MAGMA

MAGMA 2.0 soiree
2022-04-09 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Info + Fundraising Soiree at MAGMA
In support of MAGMA 2.0 – Expansion, Renovation, and Vision
Saturday April 9nd 5:30-6:30pm
MAGMA expansion project
GOAL: To increase facilities space and create better functionality of MAGMA for performances, residencies, and classes.
HOW: Build out a 2nd studio and 2nd bathroom. Upgrade room acoustics with sound engineer-informed improvements. Possible additional upgrades include a 3rd studio, a 3rd bathroom, and cosmetic improvements to the entry hall and rear entry.
ESTIMATED COST: $20,000-80,000
March 2022, Call for Donors
Dear members of the community,
MAGMA is embarking on an exciting expansion of its facility to better accommodate performances, residencies, and classes. Our current studio boasts a 50 x 50 historic ballroom at the top of the Brown Building in downtown Gloucester MA. There are adjacent rooms, currently empty, we plan to develop into a second studio space, and additional bathroom/dressing room facilities.
Since our opening in 2017, MAGMA has become a cornerstone of cultural activities on Cape Ann. We have hosted dozens of performances of Theater, Dance, and Music including such highlights as Cape Ann Symphony Unleashed, Jackie O’Riley Irish Dance Company, Betsy Miller Dance Works, North Atlantic Dance Theater, What Time is it Mr. Fox with Seaside Circus, Sarah Hickler Action Theater, and many more. We have hosted summer residencies with acclaimed dance companies Boston Dance Theater, Little House Dance, and VLA Dance. We have hosted community events like the Gloucester Community Council member event, Cape Ann Climate Coalition meetings, youth music events, and more. And of course we offer dance, martial arts, and other movement practice classes to children and adults, including lower income families through our privately funded Scholarship Fund.
As we ready ourselves to reemerge from the pandemic, we are working to improve our functionality as a public gathering space.
The second studio space will be a great additional studio for our afternoon children’s offerings, especially for our younger aged students who can get overwhelmed in the big studio. This small studio will also serve as a backstage/warm-up room for performers during performance events. With increased business comes increased facilities needs, namely bathroom and dressing-room space. This is where the big costs are coming in, and where there is not immediate “pay-back” in the sense that they are not monetized spaces for the studio.
MAGMA has strived to be an artist-friendly environment, working within the limitations of our operating-costs to bring artists affordable places to rehearse, perform, and host workshops. We are dedicated to being a community center for high-quality, forward thinking performing arts, movement practices, and cultural meet-ups.
We hope you will join us in our quest to be an even better spot for the Cape Ann cultural community.
MAGMA is partnering with a non-profit fiscal sponsor, Boston Dance Alliance, to make the possibility of tax-deductible donations! We are grateful for their support of our organization. DONATE 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.
Come hear about MAGMA’s plans in person on April 9th, 5:30pm! We’ll be serving wine and other refreshments, offering a slideshow presentation, and showing the spaces to be developed in this one hour soiree.
Praise for MAGMA
“MAGMA has given me the opportunity to realize my dance career directly out of college. They have supported me via professional development, teaching adults and children across different dance styles. Sarah carries out the mission of MAGMA with real action being receptive to the ideas of the community and welcomes everyone regardless of experience to learn about movement as an art form. She truly wants as many people involved. Being a part of Magma has also facilitated countless connections with people that otherwise I would not have made. I am continuously learning new things, creating artistic connections, taking on important roles/responsibility while also making a name for myself. This is genuinely the first community in my own home town that I’ve truly felt a part of.” -Jillian Chavez-Oliveira, Gloucester resident

“Cape Ann is incredibly fortunate to count MAGMA as a leading member of its thriving arts community. Director, teacher, choreographer, dancer, and impresario, Sarah Slifer Swift, nurtures and supports everyone who studies and performs at her gorgeous studio. MAGMA is not just where I go to dance; it’s also where I go to learn, grow, meet interesting people, laugh, and find strength and support. It just doesn’t get any better than that!” –June Wulff, Rockport resident

“I cannot say enough about how grateful I am to have MAGMA’s existence in the North Shore! Since joining the MAGMA community in 2019, I have seen a tremendous impact on my own life and wellbeing. The joy, self-expression, connection and liberation I experience when I attend a MAGMA class is truly priceless and I am forever grateful to Sarah for holding such a compassionate, invitational, inquisitive and non judgmental space for humans of all kinds to move and dance together. Each time I leave MAGMA, I do so with a full heart and with renewed energy. I am hopeful that this beautiful community will only continue to grow and expand.” Anna Kharaz, Salem resident

“I am so grateful to MAGMA for providing me with multiple opportunities to attend high-quality professional dance classes without traveling to the city. It was the perfect venue to premiere my own performance, and I always look forward to attending the wide array of shows, masterclasses, and residencies. MAGMA fosters community and collaboration within a warm, safe, and welcoming environment. It is a rare gem on the North Shore with a place for everyone!” Ann-Marie Ciaraldi, Beverly resident

Gaia Gala
2022-04-22 19:00 - 21:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Celebrate Earth Day with a night of immersive dance and eco art!
Creative cocktail attire encouraged.
Botanical Design experience and silent auction. Free admission.

A Tocar
2022-04-30 12:30 - 13:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
New 6 week series, starting Saturday April 30

A Tocar, con Sandy Perez!
Saturdays 12:30-1:30pm, $75 for 6 weeks or $15 drop-in. Drums provided, or bring your own.

Sandy is a master percussionist from the heart of the Afro-Cuban traditions of Matanzas, Cuba who began playing before he can remember. He learned by practice with his family, playing for parties, ceremonies and events, as music plays an indispensable role in Afro-Cuban culture. He has traveled the world teaching and performing both individually and with Grupo Afrocuba de Matanzas.
Ready to bring these beautiful traditions to MAGMA, Sandy will guide the group to begin feeling the beautiful textures of Rumba, Bembé and other folkloric genres. He will also talk about their cultural context, and teach some basic songs, stories and dance movements. All ages welcome!

MELT Workshop
2022-04-30 14:00 - 15:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
MELT Method, Introductory Workshop
Saturday April 30th from 2:00-3:30pm, $25
Reduce Pain in your Body, Improve your Performance, Be Active for a Lifetime
The MELT Method is a simple self-treatment technique that taps into your Neuro-Fascial System using small soft balls and rollers to help your body heal. It’s gentle, feels good & works! Workshops are led by Caroline Fitzpatrick Founder of Straitsmouth Light Health, MELT Method Practitioner & Functional Movement Coach
To Register: carolinefitzpatrick@comcast.net or 978-852-3209

Why Language Matters
2022-05-22 16:00 - 17:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Join us for a Community Conversation exploring Gloucester 400+ and its mission of promoting cultural, social, ethnic and economic diversity. The Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Committee for the Gloucester 400+ will share their framework at this community gathering, specifically focusing on language use as we talk about history, and our future, and why it matters. This presentation will be followed by a conversation facilitated by Gloucester Conversations to surface experiences, ideas, and insights that will contribute to a felt sense of equity among all the people who have been part of land and community of Gloucester. The Community Conversation will be held at MAGMA from 4:00 to 5:30 on Sunday May 22. This event is free but space is limited. Please register in advance.
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Alison Cook Beatty Dance
2022-06-03 19:30 - 20:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
An evening with Alison Cook Beatty Dance
Friday June 3rd, 7:30pm $20 BUY TICKETS
Join us for an intimate evening with NYC-based ACBDance as they share 5 works, some excerpted, from their current repertoire. Don’t miss this opportunity to catch this dynamic dance group!
Dancers
GENARO FREIRE MADELINE KUHLKE MADELAINE BURNETT IOANNA IOANNIDES KAYSHA SMITH JACOB BLANK
Artistic Director and Choreographer
ALISON COOK-BEATTY
Company Lighting Designer
TONY MARQUES
About Alison Cook-Beatty and Alison Cook Beatty Dance
Alison Cook-Beatty attended the Boston Conservatory of Music at Berklee where she earned a BFA in Dance with high honors and was the selected recipient of the Ruth Sandholm Ambrose Scholarship Award and the Jan Veen Scholarship. She moved to New York City and danced with the Paul Taylor Dance Company and Taylor 2, among other dance companies. In 2012, Ms. Cook-Beatty founded ALISON COOK BEATTY DANCE, a classically based modern dance company, based in New York City, whose mission is to create and share accessible and emotionally engaging dance for all. She has been commissioned by companies including Ballet Next, Carolina Ballet Theatre, The Joffrey Ballet School, The Boston Conservatory of Music at Berklee, Steffi Nossen School of Dance, Columbia Ballet Collaborative, New York University, and Marymount Manhattan College. She was awarded the 2013 sjDANCEco Award for Artistic Merit. Under her direction, the Company has grown into an artistically reputable and productive 501(c)(3) nonprofit dance company with local impact and international esteem.

Impermanence
2022-06-04 20:00 - 21:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Impermanence
7:30 Doors, 8pm show
$10-15 suggested donation

Featuring:
Video by Casey Buckles and Soundtrack by Steve Lacey
Video by Salvi LoGrasso

and PRISM
with dancers Sarah Slifer Swift and Molly Rose Tupper
music by Steve Lacey
visual projection design by Joshua Lentini

Lost in the layers.
Wander through.
Scenes slipping past.

The Enchanted Library - MAGMA Recital 2022
2022-06-11 - 2022-06-12 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
The Enchanted Library
MAGMA Children’s Program recital
Saturday June 11 3pm show PROGRAM
Saturday June 11 5pm show PROGRAM
Sunday June 12 3pm show PROGRAM

Concourse
2022-06-17 19:30 - 20:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Please join us at MAGMA for an informal performance of this work-in-progress on Friday June 17, 7:30pm. This event is free, but donations are appreciated to help support the work.
Concourse, created by choreographers Barbie Diewald and Shakia Barron, is a dance project that extends the duet form. Barron and Diewald facilitate a live dialogue in performance, joined by their mentors and emerging artists who are former students. Bringing vision and legacy into conversation at the level of the body, this confluence creates an intergenerational community of inquiry, and affirms that mentorship is multidirectional: we glean as much from our mentees as from our mentors. Concourse celebrates the feedback loops that occur when we collapse the distinctions between self, student, teacher, and material.
The work will premiere at Mount Holyoke College in September 2022.

Presenx
2022-06-24 20:00 - 21:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
PRESENX
by Vincent Cacialano and Jeffrey Gunshol
June 24 and 25, 8pm
Drag-performance meets conceptual-art anti-performance for a hilarious and poignant blend of social commentary.
Join us on a journey where fictitious alter ego’s shed light on real people playing parts. Where real and fake over-lap and comment on each other.
We are emerging from this confusing time, moving into a more confusing time, trying to make sense of it. Ultimately realizing that the greatest sense of being comes from relearning human connection in real time and place.
Song, Dance and Text performed by seasoned professionals, Vincent Cacialano and Jeffrey Gunshol.
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“A strong sense of pop culture savvy and originality.”
Punch Line Theatre Review

Workshop: Feldenkrais-Method and Yoga Asana
2022-06-25 10:00 - 11:30
Feldenkrais-Method and Yoga Asana
Vincent Cacialano and Alan McDermott
In this workshop we will explore how The Feldenkrais Method, “a powerful and revolutionary approach that uses gentle, mindful movement to bring new awareness and possibility”, can support facilitating Yoga-Asana practice. We will look at the small movements that are the building blocks for the larger movements of flexion and extension of the spine, often seen in Yoga postures. We will look at considering any missed steps or places of access that individuals are not utilizing, or are skipping, when practicing a posture. This can create a greater level of efficiency, and thus preservation. Another aspect of the workshop is gaining an understanding of what our individual movement preferences, or habits, are, by being given options or choices within a specific form; while actively questioning what pathways we sequence through, and how we perform movement in terms of effort or quality.
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Vincent Cacialano holds a BFA and MFA, and is a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance and Yoga Alliance Professionals; specializing in Hatha Yoga and the Sivananda- Rishikesh-Sequence. He was a George Washington University Fellow, and a founding member of Magpie Music Dance Company. Through his affiliation with Magpie and Katie Duck, he has performed with renowned artists such as Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith, Miguel Gutierrez and Kirstie Simpson. He has danced for award winning choreographers in: The Netherlands – Katrina Brown; Germany- Thomas Lehman; Italy- Company Blu; The U.S.- Susan Rethorst. His work has been shown in North and South America, Asia and Europe, supported by The Heinz Endowment, The Podium Kunst, The National Endowment for the Arts, and Arts Council England. Previously, a tenured lecturer at The Amsterdam University of Art and Manchester Metropolitan University, currently he works as a guest artist at several institutions, recently ASU and Dance East. He is a member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices.

Alan McDermott trained at the Feldenkrais International Training Centre in the U.K from 2003-2007, He previously attended The School For New Dance Development in Amsterdam from 1994-1996 where his studies included the skeletal/joint system, movement quality, release technique and composition, earning a Dutch postgraduate diploma in Higher Professional Education. He has taught Movement Research and the Feldenkrais Method in The Netherlands, Italy and the U.K. From 2008 – 2015 Alan taught as an associate lecturer in the Department of Contemporary Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University and practiced in the Health, Exercise and Active Living Clinic in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science from 2015 to 2016. He is a listed teacher with the Feldenkrais Guild U.K.
“If you know what you’re doing, you can do what you want.”
– Moshe Feldenkrais
“Everyone evolves according to his or her own nature. Because each body and mind is unique, each person’s natural physical and mental response to yoga practice is different.”
– Ram Jain, Kalyani Hauswirth- Jaan

Presenx
2022-06-25 20:00 - 21:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
PRESENX
by Vincent Cacialano and Jeffrey Gunshol
June 24 and 25, 8pm
Drag-performance meets conceptual-art anti-performance for a hilarious and poignant blend of social commentary.
Join us on a journey where fictitious alter ego’s shed light on real people playing parts. Where real and fake over-lap and comment on each other.
We are emerging from this confusing time, moving into a more confusing time, trying to make sense of it. Ultimately realizing that the greatest sense of being comes from relearning human connection in real time and place.
Song, Dance and Text performed by seasoned professionals, Vincent Cacialano and Jeffrey Gunshol.
“A strong sense of pop culture savvy and originality.”
Punch Line Theatre Review

Summer Dance Explo I
2022-07-11 13:00 - 15:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
July 11-15 1-3:30pm
A fun and playful dance week for ages 4-8, exploring Creative Movement , World Dance, and dance-themed art projects.
$200 full duration, or $100 for 1-2pm.
Led by Lissa Geggis.
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Summer Dance Explo II
2022-07-18 13:00 - 16:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
July 18 – 22 1-4pm
An exploratory dance intensive for ages 9-14 featuring contemporary dance styles, World Dance, and improvisation. Some crafting, journaling, and other complimentary activities will spice up this fun week. Dancers that participate in the week will be invited to perform at Windhover Center of the Performing Arts in September for a TS Eliot Festival.

$225. Led by Molly Tupper and Sarah Slifer Swift

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Free Kid's Ballet Class
2022-08-01 15:30 - 17:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
A free intro level Ballet class for children ages 6-12 – come try!
Also, learn about our Fall classes, scholarship program, and more.
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Ballet Boost Levels III + IV
2022-08-08 15:30 - 17:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
A four day Ballet intensive focusing on technique, style, and movement vocabulary of classical Ballet, for ages 10+ or by invitation.
August 8-11, 3:30-5:30pm, $100. Led by Sarah Slifer Swift.
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Day of Dance
2022-08-14 09:00 - 17:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
It that time of year again, for a fabulous day of jazz dancing with Boston’s jazz royalty, Jeannette Neill.
SCHEDULE
9:30 – 10:30 BARRE ON THE MAT ~ Sarah Slifer Swift ~ $15 ( not discounted )
11 – 1pm JAZZ ~ Jeannette Neill ~ $25
1:30 – 3pm ~ Jim Viera ~ $25
3:30 – 5pm ~ Sue Murray ~ $25
All technique classes are Intermediate / Intermediate-Advanced
COST: I jazz class ~ $25 2 jazz classes ~ $45 3 jazz classes ~ $60
Any number/variation of classes is fine and if you choose all 4 classes the fee for the day would be $75
Please refer to jndance website: www.jndance.com to read a little more on the individual teachers.
You are welcome to register early or just show up! Contact Jeannette at:
jeannette@jndance.com

Magoo's Lagoon
2022-09-11 17:30 - 20:30
All Ages music show
Doors 5:30pm, show starts 6pm, $10
Cash only at the door
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For This Earth
2022-09-17 17:00 - 21:00
Liquid Spine presents: FOR THIS EARTH

On International Coastal Cleanup Day, join us for a day of environmental activism, awareness, and ART.

The event begins at 5:00PM at Good Harbor Beach, where Seaside Sustainability will lead everyone in a community-wide beach cleanup. Following the cleanup, join us in an artistic celebration of action and change at MAGMA for Liquid Spine’s first Eco-Arts Film Festival. The film fest will run from 8:00-9:00PM.

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Your ticket donation ($1-100) will be split between Liquid Spine and Seaside Sustainability. 50% of your donation will help Liquid Spine cover costs of FOR THIS EARTH and begin to raise money for their next project, “Liquid Spine, Akumal”. The remaining 50% of your donation will go to Seaside Sustainability, our beach cleanup partners. Seaside Sustainability is a 501(c)3 (nonprofit) organization. 50% of your donation is tax deductible (EIN 47-4993870). Thank you for your donation and support!

Dry Salvages Festival
2022-09-24 11:00 - 14:30
Calling all cat lovers and poetry buffs! Come and celebrate the love of cats during Gloucester’s inaugural T. S. Eliot Festival, Gloucester’s most celebrated poet. In 1939, T. S. Eliot wrote a volume of playful and whimsical cat poems for his godchildren, titled Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. Come dressed in a cat costume (if you like) and enjoy a day of festivities, including face painting; writing and reading a poem about your favorite cat; drawing and painting (in conjunction with Art Haven, and games. If the mood takes you to be a cat for even a moment, there will be a painted billboard face insert of a cat for a photo op. Bring your picnic and a blanket. The day concludes with a cat dance performance for all by local dance students from – Magma and BoSoma.

Free to all, reservations recommended, go to:
A celebration of cats

at Windhover Center
for the Performing Arts

257 Granite Street
Rockport, MA 01966

MAGMA Birthday Party
2022-10-14 18:30 - 20:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Celebrate 5 years of MAGMA
We cordially invite you to celebrate with us as we mark our first 5th anniversary in business and in community! We will have food and drink, music and fun, plus a special champagne toast to the donors who supported our recent renovation and expansion.

The People Danced
2022-10-22 18:00 - 20:30
THE PEOPLE DANCED presents:
An Evening of Finnish-American Dancing
October 22, 2022
3 pm Children’s Dance Class at MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St. Gloucester – with Leila Luopa from Revontulet Dance Company – Class is FREE but please register here
6 pm Dance Celebration at Gloucester City Hall, 9 Dale Ave. – for all ages with dance instruction from Leila Luopa, live music from Christine Anderson and Oivan Ilo, performances, refreshments, and more! No registration required.
All Ages Welcome
Free Admission
This is a program of the Gloucester Cultural Initiative, in collaboration with MAGMA and Cape Ann Finns, made possible by generous support from the Finlandia Foundation. This program was conceived as part of the Gloucester 400+ Commemoration.

All Ages Show
2022-10-29 19:00 - 21:30
All Ages show featuring:
YUNG MAGOO
IM RICKY
ICNTCRY
UNSTRICT
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CASH ONLY AT THE DOOR
costumes encouraged. no masks, no booze, no shenanigans.

Scribble: Cardboard Box
2022-11-12 19:30 - 22:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Scribble is an art show!
Carboard Box consists of several artists, using various art forms, to respond to the carboard box – as prompt, concept, object.
Doors open at 7:30pm
Tickets are $10 – tickets also enter you into a raffle to win an artwork!
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Art forms include performance, video, installation, and theater.
Carboard box-inspired costumes are welcome!
*no on turned away for lack of funds

A musical evening with Lauren Kinhan - POSTPONED
2022-11-26 20:00 - 21:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
A musical evening with Lauren Kinhan
with Mark Shilansky, piano, and Mark Poniatowski, bass
Saturday November 26, Doors 7:30pm, show 8pm, $27
Dear all, due to illness we must postpone this concert to a later date. All pre-sales will be refunded. Please stay tuned for the new date. So sorry to not be swinging with you all this Saturday!
Veteran singer, composer, arranger and educator Lauren Kinhan has been creating genre smearing music for decades. Whether writing and producing her own records, touring as a member of the internationally renowned New York Voices or passing her knowledge on to the next generation, Lauren’s fearless spirit shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, its just the opposite.
Join Lauren with pianist Mark Shilansky and bassist Mark Poniatowski for an intimate evening of sophisticated, original contemporary jazz.
Doors open 7:30pm, elevator access available.
“Brilliance in interpreting ballads, off-the-cuff maneuvers in bluesy and bawdy environments, whip-smart interactions with the instrumentalists—and you end up with a complete picture of her talents and the manners in which she claims songs as her own.”
– All About Jazz, Dan Bilawsky

Let the Body Speak
2022-12-02 19:30 - 21:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
MAGMA is hosting a fundraiser to benefit Ukrainian dancers by showing videos from the project ‘Let the Body Speak,’ started by dance artists for the benefit of dance artists, not just financially but also to provide a platform for processing and expression during the time of war.
Featuring videos by: Korotkov Yaroslav and Koptseva Valeria, Voloshyna Yeva, Sotelo-Ramires Jasmine, Yaroslav Kainar, Miakushko Polina and Miakushko Kateryna, Yana Shevchenko and Dmytro Abalmasov, Svitlana Tretiak, Olga Drobysh, Daria Yeremenko, Dolgikh Olena,
“The human body is a certain “archive” that impressions of each of the events that happen to a human being during its lifetime are stored in. Having this scientifically proven idea as a base, we decided to create a video archive of the works, movement practices, and discussions of Ukrainian choreographers and dancers during the war.” – Anton Ovchinnikov, the author of the idea of the project “Let the body speak”
Ticket/donations are $25-100* PURCHASE HERE
96% of the ticket price will go directly to the organization. Refreshments will be served at the event, with wine donated by Wilson Daniels Luxury Wines, and we will host a pop-up from Ukraine-Gloucester business Detali. Compost service courtesy of Black Earth Compost. *Even if you can’t attend the in-person event, your donation is appreciated! We have ticket tiers of $10-25 for donation-only options, available at checkout above – click “purchase here”

The “Let the Body Speak” project aims to:
– offer the Ukrainian choreographers and dancers, who continue working, an online platform for showing and saving their works
– distribute the collected materials and knowledge about the Ukrainian dance community among the national and international audiences
– foreground a set of issues and public discussion around the topic “Contemporary dance art during the war”
– motivate artists to find new tools of expression through physicality

Winter Choreographic Workshop
2022-12-10 13:00 - 17:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
The Winter Choreographic Workshop is a pre-professional experience for dancers ages 16–24, with choreographer Heather Stewart, director of little house dance based in Portland Maine. Possible performance opportunities after the workshop with further time commitment.
Workshop is December 10 + 11
December 10 from 1-5pm
December 11 from 9am-12pm
Reserve your spot! Cost $75 CLICK HERE

Heather Stewart is a choreographer currently based in Portland, Maine. She is the founder and artistic director of little house dance company, a Maine based professional contemporary dance company. She has been creating and presenting original work for performance since 2012. After attending Etobicoke School for the Arts in Ontario, Canada she went on to live and work in Montreal, London, and Boston. Heather received her MA in Advanced Dance Studies, with a strong focus in choreography, from The London Contemporary Dance School in 2014.
Fueled by physicality, her work offers intricate and complex meetings between movement and sound. Upcoming projects include a large-scale collaboration with local string ensemble, Palaver Strings, (slated to be premiere at the State Theatre in December 2023) and a commission from The Boston Conservatory for a new dance work (fall 2022). The development of her choreographic work has been supported by residencies and organizations such as The Boston Center for the Arts, New Movement Collaborative, Espace Marie Chouinard, The Place, Centre de Création O Vertigo (CCOV), Earthdance, Tufts University, and Tanzzentrale der region Nürnberg. She has received funding and awards for her work from The New England Foundation for the Arts, The Boston Foundation, The Canada Council for the Arts, and The Somerville Arts Council.
In 2015 her work was shortlisted for the Deustche Bank Award for Creative Enterprises.
Heather’s work has been presented internationally at several performing arts festivals including Conduit Dance+, The Expanse Festival, The Saint John Contemporary Dance Festival, Resolutions!, Beta Publica, and HubWeek Boston.

Dance for Ukraine
2022-12-29 19:00 - 22:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Dance for Ukraine: A series of DJ dance parties in support of Ukraine. – Feel good events for a cause.
Each event will feature a cultural or humanitarian project in Ukraine for which the party will raise money.
DJ Big Fuss spins house and breaks on vinyl
Suggested donation $15 at the door, $12 in advance BUY NOW
Feel free to buy a ticket and not come as a way to donate to the cause!

Yung Magoo's BDay Show
2023-01-21 18:00 - 21:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
All ages show, $8, doors 6pm
Tix available at the door – cash or venmo only or BUY ADVANCE TIX HERE
FEATURING…
YUNG MAGOO
I’MRICKY
XO LOTTO
TYE
MILLY.G
ICNTCRY
KINGSEAN#1K
THEREALLLAZERGUN

Together for Ukraine
2023-01-27 19:30 - 22:00
Our ongoing series of hangouts in support of Ukraine continues this Friday. The recipient of support is a close connection with our partner Detali, a record label who’s owners have joined the military effort. Keep the label afloat by coming together in community spirit. $5-15 suggested donation. Snacks and drinks welcome. Dj @aka_big.fuss spinning an all-vinyl set.
Let’s gather together, around art, around friendship, around Ukraine.
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