Seeing Red this Friday
We As Woman The Nuanced Identities of Women in Word and Movement Join us for an evening of artistry, inspiration and activism. We as Woman is an artistic blending of dance, poetry, and music that will illuminate the nuanced identities and lived experience of women. Featuring an inter-generational cast of dancers and movers, the […]
Hallowe’en Dance at the Egg
Remember the Hallowe’en Dance is coming!!! Friday, October 27th, from 6 – 9 pm, family friendly, masks recommended but not required, dance party at the Dragon’s Egg! Come join us!! Suggested donation is $5 – or more! 🙂See you soon!RSVP so I have an idea of how many to expect. mybeasts@aol.com Thank youxo marya
Mystic Paper Beasts
Just an alert for various upcoming Beastie performances: On November 9, we shall be at the Willimantic Library at 6 pm as a part of Tellabration. On November 18th we shall be at Needham, Mass., Library, at 2:30 pm. On November 19, we shall be participating in Tellabration at the Egg at 4 pm. These […]
Wedding at the Egg!
Yay! At the end of September, the Dragon’s Egg will host a wedding! I think this is our third. Yay for love! This is Not an open event, of course, but I wanted you to celebrate, nonetheless. This is what they say: Matt and Holly are getting married! Family friends of The Egg […]
Hallowe’en Family Dance!
Come to our Hallowe’en Dance and Play party on October 27th, Friday, from 6 – 9 pm. Wear a costume, play an instrument, bring some music, snack on popcorn, dive under a parachute, swing on the swings, watch an acro yoga demonstration, play with glee! All ages! Suggested donation: $5.
Belly Dance at the Egg
Belly Dance with Erzulie @ The Dragon’s Egg 401 Shewville Road, Ledyard, CT 06339 Wednesday nights, 6:30 to 8pm, 8 weeks starting Wed., Sept.13, 2017 (no class Wed. Sept. 27) $15 drop in, Prepay $96—a savings of $24!Middle eastern dance or as it’s popularly known—belly dance—is a fun way to get in shape, bond with […]
Nick Checker’s Benefit Performance of Druids
Nicholas Checker will perform a Storybook Theater rendition of a key sequence from his fantasy adventure novel, DRUIDS, Saturday, July 15th, 4:00 PM at the Dragon’s Egg Theatre & Dance Studio, 401 Shewville Rd., Ledyard. This is a benefit performance to help generate funds to offset repair costs for Dragon’s Egg co-owner Dan Potter’s art studio, burnt to the […]
Animal Farm is Coming
Come come to Animal Farm! This Saturday, June 24, at 4 pm – a one time only event! Donations welcome All ages. At the Dragon’s Egg. Park in the far field, and come along the designated path to meet Major and Squealer and Snowball and Napoleon and Boxer and Mollie and Benjamin and Muriel and […]
Kundalini at the Egg
June 28: 5-6 pm at the Egg! Kundalini Meditation. Kundalini: An hour long dynamic meditation from Rajneesh, including shaking, dancing, slow motion, and relaxation. It is an amazing release of energy. Suggested donation: $5 Marya Ursin (BA, MA, MsT, RYT500) is the Director of the Dragon’s Egg, co director of the Mystic Paper Beasts, and […]
Dan’s Kickstarter Update
We are 76% there, and counting! Only 11 days to go! Please do share this project, and help us to be fully funded so that we can re build a studio for Dan. Thank you so much, all of you, for your support and generosity and interest. And thank you to the most recent donors: […]
Animal Farm at the Egg
Animal Farm! June 24th at 4 pm at the Dragon’s Egg Studio, a one time only event! there will be dance and theatre, monologue and song, beasts and commentary! Come one, come all! It will be a lark! or a pigsty! This show is for all ages, by donation, or free. The show should […]
Quality of Touch Workshop
Quality of Touch to Composition: a two-part workshop with setGO Saturday, June 17 at 10 AM – 5 PM Dragon’s Egg, CT In this open-level workshop, we will build a foundation of skills through Contact Improvisation practices and solo movement generation and then, in the afternoon, move into group scores for composing in the moment. You can register […]
Ecstatic Dance at the Egg
Ecstatic Dance – an introductory workshop – will be at the Egg on June 14, from 6:45 – 8 pm. The fee will be $20. Best to rsvp with marya at mybeasts@aol.com. Movement Medicine Workshop with Melissa Cokas and Haley Sharack Find ultimate freedom through synchronizing breath, movement + music, transforming the mundane into the divine. […]
EarthDay was Lovely
Earth Day is Every Day was a wonderful, sweet, event of community gathering, music playing, poetry being shared. There were vendors and people swinging, bacci on offer, lots of conversation and sitting on the deck. There was a nature walk led by Laurie. There was poetry and hooping! And there were Radishes – […]
Earth Day! Sunday, May 21, 1-4 pm
This Sunday!! Come to the Dragon’s Egg celebration of the Earth on May 21, from 1 – 4. There will be vendors and games and psychics and music and dancing and hooping and a nature walk and – you! Community in celebration! I look forward to seeing you here. xo
Marya’s Summer Egg Yoga
SUMMER YOGA 2017: DRAGON’S EGG The schedule will also be posted on our website: www.dragonseggstudio.org Pre registration for the session is requested, and will determine whether or not the class is a “go”. Dragon’s Egg 401 Shewville Rd., Ledyard, Ct. (exit 89, or 90 from I 95) Monday evenings at 5 pm […]
Raving Jaynes in Residence!
The Raving Jaynes will be in residence at the Egg!! May 4 – 7… Now!! The Raving Jaynes:Improvised Dance/Theater is a highly physical improv duo that creates spontaneous theater for intimate spaces. Weaving together techniques from clown, dance and improv, the performers, Jamie Graham and Amy Larimer, play between mediums. Movement, text and sound are […]
Marya at Brandeis
Marya will be giving a Performance/Workshop at Brandeis University on April 30th at 2 pm! Beasts arise in story and movement and song!
Come to the Egg!
All the seasons are the perfect ones! The Egg welcomes you, and your dreams. Photo Credit- Giulia Carotenuto
That Was the Hygienic Egg
The Hygienic Egg was a remarkable look at the poetry of Adrienne Rich on the part of dancers, hoopers, poets, monologuists, singers! The event moved from the entrance area, where, after Marya greeted everyone, She read a portion of the forward to the collected poems of Adrienne Rich- up to 1974, a sort of […]
Hygienic Egg
Come to the Hygienic Egg!! on March 12th, at 12:30 pm, at the Hygienic Galleries in New London. A group of performers associated with the Dragon’s Egg will be responding to the work of the poet, Adrienne Rich, in this promenade performance work. Among those artists participating will be Cristin Cawley […]
Cristin Cawley in the Hygienic Egg
Cristin will be dancing to one of the poems of Adrienne Rich in the upcoming Hygienic Egg, on March 12th, at 12:30 pm, in New London, Ct. Please join us! Movement notations on the poem “Final Notations”. An interpretation of Adrienne Rich’s work, which portrays an individual dealing with struggles internally, socially, politically. […]
Hygienic Egg 2017
March 12th, 12:30 pm, at the Hygienic Galleries in New London, Ct. The Hygienic Egg, an assemblage project which takes place at the Hygienic Galleries in New London, under the auspices of, and with performers from, the Dragon’s Egg circle of performers and friends, will take place on March 12th. Performance at 12:30. The performance […]
Clare Byrne in December 2016
Clare Byrne and dancers/musicians were at the Egg in late December. I had to remove the posting I had put up for this, as the website had been hacked, so now I am again posting a little summary of this amazing residency and offering. Clare Byrne returns to the Egg for her yearly winter […]
