True Story Theater
2026-04-19 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | MA
True Story Theater is an improvisational physical ensemble honoring people’s lived experience, including people who are especially vulnerable in these times.
In their MAGMA debut, they will work with stories of neurodiversity and invisible disabilities. Laugh, cry, and gain insights as True Story’s actors and musicians empathetically embody whatever is shared. All are welcome!
Tix $15-25 sliding scale BUY TICKETS
True Story Theater is a nonprofit theater company that offers over 50-75 improvisational performances, skills training, and Active Bystander workshops a year for a wide array of clients in the greater Boston area and beyond. Our mission is to promote social healing through theatre by building empathy, respect, and understanding in the honoring of true life stories.
In addition to offering monthly public shows, True Story’s work has served hospitals, universities, civic and community organizations, human rights commissions, religious communities, the LGBTQIA+ community, seniors, teen leaders, cancer survivors, activists, philanthropists, business leaders and more. We also perform for private individuals — for birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, and other important rites of passage and life events.
True Story Theater performs and teaches a style of improvisational theater called Playback Theatre. Volunteers from the audience are invited and helped to share what’s important in their lives. Actors listen deeply then spontaneously transform the stories into theater, portraying the heart of what they heard using dialogue, movement, music and song. From this simple interaction, people laugh, cry and experience surprising insights.
Our events create a respectful atmosphere where every voice can be heard and any story told — however ordinary or extraordinary, difficult or joyful. True Story Theater offers audiences fresh perspectives, deeper connections, and a renewed appreciation for our common humanity.

Wild Geese Dance Therapy Group begins
2026-05-01 11:00 - 12:30 | MA
Wild Geese: Dance Therapy Group
Community, Resilience, Support, Freedom
Kim Tompkins will be leading a Dance Therapy support group at MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA on Fridays from 11:00 to 12:30, May 1st through 22nd. Dance Movement therapy allows you to explore mind-body awareness, creative expression and rhythmic connection to give shape to your thoughts and feelings. In sharing the journey with others, the group is here to help you navigate the stuck places and hard changes that may be facing you now.
Bring your curiosity and wear something comfortable. For adults with or without any formal dance training.
Led by Kim Tompkins, licensed mental health counselor and board certified, Masters level Dance Movement Therapist. Kim is also a certified facilitator of Trauma Sensitive Yoga. The price is $170 for the 4 week session. For questions and registration, please send email to KimTompkinsHolistic@gmail.com.

Full Moon Dance
2026-05-01 18:30 - 20:30 | MA
Join Raquel and Osha for an evening of movement, connection, and renewal under the full moon. We’ll begin with a grounding meditation to help you arrive and settle into your body, followed by a guided warm-up that gently opens into embodied movement and free-form dance. We’ll close the evening in song, then gather for tea and light bites to integrate and connect.
Meditation & Dance Facilitated by Raquel DaRowe, Osha Rose and special guest, Sarah Slifer Swift
GET TICKETS via Osha Rose Events

From the Deep Festival
2026-05-02 11:00 - 17:00 | The Cut, 177 Main Street, Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Explore the depths of art and culture in the city of Gloucester during “From the Deep: A Downtown Gloucester Arts Party” on Saturday, May 2 from 11:00 am – 5:00 pm!

MAGMA is collaborating with the Cut to present filmmaker (and MAGMA Dance Company member!) Erika Sutter’s stunning movement and shadow film in an immersive underwater installation. The installation will be on view from 11am-5pm at the Cut.

Presented by the Harbortown Cultural District, this event features over 25 unique cultural events including: 7 art exhibitions, 4 musical performances, 3 video installations, 2 live art demonstrations, free kids activities and scavenger hunts! See the full schedule of cultural events and plan your day at: www.harbortownculturaldistrict.org

Aaron Wardwell record release
2026-05-08 19:00 - 21:30 | MA
featuring performances by Bryan Parys, Steven Kennedy, and the (Christmas) Coyotes
Singer-songwriter Aaron Wardwell will celebrate the release of his new album, Just Another, with a live performance on May 8th at MAGMA in Gloucester. The show will feature a full set of new material from Just Another, Wardwell’s first significant release since his EP Heartburn in 2020.
The new record showcases Aaron Wardwell’s eclectic blend of folk and electronic music with deeply witty, yet poignant songwriting, exploring themes of literature, horticulture, pop-culture, love, religiosity and more. The album was recorded and produced in Wardwell’s home studio, and it was mastered by engineer Frank Hopkins of Portland, Maine. The release date of the album is Friday, May 1st, 2026.
The album release show on May 8th will be a full immersion in the images and sounds of “Just Another.” In addition to playing the songs live, there will also be video textures shown with a projector. The show will be opened by performances from local writers Bryan Parys (Wake, Sleeper, Now Approaching), Steven Kennedy (Between Sounds, Birds Of Massachusetts), and soundscape engineer/songwriter Joshua Richard (Home Music).

Time Travelers Ball
2026-05-09 19:00 - 22:00 | MA
Please join us for MAGMA’s annual fundraiser party with live performances, participatory dance lessons, and festive refreshments.
Attire: 1920-1940 speakeasy fashion
Doors open at 7pm, programming starts at 7:30pm
$50-100 suggested donation per person, BUY ONLINE
Please buy your tickets in ADVANCE as you will need the password to get in!
Highlights:
– learn The Charleston and a Shim Sham inspired line dance
– dance performances from Sophia Dunzelman, Zoe Ulrich, Anna Kharaz, Erika Sutter, Hannah Tupper, and Sarah Slifer Swift; live music from John Cameron and Rikki Razdan
– sultry, speakeasy ambiance; signature cocktails and yummy desserts
– support MAGMA’s artistic programming, accessible pricing, and youth scholarship fund! MAGMA annually has up to ten students on either full scholarship or half-tuition scholarships. For MAGMA’s adult programming, we have drastically reduced rates for rental and class rates for artists and non-profits.

Face Yoga Face Moisturizing
2026-05-10 14:00 - 15:30 | MA
Come to MAGMA on Mother’s Day to practice face moisturizing and face yoga with Holly Randall, DNP.
Bring your mother, bring your daughter, or just celebrate yourself!
Sunday May 10, 2-3:15pm
suggested donation $10-20 at the door

Contact Improvisation Jam
2026-05-16 15:00 - 17:00 | MA
Our monthly Contact Improvisation Jam consists of a half hour warm-up and skills practice, followed by open improvisation. All experience levels are welcome! This month we have guest musicians Dawn Pratson and Steve Yost.
$10-20 suggested donation SIGN UP ONLINE or at the door
“Contact Improvisation is an evolving system of movement initiated in 1972 by American choreographer Steve Paxton. The improvised dance form is based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion—gravity, momentum, inertia. The body, in order to open to these sensations, learns to release excess muscular tension and abandon a certain quality of willfulness to experience the natural flow of movement. Practice includes rolling, falling, being upside down, following a physical point of contact, supporting and giving weight to a partner.”
“Contact improvisations are spontaneous physical dialogues that range from stillness to highly energetic exchanges. Alertness is developed in order to work in an energetic state of physical disorientation, trusting in one’s basic survival instincts. It is a free play with balance, self-correcting the wrong moves and reinforcing the right ones, bringing forth a physical/emotional truth about a shared moment of movement that leaves the participants informed, centered, and enlivened.”
—early definition by Steve Paxton and others, 1970s,
from CQ Vol. 5:1, Fall 1979

Tango-Salsa-Cha Cha
2026-05-17 17:00 - 19:00 | MA
Learn some easy dance moves with Sarah Slifer Swift at MAGMA and then dance to tango, salsa, and cha-cha music played live by the Walker Creek Saxophone Quartet (David Benjamin, Marsha Jamison, Frank Freedman, and Jamie Klopotoski).

$10 suggested donation at the door

All ages and abilities welcome!

Outlaw Championship Wrestling
2026-05-23 18:00 - 21:30 | MA
OCW presents Riders in the Sky.
Doors 6pm, Bell 6:30pm
Get your tickets before they are gone!!
GET TICKETS $20

Pride Blast Off: The Illustrious Blacks at the Cut
2026-05-30 20:00 - 23:30 | MA
Sat, May 30, 2026 8:00 PM
The Cut, 177 Main Street. Gloucester MA (map)

Blast off into Pride month with the Illustrious Blacks, NYC’s Afro-Electro-Disco-Space-Punks here to deliver you into intergalactic ecstasy! With special guest Dr. Viola Voilà and a set by DJ Salomon. Presented by Cape Ann Pride & MAGMA
Saturday 5/30/26
Doors 7:00pm
Show 8:00pm
21+, Positive ID Required
Premium Seating with cocktail service: $39.50 + $6.95 service fee
Standard Seating with cocktail service: $34.50 + $6.95 service fee
GA Standing: $24.50 + $6.95 service fee
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+ $5 Day of Show
Blast off into Pride month with the Illustrious Blacks, NYC’s Afro-Electro-Disco-Space-Punks here to deliver you into intergalactic ecstasy! The duo the New York Times called “Bed-Stuy’s favorite creative couple” grace the clubs of Ibiza, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe, UK, and Canada with their blend of DJing, performance art, and live music tracks …. and now they return after their jaw-dropping Gloucester debut last year for the Cape Ann Pride Weekend. Hostess extraordinaire Dr. Viola Voila will tantalize with her captivating performances and keep the party vibes flowing. DJ opener Salomon delivers deep, danceable tracks to get the party started.
Dr. Viola Voilà (she/her in drag) or Dr. Kasey Calebaugh (he/him out of drag) enjoys a wide range of musical endeavors as a violist, Suzuki music educator, and drag entertainer. They completed a Doctorate of Music Arts degree in Viola Performance from the Hartt School, graduating with the Regents’ Honor Award – the most prestigious award that the University of Hartford bestows on graduate students. They regularly film drag story hours and interview local residents at Ipswich Community Access Media, perform with the Cape Ann Symphony and Nonconformist Orchestra (the first and only transgender/non-binary, LGBTQ+ and minority inclusive professional orchestra), and serve on the Ipswich Cultural Council Board. As an active LGBTQ+ professional, they have been invited to speak at numerous high schools, perform for Hamilton-Wenham HRC Pride Picnic, World Pride DC 2025, & actively produce content with the Trustees.

Urban Pulse with Monstah Black
2026-05-31 14:00 - 15:15 | MA
Urban Pulse is a rhythm-driven yoga and movement experience guided by Movement Artist Monstah Black, where mindful body awareness meets expressive, music-led motion.

This class blends a grounded vinyasa-inspired flow with elements of somatic exploration and freestyle movement, inviting students to arrive at a plateau of liberated expression, where structure dissolves into intuitive, embodied play. Breath and beat work together to warm the body, open the joints, and encourage participants to move beyond habitual patterns into authentic physical presence.

Set to curated soundscapes ranging from soulful grooves to Afro dance rhythms, Urban Pulse feels like a barefoot dance floor held within a safe, intentional container. The experience is energizing yet accessible, offering release without overwhelm, designed to leave students feeling both awakened and regulated.

Outcome: Participants leave grounded, open, creatively charged, and connected to their bodies, their breath, and their own rhythm.
$20 BUY NOW or at the door

ABOUT MONSTAH BLACK (They/Them)
200-hour Certified Vinyasa Yoga Instructor Monstah Black has been in a relationship with movement for over 40 years, 13 of those rooted in yoga, and the past 8 guiding others as a certified instructor. Their practice lives at the intersection of structure and freedom, inviting students not just to stretch and lengthen, but to feel, listen, and drop into the body’s deeper language.
Their classes are a somatic journey, where the vertical meets the floor, where effort softens into release, and where movement becomes expression. Monstah encourages practitioners to move beyond shape and into sensation, cultivating a fluid, intuitive experience that honors each body’s unique rhythm.
With a background in performance spanning sound, movement, and visual art, Monstah weaves rich, imaginative visualization into their offerings. These tools ripple outward, supporting not just rest and meditation, but creative expression on the dance floor, on stage, and in everyday life.
Music is central to Monstah’s practice. Breath and sound become collaborators, holding space for exploration, release, and transformation. Their teaching blends asana with somatic release techniques, guiding students toward a place of dynamic, freestyle movement and improvisation (Urban Pulse).
Outside the studio, Monstah channels that same electric, embodied energy into performance as one half of The Illustrious Blacks, sharing their artistry across festivals, nightclubs, and museums around the world.

Recital
2026-06-07 17:00 - 18:00 | MA
MAGMA Recital 2026
June 7, 5pm
Ballet I/II étude
Ballet III étude
Ballet I/II – Mary Poppins suite
Contemporary – Oui ou Non
Dance Combo – Burn it up!
Ballet III – Dance of the Wilis

Ballet I/II Teacher: Lissa Geggis
Dancers: Leyla Contrino, Marin DiFiori, Ainsley Ernest, Charlotte Hauck, Camila Joachim, Aimi Neyeloff, Eleanor Pickup, Penelope Pollack, Adeline Pollack, Ava Pszenny, Tegan Sutter

Ballet III Teacher: Sarah Slifer Swift
Dancers: Mavis Brown, Ada Hillman, Pearl Landry, Divina Garcia Lindberg

Dance Combo Teacher: Jillian Chavez-Oliveira
Dancers: Camila Joachim, Emily Larkin, Noriella Rosa

Contemporary Teacher: Jillian Chavez-Oliveira
Dancers: Hunter DeAngelis, Fletcher DeAngelis, Divina Garcia Lindberg

SUMMER PROGRAMS
Summer Dance Week #1, Ages 4-8: Dance Adventures
July 13-17 Monday through Friday 9:00am-12:00pm – Dance adventures is filled with creative movement, dances and music from around the world, movement games, and more! This fun-filled week is great for any child, no prior dance class experience required. JUST A FEW SPOTS LEFT

Summer Dance Week #2, Ages 9-13: Ballet + Contemporary Jazz
August 3-7 Monday through Friday 10:30am-1:00pm –This week-long workshop offers​ a fun​ and challenging dance ​​experience for Advanced Beginner/ Intermediate students ages 9-1​3. Included will be daily technique classes in Ballet and Contemporary Jazz, stretch and strength training, and fun challenging choreography.
Ballet Boost/Nutcracker Audition + Ballet class placement
August 24-27 Monday through Thursday 11:00am-1pm – This 4-day workshop for kids ages 7-14 is a chance to reboot their Ballet technique and inspiration before the Fall season. It also serves as a class placement aid to make sure that students are in the correct level as they start the school year. This year, Ballet Boost week classes will also serve as an audition for our 2026 production of the Nutcracker “Kingdom of the Sweets.”

THANKS FOR A WONDERFUL YEAR!

HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL IN THE SUMMER OR THE FALL!

Swing Dance
2026-06-14 18:00 - 21:00 | MA
Swing Dance with live music from Jim and Tonic
$15 in advance Venmo to @gloucesterdancelovers
$18 cash at the door

Alexander Technique for Dancers
2026-06-20 11:30 - 13:00 | MA
INTRO TO THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE FOR DANCERS
with Larry Young, AmSat certified teacher
In this 90-minute introductory workshop, dancers will learn core AT principles and basic anatomy to help release chronic tension, improve dynamic alignment, and prevent injury. Discover how to enhance your stage presence and execute movement with grace and efficiency.
• Redefine Your Technique: Learn to stop habitual, unnecessary muscular gripping so you can direct your energy exactly where it needs to go.
• Injury Prevention: Understand your natural biomechanics and how to protect joints during high-impact sequences and demanding choreography.
• Unleash Expression: Shift your focus from “looking right in the mirror” to the organic process of moving, granting your body greater emotional and theatrical range. We will explore how to move more in accordance with the way the body is actually designed.
Workshop Details • Date & Time: Saturday, June 20 | 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
• Location: MAGMA, Gloucester, MA
• Cost: $20 in advance, $25 day-of
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About Larry Young:
Larry is an AmSat certified teacher, completing training in 1992. The American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT) is the largest professional organization of teachers of the Alexander Technique in the United States. Larry came to study this technique thirty years ago to learn how to become comfortable in his body and to help improve his violin playing and singing, but quickly discovered that using it also greatly improved mental attitude as well. He has studied with the late Marjorie Barstow, who was the first person to graduate from F.M. Alexander’s first teacher training program in 1933 as well as with numerous second generation teachers including Nelly Ben-Or, Mara Sokolsky, Bruce Fertman, Betsy Polatin, Jessica Wolf, Barbara Conable, and David Gorman. Larry is currently studying with Penelope Easten.

Drawn to Life
2026-06-21 15:00 - 17:00 | MA
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.

Summer Series: Contemporary + Improvisation
2026-07-02 18:00 - 20:00 | MA
Summer Series: Contemporary + Improvisation
Thursdays Nights 6-8pm
All July, check out our Contemporary Dance Technique and Improvisation approaches with rotating guest teachers! All levels, some dance experience suggested.
$15 for one class, $20 for both.
July 2 – Sarah Slifer Swift – cancelled due to heat
July 9 – Molly Tupper – SIGN UP
July 16 – Betsy Miller – SIGN UP
July 23 – Sarah Slifer Swift
July 30 – Dawn Pratson

Workshop with Molly Tupper
2026-07-09 18:00 - 20:00 | MA
Molly Tupperis a dance educator, performer and choreographer on the North Shore. She studied dance and education at Smith College. She teaches ballet, modern dance, dance composition and Grounded Aerial bungee to all ages and abilities. Molly’s contemporary class includes a full-body warm up, floor work and choreographic phrases. Improvisation class will move through guided personal movement exploration and group compositional scores.
One class for $15 or both for $20
6-7pm Contemporary Dance SIGN UP
7-8pm Improvisation SIGN UP

Love Blast
2026-07-10 19:30 - 22:00 | MA
Music Concert: Love Blast
Friday, July 10 from 8:00 pm-10pm at MAGMA
Doors open at 7:30 pm
Join the group Love Blast with Greta Bro on vocals, Stan Strickland on Saxophone and Flute, Mitchell Kossak on piano and vocals, Bruce Gertz on bass, Ricardo Frota on violin and percussion, for a Concert MAGMA Dance Studio, 11 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA 01930.
Love Blast is a collective of 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.
There will be plenty of seats , refreshments and also plenty of room for dancing! MAGMA, Movement Arts Gloucester MA, is a center for classes, performances, workshops, and events.
Tickets Sliding scale $15-30 BUY NOW
tix also available at the door

Workshop: The Great Woven Adventure
2026-07-11 14:00 - 16:00 | MA
The Great Woven Adventure – The Fabric of Play
Art is the portal. Play is the way. The Quest is the adventure that weaves our way home.
Step inside Andy’s tapestries and Come Questing With Us! We’ll play and we’ll move. We’ll make sounds and tell stories. We’ll explore our deeper selves and claim the threads of our own becoming.
Andrea Pritchard (Andy) is an artist and Interplay certified leader. Julien Roberts and I will be guides on your Quest with us, but you will be your main and featured guide.
Cost: $20 BUY NOW or at the door

When the People Could Fly: a Somovement Journey
2026-07-12 16:00 - 18:30 | MA
Facilitated by Hadley Mays
Trance Dance, experiential anatomy and somatic movement for an integrated
body-mind and soul journey
This experience situates itself within a perspective, that there is no separation between the physical and the spiritual dimensions: the human experience is a spiritual experience, and the human body is both the material of and gateway to infinite dimensions of spirit and cosmos. We can navigate these dimensions through ecstatic and kinetic states of consciousness. Come fly with me: flight as dance, as soul venture, spirit journey and kinetic trance. Dive into a place where your vast interiority opens into the deep space of manifold intelligence.
The Practice begins with somatic movement to prepare our bodyminds for trance and the extended ranges of our somatic perceiving. Then we Trance Dance, a blindfolded ritual dance process using breath, movement, and rhythm. Trance Dance is a co-creative call to action with the sacred spirit world; our intention sets a course, our soul unfolds.
Cost: $25-40 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds – BUY NOW
The Facilitator

Hadley Mays is a certified practitioner of the Trance Dance ritual, created by Wilbert Alix and Frank Natale from collected shamanic traditions and practices spanning over 40,000 years. She has lived, worked, trained, healed and played in altered states, trance and the visionary realms throughout my life in many different countries, cultures, and contexts.
Brief Bio
Hadley Mays is an interdisciplinary theater & movement artist, teacher of contemporary performance, and workshop facilitator, and I am currently on faculty at Boston Conservatory. She holds an MFA in Theater and Contemporary Performance, graduate studies in Psychology and Counseling, and many years of experience and independent research in culture, ritual, and performance studies.
Other details: Please wear comfortable clothing you can move in and something that you can use as a blindfold. Parking in Gloucester is free on Sundays, and there is a municipal lot catty cornered from MAGMA.

Workshop with Betsy Miller
2026-07-16 18:00 - 20:00 | MA
Class Description: Juicy Moves Modern Dance
This is an eclectic contemporary release technique class that pulls from a range of stylistic and philosophical approaches.
Class begins with a full-bodied floorwork-to-footwork warmup designed to activate our core and connect breath with movement while finding ease through anatomically efficient pathways. Through structured improvisations and set exercises, we will explore dynamics, weight shifts, flow, and the thrill of momentum. Class will finish with a juicy, high-energy dance phrase. This is an environment where we can explore movement, take risks, laugh, sweat, and ask questions.

Cost $15 for the first hour, $20 for 2 hours: SIGN UP

Betsy Miller Bio:
Born and raised in rural Ohio, Betsy Miller is a dance artist, educator, and facilitator now based in Salem, Massachusetts. Her choreography blends improvisational practice, ritual, athleticism, and theatricality through collaborative practices, and has been presented in venues across the country, from Jacksonville to Seattle and Las Vegas to Boston. She has performed with Lostwax Multimedia Dance and Fusionworks, and has appeared in works by Kathleen Hermesdorf, Heidi Henderson, Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp, Audrey MacLean and Rachel Boggia, and in collaborations with Matthew Cumbie, Lida Winfield, Meghan McLyman, and Shawn Hove. Miller was a 2025 and 2018 Salem Public Art Grantee, 2023 and 2017 Bates Dance Festival Artist in Residence, 2019 Next Steps for Boston Dance Awardee, and a 2016 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Choreography Fellow. Currently serving as Associate Professor of Dance at Salem State University, Miller has been on faculty at Providence College, Connecticut College, Dean College, and AS220, and regularly teaches and performs as a guest artist throughout New England and beyond. She holds an MFA in Dance from The Ohio State University and a BA in Dance from Connecticut College.

SING
2026-07-17 18:15 - 19:30 | MA
SING meets every 3rd Friday of the month from 6:15-7:30pm
Led by Lisa Bouchie, SING uses a variety of improvisational structures to jump right into the joy of singing with others. No musical experience necessary, all are welcome!
Suggested donation $10-15, pay at the door, no advance registration required

Outlaw Championship Wrestling
2026-07-18 18:00 - 22:00 | MA
OCW: Blood Under The Sun
OCW is back once again with even more action. A Gloucester street fight open challenge, the OCW World title is on the line and much more!
Get your tickets via Eventbrite: CLICK HERE

Workshop with Sarah Slifer Swift
2026-07-23 18:00 - 20:00 | MA
Find ease, articulation, increased awareness and imagination through dance techniques, choreographic phrases, and improvisation scores.
6-7pm Technique, 7-8pm Improvisation
$15 for one hour, $20 for both BUY NOW

Contra Dance
2026-07-25 19:00 - 21:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Easy to Learn New England Style Contra, Square & Circle Dances
with Caller Rose Sheehan, and musicians George Clements and Nathaniel Diamond-Jones
$15-25 sliding scale per person, notaflof, under 16 free
BUY TIX ONLINE Tix will also be available at the door.

The Crystal
2026-07-26 16:00 - 18:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
The Crystal is a contemplative dance practice using Authentic Movement, in which the mover becomes the oracle and the witnesses reflect and refract using silence, sound, movement and automatic writing. A profound experience of vulnerability, intimacy and connection.
suggested donation $10-20, pay at the event or ONLINE HERE

Latin Dance Social
2026-07-26 18:30 - 21:00 | MA
MAGMA welcomes Andres Giraldo from Salsa y Control dance studio and company for a one hour beginner salsa class followed by practice time. Lesson starts at 6pm, open dancing time is from 7-8pm.
SPECIAL PERFORMANCES: The Salsa y Control performance team will be there to perform, showcasing their latest routines they are readying for the Boston Salsa Festival.
Entry is $10-15, sliding scale – BUY ONLINE NOW, or at the door
MAGMA is on the top floor of the Brown Building at 11 Pleasant Street in Gloucester, a beautiful historic ballroom with ocean views.
All levels welcome, no partner required. Feel free to bring drinks as we do not sell any beverages.

Workshop with Dawn Pratson
2026-07-30 18:00 - 20:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Technique 6-7pm
Improvisation 7-8pm
$15 per class, $20 for both SIGN UP
Class Description:
Dawn will teach some of her favorite movement sequences and improvisational structures, drawing from 40+ years of learning, teaching and performing. Warm-up and technique will focus on breath, grounding, flow, relaxation, alignment and experiencing body parts isolated and integrated which then move through space.
In the improvisation class we will work with individual and group scores that play with time, space and energy.
Bio:

Jeannette Neill's Day of Dance
2026-08-08 - 2026-08-09 | MA
Once again, we are excited to have Jeannette Neill back at MAGMA to offer classes with fabulous faculty in our beautiful studio!
This year, we will also be presenting an informal, in-studio performance on Saturday, August 8, 2026 featuring works by: Sarah Slifer Swift, Laura Dow, Jeannette Neill, and The OYT Dancers
AUGUST 8 SCHEDULE

3:30pm – 5:00pmHORTON TECHNIQUE (Intermediate/Advanced) with Jim Viera, $30 per person

6:00pm – 7:30pmIN-STUDIO PERFORMANCE ​Featuring a performance by The OYT Dance Company, $5 suggested donation per person
AUGUST 9 SCHEDULE​

9:00am – 10:00amACTIVE STRETCH (All Levels) with Sarah Slifer Swift, $15 per person

10:00am – 11:45amJAZZ (Intermediate) with Jeannette Neill, $30 per person

12:00pm – 1:00pmTAP (Beginner / Intermediate) with Laura Dow, $15 per person

1:15pm – 2:45pm

LYRICAL JAZZ (Intermediate) with Sue Murray, $30 per person

For more information, contact Jeannette at jeannette@jndance.com.​​
(Cash, Check and Venmo @jeannette-neill accepted)
​ ** FREE Sunday parking at all street meters and parking lots in Gloucester! **
