University Settlement Dragon’s Egg Presents
Lesley Farlow in Flight Patterns It was amazing and glorious, our concert at University Settlement, featuring performances by Egg residents selected from the past two years: Clare Byrne, Nick Leichter, Amy Larimer, Jamie Graham, Ara Fitzgerald, Brynne Billingsley, Amy Larson, Lesley Farlow, Jason Rabin, Claire Porter, Lindy Fines, Breckym Drescher, Rachel Gill, Chelsea Hecht. […]
Dragon’s Egg Presents December 7th
Dragon’s Egg Presents!! On December 7th at 1:30 University Settlement at 184 Eldridge in NYC 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) xo marya Do come join us!! xo marya General Admission: $15 […]
Dragon’s Egg Presents
Dragon’s Egg Presents!! On December 7th at 1:30 University Settlement at 184 Eldridge in NYC Do come join us!! xo marya General Admission: $15 (online), $20 (in person on day of show, cash only) Student/Senior: $10 (online), $15 (in person on day of show, cash only) Special Online Only Discount: $8 (using code […]
Performances by Nee Dance/Theatre
Holding One’s Own: Stories about Living with Breast Cancer Holding One’s Own is a performance based on the collected stories of women living with breast cancer. Using text, dance, movement, acting and music, the performers trace the challenges faced by these women from diagnosis, treatment, and becoming a survivor. Interpersonal relationships convey the gratitude, […]
Dance Showing! Hadar and Shira on 10/23
October 23rd, Wednesday, at 5 pm, at the Dragon’s Egg, 401 Shewville Rd, Ledyard. There will be a showing of work in progress by the upcoming Egg residents, Hadar Ahuvia and Shira Eviatar. The performance will last about an hour, and will be in the nude, so may not be suitable for all. I hope […]
Kickstarter!
Thank you so much for your support of the KickStarter project for the Dragon’s Egg Presents concert on December 7th, at 1:30 pm, at University Settlement, on Eldridge Street, NYC. Wow! I am hugely grateful to all of you! I hope to see you here, there, some place in time. I send love, in […]
Aaron Brando at the Egg
This residency is part of an ongoing exploration of contemplative dance practices & Contact Improvisation intersecting with more verbal/meditative practices i.e. authentic relating, focusing, circling social mediation practice. In Relational Circling, we bring our attention to the connection between people and what arises in ourselves in a social environment. In conversation, we share the intention […]
Hadar Ahuvia and Shira Eviatar will be in Residence at the Egg
HADAR AHUVIA & SHIRA EVIATARPOSSESSING Possessing brings together artists Hadar Ahuvia and Shira Eviatar to collaboratively question their shared, inherited trauma of the Israeli nation-state, asking “How do we move together?” Ahuvia, unpacking Ashkenazi heritage in institutionalized Zionist folk dance, and Eviatar, recentralizing Arab/Mizrahi aesthetics in contemporary performance, incite dialogue around appropriation, legacy, and settler-colonialism. […]
Kickstarter has a Goal
(Marya as the Goat at the Hygienic) 58 backers! 58 hours to go! We are fully funded, and so thrilled and grateful to all of you!! I send love on this first day of Autumn, just after the equinox! (celebrating the light at the Egg) I especially thank the donors to this Kickstarter Project, Dragon’s […]
TedTed upcoming at the Egg!
tedted Performance Group is excited to be in residence at Dragon’s Egg! While in residence the company will be piecing together its smaller ideas (scenes, songs, and dances) into a more complete version of our newest work 95 POEMS. 95 POEMS is a multi-media performance-based work that is set to premiere in Brooklyn, NY […]
Dragon’s Egg Presents
Hi! The Dragon’s Egg (Marya Ursin is organizing and producing) is presenting 8 or 9 artists who have been in residence at the Egg in a concert at University Settlement on December 7th, at 1:30 pm. Here is the FaceBook link: https://www.facebook.com/events/709336096198372/ Please come! xo namaste, marya
Sara Juli at the Egg
The piece Sara Juli has been working on at the Egg this week during her residency at the Egg premiers at SPACE in Portland, ME October 17-19th. Photo was taken by Eric Bandiero Burnt-Out Wife A world premiere of Maine based artist Sara Juli’s latest feminist solo, Burnt-Out Wife. Taking on topics such as monogamy, intimacy, […]
ECHOensemble at the Egg: Showing on 9/2
ECHOensemble will be in residence at the Dragon’s Egg at the end of August, and will have a showing of work in progress on Labour Day, September 2, at 5 pm. Do come! ECHOensemble creates evolving architecture of movement and sound. Together, dancers and musicians become resonant bodies, instruments of space, dissolving their mediums […]
Luke Murphy and Dancers Showing
Luke Murphy and Dancers will have a showing of their work in progress this Friday, August 2nd, at 6 pm, at the Dragon’s Egg! It will last for less than half an hour, and they welcome feedback, so feel free to stay afterwards to chat. I hope to see you there! xo marya […]
Luke Murphy and Company
VILLAINS While on residence Luke Murphy will be developing a new work with video designer David Fishel and dancers Eddie Oroyan, Zoe Gyssler, Omar Gordon and Hsiao Jou Tang title Villains. Villains is a live graphic novel presented through dance, theatre, and animation, exploring the roles of hero and villain in contemporary […]
The Ravine Jaynes have a Showing!
July 7 at 5 pm at the Dragon’s Egg – a showing of work in progress by the Raving Jaynes! 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 […]
The Odyssey that Was
The Odyssey that Was A week has passed, and I think of the stories we told, all dangled from Homer’s tale of journey and adventure and impediment to progress and loyalty and blood and bondage of various sorts and transformation and magic and love. The players made such a rich time for all – for […]
Nadine Showing at the Egg June 29 at 4 pm
The NADINE Project (New Artists Dance in New England) was created to encourage professional choreographers and support their work in a congenial environment. This ‘playground’ residency for making dances is under the mentorship of its founders, Libby Nye and Janet Mansfield Soares. Works created at NADINE Residencies are performed at venues and festivals […]
Amani and Aya in September at the Egg
We are Amani and Aya, two performers, healers, aeralists and stewardess of the land applying for the Dragon’s Egg residency. Below we’ve included our bios and the rest of the application. Thank you so much for taking the time to read our application, we can’t wait to speak more. Who: Amani has dance training […]
Odyssey Project is Coming
We are costuming, excitedly getting ready to be characters and gods from the Odyssey! Come meet Circe and Agamemnon and Polyphemus and watch the storms and pigs at play in the changing times of Odysseus! Come to the Odyssey Project, this Saturday! June 22 at 4 pm at the Dragon’s Egg at 401 Shewville Road, […]
Odyssey Project
The Odyssey Project is This Saturday!! June 22 at 4 pm, at the Dragon’s Egg! The Odyssey – meet Circe and the Sirens and the Cyclops and the persevering Odysseus! Question Penelope. Go to the Council of the Gods. All of this, for you! and all of us – come be our audience for this […]
Raving Jaynes
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 twisted together to transform what waits in the empty space into sweaty stories. Nothing is […]
Summer Dance!
Summer Dance Sampler at the Dragon’s Egg: Wednesdays at 5:30 – 6:30 (unless otherwise noted) June 5 – July 24; each class @$15 Each class is a separate registration, and pre registration is required so that we can see if the class is a “go” or not. If there is not […]
The Odyssey is Coming!
In one month!! on June 22, at 4 pm, at the Dragon’s Egg, will be the Odyssey Project. This is an assemblage performance project in which various artists do a five minute “riff” on the text by Homer. It will include dance, theatre, mask, puppet, monologue. This is a one time only event, and […]
