Drawn to Life: Embodied Practice Through Movement and Mark Making
2025-12-13 15:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York)
Drawn to Life: Embodied Practice Through Movement and Mark Making

An exploration and celebration of movement through the mediums of drawing and dance. Participants will be guided through exercises designed to enhance expression and depiction of movement through pose exploration and simple drawing exercises.

Appropriate for movers, artists, and humans of all backgrounds; no technical training required.

Facilitated by Jeremy Frias, $10-20 suggested donation. SIGN UP NOW or at the door

Please feel free to email jeremyfrias@gmail.com with any questions and/or accommodation requests.

Concert: Love Blast
2025-12-21 17:00 - 19:00
Join the group Love Blast with Greta Bro on vocals, Mitchell Kossak on piano, Fud on bass, Ricardo Frota on violin and percussion, and Nicholas Suchecki on Sax for a Solstice Celebration and Holiday Concert, Sunday, December 21, 5-7pm.
Love Blast is a collective a musicians from the Boston region who seek to uplift people and help transform culture and consciousness through their soulful explorations of music. Their concerts blend vocal and instrumental improvisation with popular and original compositions that draw on Soul, jazz fusion and world music.
Let’s welcome the return of light with dancing, celebration and a blast of love! There will be plenty of seats and also plenty of room for dancing!
Tickets Sliding scale $15-30 BUY NOW

Ecstatic Dance - Transformations
2025-12-30 19:00 - 21:00
Join us for a symbolic, intentional journey of transformation through dance, reflection, costume, and play. As we near the new year, we give ourselves the space to reflect on what we can let go of, what we want to celebrate, and what we want to manifest in the future. We transform energy and experience within us to grow the seeds of our own becoming.
The evening starts with an opening circle, followed by Authentic Movement, and then opens up into Ecstatic Dance. Costumes help us embody the spirit of transformation, letting us shift our energy through the night. We will finish with a closing circle.
There will be a place for stretching, journaling, tarot.
Cost $10-20 suggested donation BUY NOW
SCHEDULE:
6:45pm doors open
7pm opening circle
7:10-7:20 Authentic Movement
7:20-8:50 Ecstatic Dance
8:50 Closing Circle/Meditation
9pm end

Feel Good for the New Year
2025-12-31 14:00 - 16:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
with Holly Randall and Sarah Slifer Swift
2-3pm meditation, discussion and face moisturizing/face yoga facilitated by Holly
3-4pm somatic shake facilitated by Sarah
$10-20 suggested donation SIGN UP HERE or at the door
Holly Randall is a Doctor of Nursing, a Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist, and Yoga practitioner.
Sarah Swift is a mindful movement facilitator and the Director of MAGMA.

New Year's Day Contact Improvisation Jam
2026-01-01 14:00 - 16:00
We starting out our New Year with one of our favorite practices, contact improvisation! The first half hour is a warm-up and skills practice, and then an open improvisation. All levels are welcome!
$10-20 sliding scale

Hip Hop series begins
2026-01-03 13:00 - 15:00
MAGMA is thrilled to welcome guest teacher Miranda Lawson for a 6-week Hip Hop dance class series. Classes will dive into the foundations of Hip Hop with a focus on musicality, rhythm, and groove. Dancers will explore both choreography and freestyle, honoring Hip Hop’s roots as an improvisational and expressive practice. Expect to sweat, play, and connect through movement and music.
Drop-in $18 / 6-week series $85
1:00-1:45pm Youth class, ages 5-13 SIGN UP
2:00-3:00pm Teen/Adult class, ages 14+ SIGN UP
Miranda Lawson (she/her) is a Boston-based performer, choreographer, and educator whose work lives at the meeting point of contemporary and Hip Hop dance forms. She is fascinated by how these styles challenge and influence one another. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College with a BA in Dance and Psychology, Miranda’s teaching is rooted in curiosity, authenticity, and community-building. Her classes emphasize exploration and connection, inviting dancers to take risks, celebrate their individuality, and stay open to a little goofiness along the way. She currently performs with Urbanity Dance and Phunk Phenomenon, while continuing to create and share her own choreographic work, which has been presented at the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, the Multicultural Arts Center, Tufts University, and the American College Dance Association Conference. Miranda’s practice has been shaped by mentorship through MIDDAY Movement’s BIPOC Professional Dancer Mentorship program (2022–23), her Urbanity X residency (2022), and recognition from the Mass Cultural Council’s Pandemic Relief Grant and the Somerville Artists Fellowship (2023).

Rainbowdance at MAGMA
2026-01-15 09:30 - 22:30
Children enter the classroom with diverse upbringings, but they all face the same challenge: moving from the safety of home into the greater world. Through the consistent, harmonious activities of Rainbowdance®, we support the development of resilient, happy children. Through music, movement, and storytelling, Rainbowdance® provides a symbolic journey into the world of Nature and relationship, encouraging the growth of an empowered and self-nurturing child.
Join us for a 4-session series January 15 – February 5, Thursdays 9:30-10:30am, for children ages 1.5 to 5 with their caregiver.
$70 for the 4-session series. BUY NOW Reduced fee scholarships available, please inquire. Successive sessions may be added.
“The children are learning self soothing strategies; we have caught them singing the songs to themselves when alone in book area or working in the art area.” – Karen Vogel, Director of Bright Horizons, Harborview
Classes led by Dicki Macy
Dicki Johnson Macy, Ph.D., LMHC, BC-DMT
Dicki J. Macy is the cofounder of the Boston Children’s Foundation, and the Founder and Director of Rainbowdance, an evidence-based early intervention program of the Boston Children’s Foundation. Dicki remains a tireless and dedicated pioneer in the field of trauma focused stabilization and resiliency programs for young children and their communities exposed to traumatic events including large-scale disasters, terrorist events, and political, community, armed conflict violence and transgenerational impoverishment. During the last 25 years, Dicki designed, and now implements and evaluates early intervention traumatic stress reduction and resiliency building programs in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa.

Burns Night Ceilidh
2026-01-25 16:30 - 18:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Burn’s Night Ceilidh
Sunday January 25, 4:30pm
$25 adults, $10 kids
with musicians Michael O’Leary, Susie Petrov, and Stephen Thomforde
Burn’s Night is a tradition in Scotland (and beyond) to celebrate Scottish poet Robert Burns in verse and song… and we add a generous helping of dance! The room will come alive with wonderfully fun country dances, excellent musicians, and traditional refreshments, for a wonderful night steeped in Scottish culture, for all to enjoy.
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