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Dragon’s Egg Presents was a Thing of Beauty and Breath

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The annual performance I present in NYC of dancers, actors, musicians, who have been in residence at the Dragon’s Egg in the past year, or two, was this past Saturday, Sept. 23rd, at 2 pm, at University Settlement’s wonderful Speyer Hall.

Our lighting designer was Emma Rivera and our stage manager was LD Kelley. Ticket takers were Aarya Tiwathia and her friend, Mia Gomez. (and me). Dan was our able videographer.

The performers – oh the performers – were wonderful!
I celebrate them, and the art that we all love, and love to share.
Thank you to the Kickstarter supporters and to the sold out audience!

May we walk in peace and kindness.
I look forward to seeing you, whenever that may be.

xo namaste, marya

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1. ”Pre-show musical act”The Celestials: Clare Byrne Amy Larimer, Nicholas Leichter, Dan Strauss

2. “BECOMING” (film)
Anabella Lenzu

3. “LIFELINE” Alison Cook Beatty Dance.

4. “Como Las Hortensias: An Excerpt”. Amelia Rose Estrada

5. “Things that aren’t there” TINATA: Brynne Billingsley, Elizabeth Corbett, Penelope Freeh

6. “Forgive Her, Hera” Garet Wierdsma

7. “bouquet” (excerpts) Catherine Messina, rogue wave.

8. “Ode to the Greats: from your favorite disgruntled ex-ballerina”. Falls Kennedy

9. jill sigman/thinkdance

10. “Pilgrimage” (film) Ara Fitzgerald

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Sep 25, 2023 | Categories: Featured, News, Special Events and Performances | Tags: all ages, dance, music, theater | Leave A Comment »

National Theatre Institute makes Masks!

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Mask group in movement

NTI masks almost two weeks ago now – were great! This was our first time returning to building masks, monologues, movement pieces, since covid, so it was thrilling and so rich. The creations were amazing and hugely varied. What a lovely group of students.

xo m

Nti brooms

Sep 25, 2023 | Categories: Featured, News | Leave A Comment »

Stonington Art Walk on September 17

Maryavase

Marya will be roving as a Mystic Paper Beast for the Stonington Art Walk on Sunday! Dan will be sitting at the Merrill House with his critters. Do come – I’d love to see you. Xo m

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Sep 15, 2023 | Categories: Featured, News | Tags: all ages, art fair, clothing, jewelry, mask, painting, sculpting, stroll | Leave A Comment »

Dragon’s Egg Presents – Reservations and Directions

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Greetings!

Hi,

Reservations are now Open for Dragon’s Egg Presents, a concert that will present work by various Egg residents from the last year, at University Settlement, at 184 Eldridge Street, NYC.

For the Dragon’s Egg Presents concert on Sept. 23, at 2 pm,
at University Settlement in NYC,
184 Eldridge St., NY, NY

So that I may keep a list of reservations, please email Me directly with your request,
My email is

mybeasts@aol.com

Please include in the subject line of your email something on the lines of “tickets for Univ Set”.

and you can let me know if you are sending in a cheque.

Paid tickets will be guaranteed, unpaid will be welcomed but if walk ins walk in before you…. all become equal! heh.

Thank you!

You can send a cheque to the Mystic Paper Beasts, or pay via pay pal…
Cheque is actually easier for me to keep track of, plus pay pal takes a fee!

By cheque: written to the Mystic Paper Beasts: 8 Hancox, Stonington, Ct. 06378.
Please identify Univ Set in the subject line.
Reservations will be held in the name of the cheque holder.
@$20.
or
https://paypal.me/dragonseggstudio

Thank you.
namaste, marya

Performers: Alison Cook Beatty, Clare Byrne (Celestials),
Elizabeth Corbett (TINATA), Amelia Rose Estrada, Ara Fitzgerald,
Falls Kennedy, Anabella Lenzu, Catherine Messina,
Jill sigman/thinkdance, Garet Wierdsma

Stage manager: LD Kelley
Producer/assembler: Marya Ursin:
Emma Rivera is our wonderful University Settlement contact.

Directions:
For the Dragon’s Egg Presents on Sept. 23, at 2 pm,
at University Settlement in NYC,
184 Eldridge St.
Here are the closest subway stops:
B/D to Grand Street
F to 2nd Avenue
6 to Spring Street (though this is the furthest “closest” stop)

The theatre is on the second floor. There is an elevator, and I or someone inside the entrance can direct you.
The bathroom is in the basement, also accessible via the small elevator.
There are about 50 -60 chairs in Speyer Hall, and then seating on the floor in front.
Paid reservations – please arrive on time, as many people come in person, without reservations.
We cannot reserve seating beforehand, so come in a timely manner to find a proper seat!
The performance will be about 90 minutes long. There will be no intermission.

Thank you! Xo m

Sep 08, 2023 | Categories: Featured, News, Residencies, Special Events and Performances | Tags: all ages, dance, film, music, residencies, theater | Leave A Comment »

Cancelled: Stroller Scene at the Egg on Saturday, August 19th, at 3 pm

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Stroller Scene showing on Saturday at 3 is Cancelled, because they are fully ensconced in working on the play, and want to keep working.
This is what the Egg is for – the development of work, playing, creating, dreaming.

I have known this group for many years: the founder was a student of mine at the National Theatre Institute! and several of the actors and writers are likewise former nti students!

stroller scene’s mission is to develop and advocate for new plays. We believe in the power of a live audience and craft our work with that in mind. Through providing workshop opportunities, we hope to put plays on the path to receive future productions.

Pageant Play by Jen Diamond, is an exciting new play which we will spend the week developing through various staging concepts to further its growth. It depicts the annual Derby Dolls Pageant in Derby Nevada, a beauty pageant celebrating the women who survived that first harsh winter to found the town – but this year the pageant is troubled.

Come to a showing on Saturday the 19th of August at 3 pm for Stroller Scene!

I have known this group for many years, and the founder was a student of mine at the National Theatre Institute! I am always thrilled to have them. If you have come before, they used to go by Team Awesome Robots, and then, for a year or two, by 1d.

(In the group photo: Back row from left to right: Pat Dunning, Ashley Siflinger, Chris Diercksen, David Lawson, Paige Laross; Front row: Nina Roy, Sam Walsh, Valeria Nacer)

I do hope you can come! yay!! Strollerscene 2023 logo

Aug 16, 2023 | Categories: Featured, News, Residencies, Special Events and Performances | Tags: all ages, movement, original, theater | Leave A Comment »

Open Improv Dance at the Egg!

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“Improvisational Dance Studio at the Egg”
Open to all!

July 18
August 15
September 19

“Come join us from 7:00 to 9:00 pm on the third Tuesday in July, August, and September at the Egg for a chance to dance improv in the presence of other participants. Bring the title of a piece of music or multiple pieces that you know are found in the Apple Music app so that I may play it for you via Bluetooth over excellent speakers. We will give each other 7 minutes to dance for up to 12 participants, factoring in transition time. There will be more time given per dancer if there are fewer participants.
Consider it a chance to be acknowledged for your dancing creativity, whether a beginner or advanced.”

Doug Spaeth is a professional massage therapist, specializing in Hawaiian lomilomi and Thai yoga who comes to us most recently from Austin, Texas, but has called Hawai’i, Washington, Kentucky, Ohio, and Massachusetts his home in the past. He spent his childhood in France where he learned to speak French. He went to college in Ohio to study the biological sciences and has a degree in botany. He enjoys nature photography, swimming, backpacking, and kayaking. Doug’s interest in improvisational dance is multifaceted, having attended dance classes and participated in ecstatic dance events at various intentional communities in California and Oregon. He looks to dance to express emotions in a healthy way, acknowledging every dancer for their intrinsic right to be seen and appreciated for their poetry in motion.

Aug 11, 2023 | Categories: News | Tags: all ages, dance, improv | Leave A Comment »

Marya tells tales at MOAF

Maryavase

Come!

August 12th, from 4-8, to the Seaport, for a series of eclectic offerings – music, drama, dance, and Moi! telling a story in mask.
My time slot will likely be on the early side – like 4:30?
I hope to see you there.
xo marya

https://moafpa.com/

Aug 08, 2023 | Categories: Featured, Special Events and Performances | Tags: all ages, art fair, art painting, comedy, dance, music, seaport, theater | Leave A Comment »

Kickstarter Campaign for Dragon’s Egg Presents is fully funded!!

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We are funded!!! gasp! I am thrilled, and so grateful.
But if you continue to donate, it will continue to be helpful. My kickstarter was to cover about 1/3 of the costs Emoji so more is good!
Feel free to donate, via the link below.
Thank you so much!
And thank you to those who have donated so freely and generously already:
Andy Lynch, Gerry Herman, Ara Fitzgerald, Nicholas Croft, Cynthia Hackett Cobb, Claudia Flynn West, Serinity Young, Michael Kuser, Donna Klucewicz, James Leach, Sarah Maxfield, Wolf, and the Creative Fund.
My deepest thanks for helping to make dreams come alive!
xo marya

And here is the letter re the kickstarter campaign, again.

I have, in the past, offered concerts in NYC in various venues to showcase some of the work from Egg residents, and am hugely excited to do so once again.

Dragon’s Egg Presents will be this fall at 2:00 on September 23rd, 2023,
in Speyer Hall, at University Settlement, on 184 Eldridge Street, in NYC.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dragonseggpresents/dragons-egg-presents

A number of recent artists-in-residence at the Dragon’s Egg will present excerpts from work – solo/duet/group, that will range from song to dance theatre to comic improv to dramatic monologue to music to film.
Among the performers, as currently planned:: Alison Cook Beatty Dance, Clare Byrne and the Celestials, Amelia Rose Estrada, Ara Fitzgerald, Haus of Glitter, Falls Kennedy, Anabella Lenzu, catherine messina/rogue wave, Damian Quinones, jill.sigman/thinkdance, Tinata (Brynne Billingsley, Elizabeth Corbett, Penny Freeh), Garet Wiersdsma.

LD Kelley will be our able stage manager.
Lighting will be by the amazing University Settlement.

Marya Ursin, executive director of the Egg, is thrilled to be organizing/presenting this sampling of the fine work generated at the Dragon’s Egg, offered through the generosity of the performers.

This Kickstarter will help with this particular dream so that it can be actualized with joy and with ease, in such a way that will honor the performers, their work, and the Egg.

I thank you for being present for this particular dream.
May all beings be filled with well being and peace.
namaste, Marya

Aug 08, 2023 | Categories: Featured, News | Tags: all ages, dance, dragon's egg presents, music, nyc, theater, university settlement | Leave A Comment »

Marya at the Seaport!

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The Mystic Art Festival/walk is next weekend,
and, on Saturday, August 12th,there will be performance arts at the Seaport on a small open stage from 4-8!

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I am on as a Mystic Paper Beast at 4:55 for a brief storytelling (15 min)…

Do come!
Mystic Seaport
75 Greenmanville Ave
Mystic, CT 06355

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Aug 04, 2023 | Categories: Featured, News, Special Events and Performances | Tags: all ages, art painting, dance, festival, mask, puppet, theater | Leave A Comment »

Improv Dance at the Egg on Third Tuesdays, from 7-9 pm

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