Noyes School of Rhythm Summer Program
July 7th-July 26th, 2025
This summer, we will offer three weeks of Noyes Rhythm summer programming. These weeks will follow a Monday arrival-Sunday departure schedule for each session. We will offer traditional Noyes programming in the mornings, including recreation class, technique, and reading, with afternoons dedicated to a range of activities including exploring the property, swimming, and the invitation to create artwork or sing. Evenings are dedicated to improvisational movement (Playtime), with a culminating evening of Saturday night performances. We will share daily work and enjoy a full program offerings as well as rest and relaxation.
If you are planning to participate for more than one week, please note that the last meal on Sunday will be breakfast, and there will be no programming or other meals offered on-site until the Monday evening supper cookout. Monday programming will begin with an afternoon playtime (improvisational dance session) at 5pm, followed by a campfire cookout and orientation to the week.
We are offering two types of weekly rates: cooperative work participant or retreat participant.
WEEK 1: Monday, July 7th (afternoon arrival) through Sunday, July 13th REGISTER!
Noyes Rhythm program
For women and gender expansive individuals (non-cis male)
Each day we will awake to birdsong, dance morning and night at the Pavalon, and find our creative selves within the loving community of Noyes camp. Many masterful Noyes Rhythm teachers will facilitate movement work and other spontaneous play.
Circe the Sorceress Wand, Mask, and Group Movement Making Workshop with Emily and Alison Mott. We will journey through the myth of the sorceress Circe. In exploring transformation in personal power and character work, we will create both wands and masks using local wood, gems, and pre-made casting materials. We will learn a newly- made masque (movement story) expressing the main motifs of this part of the Odyssey.Have fun and take home your own powerful reminder of your own inner strength and complexities.
In the long summer days at camp folks can always be found swimming, reading, resting, gardening, helping out, visiting, communing with nature, or following their own muse. The schoolhouse studio will be open for all varieties of visual art projects. The Blackbird studio is available for music practice, private lessons, rehearsals, stretching etc. Interested campers can work together to create an offering for Saturday Night.
Rhythm Director: Emily Arwen Mott
WEEK 2: Monday, July 14th (afternoon arrival) through Sunday, July 20th REGISTER!
Noyes Rhythm Program
All genders welcome.
Gathering together, finding old friends and making new ones, we will shape our week through participation in the many classes and activities offered at Shepherd’s Nine. As we find our way into the unbounded realm of nature and myth, we will re-awaken the wellsprings of dance, movement and song through morning classes and other spontaneous or scheduled activities.
Dreamtenders’ Circle with Linda Rapuano
Bring your dreams, symbols, and image experiences from classes or camp and open them with other interested campers sharing the dreamfield. Dream opening is also an invitation to journal, make art or dance pieces. Facilitated by Linda and based on School of Images dreamwork techniques.
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Join us in the afternoons for singing–we’ll drop into our bodies with vocal and whole body warm ups, then explore all the richness that singing in community has to offer. Come together for songs, harmonies, rhythms, and other delights. We’ll weave our way toward a repertoire, then share some favorite bits at Saturday night. No singing experience required, just a desire to explore your voice with others and make a joyful noise!
The Schoolhouse will be open for those who love to paint, sculpt or draw. In the long summer days at camp folks can always be found swimming, reading, resting, gardening, helping out, visiting, communing with nature, or following their own muse. Interested campers work together to create a unique offering for Saturday Night.
Rhythm Director: Emily Arwen Mott
WEEK 3: Monday, July 21st (afternoon arrival) through Sunday, July 27th REGISTER!
Noyes Rhythm Program
All genders welcome.
Each day we will awake to birdsong, dance morning and night at the Pavalon, and find our creative selves within the loving community of Noyes camp. Many masterful Noyes Rhythm teachers will facilitate movement work and other spontaneous play.
Masque work (myth- based collaborative dance piece) with Meg Brooker
In the context of movement classes, multi-modal afternoon sessions, and individual reflection, the group will explore themes from a classical greek mythological story. We will uncover essential qualities within the elements of the myth, enjoy embodying the archetypes, take inspiration from a piano score, and then craft and learn movement tableaus and flows. A group expression will be rehearsed and then shared at Saturday Night on the Pavalon and/or Rhythm Ground. Meg is a highly-skilled, experienced and generous as a facilitator of movement artistry and will choose a myth to enkindle our inner worlds and to suit the spirit of this summer.
In the long summer days at camp folks can always be found swimming, reading, resting, gardening, helping out, visiting, communing with nature, or following their own muse. schoolhouse studio will be open for all varieties of visual art projects. The Blackbird studio will be available for music practice, private lessons, rehearsals, stretching etc. Interested campers will be invited to work together to create a unique offering for Saturday Night.
REGISTER!
Rhythm Director: Meg Brooker
Weekend Option! July 24th-27th
Participants should plan to arrive at 2pm on Thursday 7/24 and check out by 12 noon the following Sunday 7/27.