March
Group Shake Group Playlist
Add your favorite shaking tunes, a couple from the list will be added to the set each month.
Upcoming
Simple Contact Improvisation Jam
Type: Classes/Workshop
Date: March 06, 2025
Time: 7:00 PM
Address: 3717 Murphy School Rd, Durham, NC 27705
Description: No guided warm-up or music, just an opportunity to practice contact improvisation and create beauty together. Space held by Coda Badamo-Connors.
Accessibility Information: The Shared Visions Retreat Center at the Old Murphy School is ADA compliant and accessible for all attendees.
Point of Contact: Toni Craige, ci@livingartscollective.com
Website: http://www.livingartscollective.com/contact-improvisation
Queer & Trans Dance Wave on Saturday 3/8 from 8-10pm
Type: Gathering
Date: March 08, 2025
Time: 8:00 PM
Address: 410 West Geer St, Durham, NC
Description: Queer and Trans Dance Wave is a non-judgmental creative space for queer, trans, nonbinary, gender non-conforming, and gender-expansive folks to practice creative self-expression and embodied liberation in community. We co-create a dance floor intentionally free from verbal conversation, alcohol and cell phones to support a more fully embodied experience. Dance Waves start slowly, build to a peak and then return to stillness. The curated music is woven in this 75-minute wave format to help you get out of your head and into your body.
Accessibility Information: Sliding scale $5-25* (suggested $15)
*No one turned away for lack of funds
Masking policy: Masking is optional and highly encouraged. If you feel sick in any way, please stay home and join us next time. If you have been in large crowds recently, we ask that you test before coming to the event.
We encourage you to move at the pace that supports your well-being, in ways that feel best to your system, and to honor yourself and others by always seeking consent in your interactions.
We build culture through embodied community practices of awareness, consent, respect and participation. All ways of dress, appearance, and dance are welcome so long as this self expression does not target or infringe upon the sovereignty of another person or group of people.
Point of Contact: Jay Schnaak
Imaginative Series: Landscape of Embodiment
Type: Classes/Workshop
Date: March 11, 2025
Time: 6:30 PM
Address: Culture Mill Lab, 1612 Jordan Dr. Saxapahaw, NC
Description: March 4,11,18,25 2025 6:30-8:30pm
A four-session progression through a system designed to help you move more freely and expressively. For those with and without past dance experiences. Applying movement theorist Rudolf Laban’s 9-point system to discover nuances in our imagination and bodies.
Practicing with both improvisation and choreographic works of Amanda’s choreographic works. Taught by Amanda K. Miller, former principal dancer and resident choreographer at Ballett Frankfurt and former artistic director/choreographer at Pretty Ugly Dance Company, (Germany) and Yummy Dance, (Japan).
If you have years of dance experience and want to shake off past training, or you’ve never danced and are looking for a new relationship with your body, this workshop the series is for you!
(Those of us who have already been working together we will continue to evolve.)
Accessibility Information: : Accessible parking and entry is located in the lot to the right. Culture Mill has an accessible entrance and bathroom. Chairs will be available for anyone who would like to sit. Masking is welcomed, and there will be masks available at the door. The workshop will include speaking, standing, and moving throughout the space. Please reach out to info@culturemill.org with further accessibility needs!
Point of Contact: amandakmiller413@gmail.com
7 Flavors of Jam, Traveling Edition: CI Jam with Live Improvised Music and Guided Warm-up.
Type: Classes/Workshop
Date: March 12, 2025
Time: 7:00 PM
Address: 3717 Murphy School Rd, Durham, NC 27705
Description: This jam has its own unique “flavor,” with live accompaniment by Daniel Chambo and a warmup led by Len Foyle. This jam is woven into and included in our Wednesday evening series, and is open to drop-ins from those not registered for the series.
Accessibility Information: The Shared Visions Retreat Center at the Old Murphey School complies with ADA standards and is accessible for attendees.
Point of Contact: Toni Craige, tonicraige@gmail.com
Website: http://www.livingartscollective.com/contact-improvisation
Sanctuary Series #38
Type: Performance
Date: March 15, 2025
Time: 7:00 PM
Description: Synchronicity Arts presents Sanctuary Series #38, featuring artists from outside the Triangle:
Jonah Carrel (dance - Greensboro NC)
Rinatt Montoya (guitar - Richmond, VA)
Ashley Paul (saxophone / guitar / voice - Asheville, NC)
Massaman Curry (meat and vegan versions) with Jasmine Rice + Thai Iced Tea, and a variety of other beverages will be served.
Point of Contact: Daniel Levin, daniel@daniel-levin.com
*Please RSVP if you are interested in attending
Tango & Chill
Type: Classes/Workshop
Date: March 16, 2025
Time: 3:00 PM
Address: Culture Mill Lab, 1612 Jordan Dr. Saxapahaw, NC
Description: COMING SOON: Culture Mill’s Tango & Chill quarterly workshop
This workshop series expands community through playful movement practice. To help us expand our community, please consider bringing a friend!
No experience, no partner necessary!
Through Argentine Tango, we invite you to discover a practice that has deeply informed Culture Mill’s leadership and followership style. We will start with a gentle warm-up that will bring awareness to the body and a sense of availability, finding balance and easefulness in basic exercises of tango alone and in connection to a partner. As you are guided through this embodied experience, you will also learn the basic principles of tango such as leading, following, deep listening, playfulness, centeredness, togetherness away from sameness, moment to moment presence, and posture that have helped shape Culture Mill’s ethos.
Tango & Chill is donation-based (free for all Patreon sustainers and current supporters) — Pay what you wish via Venmo, PayPal or cash.
Accessibility Information: Accessible parking and entry is located in the lot to the right. Culture Mill has an accessible entrance and bathroom. Chairs will be available for anyone who would like to sit. Masking is welcomed, and there will be masks available at the door. The workshop will include speaking, standing, and moving throughout the space. Please reach out to info@culturemill.org with further accessibility needs!
Point of Contact: info@culturemill.org
Website: http://www.culturemill.org
Simple Contact Improvisation Jam
Type: Classes/Workshop
Date: March 20, 2025
Time: 7:00 PM
Address: 3717 Murphy School Rd, Durham, NC 27705
Description: No guided warm-up or music, just an opportunity to practice contact improvisation and create beauty together. Space held by Coda Badamo-Connors.
Accessibility Information: The Shared Visions Retreat Center at the Old Murphey School is ADA compliant and accessible for all attendees.
Point of Contact: Toni Craige, ci@livingartscollective.com
Website:http://www.livingartscollective.com/contact-improvisation
Group Shake
Type: Classes/Workshop
Date: Saturday, March 21
Time: 7:00 PM Doors at 6:45
Description: Group Shake is a collective solo durational practice. We come together to tend to our own bodies, in community. It offers an alternative to ecstatic dance for those interested in movement without touch or interaction with others. We shake and move to music over an extended period, focusing on shaking and rocking, allowing the body to move naturally—free from concerns about appearance, skill, or rhythm. While it may resemble dancing, the true intention is to release tension and energy. This practice promotes circulation, supports the nervous system, enhances overall health, and fosters a sense of community.
Accessibility Information: ADA compliant facility
Point of Contact: anna.maynard@gmail.com
Website: https://www.undercurrentnc.com/group-shake-archive
7 Flavors of Jam, Traveling Edition: CI Jam with Live Improvised Music and Guided Warm-up
Type: Classes/Workshop
Date: March 24, 2025
Time: 7:00 PM
Address: 3717 Murphy School Rd, Durham, NC 27705
Description: This jam has its own unique “flavor,” with live musical accompaniment by Poah West and a warmup led by Marielle Hare. This jam is woven into and included in our Monday evening series, and is open to drop-ins from those not registered for the series
Accessibility Information: The Shared Visions Retreat Center at the Old Murphey School complies with ADA standards and is accessible for attendees.
Point of Contact: Toni Craige, ci@livingartscollective.com
Dasan Ahanu’s Saints&Aints
Type: Performance
Date: March 28 & 29, 2025
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Description: Nationally recognized Triangle-based poet Dasan Ahanu will be in residence with NC State LIVE for the 2024-25 academic year. During his residency, Dasan will create a new work of theatre called Saints & Aints, which will premiere in the cutting-edge James B. Hunt Jr. Library – a place where Dasan often sits to write his poetry. Saints & Aints is part Sunday service reinterpretation, part juke joint reimagining and part underground dance club escapism. This work invites the audience into a communal celebration of life, faith, resiliency and Black joy, featuring music by NC State’s own Uninhibited Praise Gospel Choir and Fashyn, and puppetry by Jeghetto.
Accessibility Information: NC State LIVE strives to make our programming accessible to everyone. If you have an access need or an accommodation request, please email Liza Green, associate director at lwgreen@ncsu.edu.
Point of Contact: Liza Green: lwgreen@ncsu.edu
Website: https://live.arts.ncsu.edu/nc-state-live-2024-25-season/dasan-ahanu/
Point of Contact: Jay Schnaak, jlschnaak@gmail.com
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Black History Month : Artists in Residence at Earthdance Creative Living Community : Open Call
Applications Close on March 31st
In honor and celebration of February’s Black History Month, Earthdance annually offers two free week-long residencies to two selected black dance-based artists. This annual program is part of our commitment to equity & access and one of the ways we are using our unique resources to further the careers and artistic development of black dance-based artists.
