MAGMA

Dance Social: NY Mambo with Juan Lopez
2018-04-21 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Join Boston Mambo Movement’s Juan Lopez for an Intro to Mambo Class that will focus on the core fundamentals of the NY Mambo timing and style through a few shines and some partnering principles to take with you to the dance floor!
Lesson 7:30-8:30pm
Dance party til 9:30pm
Doors open at 7pm
$12 in advance BUY TICKETS
$15 at door
No partner necessary, all levels welcome! BYOB

Juan Lopez is a NY Mambo dancer who has been teaching in Boston, Ma for over a year now and has been spreading his love for the dance and culture very immensely making sure that not one detail is missed. He is originally from Puerto Rico but raised in Massachusetts. He is a founding member of the Boston Mambo Movement.

Fundraiser: A Night of Peace, Love, and Protest
2018-04-21 17:00 - 19:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Featuring:​ Zachary Moceri, Singer-Songwriter, ​RHS Class of 2019
The performance will include three original songs and covers ranging from folk to rock
Suggested donation:​ $5 (not required for entrance, ​all​ are welcome!) All proceeds will be donated to the Never Again movement
Feel free to bring a can! ​We will be collecting non-perishable goods to be donated to the Open Door Food Pantry
Event T-Shirts ​(by Jackie’s Tees) and Original CDs: ​$5 ​each

Open Art Share
2018-04-20 19:30 - 21:30, 2018-03-16 19:30 - 21:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
This monthly event is the gathering of folx that are interested in art that will help us push the boundaries of our imaginations; and the art that nourishes, challenges, amuses, and integrates our collective beings.
We encourage all participants to show up as you are and be open to the deep listening and witnessing of ourselves, each other, our communities, the world and the Earth, through the sharing, exchange, and experiment of art!
We would love to build community in this way, by expressing our selves freely, and from our deepest places of integrity.
We will gather the 3rd Friday of each month.
Night layout:
7:30 Gather. Tea or warm beverage is offered
8 – 9 Performances
9 – 9:30 Light snack offered, conversation and sharing of ideas encouraged!
*** $3-$10 sliding scale ***
submitted artists get in free
If you’d like to perform we’d love to have you!
You’re performance piece must be less than 20 minutes including your set up and take down time. Please send a preview or description of your performance piece to hannahckrieger@gmail.com and we will get back to you. We will leave about 20 minutes open each week for folx who want to show up day of with a piece to perform.
Hannah Krieger and Michael Lamarche are the organizers and facilitators of the night in coordination with Sarah Slifer Swift and her space at MAGMA. Hannah and Michael are both local artists. Hannah is interested in embodiment work to bring healing and joy to the world, Michael is a film maker and visual artist interested in creative story telling.

Monthly Improv Jam
2018-04-06 17:00 - 18:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Every first Friday of the month, MAGMA hosts an Improv Jam for movers, musicians, actors- anyone who wants to create live art in space in real time. There will be a compositional skills workshop/warm-up from 5-5:30pm, followed by an open Jam from 5:30 – 6:30pm. Feel free to arrive at any time during the jam and stay as long as you want.
Cost is $5

Shotokan Karate
2018-04-05 20:00 - 21:00, 2018-04-03 20:00 - 21:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
MAGMA welcomes the Cape Ann Shotokan Club formed to fill a regional gap for solid Shotokan Karate in a friendly and supportive environment. Classes are mostly run by Matthew Natti, who started his karate training in 1994, under Sensei Peter Young. Matthew also trained extensively in the dojo of Sensei David Johnston (former technical director of the AJKA and current head of San Juan Shotokan). The Cape Ann Shotokan Club is affiliated with the ISKF (International Shotokan Karate Federation) and all members work hard to uphold the ISKF teachings and traditions.
Classes are from 8-9pm Tuesdays and Thursdays
For more info on Shotokan Karate, visit CASC’s website

Sarah Slifer Swift performs at Montserrat College of Art
2018-03-30 18:30 - 20:30 | Montserrat College of Art
MAGMA Director Sarah Slifer Swift is performing at nearby Montserrat Gallery, in collaboration with their sculptural installation “The Beast” by John Preus.

Monthly Dance Social: Bachata with Greg Coles
2018-03-24 19:30 - 21:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Bachata is a partner dance from the Dominican Republic, it is easy to learn and fun to dance! Greg Coles brings us his great dancing skills and warm teaching style to MAGMA for this Dance Social evening.
7:30-8:30pm Lesson
Dance party til 9:30pm
Doors open 7pm
No partner necessary, all experience levels welcome! B.Y.O.B.
$12 in advance BUY NOW
$15 at the door

Greg Coles is a native New Yorker who was raised in Connecticut where he attended Walsh School, The Taft School, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater School, and finished his undergraduate degree at Wesleyan.
Greg’s lifelong study is know how African dance affects identity development, enhances community making and parents almost every other form of dance. At age 12 he was in his first African dance company, The Takata Dancers, and continues to study and teach the (story telling) dances of Mali, Senegal and Guinea, West Africa. In 2000, he visited and danced in Mali.
He is Guest Lecturer of Dance at Tufts University, Visiting Professor of Dance at Salem State University, African Dance Teacher at The Dance Place, Latin Dance Instructor at North Shore Performing Arts Center, and runs numerous classes, public and private entertainment events and school enrichment programs.

Pete Seeger Legacy Sing
2018-03-18 18:00 - 20:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Fifth Annual Pete Seeger Legacy Sing
A community sing-a-long featuring new songs and oldAll Welcome
Free – Donations will be accepted for the March for Our Lives

Workshop: Introduction To Tai-Chi Long Form
2018-03-10 12:00 - 16:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Introduction To Tai-Chi Long Form
with Kampa VaShi Deva
Saturday March 10, 2018 @ MAGMA
All Levels Welcome! No Experience Needed
RESERVE A SPOT
The Classical Yang Family Long Form is a traditional Tai-Chi Chuan form passed down to family members and disciples by the Great-Great Grand Master Yang Cheng-Fu (1883-1936) who is famously known as the father of the 108 Form.
The descriptive meaning of Tai-Chi is “superior-ultimate”. In other literal versions it is known as a “moving meditation” or “moving like a great river”. The word Chuan means fist”. In Chinese texts Chuan also means boxing”. Together Tai-Chi Chuan means Superior-Ultimate Shadow Boxing. This practice is a martial art with slow, relaxed, and flowing movements. It is ideal for those seeking gentle rehabilitative exercises for reducing tension and stress of the body. In today’s modern medicine doctors refer Tai-Chi to their clients for supporting balance and controlling anxiety. Devoted students are known to study Tai-Chi Chuan for “innate power” of your “true nature” through calmness. It is a low impact exercise that emphasizes on balance, grace, and fluidity through motion.
As you learn the late Yang Cheng Fu’s form you will focus on physical body alignments (body structure) and methods of moving (body mechanics) to prevent and heal various injuries as well as making both body and mind stronger more relaxed and focused. The internal frame is largely emphasized with expanded movements specialized in what we refer to as Qi, Energy in the body. (See schedule below)
This class is lead by Kampa VaShi Deva (Sifu Nicanor Snow) founder of the Seacoast Tai-Chi Institute

Alexander Technique with Larry Young
2018-02-20 09:30 - 10:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
The Somatic Tuesday series continues with its deep dive into the Alexander Technique. Join Larry Young for a group lesson.
$15 drop-in/$60 for 5-week series

MAGMA Dance Social: East Coast Swing
2018-02-10 19:30 - 21:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Join Gregory Clarkson, President of Northshore Swing Dance, and Tracey Mitchell for a one hour lesson in East Coast Swing, followed by a dance party where you can try out your new moves. No partner necessary, beginners welcome.
Doors open 7pm
Lesson 7:30-8:30pm
Dance party 8:30-9:30pm
$12 presale BUY TICKETS
$15 at door
B.Y.O.B.

Somatic Tuesdays: Alexander Technique with Diana Glenn
2018-02-06 09:30 - 22:30, 2018-01-30 09:30 - 10:30, 2018-01-23 09:30 - 10:30, 2018-01-16 09:30 - 10:30

M'Bolo
2018-02-03 20:00 - 23:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
M’bolo, meaning “togetherness” in the Senegalese language Wolof, embraces this ethos in the creation of their high-octane hybrid of Mbalax and Rock.
Lead singer/percussionist Cheikh Ngom began singing, dancing, and playing sabar drums at the age of four in the coastal city of Kaolack, Senegal. After performing throughout Africa and Europe, Ngom arrived in the United States, where he founded M’bolo with Dillon Zahner (guitar), Galen Willett (bass), Arone N’diaye (keys), and Beza Gebre (drumset). Guitar, bass, keys, and drums combine to form a rhythmically intricate lattice of propulsive licks, snaking leads, and hypnotizing grooves, punctuated by the rapid-fire attack of the sabar drums.
Live shows are highlighted by the explosive energy of Ngom’s dance moves, fusing his Kaolack roots with a Michael Jackson flair. Their debut album, entitled M’bolo, captures the fiery spirit of their live shows as well as the incantations of their more introspective and meditative chansons.
Doors open at 8pm. B.Y.O.B.
Hear them at www.mbolomusic.com

Dawn Pratson informal performance: Flute Dance
2018-01-28 19:30 - 20:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
“Flute Dance”
Dancer, musician and Dalcroze Eurhythmics specialist Dawn Pratson performs “Flute Dance,” a solo work-in-progress, on Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 7:30 pm at MAGMA, 11 Pleasant Street, Gloucester.
Sarah Slifer Swift and Hannah Krieger will join Pratson in improvisation performance following Flute Dance.

Dawn Pratson, a former resident of Cape Ann, was co-founder of Dancers Courageous dance studio, founder and director of ‘LEVEN, and was an active member of the arts scene of Cape Ann from 1982-2003.
Dawn moved to Philadelphia from Gloucester in 2003 where she resides in historic Old City. She has been working as a music and movement educator and Dalcroze Eurhythmics clinician at Settlement Music School, the Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures Charter School, the University of the Arts, and Temple University, as well as teaching workshops around the country and abroad. She continues to teach in the summers at Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, MA.
Since coming to Philly, Dawn has performed dance with Nicole Bindler, Tara Rynders, Leah Stein, Kathryn TeBordo, sung with Choral Arts Society and Anna Crusis Women’s Choir, played with pianist Jeffrey Nations and violist Soo Kyong Kim, as well as explored her solo and collaborative work weaving music and movement improvisation and composition. She is a member of the Flute Society of Greater Philadelphia and The Philadelphia Recorder Society, and is part of an international on-line dance study group, exploring the use of technology in creative collaboration.
In January, 2017, Dawn collaborated with Gloucester residents Kathleen and Jeremy Adams, along with local and regional dancers to create “Dancing The Woods,” a site-specific dance piece at the Cape Ann Museum. In July, 2017 Dawn premiered a dance-music collaboration called “Voronoi Partition” with Belgium composer Stepha’ne Orlando at the International Congress on Dalcroze Studies in Quebec. She will travel to Belgium this spring, 2018, to continue this collaboration.

Primal Roots
2018-01-27 20:00 - 23:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Join us at the new hot MAGMA studios in Gloucester, MA for the next Primal Roots with Jason Cohen & INCUS. We will be exploring some of our boundaries in the darkness and returning light. Let’s access the deep passionate feelings we’ve been keeping inside and let them out in our dance, music and in our voices.
INCUS will be performing first for a very special set of their powerful brand of music. Then they will be joining Primal Roots for the second half.
Primal Roots is a dance on the North Shore that uses music and art to create an energetic journey of movement and sound. Our intention is to co-create a night of ecstatic bliss and soulful exploration of the mind, body and spirit. This is a barefoot, alcohol-free dance.
$15 in advance or $20 at the door.
About Incus:

Drawing on varying influences both musical and spiritual, Incus stands beyond simple definition in it’s musicality and style.
Incus expresses a willingness to embrace the totality of human emotion. An Incus performance is a gathering of people who come together to live and breathe the fullness of being alive, to raise the energy to move toward ecstasy. The element of fire both illuminates and transforms, and it is this energy that Incus embodies while holding space for people to acknowledge the dark and move toward the light.
The band is equally at home onstage, plugged in or acoustic, in cathedrals with choirs, or at fire festivals and ceremonies around the country. They have gained appreciative followings from these diverse settings. During the last many years, Incus toured countless miles, making music at 100’s of fires and festivals including Burning Man, Envision Festival, Unifier Festival, Gratifly Festival, DiscJam, PermaJam, Zen Awakening, Devotionfest, Boston Green Fest, Firedance, Boston’s Trinity Church and at various venues in the US and in Central America.
Jason Cohen, the visionary force of the band, has been a part of numerous healing and expressive arts rituals around the world and is the producer and artistic curator for Unifier Festival. His knowledge, experience, and training as a ritual facilitator becomes a part of every Incus performance. Jason is also known for his work producing 31 Forestdance gatherings, which have taken place in 7 US states and nine times in Costa Rica.

www.incus.net

www.facebook.com/MusicShapedByFire

www.instagram.com/incus_music

Turnout Against Burnout
2018-01-27 12:00 - 15:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Is your enthusiasm for resistance getting tempered by the cold or the continued barrage of ridiculousness? Come join your awesome new resister sisters and brothers at an indoor picnic! This is just for fun, no agenda, just an opportunity for us to get to know each other better. (Of course we will not stop you from getting work done if the spirit moves you!) Resistance must be fun!
Please bring a pillow or a blanket and your lunch! We will have some tables and chairs for folks who don’t want to sit on the floor.

Burn's Night Ceilidh
2018-01-26 19:00 - 21:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Celebrating Scottish poet Robert Burns in verse, song, and dance. MAGMA partners with Eastern Point Lit House and several musicians to create a wonderful night steeped in Scottish tradition. Calum Bell will lead musicians, and Theo MacGregor will teach the dances, so all can join in on the Scottish ceilidh dance. Family friendly event.
BUY TICKETS $10 per person or $25 per Family.

Techno Dance Party
2018-01-20 20:00 - 23:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
From the makers of S.C.E.N.E. Sunset Hang, Electronic music and DJ night at MAGMA in downtown Gloucester – a historic Ballroom with an epic dancefloor. DJ sets by Noel Snow, Orlando Boom & Radio Skotvoid + live electro set by A Campbell Payne. All Ages. $10 at the door.
MAGMA is an inclusive, non-discriminatory environment, and welcomes participation regardless of dance experience, age, body type, race, sexual orientation, or special needs.

Monthly Dance Social: Forró
2018-01-13 19:00 - 22:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
One hour lesson in Brazilian Forró dance from Wanderson Terterelho & Raisa Abdeen from Os Forrozeiros Dance Group followed by a dance party featuring Forró music.
No Partner necessary. Beginners welcome! BYOB
Doors open 7pm
Lesson starts at 7:30pm
Dance party 8:30-10pm
$15 at door
$12 online presale
www.forrodeboston.com
Facebook: Os Forrozeiros
Page: ForroFest USA
Instagram: osforrozeirosdg

Somatic Tuesdays: Alexander Technique with Diana Glenn
2018-01-09 09:30 - 10:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
$15 drop-in/$60 for 5-week series
As 2017 wanes and the New Year beckons, it seems fitting to reflect on the year winding down and the promise of new beginnings. And time, perhaps, to give the gift of a renewed relationship with yourself, your body, and your spirit.
This is what the Alexander Technique offers.
Realize the benefits of this gentle, no-stress approach to reconnecting with the potential of enhanced mobility, balance, and joy of movement.

“I am eager to spread the benefits of this remarkable approach to wellbeing–one that has been so helpful to me and my students, and that I hope to share with others.” -Diana Glenn
“It was so satisfying to experience a technique so subtle and yet at the same time so dramatic, that helped me move with so much less pain. I will always be grateful to Diana for that experience.” –Student
www.dianaglenn.com

New Year's Day Ballet
2018-01-01 12:00 - 14:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Come join Sarah Sifer Swift for a Beginner/Intermediate combined class. Full ballet barre followed by classical and contemporary ballet combinations. A great way to start 2018 … at the Barre!

NYE Capoeira Roda
2017-12-31 14:00 - 15:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Hey Capoeiristas!
Join us at 2pm for a little training followed by a Roda.
Refreshments to follow.
Hope to see you!

MAGMA closed
2017-12-25
Merry Christmas

MAGMA closed
2017-12-24
Merry Christmas!

New works: Ali Kenner Brodsky and Betsy Miller
2017-12-09 19:30 - 21:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
New works and repertory favorites by Massachusetts choreographers Ali Kenner Brodsky and Betsy Miller. General Admission $15, Students and Seniors $10.
About Ali Kenner Brodsky: www.alikennerbrodsky.com
About Betsy Miller: www.betsymillerdanceprojects.com
BUY TICKETS – general admission
BUY TICKETS – seniors and students
