Dragon’s Egg Presents Kickstarter!
There is a kickstarter afoot! Dragon’s Egg Presents! We are once again producing a concert in NYC showcasing Dragon’s Egg Residents, – all of whom have been at the Egg since Covid hit, since we closed, and cautiously re opened. This will be our second year at the extraordinary University Settlement in downtown NY. […]
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 […]
Beasts Perform
Marya has been enjoying her solo performances this past month, all of them outside of Boston: at the Bennett Hemenway School, Elizabeth Lyons School, and Lilya Elementary School. She feels vastly blessed to be doing such joyful work! The children are so engaged and fun! The faculty are such fine guides for the educational […]
Jane Jane Yay Jane!
Yay! This year’s (15th! annual) Narrative Project, conceived and assembled by Marya Ursin, was a great success! It explored the story and themes of the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, with reflections in dance, theatre, monologue poetry music and with Beastie Bits tossed in to entice a story line through our minds. […]
Long Dance Offerings/Showings in Contact Improv
I hope you can come! This Sunday will be the final contact improv class from 4 – 6 pm (scroll down for more information and to sign up), and on Saturday the 17th, there will be a Community “Underscore” during the day, and a performance in the late afternoon – again, scroll down for the […]
ECDC in Residence at the Egg January26-28
“We Love: an ECDC Board Bash” February 7th, 2018 6-8pm | 129 Church St, New Haven (DeskCrashers Lounge) Join ECDC for a pre-Valentine’s Day bash! Learn more about the dance company and its upcoming plans for 2018. See videos of past performances, meet some of the dancers, and find out how you can help […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mystic Paper Beasts in Norwood
The Mystic Paper Beasts will be performing Sky Tails at the Cleveland School in Norwood, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, May 23rd. This is a performance that is organized by YAMa, Young Audiences Massachusetts, for which they are a listed troupe. We are looking forward to offering these amazing tales of the sky and earth to […]
Bread and Puppet
Dan took a lot of pictures of Bread and Puppet visiting Dragon’s Egg last weekand also made a little film of the extraordinary experience which you can find on his YouTube site at this address:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYongEvPlaQ&feature=youtu.be After their brass band greeted arrivals they gave a little street performance about greed in politics, 911 and Maggie Thatcher’s phrase There Is No Alternative TINA […]
Dance Showing: Donofrio Dance: July 25
Donofrio Dance Company at the Egg Saturday, July 25th at 7:30pm, FREE Please RSVP HERE Get a unique chance to see Brooklyn Based Donofrio Dance Company (DDC) at work during their creative Residency at The Dragon’s Egg. Get a sneak peak of their newest work CAPTURE and stay to mingle with the Company afterwards! […]
Outside the Box Festival!
The Mystic Paper Beasts perform for the fabulous Outside the Box Festival on the Boston Green, July 15, at 2 pm!!
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 […]
Clare, Sharon, Meredith, Jeffrey Dance together!
It was wonderful! The dance showing on December 29th, by residents Clare, Sharon, Meredith, and Jeffrey! Rosena, sitting next to me, giggled throughout, and the audience willingly rose (after a tentative pause) at one point, to roll on the floor in a way that challenged all and caused eruptions of giggles. The dancers were exciting, […]
Dance Showing!! December 29th at 5 pm
Dance Showing! Monday, December 29th, at 5 pm, at the Dragon’s Egg… Welcome to all, come join us! MONDAY DECEMBER 29th 5:00PM A-HOLIDAY-A-HAPPENING AT THE DRAGON’S EGG IN LEDYARD, CT Love, Sex, and Peace, and Everything. or The ‘Frina’s Song and Dance Show. or I Went to the Field to Visit the Star: Winter, […]
Gala! October 4th: 7 – 10 pm
Tomorrow! The Gala at the Dragon’s Egg! October 4th, from 7 -10. Come join us for performances, dancing, parachute playing, nibbles, silent auction! I look forward to seeing you, rain or shine – it is in the Egg, that amazing hexagonal sacred circus tent of a space! xo m
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 – address change!!
Alert! Alert! address change! Please note. Dragon’s Egg Presents at Triskelion , on September 27th at 2 pm, will be at the Old Location. (the new place is not yet ready). If you came last year, it is the same place you were last year. This is the address where the concert will be:Triskelion Arts118 […]
Dragon’s Egg Presents!
Dragon’s Egg Presents! at Triskelion, in Brooklyn, NYC, on September 27th at 2 pm. This will be a concert of dances, theatre pieces, music, monologue, all created by artists who have been in residence in the past year at the Dragon’s Egg. Tickets are a mere $15 – do come join us! Call […]
Gala! Beasts and Dragons!
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 […]
Visual Literature
VISUAL LITERATURE PRESENTATION, SUNDAY, JUNE 1ST AT DRAGON’S EGG: Sunday, June 1st, 5 PM, Nightshade Productions to stage a Visual Literature presentation of Nicky Checker’s soon-to-be published paperback novels, DRUIDS and SCRATCH (Oak Tree Press, California). Presentation is at the Dragon’s Egg Studio in Ledyard and will entreat audiences to a hypnotic theatrical medium by dramatizing a chapter […]
Beasts at Montessori!
The Mystic Paper Beasts will be performing at a Montessori School pavilion in Winchester, Mass., tomorrow, May 9th, and then teaching four workshops! Yay! Lots of prowling cats and sounds and dreams will be afloat in the world of small and large!And the Dragon’s Egg will be hosting Janet Aisawa in residency this weekend.May is […]
