Autumn Song Swap
2025-11-09 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | MA
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Local singer-songwriters Miranda Aisling, Matt Jenson, and Kara Kulpa are coming together at MAGMA to trade songs and stories. Join them on Sunday, November 9, 2025 at 6:00 pm.
Tickets are available on a sliding scale from $10 – 30 both online and at the door, ensuring everyone has access to this community event. All ticket holders receive equal entry, guests are encouraged to support as they are able.
MIRANDA AISLING
Miranda Aisling (ash-lean)’s mission is to reconnect art to daily life, a purpose you can see through her work as an interdisciplinary artist, community organizer, and creative entrepreneur. Using an art degree from Mary Baldwin University focusing on painting, pottery, and piano and an education degree from Lesley University focusing on community art, Miranda is a professional artist and community arts consultant. Her original folk songs blend frank vulnerability with insightful social commentary. A classically trained pianist who shifted from Bach to the Indigo Girls, she brings the lively spirit of a folk festival to her performances, engaging audiences with a mix of sung and spoken storytelling.
MATT JENSON
Growing up in rural New Hampshire (USA) injected Matt with a deep spiritual connection communicated by the simplicity, beauty and truth of nature. As a child he had the opportunity to visit extended family in Boston and with that cultural exposure, he fell in love with the musical styles of the African diaspora: Jazz, Blues, Reggae and Afro-Latin music. Later as a young man with a penchant for seeking the deeper understanding of life, he became extremely interested in the socio-political-economic and psychological-emotional conditions of human-kind. This, combined with his intense creative drive, provides the bedrock for nearly all of Matt’s artistic output as a talented keyboardist, singer, composer, arranger, educator and producer. He has been on the piano faculty at Berklee College of Music (20+ years) and teaches, among various labs and one-on-one piano lessons, an entire class on Bob Marley. He’s been performing regionally with his Latin and Reggae bands (Mix Up Mix Up, Combo Sabroso, the Liquid Revolution, Rebel Tumbao) and touring, composing and recording with the internationally acclaimed reggae-jazz fusion band, Groundation (2018-2022, the One Rock album). His current musical project brings him back to his love of simplicity, beauty and nature with “Unmarked Routes”, an ambient, neoclassical, dub piano with electronics project, soon to be releasing a new album.
KARA KULPA
“Poetic and soulful” and “A riotously fun time” are just a couple of ways folks have described singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Kara Kulpa. Since the release of her initial EP, Any Given Day, in May of 2005, Kulpa has toured the country as a solo act as well as in conjunction with various other acts. She has shared the stage with nationally recognized artists including Rufus Wainwright and Eddie Money and made a name for herself as a “go to sideman” for those local to or passing through Boston. House of Abundant Kindness House Concert Series said, “Kara Kulpa has a charm and personality that make you want to be her best friend…” Don’t miss the opportunity to see this seasoned and entertaining performer live.

MAGMA Showcase
2025-11-14 19:30 - 21:00 | MA
MAGMA Showcase is our annual performance fundraiser, featuring our adult dance program. Choreographers include Hannah Tupper & Zoe Ulrich, Sophia Dunzelman, Laura Dow, Dawn Pratson, Jillian Chavez-Oliveira, and Sarah Slifer Swift!
Come celebrate our amazing community of dancers and makers. All proceeds go to support MAGMA, enabling MAGMA to best support artists!
Tickets are $15-25 suggested donation BUY HERE
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MAGMA Showcase
2025-11-15 19:30 - 21:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
MAGMA Showcase is our annual performance fundraiser, featuring our adult dance program. Choreographers include Hannah Tupper & Zoe Ulrich, Sophia Dunzelman, Laura Dow, Dawn Pratson, Jillian Chavez-Oliveira, and Sarah Slifer Swift.
Come celebrate our amazing community of dancers and makers. All proceeds go to support MAGMA, enabling MAGMA to best support artists!
Tickets are $15-25 suggested donation BUY NOW

Contact Improvisation Jam
2025-12-06 13:00 - 15:00 | MA
Monthly CI jams, facilitated by Sarah Slifer Swift and guests, plus live music
Saturdays 1:00-3:00pm
January Jam will be on New Year’s Day 2-4pm
Next date, February 14 1-3pm
$10-20 suggested donation SIGN UP ONLINE

Drawn to Life: Embodied Practice Through Movement and Mark Making
2025-12-13 15:30 - 17:30 | MA
Drawn to Life: Embodied Practice Through Movement and Mark Making

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.

Concert: Love Blast
2025-12-21 17:00 - 19:00 | MA
Join the group Love Blast with Greta Bro on vocals, Mitchell Kossak on piano, Fud on bass, Ricardo Frota on violin and percussion, and Nicholas Suchecki on Sax for a Solstice Celebration and Holiday Concert, Sunday, December 21, 5-7pm.
Love Blast is a collective a 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.
Let’s welcome the return of light with dancing, celebration and a blast of love! There will be plenty of seats and also plenty of room for dancing!
Tickets Sliding scale $15-30 BUY NOW

ElektroCabaret: That's a Wrap
2025-12-27 20:00 - 23:00 | MA
$10 cover at the door
DJs Snackzilla and Salomon plus performances and surprises
bring you own refreshments as we will be dancing hard

Ecstatic Dance - Transformations
2025-12-30 19:00 - 21:00 | MA
Join us for a symbolic, intentional journey of transformation through dance, reflection, costume, and play. As we near the new year, we give ourselves the space to reflect on what we can let go of, what we want to celebrate, and what we want to manifest in the future. We transform energy and experience within us to grow the seeds of our own becoming.
The evening starts with an opening circle, followed by Authentic Movement, and then opens up into Ecstatic Dance. Costumes help us embody the spirit of transformation, letting us shift our energy through the night. We will finish with a closing circle.
There will be a place for stretching, journaling, tarot.
Cost $10-20 suggested donation BUY NOW
SCHEDULE:
6:45pm doors open
7pm opening circle
7:10-7:25 Authentic Movement
7:25-8:50 Ecstatic Dance
8:50 Closing Circle/Meditation
9pm end

Feel Good for the New Year
2025-12-31 14:00 - 16:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
with Holly Randall and Sarah Slifer Swift
2-3pm meditation, discussion and face moisturizing/face yoga facilitated by Holly
3-4pm somatic shake facilitated by Sarah
$10-20 suggested donation SIGN UP HERE or at the door
Holly Randall is a Doctor of Nursing, a Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist, and Yoga practitioner.
Sarah Swift is a mindful movement facilitator and the Director of MAGMA.

Hip Hop - starts next week
2026-01-03 13:00 - 15:00 | MA
UPDATE – the series will start next week, 1/10, due to teacher illness today
MAGMA is thrilled to welcome guest teacher Miranda Lawson for a 6-week Hip Hop dance class series. Classes will dive into the foundations of Hip Hop with a focus on musicality, rhythm, and groove. Dancers will explore both choreography and freestyle, honoring Hip Hop’s roots as an improvisational and expressive practice. Expect to sweat, play, and connect through movement and music.
Drop-in $18 / 6-week series $85
1:00-1:45pm Youth class, ages 5-13 SIGN UP
2:00-3:00pm Teen/Adult class, ages 14+ SIGN UP
Miranda Lawson (she/her) is a Boston-based performer, choreographer, and educator whose work lives at the meeting point of contemporary and Hip Hop dance forms. She is fascinated by how these styles challenge and influence one another. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College with a BA in Dance and Psychology, Miranda’s teaching is rooted in curiosity, authenticity, and community-building. Her classes emphasize exploration and connection, inviting dancers to take risks, celebrate their individuality, and stay open to a little goofiness along the way. She currently performs with Urbanity Dance and Phunk Phenomenon, while continuing to create and share her own choreographic work, which has been presented at the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, the Multicultural Arts Center, Tufts University, and the American College Dance Association Conference. Miranda’s practice has been shaped by mentorship through MIDDAY Movement’s BIPOC Professional Dancer Mentorship program (2022–23), her Urbanity X residency (2022), and recognition from the Mass Cultural Council’s Pandemic Relief Grant and the Somerville Artists Fellowship (2023).

Myles Kercher - forward fundraiser - POSTPONED
2026-01-31 19:00 - 20:00 | MA
This event is being postponed, new date TBA

Forward Fundraiser for Creation
This semi-annual fundraiser will support Myles Kercher’s upcoming dance projects and offers the North Shore and Boston community an exclusive view at work currently in development. The evening will feature a new choreographic collaboration between Kercher and Yuniel Betancourt (Paul Taylor Dance Company). Additionally, the program includes a performance of the original solo “face”, alongside a new solo creation.

Following the performances, we will host a brief Q&A session, followed by refreshments.
General admission for the event is $15. Please find link below for more fundraising information and tickets.

https://momence.com/MAGMA/Forward-Fundraiser/129597064

https://gofund.me/95a9d0cce

Burns Night Ceilidh
2026-02-08 16:00 - 18:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Burn’s Night Ceilidh
$25 adults, $10 kids
with musicians Michael O’Leary, Susie Petrov, and Stephen Thomforde
Burn’s Night is a tradition in Scotland (and beyond) to celebrate Scottish poet Robert Burns in verse and song… and we add a generous helping of dance! The room will come alive with wonderfully fun country dances, excellent musicians, and traditional refreshments, for a wonderful night steeped in Scottish culture, for all to enjoy. Feel free to BYOB
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February Song Swap - postponed!
2026-02-22 19:00 - 21:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
The Song Swap will be postponed due to bad weather this Sunday night – new date t.b.a.!
Local singer-songwriters Brian King, Susan Cattaneo, and Miranda Aisling are coming together at MAGMA to trade songs and stories. Join them on Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 7:00 pm.
Tickets are available on a sliding scale from $10 – 30 both online and at the door, ensuring everyone has access to this community event. All ticket holders receive equal entry, guests are encouraged to support as they are able.
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3RIAN KING
“Catch him as his star climbs!” – Time Out New York
Gloucester native 3rian King has performed on stages in NYC, London, Boston, and beyond.
3rian is known for his genre bending songs with lyrics that deeply explore themes of love, sexuality, spirituality, human longing, and connection. His original song “Cold Rain” was covered by soul legend Irma Thomas on a Grammy-nominated album, and his band What Time Is It, Mr. Fox? performed sold-out runs of their musical production “Medusa” at Museum of Science, Boston, and Central Square Theater in Cambridge. Their new album “Live At The Cut” is now streaming on Spotify, AmazonMusic, AppleMusic, and more. www.whattimeisitmrfox.com
SUSAN CATTANEO
With her powerful voice, captivating melodies and finely-crafted lyrics, Susan Cattaneo is one of Boston’s most respected singer-songwriters. Combining vivid storytelling with a modern songwriter’s spin, Susan’s music blends folk, rock and blues with hint of country. Susan won the CT Folk Festival and has been nominated for five Boston Music Awards including Singer Songwriter of the Year, Americana Artist of the Year and Folk Act of Year. She has been a finalist or winner in the country’s most prestigious songwriting and music contests including being a three-time Kerrville New Folk finalist. www.susancattaneo.com.
MIRANDA AISLING
Miranda Aisling (ash-lean)’s mission is to reconnect art to daily life, a purpose you can see through her work as an interdisciplinary artist, community organizer, and creative entrepreneur. Using an art degree from Mary Baldwin University focusing on painting, pottery, and piano and an education degree from Lesley University focusing on community art, Miranda is a professional artist and community arts consultant. Her original folk songs blend frank vulnerability with insightful social commentary. A classically trained pianist who shifted from Bach to the Indigo Girls, she brings the lively spirit of a folk festival to her performances, engaging audiences with a mix of sung and spoken storytelling. www.mirandaaisling.com

Outlaw Championship Wrestling
2026-02-28 18:00 - 20:30 | MA
OCW presents Incarcerated. A full night of matches inside the steel cage!!! Grudges will be fought, titles defended, and the final matches of the Mike Magee Invitational where one wrestler will win a World Title opportunity. Get your tickets before they are gone!!
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Rock Show benefit for the Lily Jean Fund
2026-03-06 19:00 - 22:30 | MA
Come out and support! $15-20 at the door. Proceeds go to the Lily Jean Fund
featuring:
Rawstrum
Cold Start
Horsehands
Matt Farley

Dance on Canvas
2026-03-27 18:00 - 20:00 | MA
​“Dance on Canvas”
Friday, March 27, 6:00-8:00 Reception & Sale
​Carey McKinley moved to Gloucester in 2023 keen to develop ​her visual art practice and discover where it meets ​her dance practice. Taking a hiatus from teaching, ​she opened ​her first-ever visual art studio in 2024 on Main St. The upcoming Reception & Sale features McKinley’s recent work, alongside fellow dancer/visual artist, Sophia Dunzelman. Please join us to celebrate how the dancing body brings dynamic energy and life to the canvas. Free and open to the public. Works on view during studio hours–magma.center for more info.

Mandala Dance
2026-03-28 19:00 - 21:30 | MA
An exciting experimental experience with live music, dancing, singing, spoken word and community art making, facilitated by Lisa Bouchie and Jon Holland.
$15-30 sliding scale, at the door or buy online here

Pouvwa
2026-03-29 14:00 - 17:30 | MA
Pouvwa/workshop and performance – JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS
Jean Appolon Expressions (JAE) is a Haitian folkloric and contemporary-infused dance organization that cultivates hope and healing to foster more expressive and socially just communities through professional performances, education, cultural experiences, and the celebration of the joy of movement for all.
Program at MAGMA on Sunday March 29
2:00-3:30 WORKSHOP FOR ALL • Experience the visceral restorative power of Haitian folkloric dance, drumming, and community building. All-ages and all-levels are welcome.
4:00-5:30 PERFORMANCE & Q&A • Explore Pouvwa, JAE’s multidisciplinary repertory on power, culture, and healing, and learn about the new JAE Dance Center in Boston, the Summer Dance Institute, and the Natural Connections Retreat in Dominican Republic.
Sliding scale $15-$25 / each event. (kids $10)
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MAGMA, 11 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA (elevator access 186 Main St.)
This event is funded in part by generous grants from the Gloucester Cultural Council and the Rockport Cultural Council, local agencies which are supported by Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

Contra Dance
2026-04-10 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 Adrienne Howard on fiddle and Gary Dolinsky on guitar.
$15-25 sliding scale per person, notaflof, under 16 free
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Beginners welcome, come one come all!

Contact Improvisation Jam
2026-04-11 13:00 - 15:00 | 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 Sarah Blacker and Aaron Katz.
$10-20 suggested donation SIGN UP ONLINE or at the door
Musician bios:
Singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, board-certified music therapist and licensed mental health counselor Sarah Blacker, together with her husband Aaron Zev Katz (both from Salem, MA) —a spiritual song leader, singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music teacher & producer —bring their award-winning original music and interactive healing experiences to sacred spaces throughout New England. Both seasoned international touring and recording artists, they understand the nuances of a shared live music experience. As healers and empaths, they understand the deeper needs of humanity and have cultivated a path that allows them a marriage, both literally and figuratively, of their performing and healing worlds.
“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

MAGMA Dance Company: Here Together Now
2026-04-12 17:00 - 18:30 | MA
A collaborative dance concert featuring Dawn Pratson, Sophia Dunzelman, Carey McKinley, Anna Kharaz, Kim Motylewski, Cynthia Williams, Zoe Ulrich, Hannah Tupper, Erika Sutter, Teresa Tobin, Donna Prezzano, Raquel del Rosario, and Sarah Slifer Swift.
Sunday April 12, 5pm
Tix $10-20 sliding scale BUY ONLINE

SING
2026-04-17 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

Drag Trivia
2026-04-17 20:30 - 22:00 | MA
Get ready to slay with drag queens and show off your trivia skills in this fabulous live showdown!

Join us as Closet Case Parties and Lady Carmen Brûlée collab for a night of drag trivia and a dance party. With performances by Carmen herself, Kylie Karma, Hunter Down, Idaho Voila and Dr. Viola Voila!
Test your skills as we quiz your knowledge on general pop culture!
Grab your friends and see who can win! Prizes include cash, tickets to Carmen’s upcoming ‘Mamma Mia!’ show at Club Cafe on April 30th, Tickets to Closet Case’s spring show on April 18th and more! You don’t want to miss out!
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Matt Jenson: Unmarked Routes
2026-04-18 19:30 - 21:00 | MA
Matt Jenson | Unmarked Routes…through sonic hypnogogy
Solo Ambient Neo-Classical Dub Piano with Electronics and the MAGMA Dance Company
Luxuriating in atmosphere and drone-tones of awe and fascination, where thoughts and feelings of division have no safe harbor. A low-lit bath of sound, where iridescent, gauzy melodies collide in slow motion with decolonized electronic soundscapes, a piano, hushed voices and kaleidoscopic dancers, with the lucid assurance that a beautiful outcome will bloom, if together we direct our attention to it.
Matt Jenson has been on the piano faculty at Berklee College of Music for about 2 decades where he also teaches a class on Bob Marley. Many in and near Gloucester may have seen the Berklee Bob Marley ensemble at the Cut that Matt directs. He has toured and recorded internationally with the jazz-fusion reggae band, Groundation and performs locally and regionally with his reggae and Latin bands (Combo Sabroso and Mix Up Mix Up respectively). All of Matt’s music is informed by jazz, blues, Afro-Cuban and reggae styles and this brand new project, UNMARKED ROUTES, maintains these influences but with a completely new sound and feel. The music is at once spacious, sophisticated and beautiful with the intention to take listeners on a sonic journey that is at times gentle and quiet and at other times subtlety intense and rhythmic. It’s what you might hear if Brian Eno jammed with Igor Stravinsky, King Tubby and Sade at Burning Man!
Matt will be performing new compositions and music from his soon-to-be-released double album illuminated by the MAGMA Dance Company and spectacular ‘screen art’ videos.
Tickets: sliding scale $15-35, buy online or at the door
*when buying tickets online: All tickets are will call, just give your name at the door. No need to fill in names of all attendees, you can proceed to checkout without that step.

True Story Theater
2026-04-19 16:00 - 17:30 | 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!
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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.

When the People Could Fly: a Somovement Journey
2026-04-24 18:00 - 20:30 | 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 –
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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 after 6pm, and there is a municipal lot catty cornered from MAGMA.

The Crystal
2026-04-26 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

Latin Dance Social
2026-05-03 18:00 - 20:00 | 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.
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.

Time Travelers Ball
2026-05-09 19:00 - 22:00 | MA
Please join us for MAGMA’s annual fundraiser gala 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
Highlights:
– learn The Charleston and 1930s circle dance “The Big Apple”
– dance performances to live music
– sultry, speakeasy ambiance; signature cocktails and yummy desserts
– support MAGMA’s artistic programming, accessible pricing, and youth scholarship fund

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!
