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 […]
Amy and Kristy at the Egg this week
Amy and Kristy will be arriving this week for their Dragon’s Egg Residency. Come join us! Amy has a book signing and talk on Saturday from 4-6 at Bank Square Books, in Mystic, Ct! https://www.banksquarebooks.com/event/bsb-amy-oestreicher-my-beautiful-detour-book-signing Here is some information about the duo and what they will be doing in their time at the Egg. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Kristy and Amy
Amy and Kristy will be arriving this week for their Dragon’s Egg Residency. Come join us! Amy has a book signing and talk on Saturday from 4-6 at Bank Square Books, in Mystic, Ct! https://www.banksquarebooks.com/event/bsb-amy-oestreicher-my-beautiful-detour-book-signing Here is some information about the duo and what they will be doing in their time at the Egg. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Nadine Project in June Residency
Join us Saturday June 29th at 4pm for a first look at our newest works in progress! 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 […]
The Circus is Coming!
Coated presented by Open Ring Circus: work in progress showing Thursday May 2nd, 8pm Dragon’s Egg Studio Open Ring Circus is currently in residency at the Dragon’s Egg Studio and will be presenting the first draft of their new show on Thursday May 2nd at 8pm in the Dragon’s Egg Studio. Everyone is welcome and […]
Shura Baryshnikov and Dancers
Upcoming Residency at the Egg with Set Go Contact Improvisation Set Go Contact Improvisation ensemble returns to the Dragon’s Egg for the third consecutive year to spend time in research and development of performance scores for improvised dance work. The group, consisting of dancers Shura Baryshnikov, Sarah Konner, Aaron Brandes, Paul Singh, and Bradley Teal Ellis, […]
Toby Vera Bercovici in Upcoming Residence
We are a group of female theater artists from New York City, Ithaca NY, Portland ME, and Northampton MA, exploring King Lear through a feminist and sound-based perspective. Our working title is Women Making Big Noises: Or, King Lear. The photo is from a different show, but both of those actresses will […]
Glitter Goddesses at the Egg!
The Glitter Goddesses began devising a new multidisciplinary performance piece titled “UNRAVELED” at the Dragon’s Egg last weekend bringing together the Throat Chakra, Ritual, Theatre, Sculpture/Installation, Dance, & Original Music. As always, the Dragon’s Egg continues to be a sacred fountain of vulnerability, intimacy, joy, and healing for our creative process. […]
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 […]
Hygienic Egg!
The Hygienic Egg is Sunday, March 10th, at 12:30, at the Hygienic Galleries. Artists associated with the Dragon’s Egg will come together to create a promenade performance event at the amazing Hygienic Galleries on Bank Street, in New London. The prompt is Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, by TS Elliot, so, generally speaking, the […]
Hygienic Egg
The Hygienic Egg is Sunday, March 10th, at 12:30, at the Hygienic Galleries. Artists associated with the Dragon’s Egg will come together to create a promenade performance event at the amazing Hygienic Galleries on Bank Street, in New London. The prompt is Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, by TS Elliot, so, generally speaking, the […]
NTI creates masks again!
The Spring 2019 National Theatre Institute students have exploded into the now with 26 new masks, monologues, movement pieces, collaborations, meetings of mind and spirit. They worked diligently, creating characters and worlds through their pieces this week. NTI, an intensive training program for college aged (and beyond) students of the theatre, takes place […]
Amy Oesterreicher in residence Dec. 17-23
PASSAGEWAYS: Songs of Connections, Abnormal and Sublime An original song cycle with text and artwork projections, all created by the performer. Music, humor and art, interwoven with autobiographical narrative, as the creativity of the artist becomes an unexpected passageway through profound crisis. On passageways, there’s no way in, no way out, only through. So why not […]
TAPA Dance Company at the Egg
SHE // FEMME // THEM – TAPA Dance Company Last weekend, TAPA’s Dance Company continued their residency to rehearse and devise their upcoming performance, “SHE // FEMME // THEM” – a devised multimedia dance concert which explores feminine energy, feminism, and the experience of woman/femme-identified people in society. It is such an honor to witness […]
TAPA at the Egg in November
TAPA Dance Company: Senior Ensemble Goodbyes are so much harder when you know you have been living in a dream. The TAPA Dance Company just took our Senior Ensemble for a two day residency at The Dragon’s Egg for a series of peer-facilitated workshops on yoga/meditation, conceptual performance art, authentic movement, (contact) improvisation, self care, […]
Residencies: Matt Garza and TAPA
Matt Garza will be hosting a series of residencies at the Dragon’s Egg this fall and winter for his students at TAPA, for the teachers, and for the glitter goddesses and friends. Meanwhile, he is busy in Providence with other offerings: 1) “DANCE OF LIFE” BIODANZA COMMUNITY DANCE WORKSHOP BEGINS THIS FRIDAY! http://embodyfreedom.net/danceoflife/#workshop […]