Posts Tagged ‘music’

Earth Day! May Day!

Earth Day – May Day!   will be celebrating the earth on May 1st from 2-5 pm at the Egg, with vendors, poets, dancers, musicians, games (like boules!), drumming, hoopers, nature walk, plus it will be a Welcome Home to Travellin’ Dan!   Please join us!


Marya at Worcester Art Museum!

Marya will be doing her Solo performance version of SkyTails, using dance and mask, text and puppet, scroll story and song, to tell a series of Native American stories at the Worcester Art Museum, this Saturday, November 14th, at 11 am, at the Worcester Art Museum 55 Salisbury St, Worcester, Massachusetts 01609 I hope to […]


The Passion Play of Don Quixote

Yes, it was amazing, this assemblage of reflections on Don Quixote.  One performer, Ara Fitzgerald, characterized the event “a passion play for Don Quixote”.  Here is the programme, for your interest, and a few photos.  xox Quixotic Dream: the Don Quixote Project   November 7th, 2015, the Twelfth Narrative Event at the Egg assembled yearly […]


Quixote Project!

Come find us at the Dragon’s Egg this Saturday  November 7 at 4 p.m. celebrating Cervante’s great work with dance and costumes playlets and skits for all ages   Please join us for the 12th annual Narrative Project at the Dragon’s Egg! Each year, I send out a prompt to actors and dancers, puppeteers and […]


Triskelion Achieved!!

The concert at Triskelion went wonderfully!  Performers were widely varied and easy to work with, the staff and designers at Trisk were, as ever, stellar, and the new space is great!  These images are backstage… xo marya


Triskelion? Triskelion! Dragon’s Egg Presents

Dragon’s Egg Presents at Triskelion Arts’ Muriel Schulman Theater   Triskelion Arts 106 Calyer Street (enter on Banker Street) Brooklyn, NY 11222 G train to Greenpoint Ave www.triskelionarts.org   9/26 at 2 pm, 2015 $15 general admission. Seating is limited.  reservations: mybeasts@aol.com information: marya at 860 535 3346 Or limited tickets at the door…   […]


Dragon’s Egg at Triskelion!

  On Saturday, September 26th at 2 pm:  Dragon’s Egg Presents at Triskelion Arts, a concert of dance, theater, music, created by ten artists and companies who have had residencies in the past year at the Dragon’s Egg, a retreat/rehearsal space near Mystic, Connecticut.  The event is assembled/directed by Marya Ursin, artistic director of The […]


Ripostes

Ripostes – a poetic conversation between poets Alice Pero and Dan Potter, and musicians Aymeric Dupré de la Tour and Lena Zamolodchikova – was a wonderful event, full of wit and grace!  It was well attended by a swirl of listeners, young and old. 


Music for Children!

 Music and Movement for Children!     contact Nicole with any questions and to pre register (see her contact info at the end)   June 19th, 2015 11am-1pm   Instructor: Nicole Clarke- PK-12 certified music teacher, early childhood music specialist   Schedule   11am- 12- Ages birth-5 with caregivers   12pm-1pm- Ages 6-11- Music and movement   […]


They sing, they dance, they tell serious tales!

This Spring 2015 semester of NTI and NMTI students at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Centre will be presenting their final project this Friday, May 1, at 7 pm, and Saturday, May 2, at 7:30 pm.   Here they are in their masks on their second day here, way back in January, during the blizzard! Now, […]


A Journey through the Stars

March’s hairy hare hops hauntingly close – Rabbit!  It is here! And March 8th, Sunday, at 12:00, is the time for the A Journey through the Stars and Planets, an astrological view, performed by Dragon’s Egg artists and friends, and held at the Hygienic Galleries on Bank Street in New London. This will be a […]


Gala! October 4: 7 – 10 pm

Come!   Hear wonderful music from the Golden Ratio, and amazing dance from David Dorfman Dance Company, Ara Fitzgerald, Cristin Cawley, and physical theatre from Jeremy Picard of Superhero Clubhouse.


Gala! The Dragon’s Egg Celebrates!

Come join us for a  Gala to celebrate the Egg:  October 4h, 7-10 pm!   We began this adventure of the Dragon’s Egg with the dream, the drawing, the construction, the opening, some fifteen years ago.  We wanted a place for the Beasts to rehearse and to play, and to provide a place for artists […]


Dragon’s Egg Presents! at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn, NY

It is coming!   The concert of ten artists – dancers and actors – in solo work, duets, trios, group work – all of  whom have been in residence at the Egg in the past year. Dragon’s Egg Presents at Triskelion in Brooklyn, NY! September 27th, Matinee:  2 pm Reservations:  mybeasts@aol.com   @$15 Triskelion Arts […]


Beasts Rove at Coogan’s Farm

Hi!  The Beasts will be roving on Saturday 9/6 from around 5:15 – 6:30 at Coogan Farm for their grand celebration.  It is free and suitable for all ages.  There will be a cajun band for you to dance to!  Bring a picnic, or purchase gourmet delicacies there! 162 Greenmanville Ave, Mystic. namaste, marya  Coogan_Farm_Saturday_Poster_1.pdf


Beasts Rove to celebrate Coogan Farm’s opening

Hi!  The Beasts will be roving on Saturday 9/6 from around 5:15 – 6:30 at Coogan Farm for their grand celebration.  It is free and suitable for all ages.  There will be a cajun band for you to dance to!  Bring a picnic, or purchase gourmet delicacies there! 162 Greenmanville Ave, Mystic. namaste, marya  Coogan_Farm_Saturday_Poster_1.pdf


Peter Pan at the Egg: the Pan Project!

Pan!   The Peter Pan Project!!    is coming up – so hold the date   on June 21st, at 4 pm  at the Dragon’s Egg, 401 Shewville Road, Ledyard for information: contact me (marya) at mybeasts@aol.com    This is a one time only adventure!   Peter Pan is our beginning point, with performers offering riffs on the […]


Bodystories: Teresa Fellion Dance Showing

BodyStories:  Join Teresa Fellion Dance for a showing of dance material, some new and some refined, at the end of their residency at the Dragon’s Egg. The showing will be on Tuesday, January 21 at 6pm.    ” Teresa Fellion’s Choreography is like a car engine of movement; transference of energy that is constantly remolded/ […]


Triskelion Presents Dragon’s Egg!

Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn, NY, will be our presenting venue for Dragon’s Egg artists in the city this fall! This is the seventh concert of Egg artists (seventeen choreographers/musicians/actors/monologuists this year) that Marya has been assembling in NYC for the past – gasp  – seven years! It will be a marathon of a day: September […]


r and j project: Juliet and her Romeo

Amazing! – it was indeed! Artists gathered to offer their riffs and meditations on the story of Juliet, and her Romeo, with dance, theatre, music, mask, sonnet.   Comments include: (I was blown away by the ) “wit, fantasy, music, dance, acting, the world of the play. Like a prism. It was transporting.”  Rachel Jett, […]


r and j project: Juliet, and her Romeo

Come come!   It will be merry and sad, unexpected and exciting, wild and emphatic, amazing and thrilling. And it is This Weekend!  a one time only event.  the r and j  Project: Juliet, and her Romeo 4 pm, June 15, 2013, the Tenth Narrative Event at the Dragon’s Egg, 401 Shewville Rd, Ledyard assembled yearly […]


Juliet and her Romeo – June 15th

The R and J Project!!  June 15 at 4 pm, at the Dragon’s Egg This will be the tenth annual Narrative Project at the Egg, in which a particular literary text is selected, and Dragon’s Egg artists of various genres (dance, theatre, music, puppetry) create a riff on a particular portion of the text.  Marya […]