MAGMA CLOSED
2019-06-30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
MAGMA is closed June 30 – July 6 for refinishing of the wood floors!
We reopen Sunday July 7 with Capoeira at 2pm

MAGMA CLOSED
2019-07-01, 2019-07-02, 2019-07-03, 2019-07-04, 2019-07-05, 2019-07-06

OmDrum
2019-07-11 16:30 - 17:30, 2019-08-08 16:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Join Pashawari and OmDrum at the amazing space at MAGMA Gloucester. donation, $15 per class (sliding scale). bring your own drum, or rent one for $5.

Improv Jam
2019-07-12 17:30 - 19:00, 2019-08-09 17:30 - 19:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
The monthly improv jam is open to musicians, movers, poets, actors, performance artists: anyone who wants to co-create live art in real time.
Schedule is as follows:
5:30- 6pm warm-up, composition skills, conversation
6-7pm open jam
$5 suggested donation

Nia with Alice Heller
2019-07-13 10:00 - 23:30, 2019-07-20 10:00 - 11:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Nia with Alice Heller
Saturdays July 13 & 20
10-11:30am
with live drumming
Take a movement journey with Alice Heller this Summer!
Combining the body’s design in movement through Nia (a blend of dance, martial arts and yoga) with the exhilarating power of African dance to live drumming —
Alice Heller will integrate a full body experience set to recorded music and live drumming.
$20 per class in advance, $24 at the door
$35 FOR BOTH in advance
register at www.magma.center/schedule
or in the studio

All Ages Rock Show
2019-07-13 18:30 - 22:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Automatic Shoes/Noel Rudloff/Horsehands/The Year 1917/Heaven Cat

Magma Rock Show #5
With
Automatic Shoes!
Pop Psych Punk from down the street
https://automaticshoes420.bandcamp.com/album/crimps-automatic-shoes-split
Horsehands!
The Mighty return of the greatest guitar player from the island 🌴 now with mill city attitude
https://horsehands.bandcamp.com/
Noel Rudloff & The Scabs
The Dream of The Nineties Is Alive In Marblehead
https://m.soundcloud.com/noel-rudloff/sly-stoned
The Year 1917
Formerly some angry Golfers softening up with age and wisdom
https://m.soundcloud.com/daemundo/sets/golfers-demo-may-2019
Heaven Cat
Sound Cloudz of Smokey Experiments from young bloods from the Viz
https://m.soundcloud.com/yojamewhatsgood/sets/descent-prod-youngcasperr
Plus a live painting demo from Jon Sarkin!
@Magma
11 pleasant st
Gloucester
Top Floor
(If you need assistance with an elevator please email director@magma.center or rileyknispel@yahoo.com)
All Ages
No Booze
6:30 Doors
Bands on at 7:30 sharp
5-10$ donations
All Proceeds go to RAICES
Run Around and dance like a manic
I DARE YOU!

Dance Performance: Giselle Ruzany
2019-07-20 19:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
An informal dance performance with Giselle Ruzany

Giselle Ruzany, Gestalt Therapist, Professor of Dance at GWU, and current PhD candidate at Lesley College, brings a performance of her current research to MAGMA for an informal performance evening. The evening will include live performance, original dance films, and a dance improvisation with MAGMA Director Sarah Slifer Swift. $5-10 suggested donation.
www.gestaltdance.com/en
children welcome, free of charge under 12

SING
2019-07-26 18:30 - 19:45 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Let’s sing together for fun, for community, for the magic that happens when we unite our voices in song. Using both free form exploration and improvisational structures we will play with the amazing acoustics in a magnificent dance studio. No experience necessary, just the desire to sing.
$5

Children's Summer Dance Weeks begin!
2019-07-29
REGISTER

Army of Sass Heels Class
2019-08-02 19:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Taught by Eric Lilienthal of Army of Sass

Rock Show
2019-08-03 19:00 - 22:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Mello All Ages Show to cap off the summer.
Totality
https://youtu.be/K9HSEkEy-Lg
Come See Cape Ann’s finest before they scatter in the fall
Winter Jogger
https://winterjogger.bandcamp.com/
Performing as a two piece for this and making you face your feelings
Reilly Somach
https://reillysomach.bandcamp.com/releases
Solo Tunes from a dude with a really cool name.
Ditch Lily
https://ditchlily.bandcamp.com/
On Tour From MI !
All Ages
Suggested Donations 5$-10$
Doors at 630
11 Pleasant st (Top Floor*)
Gloucester

YA Bachata Night
2019-08-04 19:00 - 21:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
21 and under Bachata night
Doors at 7pm, Dance lesson at 7:45pm

MAGMA @ Manship
2019-08-10 17:00 - 20:00
Saturday, August 10
5:00 – 8:00 pm
The Second Annual Prometheus Gathering will take place around the Stone Circle in the garden of Starfield.
Join us for a magical evening as we celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Paul Manship’s purchase of a “certain estate situated in Lanesville.”
This will be a festive Paris Salon with French-inspired fare and libations.
Come experience a Paris Salon with Tableaux Vivants by
Gloucester Stage Company Ensemble as a Commedia dell’arte troupe
Minori Ishikawa as Monet’s La Japonaise
Brian King + Nathan Cohen in a musical dialogue with Manship’s work
Sarah Slifer Swift + MAGMA performers recreating Matisse’s The Dance
AND
the first glimpse of Manship Resident Artist Will Pappenheimer’s site-specific Augmented Reality (AR) piece. Link to four-minute video about Will and AR.
Individual tickets are $125.* Checks can be left at the entrance when you arrive or you can mail your check to MARS, PO Box 7071, Lanesville, MA 01930. There is also the option of purchasing tickets online via PayPal: www.paypal.me/ManshipArtists.
Please let us know who is coming so we can have your nametag ready!
There is no PARKING on site. PARKING has been arranged at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church and the Orthodox Congregational Church on Washington Street. A shuttle will take you from the church parking lots to the property or you may walk.
Email info@ManshipArtists.org or call (978) 290-8438 to learn more.
The Prometheus Circle is a donors’ circle consisting of those who are ongoing supporters of MARS and who contribute a minimum of $1000.
Please RSVP by AUGUST 2.
Tickets can be purchased until August 6 or until capacity is reached.
*MARS is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Contributions made to MARS are tax deductible within the guidelines of the IRS code. $90 of the purchase of a Prometheus Circle event ticket is valid as a tax deductible contribution.

Day of Dance - Jeannette Neill
2019-08-11 09:00 - 17:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
2nd annual Day of Dance in Gloucester!
Come and dance the day away with us -and then enjoy all the beauty Gloucester has to offer!

Join me and this fabulous faculty for a heavenly day of dance!
*Single class, Half day, AND Full day options available
*FREE Sunday parking at all street meter and parking lots in Gloucester!

African Sabar Dance Workshop
2019-08-17 15:30 - 18:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Come to MAGMA for this special African Dance workshop in the Sabar style with Master Dancers and Drummers Malick Ngorn, Cheikh Mu Ndow, and Papa Sy.
Beginner class is 3:30-4:45pm, All levels class is 4:45-6pm.
Cost: $16 for one, $30 for both
Party/BBQ to follow!

Heels Class
2019-08-23 20:00 - 21:30
We welcome back Eric Lilienthal of Army of Sass for another Heels Class at MAGMA! All genders, ages, abilities welcome – just bring your fire!
(and your heels if ya got ’em)

DogMa presents: Bayliss by Salt and Sun
2019-08-24 19:00 - 21:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
DogMa presents its highly anticipated second event, “Bayliss by Salt and Sun,” an interdisciplinary celebration of the work of writer, philosopher, and Gloucester legend Jonathan Bayliss. A creative collaboration between Dogtown Books and MAGMA, this event features local writers and leaders who will share performative readings of Bayliss’ most breathtaking works, in combination with the creative possibilities of movement, visual art, and live music.

doors 6:30 PM, show 7:00pm
at Magma, 11 Pleasant St., Suite 64
Gloucester, MA 01930
Tix $10 – BUY NOW

DogMa is a collaboration between Dogtown Books and MAGMA, supporting multidisciplinary projects and synergistic events in language and performance.

MAGMA is a center for movement practices where people of all ages can discover, develop, and create in a broad curriculum of movement styles. https://magma.center/

Dogtown Books is a locally owned, independent, used bookstore serving Gloucester since 1997. Our Mission is to be the best destination for Gloucester’s local and visiting readers, writers and creatives, and to connect people with the books that they will love.
https://www.dogtownbooks.com/

SING
2019-08-30 18:30 - 19:45 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Let’s sing together for fun, for community, for the magic that happens when we unite our voices in song. Using both free form exploration and improvisational structures we will play with the amazing acoustics in a magnificent 1890s ballroom. No experience necessary, just the desire to sing.
$5 suggested donation

MAGMA CLOSED
2019-09-01 - 2019-09-02
Closed Sunday and Monday of Labor Day Weekend
We re-open September 2nd with the Adult Fall schedule
Children’s classes begin September 16

Adult Fall Schedule segins
2019-09-03 08:00 - 17:00

Parent's Information Night
2019-09-06 17:00 - 18:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
At the Parent’s Info Night, we will discuss all aspects of the MAGMA program including teaching philosophy, training practices in each class, dress and conduct code, scholarship program, class calendar and holiday breaks, recital information, as well as time for Q & A from parents. Attendance is strongly encouraged for all families enrolling in the Fall, and also open to parents interested in learning more about our Children’s Program.

The meeting will take place at the studio from 5-6pm on Thursday September 5th, entrance 11 Pleasant Street. For movement impaired access, the elevator in Brown’s Mall is available via door just to the right of MAGMA entrance, or through 186 Main Street.

This event is intended for parents/caregivers only.

Children's Fall Classes Begin
2019-09-16 08:00 - 17:00
