MAGMA

Day of Dance 2
2023-08-13 09:30 - 15:45 (America/New_York)
Day of Dance 2 – August 13th – MAGMA Gloucester
9:30 – 10;30 BARRE ON THE MAT ~ All Levels ~ Sarah Slifer Swift ~ $15
10:45 – 12:45 ~ JAZZ ~ Intermediate ~ Jeannette Neill ~ $25
1:00 – 2:30 pm ~ JAZZ ~ Intermediate ~ Jim Viera ~ $25
2:45 – 3:45 pm ~ TAP ~ Beg/Intermediate ~ Laura Dow ~ $15
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Advance registration and payment is very helpful! To register, just send an email to jeannette@jndance.com stating which classes you will take.
PAYABLE BY:
*CHECK ~ payable to Jeannette Neill
*VENMO ~ @jeannette-neill
*CASH
$5 DISCOUNT for ANY 2 CLASSES / $10 DISCOUNT for ANY 3 or 4 CLASSES

*FREE PARKING in GLOUCESTER on SUNDAYS!
Sarah, Jim, Laura and I look forward to seeing you, in August, at another memorable dance experience!
DAY OF DANCE ~ GLOUCESTER ~ AUGUST 13th 2023
Always,
Jeannette XOX
Jeannette Neill

Undertale Live!
2023-09-15 19:00 - 21:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Friday September 15
Reset Button presents “Undertale Live!”
Soundtrack played by brass band as video game is played live.
Featuring students from Gloucester Student Band
Doors open at 7pm
Performance is 7:30pm-9:30pm
$10 per person (in advance and in person) BUY TICKETS

Food available for sale by Crepe du Jour
Non alcoholic kombucha available for sale by Pigeon Cove Ferments

NIA Dance Workshops
2023-09-22 18:30 - 19:30, 2023-10-21 16:00 - 17:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
A Somatic journey :: SEPTEMBER 22 Friday 6:30pm – 7:30pm
AND OCTOBER 21 Saturday 4:00pm- 5:00pm

Alice Heller collaborates with Blue belt Nia sister Angela Mucci to offer 2 distinct and heartfelt and fun somatic dance workshops this fall at MAGMA.

To register : contact Alice 617-620-7654

Cost: $18 single workshop
both September &October events : $30 in advance
Venmo: Alice-Heller-1
or
Paypal : Angela Mucci -Angela.mucci@gmail.com

Now and Again
2023-09-23 19:30 - 20:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Now and Again
An evening of Dance and Music
with Locomotors (Dawn Pratson and Michael Joviala)
and Madeline Cantor
Tickets $20, available online presale (link below) or at the door, cash only
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Feel, Show, Tell
2023-10-15 14:30 - 15:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Reflect inward & process outward. The event will include meditation, guided discussion, physical exploration, and an informal showing of an excerpt of the
professional work. All bodies all ages (12+) , and levels of movement experience are welcome.
Pay what you can!
Please register HERE

POSTPONED Infinite Wet Secret + Gavriloprincip
2023-10-21 20:00 - 22:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Show postponed due to illness. Stay tuned for a reschedule.
The Infinite Wet Secret (Boston)
Big Howard (Gloucester)
Gavriloprincip (Gloucester)
Doors 8pm, Music at 8:30
$10 at the door – cash or Venmo only

Workshop with Michael Figueroa
2023-10-22 14:30 - 16:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Dance workshop with Michael Figueroa, Director of Ruckus Dance
The class will consist of set exercises for muscular engagement and coordination, high kicks, across-the-floor improvisations (guided or task-based), learning of phrase material, and some floor work. The class is designed to activate and develop intuitive/instinctual decision-making skills when moving through forms and disciplines, improve recall of long movement phrases, and instill a desire to take risks. Through repetition, we interrogate action and sweat. I encourage you to treat choreography as improvisation and improvisation as choreography. Class is recommended for people with a general movement practice or two years of dance experience. $15-25 sliding scale.
more about Michael: https://www.ruckusdance.org/

Nadine Moody Masterclass
2023-11-04 15:00 - 16:45 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Adult Intermediate Ballet Masterclass with Nadine Moody
with live music! Accompanist, Matt Jenson
Nadine Moody danced with Agnes DeMille American Heritage Dance Theater, Ruth Page International Ballet and Radio City Ballet. She was featured in “Casino de Paris” at the Dunes Hotel and in “Hallelujah Hollywood” at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. She taught ballet at Steps and Alvin Ailey in NYC, as well as Floor-barre for Zina Rommett. Don’t miss this Intermediate level masterclass for adults and teens ages 12 and up.
$20 – Reserve your spot HERE

Visual Art/Performance event - MONSTER
2023-11-10 19:00
This art exhibition will include visual art and performance from the artist’s latest work; Monster. The work is a look into how we shape and can be shaped into destructive beings through environment, people and our own downfalls; how mental illness contributes to the destructive behavior and how it evolves as time passes.
This show will feature the documented images of the original Monster performance as well as the final conclusive performance art piece.
Tickets $10 BUY HERE

Day of Death
2023-11-11 18:30 - 22:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
All Ages show feat.
Yung Magoo, ICNTCRY, Azarath, Milly G, Kehz, Still Strange, Willy D, Technical Ash, Boopie da Menace
Doors 6:30pm
$8 presale BUY HERE
$10 at the door (cash or Venmo only, no CC)

The Future of Climate Change
2023-11-16 18:30 - 20:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
The Future of Gloucester Series is a selection of panels focused on looking towards our next hundred years. The second panel of our series, The Future of Climate Change, will feature representatives from a selection of local communities and programs to discuss perspectives, threats to our community, and solutions we should be focusing on. Please join us at this FREE, open to the public event!

This discussion will be moderated by Maureen Aylward, Director of TownGreen. Panelists will include: Jayne Knott (President of HydroPredictions), Eric Hutchins (NOAA Biologist), Tucker Smith (cofounder of Cedar Rock Gardens), & Veila Wrinn (Student at GHS)

SING
2023-11-17 18:15 - 19:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
SING is our monthly, participatory signing event facilitated by Lisa Bouchie. No musical training necessary, just the desire to sing with others!
$10-15 suggested donation at the door

Dance Performance - My Guide to Feeling It All
2023-11-18 19:30 - 21:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
MY GUIDE TO FEELING IT ALL
Informal Performance from The Click
Purchasing in advance is strongly recommended: event registration page here

This contemporary dance work, created by Angelina Benitez for The Click, examines the intersection of shame and price, love and grief, anxiety and excitement, carefully holding space for the many contradictions and paradoxes that make up the human experience. Original music by Adam Matthew; dance performances by Angelina Benitez, Katrina Conte and Alexandria Nunweiler

Flow
2023-11-20 19:00 - 20:15 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Flow is an embodied dance party, where the lights are low, the music inspiring, and vibe is high. We start with a 20 minute guided warm-up, and the rest if the time is open for your freeform movement. Stretching area as well as big, open dance floor. Skip the warm-up if you prefer. Just come and dance!
Every Monday
$10 suggested donation – SIGN UP

Pie Day Mandala Dance
2023-11-24 13:00 - 15:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Friday Pie day Mandala Dance is more than just a dance, this is a co-created community event of body, mind, and spirit. Live music, drumming, spoken word, and a mandala are pieces of the experience, come be a part of the whole. There may even be some pie!

Led by Jon Holland and Lisa Bouchie

25$ suggested donation

All Ages rock show
2023-11-25 19:30 - 22:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Join us for a post-punk music fest, with ….
Horsehands
Gavriloprincip
Big Howard
Drug Deal Gone Bad
7:30pm doors
$5-10 sliding scale
All Ages!

Scribble presents Shadow
2023-12-02 19:00 - 21:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
The Scribble art collaborative strikes again with another multimodal show, this time exploring the prompt “Shadow.” Works from Erika Sutter, Deb Hardy, Nick Neyeloff, Michael Lamarche, Rochelle Lamarche, Sophia Dunzelman, Jon Holland and more.
$15 suggested donation at the door. n.o.t.a.f.l.o.f.
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Image by Erika Sutter

The Crystal
2023-12-10 16:00 - 18:00
The Crystal is an Authentic Movement/Improvisation score. It includes automatic writing, sound score creating, witnessing, and movement.
Suggested donation $15
Facilitated by Lisa Bouchie

FLOW
2023-12-11 19:00 - 20:15
FLOW is a free dance/ecstatic dance evening that meets every Monday. We begin each session with a 20 minute guided warm-up rich with imagery and playful prompts to get us acclimated and embodied. Then the guidance falls away and the fantastic playlist supports and inspires our freeform dance in an energetic arc through the evening.
No dance experience required, all are welcome.
$10 at the door, or register in advance here

Persistence is Us
2023-12-30 19:00 - 23:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Persistence is Us is a concert of electronic music, ambient music, dance, painting, and more.
Doors 7pm, All ages
Cost: $15 at the door (cash or Venmo)
Or in advance here

New Years Day Ballet + Sip
2024-01-01 12:00 - 13:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Join us for a noontime all levels Ballet class for adults and teens 14+, followed by sparkling cider, water, or cava. Celebrate the new Year with dance and community!
$18 RESERVE SPOT NOW

New Year's Day Drum and Dance
2024-01-01 15:00 - 17:00
NEW YEAR’S DAY DRUM + DANCE, 3-5pm
Jon Holland and Lisa Bouchie will be holding a drum jam session from 3-4pm, followed by a freeform dance from 4-5pm. This is also an introduction to a new, regular Monday evening drum class that will start the following week from 5:45-6:45pm. Donations welcome.

SING
2024-01-19 18:15 - 19:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Sing in community!
SING is an improvisational evening of singing led by Lisa Bouchie. No musical experience is required.
$5-15 sliding scale donations at the door

Burns Night Ceilidh
2024-01-27 19:00 - 21:00
Burns Night is a tradition in Scotland, celebrating the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) – and we’ll be joining the celebration here in Gloucester, with live Music from Michael O’Leary, Susie Petrov, Stephen Thomforde, and other guests. We will also be learning some Scottish Dances and take the dance floor for a waltz or two. And of course there will be haggis!
After the official program we will be opening the floor session-style, so bring your instruments/voice and share a tune, a song, or a poem.
$20 per person
Buy tickets online AT THIS LINK
or at the door (cash or Venmo only)
B.Y.O.B. and wear your kilt or tartan if you have it
Movement Impaired access through 186 Main Street, elevator to 5th floor

Tint and Texture
2024-02-24 19:00 - 20:00
MAGMA presents “Tint and Texture: Dances Made for the Moment,” an evening of choreography and improvisational dance and music, directed by Sarah Slifer Swift and Dawn Pratson, with dancers Lisa Bouchie, Jiliian Chavez​-Oliveira, Sophia Dunzelman, Myles Kercher, Anna Kharaz, Carey McKinley and Cynthia Williams.
Installation artwork by KayeLynn Johnson-Shoucair
A reception will follow the performance
Tix $15 BUY ONLINE

The People Danced on Film
2024-03-01 19:00 - 20:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
“The People Danced” project looks into the living memory of the history of social dance in Gloucester, as part of Gloucester 400+. It is a collaboration between Project Director Sarah Slifer Swift, the Gloucester Cultural Initiative, and filmmaker Casey Buckles. Come see the debut of two original films that are reflections of live events that took place in October 2022 and July 2023, plus the launch of “The People Danced” website, with an interactive opportunity for people to share memories of social dance on Cape Ann.
This event is FREE to the public

Dance Team Audition
2024-03-02 13:00 - 14:00
The MAGMA Dance and Performance Team, which meets for rehearsals on Saturdays from 12:30-2:30pm, is an amazing opportunity to grow your talent and skills as a dance/movement artist. Work with professional mentors to help you guide and challenge you as you create your own choreographies. The Spring Session session runs March 23 through June 16. Cost: $75/month for MAGMA students, $100/month for non-MAGMA students.
Ages 9-18 are invited to audition.
Dance Team is an audition-based group
IN-PERSON AUDITION: March 2nd, 1-2pm, at MAGMA
STEP 1: REGISTER – the registration is free. You must register here whether doing in-person or video audition.
STEP 2: Attend live audition on March 2nd, or submit video audition NO LATER THAN March 1.
For video, email sarah.slifer.swift@gmail.com, and attach video via Google Drive or other large file sharing method. Video should be about one minute in length and have you dancing your own of someone else’s choreography, or improvising.

BDT Fundraiser Performance
2024-03-16 17:00 - 20:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Join us for a very special collaboration between Boston Dance Theater, MAGMA, and Matthew Swift Gallery to benefit Boston Dance Theater’s fifth season.
Taking place on March 16 from 5PM-8PM, and hosted by Movement Arts Gloucester MA (MAGMA) and Matthew Swift Gallery, this event will feature a new new, plant aware dance performance and visual art from Boston Dance Theater & Kim Radochia, as well as other pieces from BDT’s rep.
Following the dance performance at MAGMA, drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be served across the street at Matthew Swift Gallery from 6:30pm on, where attendees will enjoy discussions with the artists, encore presentations and the culinary delights of Timothy Hopkins Catering.
Tickets are on sale NOW, priced at $300 and include:

Live performances at the event
Heavy hors d’oeuvres + Drink
a percentage will be tax deductible

Dancehall Workshop
2024-03-28 18:30 - 19:30
We’re hosting a 4-class Dancehall workshop series with Jeff Jean-Phillipe to bring the heat this Spring!
Dancehall is a high-energy style of dance emanating from Jamaica. These workshops will be open to all experience levels, working on the basic moves and rhythms in the style.
$20 per class, or $65 for all 4 classes
DATES: March 28, 6:30-7:30pm SIGN UP
April 7, 4-5pm SIGN UP
April 18, 6:30-7:30pm SIGN UP
May 2, 6:30-7:30pm SIGN UP
About Jeff Jean-Phillipe: Jeff Jean-Philippe, a versatile artist, is quickly becoming one of New England’s premier Hip Hop educators and choreographers. Originally from Montreal, Quebec, and living in northern Massachusetts, Jeff’s passion for the art of dance grew quickly while studying under some of North America’s top and original Hip Hop teachers, including Amari Marshal, Super Dave, Jamar Hopkins, and Brian “Footwork” Green. His training in hip-hop and street dance culture is extensive and includes dancehall, break dancing, Chicago footwork, house, popping, locking, animation, whacking, Afro-house, Krump, and more.
Jeff has taught at a series of masterclasses, workshops, conventions, and colleges throughout the East Coast and Canada; Jeff also judges at various dance competitions and battle events. His high-energy classes strongly focus on Hip-Hop foundation, technique, and fundamentals keeping the essence of the culture and contemporary and modern elements. He is also the leading pioneer of a new form of Latin dance called, Kimpada, which is a fusion of Kizomba, Kompa, Bachata, and Zouk.
Jeff has performed with numerous local dance companies from Boston, in ballets, in commercials, and on tv shows (SYTYCD season 12, top 30), as a backup dancer, and in musicals. He Has recently been featured in music videos of big names such as the hip-hop artist Joyner Lucas and The legendary Dancehall artist Mr.Vegas. Jeff is the founder and director of his own hip-hop, contemporary/modern-focused company, The Expressive Movement, which recently toured the East Coast, Canada, and went international.
Since opening his business, “Our Space” a holistic and multicultural Arts center, Jeff enjoys sharing his knowledge and passion for art, holistic wellness, and Afro-diosparic lineage, most importantly, guiding, coaching, and mentoring the health and wellness of all humans.
