(Cancelled due to Covid-19) Our 2020 Summer Season will offer six weeks of exciting programming with a special focus each week.
Our week runs from Sunday to Sunday. Each week we will explore a full Noyes Rhythm program, with morning recreation classes, technique, and reading, and evening dancing in the Pavalon. Afternoon offerings vary by week and include opportunities for masque-work, private lessons, movement explorations, music, and art activities. Participants are also invited to swim, hike, explore the property, relax, and play. Saturday nights are reserved for community performances featuring dance, music, comedic skits, and a myth-inspired masque, followed by a “Trunk Room” party in the farmhouse.
This season there will also be two long-weekend options, with participants arriving Wednesday evening and joining the programming for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, with departure midday Sunday.
The Summer 2020 Noyes Rhythm teachers include: Nancy Nichols, Arline Terrell, Linda Rapuano, Amy Colon, Patricia Carhart Collins, Mara Bennett, Karen Fenswick, Meg Brooker, Emily Mott, Carol Ribner, and Pam Kul-berg.
Week 1: June 28th – July 5th
Deepening in Noyes Technique
Rhythm Director: Meg Brooker
This week features traditional Noyes programming in the mornings, and afternoons will focus on technique exploration. We will delve deeply into foundational Noyes Rhythm techniques, taking time for individual instruction and personalized practice, along with opportunities for written reflection. Participants will deepen their confidence in technique practice and will develop a plan for continuing technique exploration throughout the year.
Florence Noyes said that the purpose of technique is to build strength and coordination. Rich in nature imagery, Noyes techniques follow developmental movement pathways, allowing dancers to release unnecessary tension and discover easeful movement. This week is open to all gender identifications and will be facilitated by certified teacher Meg Brooker. Exploration of Noyes movement lines may be explored in drawing and color work. Artist Dick Widhu will offer an experience in nature-based multi-media art-making. Eric Anderson will be our pianist for classes and evening dance.
DESIGNATED TEACHER TRAINING WEEK
Weekend Option: Weekend participants arrive on Wednesday, during the late afternoon or early evening, and check out at 12noon on Sunday.
Week 2: July 5th – July 12th
All-Inclusive Creative Flow
Rhythm Director: Meg Brooker
This week welcomes participants of all gender identifications and features traditional Noyes programming including morning recreation, technique and reading classes, as well as some facilitated afternoon activities including creative and additional movement experiences.
Tunic dying and clay work will allow us to explore Rhythm in lively color and tactile form. Evelyn Foster, master potter, will facilitate clay play! Pianists Tanya Shrago and Kaeza Fearn will provide live music for classes and evening dance. Playtime will feature live piano music as well as at least one night that includes a drum/instrumental jam and song circle led by Emily Mott.
Week 3: July 12th – July 19th
Masque Week…Discover Myth: Through Movement, Voice, and Sound
Rhythm Director: Patricia Carhart Collins
This week features traditional Noyes programming in the mornings, with afternoons dedicated to the creation and development of a masque inspired by myth. Explore the nature symbols, archetypes, and storytelling of myth through Rhythm and simple voice work. Our time together in these afternoons will be spent weaving a creation of dance, music, and story to share with our community.
Join with your fellow community members and dancers in the simple joy of moving and vocalizing together, then carry that joy into a story that can’t help but come to life through movement and sound. No prior voice or dance experience is necessary.This week is reserved for women and will be facilitated by certified Noyes teacher Karen Fenswick. Kate Terrell, trained sculptor, painter, illustrator and art instructor, will be present in the schoolhouse to facilitate our ‘overflow’ artistic expression. Pianist Blake Rowe will provide live music for classes and Playtime.
DESIGNATED TEACHER TRAINING WEEK
Annual Meeting: Sunday, July 19th
Week 4: July 19th – July 26th
“Young at Heart” Noyes for educators of young children, or anyone young at heart.
Rhythm Director: Patricia Carhart Collins
This week will feature traditional Noyes programming in the mornings, and afternoons will be dedicated to creative Noyes exploration geared toward early childhood educators and the young at heart. Those of us who spend time with children observe that many of them move freely, and move often, and many are kinesthetic learners. Those of us in the role of educators of young children are inspired to apply movement as a learning modality, no matter the subject, even if we are not movers ourselves.
With time to immerse ourselves in nature, and be guided to observe and reflect and embody the rhythms of nature, participants will experience and experiment with the fundamentals of Noyes Rhythm, and be introduced to practical, hands on methods to bring movement into a classroom setting, addressing standards and informing assessments, as well as enhance any time spent with children. All are welcome. Awaken and remember the child within! This week is reserved for women only and will be facilitated by certified Noyes teacher Patricia Carhart Collins. Kate Terrell, trained sculptor, painter, illustrator and art instructor, will be present in the schoolhouse to facilitate our ‘overflow’ artistic expression.
DESIGNATED TEACHER TRAINING WEEK.
Weekend Option: Weekend participants arrive on Wednesday, during the late afternoon or early evening, and check out at 12noon on Sunday.
Week 5: July 26th-Aug 2nd
Artemis and the wild weeds: an exploration of the healing plants of Shepherd’s Nine.
Rhythm Director: Emily Arwen Mott
This week will feature traditional Noyes programming in the mornings, with afternoons dedicated to an exploration of the healing plants of Shepherd’s Nine. Discover the healing plants with which we share the land at Shepherd’s Nine.
We will explore the forest and identify and learn about the healing properties of weeds. We will create a healing salve, make flower essences, and enjoy herbal infusions. We will explore the elemental aspects of plants, their mythologies, and their relationship to Rhythm. This week is reserved for women and will be facilitated by certified Noyes teacher Amy Colon. Marilyn Banner, painter and mixed media artist whose works derive from the natural world, will facilitate our schoolhouse art studio space.
Week 6: Aug 2nd-August 9th
Tree Wisdom and Nature Words
Rhythm Director: Emily Arwen Mott
This week will feature traditional Noyes movement programming in the mornings and evenings and special focus on being with trees throughout the day. We owe our lives to forests: our breath, our health, our safety. Noyes Rhythm–through deep physical and spiritual channels–enlivens us to nature. This week we will not only live and dance in our wondrous woods, but also dedicate time to become intimate with one tree or small grove on our land.
We will practice quiet meditation or move with our chosen tree, journal, research tree wisdom of ancient people as well as modern ecologists and really LISTEN to the trees. The forest will become our inspiration for creating in words, song, and art. Martha Mott-Gale, writer of poetry and prose, will guide a process that will help us to write in response to nature. This week is reserved for women and will be facilitated by certified Noyes teacher Emily Mott.
Additional Program: August 12th-16th
Land Art Retreat at Shepherd’s Nine,
historic dance retreat and territory of the Wangunk people
With Colleen Bartley, Emily Arwen Mott, and Melinda Buckwalter
Movement • Music • Visual Art • Poetry • Writing in collaboration with the land
Find your own rhythm to make and share in a collaborative community of land-focused artists. Daily Noyes Nature Rhythm movement class, and other contemplative somatic land practices to engage and inspire you, with an optional stewardship project on the land. This is a spacious opportunity to be on this land and make art, with a lighter schedule than the traditional Noyes program. August 12th afternoon through August 16th mid-day.
More info…/https://www.noyesrhythm.org/index.php/land-art-retreat/
$375 includes accommodation, communally-prepared meals and facilities. Deposit of $100 due April 15, 2020. Statement of interest required (due April 1st.) Space is limited. Email: shepherdsnine@protonmail.com Facebook event https://www.facebook.com/events/171132527516604/