
Scott Moore was born and came of age in rural Kentucky. He began his career as a violinist and composer as a four-year-old in New York. He’s been a soloist with a number of orchestras, played Mozart for the Archduke of Austria, and given an impromptu recital in Carnegie Hall for an audience of ghosts. He is currently Concertmaster of the Cape Ann Symphony and Symphony by the Sea, and Acting Concertmaster at Lexington (MA) Symphony. Since 2022 he has been Artist-in-Residence at the Annisquam Village Church, where his growing portfolio includes solo and group performances across a range of genres and media. He is a founding member of the Lobster Cove String Quartet, established in 2023. With his wife, Erica Pisaturo, he operates Open String Recordings, drawing on long experience as a session musician to provide creative, professional string arrangements for clients including bands and solo artists, composers, and filmmakers.

Lydia Lunch and Murderous Again
2025-04-11 20:00 - 21:30 | MA
Iconic post-punk musician-writer-actress Lydia Lunch is on tour with musicians Matt Nelson and Tim Dahl for an evening of outrageous spoken word and live music.
TIX $20 BUY NOW
Beth B’s documentary on Lydia’s 4 decade long career The War is Never Over was featured at over 50 film festivals in 2020 & 2021 and is now available through Kino Lorber Films.
Tim Dahl is a New York based bassist and vocalist best known for his work with the noise-rock bands Lydia Lunch Retrovirus and Child Abuse. He also writes and performs for the jazz ensembles Pulverize the Sound, and GRID. Dahl has performed and/or recorded with many other notable musicians including Yusef Lateef, Lydia Lunch, Tyshawn Sorey, Rhys Chatham, Archie Shepp, Eugene Chadbourne, Tatsuya Yoshida, Mary Halvorson, Peter Evans, Charles Hayward, The Flying Luttenbachers, Jandek, Kool Keith, Von Lmo…
Saxophonist Matt Nelson regularly performs in a far-reaching, motley assortment of musical projects. Described as “one of the more unpredictable virtuosos in NewYork’s underground” by Pitchfork and “genre-bending” by Tiny Mix Tapes, his output often lies in the gray corners beyond categorization.
Upon graduation from the Oberlin Conservatory, Matt moved back to his native Bay Area and became an active member in the music community there, where he performed regularly with various experimental outfits including tUnE-yArDs with whom he recorded and toured extensively in support of their acclaimed album ‘ whokill”. Matt now resides in Brooklyn and continues to work with various experimental musicians.

Elemental Ecstatic Dance
2025-04-12 19:30 - 21:30 | MA
Elemental Ecstatic Dance, Saturday , 7:30pm
Join Charity Joy, aka DJ CJ Féé, for an evening of embodiment, connection to community, and self-discovery through the transformative practice of Elemental Ecstatic Dance at MAGMA.
Reconnect with your innate joy, release what no longer serves you, and immerse yourself in the healing power of music, movement, and stillness.
Tix sliding scale $25-35 BUY NOW
or at the door w/ cash or Venmo, notaflof

Sunday Salon
2025-04-13 18:00 - 20:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Sunday, April 13, 2025 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm
MAGMA, 11 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA
Suggested Donation: $5 – 10, online or at the door
Registration link: https://momence.com/s/114684576

Join us for the Sunday Salon with Miranda Aisling and Heather Atwood at MAGMA in Gloucester. During this monthly salon series, attendees are invited to engage in thoughtful, enriching conversations with fellow creatives across Cape Ann. The aim is to create an inspiring, convivial space to foster creativity in our region.

Whether you’re a long-time practicing artist or enthusiastically art-adjacent, we welcome you to join in the conversation. We’ll break into small groups to encourage engaging discussions between attendees.

Spring Song Swap
2025-05-02 19:00 - 21:00 | MA
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Gloucester singer-songwriters Miranda Aisling, Charlee Bianchini, and Renee Dupuis are coming together at MAGMA to trade songs and stories and welcome Spring. Join them on Friday, May 2, 2025 at 7:00 pm.

Tickets are available on a sliding scale from $10 – 30 both online and at the door, ensuring everyone has access to this community event. All ticket holders receive equal entry, guests are encouraged to support as they are able.

MIRANDA AISLING

Miranda Aisling (ash-lean)’s mission is to reconnect art to daily life, a purpose you can see through her work as an interdisciplinary artist, community organizer, and creative entrepreneur. Using an art degree from Mary Baldwin University focusing on painting, pottery, and piano and an education degree from Lesley University focusing on community art, Miranda is a professional artist and community arts consultant. Her original folk songs blend frank vulnerability with insightful social commentary. A classically trained pianist who shifted from Bach to the Indigo Girls, she brings the lively spirit of a folk festival to her performances, engaging audiences with a mix of sung and spoken storytelling.

RENEE DUPUIS

Renée Dupuis is an active professional vocalist, songwriter, and private music teacher. With a degree in vocal performance from the University of Hartford’s Hartt School of Music, Renée enjoys a diverse career as a freelance musician, writing and performing with her acoustic duo Renee & Joe and as a part of What Time is it, Mr. Fox?. She is also a soloist with the Cape Ann Big Band. She is currently the choral director for Waring School.

CHARLEE BIANCHINI

There are three things that drive my life-momentum: art, music and travel. I could say that travel is the food, the nourishment of the former two passions. I travel with purpose, to see the endless ways that people live their lives, to find warmth and smiles in the poorest corners, to cultivate endless understanding and compassion so that I might be a better citizen in a world that is fast growing smaller. Art, in all its forms, is the processing of all the information I acquire on the road. Done for both my readers and myself, I hope that the wonder I find in my journeys does not affect me alone. Music is the voice of joy, concern, and empathy with which I am left.

Rock Show
2025-05-09 19:00 - 22:00 | MA
Yes Chef
Delons
The Whirled
Pledge Pins
7pm Doors, $10, All Ages
A fundraiser for Shoebones

Spring Re-Wilding Ecstatic Dance with EIR
2025-05-10 18:30 - 20:30 | MA
Dance freely in community with music artist EIR
This session we explore the theme of re-wilding and communing with the natural world through ecstatic dance and movement. If you feel inspired, come in clothing influenced by wild flora and fauna.
We have a very special guest, Megan Ghirardi of Sacred Spiral Bodywork, offering mini bodywork sessions before the opening circle. There will be a sign-up list at the front desk.
6:15pm >> doors open for stretching and bodywork
6:40pm >> opening circle
6:50 – 8:15pm >> ecstatic dance
8:15pm >> closing meditation
Suggested donation $25-35 BUY NOW
accompanied young people are welcome, pay an extra $10 at the door for kids over 10. Kids under 10 are free.

Sunday Salon
2025-05-11 18:00 - 20:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Sunday, May 11, 2025 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm
MAGMA, 11 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA
Suggested Donation: $5 – 10, online or at the door
Registration link: https://momence.com/s/116543702

Join us for the Sunday Salon with Miranda Aisling and Heather Atwood at MAGMA in Gloucester. During this monthly salon series, attendees are invited to engage in thoughtful, enriching conversations with fellow creatives across Cape Ann. The aim is to create an inspiring, convivial space to foster creativity in our region.

Whether you’re a long-time practicing artist or enthusiastically art-adjacent, we welcome you to join in the conversation. We’ll break into small groups to encourage engaging discussions between attendees.

Barn Dance
2025-05-30 19:30 - 21:00 | MA
Join us for a Barn Dance, featuring fun and easy to learn contra, square, and circle dances.
Caller: Rose Sheehan Musicians: George Clements and Nathaniel Diamond-Jones
No experience or partner necessary, just come and dance!
$10-20 suggested donation BUY NOW or at the door

Teen Pride Dance
2025-05-31 18:00 - 21:00 | MA
The LBGTeens of Cape Ann are hosting a FREE Teen Pride Dance on Saturday May 31st. The theme is masquerade – you can make a mask when you arrive!
With DJ Salomon
6:00-9:00pm

Family Yoga and Dance Party
2025-06-06 15:30 - 16:30 | MA
Family Yoga and Dance Party with Osha Rose
First Friday of every month
$15 per family
Register at her website: https://www.osharose.com/book-online

Time Travelers Ball
2025-06-07 19:30 - 22:30 | MA
Join us for a spectacular costume party, filled with live music, dance participation and performance, and fantastical ambiance. The Time Travelers Ball invites you to come costumed from any culture, time period 1920 or earlier. For example:
*Ancient Egypt or Greece simplicity
*Medieval swashbuckling swagger
*Regency Period elegance (like Bridgerton)
*Belle Epoque grandiosity
*1920s sass
​* Or from another dimension, and your wildest imagination
Fill up your dance card and crowd the dance floor for waltzes, country dances, and the Charleston all to live music – we will teach you how first! Dance performances showcasing dances from bygone eras will dot the evening. We’ll have delicious drinks (N/A and A) and desserts, all included in the price of entry.
TICKETS
7:30pm VIP entry: $90 – BUY NOW
(includes champagne toast, exclusive music performances)
8:00pm General Admission: $65 – BUY NOW
We are raising funds to help support MAGMA programs and performances, to pay artists fairly for performances, and to offer affordable spaces for dance making and dance education. If you would like to make a a tax-deductible donation for your ticket, or as a sponsor to this event or our programming, please see our donation information HERE.
Dance performers: Carey McKinley, Zoe Ulrich, Sophia Dunzelman, and Hannah Tupper
Music performers: Scott Moore, Erica Pisaturo, and guests
SPONSORS
We would like to thank our generous sponsors for this event
Nancy Steele
Andy & Rebecca Popell and The Cape Ann Guitar Society
KayeLynn Johnson-Shoucair
Anonymous

Summer Solstice Ecstatic Dance
2025-06-21 18:30 - 21:00 | MA
Summer Solstice Ecstatic Dance
with musical artist EIR
Doors open at 6:30pm
$25-35 sliding scale BUY NOW

Youth Summer Dance Week 1
2025-07-07 09:00 - 11:00 | MA
July 7-11 Summer Dance Week #1, Ages 3-6: Stomping and Stories
Monday through Thursday 9:00am-11:00am – A wonderful 4 days of dancing and imaginative play as children explore dance-making with fairytales and other stories, discovering how to convey character with movement and costume. Additional activities like art-making and games will supplement the week. $175 SIGN UP

GloArts Showcase
2025-07-10 17:30 - 18:30 | MA
Mark your calendar for the first ever GloArts Showcase!
Join us on Thursday, July 10 from 5:30-6:30 pm at the Meetinghouse Green, 10 Church Street Gloucester, during Gloucester’s fifth annual Culture Splash.
Learn about our vision for a multidisciplinary arts center in Gloucester with five cornerstone partners: @brassfed_nation @lanescoventheaterco @magmagloucester @alexandragracemusicstudio and @hearthartstudios
Enjoy free performances from our partners and learn how you can get involved to make this vision happen!
This event is funded by the Harbortown Cultural District and @masscultural.

Monstah Black residency
2025-07-15 18:00 - 20:00 | MA
MAGMA welcomes dancer, choreographer, musician Monstah Black to a mini artist residency to research new performance material for their project, the Illustrious Blacks.
As part of their MAGMA residency, Monstah will be offering “Beyond The Two Step” – an open-to-the-public workshop on Tuesday July 15 from 6:00-8:00pm.
SIGN UP $20
Workshop Description: Two Step: a ballroom dance in ²/₄ or ⁴/₄ time having a basic pattern of step-close-step. Globally the term two step is a comfortable and familiar place, recognized by diverse communities across the world. It’s familiar. It’s easy. It’s a reliable go to for those feeling less adventurous when moving to sound, or without sound.
As a comfort zone and place of recognition, Monstah Black creates ease by leading with the two step, as the root for exploring beyond its confines. Using key, simplified, prompts Monstah guides through a physical journey, inviting participants to release beyond their perceived limitations.

In this workshop Monstah introduces personal signifiers used when building material for The Illustrious Blacks live DJ sets. It’s a return to the popular phrase, tune in, turn on and drop out” to explore unfamiliar territories.

The goal: To inspire in others the ability to find one’s self moving freely, unapologetically, from a physically liberating space, from the dance floor to the living room or wherever you feel inspired to MOVE.

The Illustrious Blacks will perform at the Cut Live in Gloucester on Sunday July 13. BUY TIX
read about the Illustrious Blacks at their website
Also this recent interview: https://ultramaroon.club/features/a-conversation-with-the-illustrious-blacks
photo by Sylvain Guenot

Ecstatic Dance: Lion's Breath
2025-07-19 18:40 - 21:00 | MA
“Lion’s Breath: A Portal Ecstatic Dance”
with musical guest/DJ EIR
Join us at MAGMA for a mid-summer ecstatic dance journey into the fire of the heart. As we approach the Lion’s Gate Portal (8/8), this dance is a ceremonial space to activate your inner lioness/lion — radiant, wild, and sovereign. Move through the frequencies of courage, joy, sacred rage, and soul power. We’ll dance the golden spiral, the starseed pulse, the solar serpent rising. Come barefoot, bold, and ready to ROAR.

Saturday, 6:45-9:00pm
$25-35 sliding scale BUY TIX Join a beautiful dancing community, in a space made for movement. We will have tea, a lounge area, and a collaborative altar. Musician/DJ Eir will ignite the evening with sounds ranging from etheric downtempo to world beats and house and everything in between. Be swept up into a world of inspiration for a season of magic to rejuvenate your body, mind and soul. Come dressed to move, whether that’s in your most comfortable clothing, or festive-wear. (Indoor) Flow toys for movement are welcome. Optional: your own cup for drinking tea, something to place upon the altar.
Dance Schedule:
≫ 6:45PM – GATHER & STRETCH
≫ 7:00PM – OPENING CIRCLE
≫ 7:15 PM – ECSTATIC DANCE
≫ 8:45PM – CLOSING MEDITATION
≫ 9:00 PM – END
This is an all ages event. Parents are welcome to bring children, though please stay with them throughout the dance. Ages 12 and under are free. Ages 13+ are $10 donation at the door.

Yoga for Janet
2025-07-20 13:30 - 15:00 | MA
Yoga for Janet. Yoga for you.
Join us for a yoga class that will honor Janet Green Garrison and connect us as a community. Class will be 1:30-2:45pm
We’ll be in-person at Magma, 11 Pleasant St, Gloucester, MA 01930 or online via Zoom: Click here to Join on Zoom
Bring your yoga mat and any props to make yourself comfortable. Please plan to arrive between 1:00-1:20 so that you can greet your fellow yogis, soak up the altar and settle in. There is a lot of space, and yet it is still limited, so please REGISTER (click HERE) so we can try to accommodate everyone.
We look forward to being with you in this tender time,
Bo Abrams and Carol James

Youth Summer Dance Week #2
2025-07-21 09:00 - 12:00 | MA
Dance Around the World
Monday July 21 – Thursday July 24, 9:00am-12:00pm
Ages 4-10
Dance around the World is for ages 4-10, and meets Monday through Thursday from 9am to 12pm. Get your passport ready and travel with us… through dance! Learn about Spanish Flamenco, West African dance, Brazilian Capoeira, Hawaiian Hula, and more.
$220 – BUY NOW

Laila Franklin Residency
2025-07-26 - 2025-07-27 | MA
Laila J. Franklin is a multidisciplinary dance artist based in Massachusett and Pawtucket land | Boston, Massachusetts. She is interested in meta-commentary, deconstruction, and bits, approaching themes surrounding the human experience with nuance, curiosity, physical rigor, and humor. Her work extends from lineages of traditional and experimental Black, queer dance makers, with a particular interest in the collision of postmodernist creation frameworks and story ballet. LEARN MORE
Laila and company will be in residence at MAGMA working on the piece BabyBabyBaby. A public showing on the work will happen on July 27th at 6pm. The showing is free, but donations are welcome.
Company dance classes will also be open to the public. Both classes will be Intermediate/Advanced Level.
Saturday 11am with Michael Figueroa (pay instructor directly, $20 suggested)
Sunday 10am with Sasha Peterson (pay instructor directly, $20 suggested)
photo by Cameron Kincheloe

Sunday Salon
2025-08-03 18:00 - 20:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Sunday, August 3, 2025 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm
MAGMA, 11 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA
Suggested Donation: $5 online or at the door
Registration link: https://momence.com/MAGMA/Sunday-Salon/117548729

Join us for the Sunday Salon with Miranda Aisling and Heather Atwood at MAGMA in Gloucester. During this monthly salon series, attendees are invited to engage in thoughtful, enriching conversations with fellow creatives across Cape Ann. The aim is to create an inspiring, convivial space to foster creativity in our region. Whether you’re a long-time practicing artist or enthusiastically art-adjacent, we welcome you to join in the conversation.

Susan Erony and Nubar Alexanian will present their visual work. Jay Jaroslav will be our presenting writer.

*If it’s just too hot, we will postpone until September.

Duncan Dance Workshop Series
2025-08-07 18:00 - 19:00 | MA
The choreographic études of Isadora Duncan explore, through the action/rest continuum, the dynamic relationship between affiliation and solitude. Celebrating nature’s unity and rhythm, these dances, remembering ancient rituals and archetypes, are simultaneously earthly and divine. The indomitable human spirit, ever hopeful is present in this choreography and in all true healing. Isadora Duncan’s goal for the “the highest intelligence in the freest body”: that every living child might have available to them, the birthright of beauty, strength, and freedom.”
$20, Summer Workshop 4-pack for $70 (good for Body-Voice-Rhythm, Duncan Dance, and Contact Improvisation) SIGN UP
Thursdays 6-7pm
July 17 – Beauty
July 24 – Freedom
July 31 – Beauty
August 7 – Nurturing

Isadora Duncan, the Mother of Modern Dance (1887-1927) sought movements that were expressive of the spirit. In the first decades of the 20th century, she won international acclaim, commanding attention from artists, scholars, and intellectuals on her tours through major cities of Europe, Russia, and the United states. Rejecting the toe shoes, courses, and gender stereotypes of ballet, she sought to clear the way for a dance of the future, one which would be not a diversion but a religion, an expression of life sounds life”.

Youth workshop - Ballet Boost
2025-08-11 11:00 - 13:00 | MA
Ballet Boost is for youth ages 6-13, a mini Ballet intensive to inspire your child in the art of ballet. Learn fun, challenging steps, work on strength and range of motion, and get into storytelling through dance by learning dances from the classic story ballets. Ideal for Beginner to Intermediate students. Meets Monday through Thursday 11am-1pm
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Body-Voice-Rhythm
2025-08-21 17:00 - 18:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Body-Voice-Rhythm!
July 10, 17, and all Thursdays in August 5-6pm
$20 per class, Summer Workshop 4-pack for $70 (good for Body-Voice-Rhythm, Duncan Dance, and Contact Improvisation) SIGN UP
An interactive and energetic romp of movement, body percussion and voice, exploring rhythm and a little bit of pitch. A music class through movement! A dance class through music! Open to all levels of experience.
Dawn Pratson is a dancer-choreographer, flutist and singer, with a background in creative arts in therapy. Since the late 1990’s she has been learning and teaching in the international Dalcroze Eurhythmics community. She has many years of teaching experience, from early childhood through older adults. More at dawnpratson.com

Beginner Contact Improvisation Series
2025-08-21 19:00 - 20:15 | MA
Today is the final class in our series! Explore the basics of weight sharing, points of contact, spiraling and more. All experience levels are welcome! Led by Sarah Slifer Swift.
$20 for a single class, or buy a Summer Workshop 4-pack for $70 (good for Body-Voice-Rhythm, Duncan Dance, and Contact Improvisation)
SIGN UP

Folk Week 2025: Ezekiel’s Wheels Klezmer Band
2025-08-27 19:30 - 21:30 | MA
Folk Week 2025
The Cape Ann Guitar Society is excited to announce four nights of music where we showcase some of our area’s most unique musical voices in a variety of special venues on Cape Ann. Our diversity is our strength – get to know the folk music of the Puerto Rican countryside, Jewish celebrations, the Emerald Isle, Cape Ann maritime tradition, and modern Americana.

Opening Night:
Ezekiel’s Wheels Klezmer Band
Wednesday, August 27th, 7:30 pm at MAGMA
Tickets: $15
https://www.capeannguitarsociety.org/folk-week-2025

Boston based internationally-acclaimed Ezekiel’s Wheels Klezmer Band brings passion, virtuosity, and contagious energy to every performance. The Wheels improvise with the intimacy of chamber music and the intensity of a rowdy dance band. Klezmer is a Hebrew word, a combination of the words “kley” (vessel) and “zemer” (melody) that referred to musical instruments in ancient times. It became colloquially attached to Jewish folk musicians sometime in the Middle Ages. Working under various restrictions in different centuries and cultures, Jewish musicians (klezmorim) developed their own unique style out of a variety of local musical styles. Figuring most prominently are Ottoman Turkish modes and Balkan gypsy and clarinet stylings. While “klezmer” referred originally only to instrumental music played by clarinets, violins, basses and tsimbaloms (hammer dulcimers), it has come to mean Yiddish vocal music as well, encompassing both folk songs and music from the Yiddish theater, which thrived in the early 20th century in both Warsaw and New York.
