MAGMA

Sunday Salon
2025-02-16 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Sunday, February 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/111803683

Join us for the second 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. After a first round of introductions with thirty local creatives in January 2025, this month we’ll dive into small groups to encourage direct discussions between attendees.

Postponed: Jeannette Neill Jazz Masterclass
2025-02-09 14:00 - 16:00
DUE TO THE UPCOMING WINTER STORM WE WILL NOT HOLD JEANNETTE’S MASTERCLASS THIS SUNDAY! Stay tuned for a new date.
SUPERBOLD: A Jazz Masterclass with Jeannette Neill
Jeannette will be offering a two hour master class, with her famous warm-up followed by across the floor and choreography. The class is Intermediate level.
Cost: $25
Jeannette founded and was the Artistic Director of the Jeannette Neill Dance Studio. For almost 40 years, her studio was a supportive and encouraging training ground for aspiring and recreational dancers. Jeannette was also Co-Founder and Executive Director of Boston Youth Moves, a pre-professional teen dance program. Jeannette has been on faculty of many well-known dance institutions including: The Jeannette Neill Dance Studio, Boston Youth Moves, Powered By Dance Summer Programs, Boston Conservatory, Walnut Hill School of Performing Arts, Harvard University, Boston University, Emerson College; Boston Ballet Summer Dance program and Broadway Dance Center in New York City. Her national and international master classes and workshops have taken her to Palermo Italy, Goteborg Sweden, Tokyo Japan, and Monterrey Mexico.

Midwinter Waltz
2025-02-08 18:00 - 20:30
Midwinter Waltz

Waltz the night away with the first edition of what will be a regular occurrence at MAGMA – a folk waltz night! This is not the formal, ballroom-style waltz. This is the easy going, easy to learn, and very fun to do folk waltz – with fabulous live music from Erica Pisaturo and Joey Thieman. If you’ve never waltzed before, or would like to brush up, join for a lesson at 6:00 pm, otherwise come to enjoy the dancing and the music starting at 6:30 pm.
6:00 pm – Lesson with Miranda Aisling & Ed Dahlmer
6:30-8:30pm Waltz Dance Social with music from Erica Pisaturo and Joey Thieman
All are welcome, no dancing experience necessary
Tickets $10-30 sliding scale, available online HERE, 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.

JOEY THIEMAN
Joey Thieman is a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter based in Boston, MA. His forthcoming album “Letters, Words, Sentences, Songs” is a culmination of his years of experience exploring and performing in different musical genres, artfully weaving together influences from folk, jazz, and rock for an original take on the age-old story of love and loss.

Groundhog Day Song Swap
2025-02-02 18:30 - 20:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
This Groundhog Day, four Gloucester singer-songwriters are coming together at MAGMA to trade songs and stories while looking for shadows. Join them on Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 6:30 pm and see whether their songs will welcome spring or another six weeks of winter.

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.

Tickets at: https://momence.com/s/111146632

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.

3RIAN KING

3rian King is a singer-songwriter, playwright, and performer from the seaport city of Gloucester, MA. Whoopi Goldberg once described King’s voice as the last sound she wanted to hear before bed to ensure she had beautiful dreams. With neo-cabaret band What Time Is It, Mr. Fox? 3rian has released numerous albums and performed throughout the US at notable venues like Club Passim and the ART in Boston; The Duplex, Dixon Place, The Stonewall, Joe’s Pub, and Irving Plaza in NYC. Their circus show about queer archetypes and stereotypes, Gravitational Fool, premiered in the Afterglow Festival in Provincetown.

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.

JOE WILKINS

Joe Wilkins is a Cape Ann based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Known locally for his Bluegrass guitar and mandolin skills, Joe is also a musical storyteller, crafting songs about real life, real people, and situations we can all relate to, as well as places we’ve all been. His lyrics are universally accessible, and draw the listener in with skillfully interwoven imagery and narrative—sometimes joyful, sometimes sorrowful, but always contemplative. Joe’s songs blend Americana roots music with a modern folk, and at times even pop, sensibility.

Recent releases include the songs Oklahoma, and Slow Burn, both available to stream on most platforms, or available for download from Bandcamp at: https://joewilkinsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/slow-burn

An evening with Myles Kercher and Guests
2025-01-25 19:00 - 21:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Dance Performance, fundraiser, and dance party
Saturday January 25, 7pm, $12
Join us for this very special event showcasing the work of dancer-choreographer Myles Kercher. See two original choreographies – the powerful solo “face” and a brand new duet – in a performance and fundraiser event, as he raises money to help fund his training opportunities overseas.
After the performance will be refreshments and dancing
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Painted Dreams
2025-01-18 18:00 - 20:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Painted Dreams: an immersive film, music, & art party
SAT JAN 18 | 6pm
SNOW DATE: SUN JAN 19 | 6pm
at MAGMA
11 Pleasant Street
Gloucester, MA
folk electric co-creators Scott Moore & Erica Pisaturo play some live music, then share their one-hour album-in-progress along with experimental film accompaniment. They are joined by artists Matthew Billey & Loren Doucette, who will paint live, translating music to canvas.
Tickets $25: BUY NOW

Sunday Salon
2025-01-12 18:00 - 20:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
A Sunday Salon with Heather Atwood and Miranda Aisling
Sunday, January 12, 2025 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm, MAGMA, 11 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA 01930
Registration requested. Suggested donation: $5-10.

Calling Cape Ann Creatives! Start the new year with a Sunday Salon at MAGMA on Sunday, January 12, 2025 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm. This informal gathering will be hosted by Cape Ann artists and organizers Heather Atwood and Miranda Aisling. Attendees are invited to bring a project they’re working on, an idea they’re thinking through, or just a desire to engage in thoughtful, creative conversations. The aim is to create an inspiring, convivial space to foster creativity in Cape Ann. Feel free to reach out with questions, ideas, or suggestions as we develop this new event series!

Elemental Ecstatic Dance
2025-01-04 19:15 - 21:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Is now the time to relinquish what is holding you back in life and step into your potency and life with a fresh perspective?
Elemental Ecstatic Dance is an invitation to surrender into thedance, embrace the cycles of life, and connect with the elements and directions. Creating a space where your dance becomes a celebration of
the diverse and vibrant energies within and around you. Let us create a
space for grace and deep surrender through our movement in community.
Let us be reminded of what we came here to be a part of and find that
place inside of us that is ready to be free, wild and then at peace.
Opening with calling in directions and elementals, followed by
accompaniment on drums and didgeridoo throughout the evening to live
Dj Mixes with DJ CJ Fee
7:15-7:30pm Arrival
7:30pm Opening circle and calling in directions
7:30-9:15pm Dance with minimal facilitation
9:15-9:30pm Closing and sharing circle
TIX $25-35 n.o.t.f.l.o.f. BUY NOW
Children 15 and under are welcome with supervision, please donate $10 per child at the door
Learn More about DJ CJ Fee: www.charityjoymovement.com

New Year's Day Class and Sip
2025-01-01 11:30 - 13:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Get a little New Year’s Day joy and sweat with the Class and Sip! An All-Level’s Ballet class followed by a new year’s toast with complimentary sparkling wine or cider. For adults and teens 15+
Not recommended for absolute beginners.
$21 SIGN UP NOW

New Years Eve Sound and Movement Celebration
2024-12-31 17:00 - 20:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Join us for a special evening of bodymind practices to flow with positivity into the new year! $25 suggested donation for the whole experience. People may also drop in for specific parts of the event.
5-5:30pm SING intuitive vocal explorations
5:30-6:30pm Authentic Movement
6:30-6:45pm tea break
6:45-7:55pm FLOW move and dance! tarot station, community artmaking projects
7:55-8:00pm Closing Circle
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Underground Music Show
2024-12-21 19:00 - 22:00
Ethan WL – solo fingerstyle guitar
Eleanora – an experimental harpist
Ollie Becker – solo guitarist and frontperson of the highly acclaimed band Rong.
$15, doors 6:30pm

Rock Show
2024-12-14 19:30 - 22:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Lupo Citta
Horsehands
Maybe Laters
Thought Partner
$10 at the Door, All Ages, Doors 7:30

Nut/Cracked Rep Class
2024-12-12 17:45 - 19:15 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
The Bang Group’s version of The Nutcracker is part holiday tradition, part laugh-out-loud comedy, and totally unforgettable dance! Mashing jazz, tap, disco, ballet, hip hop and comedy, you are bound to have a blast watching or dancing it! We’ll do a 30 minute barre to the soundtrack, and learn Mirlitons and Slavic Disco choreography.
Classes meet Thursdays 12/12 and 12/19, 5:45-7:15pm. $18 per class
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Taught by Carey McKinley
Carey performed with The Bang Group in 2008. In 2015, she returned to the stage with 12 of her students dancing alongside the company. Carey performed and taught 5 sections of this brilliant and accessible choreography.

Street Jazz Workshop
2024-12-10 19:15 - 20:15 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Street jazz with Shaela Carpinito
An accessible, all-levels warm-up followed by sassy, fun choreo with a little challenge for speed and style.
Tuesdays 12/10 and 12/17
7:15-8:15pm
$20 per class SIGN UP

Swing Dance Workshop
2024-12-08 17:00 - 19:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Lindy Hop with Maria Kakolowski

Please join us Sunday December 8 for a Lindy Hop Swing Dance Social from 5-7pm. We’ll work on Lindy steps and stylings, with a lesson from 5-6:30pm, and then the last half hour will be for chatting and more dancing, social dance style. Please feel free to bring something to sip on. We will provide some nibbles.

Sunday December 8, 5-7pm
$25 per person – SIGN UP NOW
All levels welcome
No partner required!

BYOB

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.

Ideokinesis Workshop
2024-12-07 14:00 - 16:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
The Thinking Body Returns!
with Kate Tarlow Morgan
“Movement resides in thinking…. Andre Bernard, 1982
The practice of Ideokinesis has been in development for many decades! Author of The Thinking Body (1937), Mabel Ellsworth Todd, called it Natural Posture (1923), but she began her studies in 1906. 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. Through imagery, movement, and touch, ideokinesis opens the door for somato-emotional change, releasing holding patterns and relieving pain. At its best, Ideokinesis invites a clear and simple engagement with the body, through feeling, perceiving and action.
No experience necessary. For further information: katetarlowmorgan@gmail.com

Street Jazz Workshops
2024-12-03 19:15 - 20:15 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Street Jazz
with Shaela Carpinito
A Tuesday Trio mini workshop series: Street Jazz blends the groove of Hip-Hop with the expressive flow of Jazz. Expect high-energy choreography that combines sharp movements with smooth transitions, musicality, and personal style. Classes meet 12/3, 12/10, and 12/17, cost is $50 for all three classes.
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About Shaela
Shaela’s dance journey began in childhood, evolving into a lifelong passion for movement. She has trained extensively in Ballet, Pointe, Tap, Jazz, Modern, Hip-Hop, and Contemporary. While living in Boston for 10 years, Shaela worked with prominent dance companies like DanceWorks Boston and Phunk Phenomenon, performing and choreographing for professional and semi- professional groups. Her talent has led her to opportunities such as NBA halftime shows, competing in global and national competitions including World of Dance, and even appearances in films. With additional training and performances in both Boston and New York City, Shaela’s style fuses the elegance of Contemporary with the rhythm of Hip-Hop. Her classes focus on technique, flow, and creativity, offering dancers of all levels an opportunity to express themselves and grow.

Ecstatic Dance with EIR
2024-11-30 18:30 - 20:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Ecstatic Dance featuring musical artist EIR
Saturday November 30, 6:30-8:30pm
$25-35 sliding scale BUY NOW
Dance freely with us to welcome the coming season of Yule at Movement Arts Gloucester with special guest musical artist and dj, Eir. Join a beautiful dancing community, in a space made for movement. We will have tea, a lounge area, and a collaborative altar. 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:
≫ 6:30PM – GATHER & STRETCH
≫ 6:45PM – OPENING CIRCLE
≫ 7 PM – ECSTATIC DANCE
≫ 8:25PM – CLOSING MEDITATION
≫ 8:30 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.

Skanksgiving
2024-11-23 18:30 - 22:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Ska Music from 2-1 and the Slakademics!
Doors 6:30, Music at 7pm
Food by Crepe Du Jour, Drinks from Hidden Path
$10 in advance BUY , $15 at the door
ALL AGES

SING
2024-11-15 18:15 - 19:30
SING is an improvisational singing hang-out led by Lisa Bouchie. Play with toning, structured improvisations, chants and rounds and songs. All experience levels welcome.
SING meets the third Friday of each month from 6:15-7:30pm
$10-15 suggested donation.

Musical Theater Workshop
2024-11-12 19:15 - 20:15 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Musical Theater with Carey McKinley
November 12 & 19, 7:15-8:15pm

Dance and sing to Bob Fosse’s choreographic debut, “Steam Heat” from 1954 The Pajama Game with hats ( provided). Labor union spoof.
Then slap and sing your way through Tommy Tune’s “Our Favorite Son” from 1991 Will Rogers Follies more hats and chairs! Presidential election spoof.

$20 per workshop SIGN UP Open to adults and teens!

UP NEXT in TUESDAY TRIO WORKSHOPS: Street Jazz with Shaela Carpinito, December 3, 10, & 17 SIGN UP

Musical Theater Dance Workshops
2024-11-05 19:15 - 20:15 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Musical Theater Dance
with Carey McKinley
November 5, 12 & 19, 7:15-8:15pm
A Tuesday Trio mini workshop series: Don a hat and some sass and learn FUN choreography from The Pajama Game and Will Rogers Follies. Open to all experience levels.
$50 for all 3 classes BUY NOW

The Veil is Thin - a Samhain Ecstatic Dance
2024-10-26 19:30 - 21:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
The Veil is Thin – a Samhain Ecstatic Dance
Live music by Klokwize, and opening guidance by Sarah Slifer Swift.
Join us for an evening of moving meditation into ecstatic dance celebrating Samhain. It is a time of reflection on transition, of death and rebirth. This dance is an invitation to move in this space with curiosity, mystery, and respect. Ages 16+ welcome
$25 suggested donation, notaflof BUY NOW
SCHEDULE
7:30-7:45 arrival, stretching
7:45-8pm opening circle and guided movement
8-9:15 ecstatic dance
9:15-9:30 guided meditation and closing circle

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.

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

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

Dance Performance: Sarah Rose, Holly Stone & J.Michael Winward
2024-09-21 19:30 - 21:00
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

SING
2024-09-20 18:15 - 19:30
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

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

Ideokinesis Workshop
2024-08-28 17:30 - 19:00
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
