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. […]
Earth Day is Every Day – Come to the Egg on May 21
We shall celebrate Earth Day at the Dragon’s Egg on Sunday, May 21st, from 1 – 4. There will be vendors, psychics, hooping, games, nature walk, community! And M and M’s, of course. Please join us! namaste, and may you walk in peace.
Summer Dance Sampler at the Egg
There will be a Dance Sampler in June and July on Wednesdays in the late afternoon/early evenings. June 7 5:30- 6:45 Restorative Yoga with Priscilla Humphrey June 14 Ecstatic Dance Medicine June 21 6 – 7: Zumba Sampler with Monica Bengtson June 28 5-6 pm Kundalini Dynamic Meditation, guided by Marya, $5 donation, […]
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 […]
Grant Jacoby and Dancers in Residence
Grant Jacoby and Dancers will be in Residence at the Dragon’s Egg from May 31- June 2 – that is to say – now! Grant Jacoby is a New York City and Boston based choreographer, performer, and teacher. He was born and raised in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Connecticut College with a […]
Clare Byrne in Residence
Clare Byrne – dancer, songwriter and choreographer – is working on a solo sabbatical project “Song and Dance Man.” Freshly back in the States from artist residencies in Ireland and Italy, she’s tossing together her longtime experimental dance acumen with her newer musical skills and seeing what kind of alchemy results. New […]
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 […]
Julia Greer and Shelby Green in Residence!
Julia Greer and Shelby Green are both alums of the National Theater Institute and Kenyon College. They have worked together in New York City with The Hearth, Julia’s company dedicated to making plays by and making room for women. Julia has most recently been seen in Gaming and Crying and Dreaming and Gaming at Dixon […]
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!
Julian Barnett and JocelynTobias at the Egg in May!
Julian Barnett and Jocelyn Tobias create performances that examine the social-political possibilities for transformation and empathy, through the lenses of dance, philosophy, musicology, science, and the supernatural. Over the last 6 years, they have built critically acclaimed works that research the intersection between art and choreography. Their most recent work BLUEMARBLE, explores the astrophysical phenomena […]
Shura Baryshnikov and Company
Shura Baryshnikov Residency at the Egg coming up! Set Go Research and Performance Ensemble is a Contact Improvisation quartet featuring dancers Bradley Teal Ellis, Sarah Konner, Aaron Brandes, Shura Baryshnikov. Brando, Bradley, Sarah, and Shura share a love for whimsical, whole-hearted, virtuosic improvisation; they have been dance-making together since 2009. They […]
Raving Jaynes
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 […]
TAPAS in Residence, under Matt Garza
The Department of Dance & Movement Arts at TAPA: Trinity Academy for the Performing Arts will be on residency at the Dragon’s Egg this month. The Dragon’s Egg has become a sacred space for TAPA’s dancers to reflect, create, collaborate, meditate, improvise, play, and process conceptual work against the backdrop of the Egg’s vitality, […]
Tara O’Con
Tara O’Con and dancers were in Residence at the Egg in mid February! Dancing on the floor, enjoying the environs! Photos are by 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 […]
Kellie Lynch and ECDC at the Egg
Yay – an upcoming premiere: “If You Knew You Then” Choreography by Kellie Ann Lynch in collaboration with ECDC dancers. Shows: March 31, April 1, 7, 8 | Fri & Sat | 7pm & 9pm shows. If You Knew You Then is a patchwork reconstruction of circumstances evolved from revisiting past behaviors and memories […]
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 […]
The Hive
Shannon Sexton Potter and the Hive were in residence at the Egg, while the website was down. Here is a bit of information about them: My name is Shannon Sexton Potter and I am a Theater Maker based in Providence, RI. I have been commissioned to develop and direct a new work for Andy’s […]
Tara Ocon and Dancers in Residence
Tara Ocon arrived for a residency at the Dragon’s Egg on February 14th. Yay. Here is a bit more about the project and the participants: Tara O’Con – Rachel Berman – Lia Bonfilio – Giulia Carotenuto – Kelly Garone We are a group of female artists and performers who are interested in sharing creative space […]
