MOVEMENT INTENSIVE IN COMPOSITIONAL IMPROVISATION w/the architects (june 2026)
Atland is hosting a summer improvisation workshop facilitated by The Architects: Kathy Couch, Katherine Ferrier, Lisa Gonzales, Jennifer Kayle, and Pamela Vail, with guest musician Jason Palamara. Meals and lodging options available (see below). During the intensive, there will be time to enjoy hiking our trails, swimming in the river or POOL(!), sharing communal meals around the fire, and wood-fired hot tub hangs. We have doubled our lodging offerings so that there are 12 private indoor bedrooms available, 2 shared indoor bedrooms, and still many options to camp or glamp :) We encourage folks to lodge with us unless you’re local. Also, all movement sessions will take place near Atland at the beautiful Thayer Hill Studio.
ATLAND SUMMER FEST (2026)
Join us July 6-12, 2026 in the beautiful Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts! Come train with renowned West Coast-based dance artists Abby Crain and Gizeh Muñiz, as well as other guest dance artists. During the week, you will have opportunities to train and take class twice a day, with time to enjoy hiking, swimming, hot-tub soaks, waterfall hunting, sharing communal meals around the fire, and residency time to work on your creative projects/collaborations. Come train with other professional artists in Western Massachusetts this summer. Open to the first 25 participants who register.
Scores of the Invisible: workshop with Cody Cook-Parrott (aug 2025)
Atland is hosting Scores of the Invisible (August 23 & 24, 2025), a workshop facilitated by Northern Michigan based dancer & writer Cody Cook-Parrott, who will be in residence at Atland this summer. Scores of the Invisible is a series of scores Cody has been working on to trace the in between of movement and writing, what we keep private and what we perform, and researching what it means to prioritize solo material within group work.
MOVEMENT INTENSIVE IN COMPOSITIONAL IMPROVISATION w/the architects (june 2025)
Atland is hosting a summer improvisation workshop that will be facilitated by The Architects: Kathy Couch, Katherine Ferrier, Lisa Gonzales, Jennifer Kayle, and Pamela Vail, with guest musician Jason Palamara. The intensive balances in-depth individual exploration with rigorous practice in spontaneous ensemble dance-making. Fresh perceptions and new choices are set in motion daily through provoking, open-ended questions.
dance workshop w/ shannon stewart (may 2025)
Atland is hosting a dance composition workshop (Sunday May 18 from 3:30PM-6PM) facilitated by Midwest-based dancer Shannon Stewart, who will be in residence at Atland this May. The workshop is open to locals who live in/near western Massachusetts. The workshop is taking place in the beautiful new 33 Hawley Workroom located in downtown Northampton, MA.
During this class we will use our individual and group body to make and unmake ourselves. Working with disorientation, quick shifts of attention, endurance and group dynamics, we will move away from language and towards embodied comprehension. We will push to the edges but also question “edge” as a boundary or distinction between ourselves, others and the space we occupy. Open to all levels.
dance workshop w/ Gizeh Muñiz (may 2025)
Atland is hosting a dance workshop (May 3 & 4, 2025) facilitated by west coast based dancer gizeh muñiz vengel, who will be in residence at Atland this spring. The workshop weekend will kick off with a somatic based conditioning class by local dance artist Ellie Goudie-Averill, followed by a Sat and Sun floorwerk class taught by gizeh.