Burlington, Vermont
This year INSTINCT expands into two spaces, the Black Box Theater and The Great Room Studio for increased offerings.
- Offerings include:
* ANIMAL Dance Premiere (Sat Jan 4, 7pm & Sun Jan 5, 2pm)
* Moving Bodies/Dancing Lives with Maree ReMalia (M-F, 10-11:30am)
* Countertechnique with Maya LaLiberte (W-F, 2-3:45pm)
* Butoh Awakening: Crafting Presence in Performance with Meshi Chavez (T-TH, 6-8pm)
* Horton Dance Workshop with Samantha McLoughlin (Mon 2-3:30pm) * Ecotone Performance Installation by Ellen Smith Ahern and Menghan Wang (Mon 6-7:30pm)
* Let's Make a Dance Workshop with Chloe A. Shafer (Tues 4-5:30p)
- * Creation Track: A week-long incubation period for artists wanting to make or refine dance work. The Creation Track includes 10+/- hours of shared rehearsal space, a performance slot in a work-in-progress showcase at the Black Box Theater on January 10th & shared promotion including your bio on the festival website, and a feature on the Animal Dance Instagram.
* Throughout the week, festival participants are also invited to co-facilitate a community practice share/jam, or rejuvenate in the community down time/silent space.
ONLINE REGISTRATION HAS CLOSED
Please come in-person to register for the festival, beginning January 6th! We will post nightly to our instagram stories @animaldancevt with the next day's openings.
ANIMAL Dance Performance tickets will be available at the door.
Special thanks to our 2025 festival sponsors, without whom this event would not be possible!
* Special thanks to the INSTINCT Dance Festival space host sponsor: Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center!
* The 2025 Instinct Dance Festival is partially funded by a “Community Fund” grant from Burlington City Arts, a "Vermont Arts Project" grant from the Vermont Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Vermont Community Foundation, and donations from the Waterwheel Foundation and Northfield Savings Bank.
*The Loom Ensemble acts as the fiscal sponsor for ANIMAL Dance, helping us to achieve unique events and offerings for the public. Via Loom Ensemble, we are able to accept your tax-deductible donation to support this project. Please be in touch if you are interested in being a 2025 donor! instinctdancefest@gmail.com
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Top photo by Garret Jones of Maree ReMalia's "slants/take away the mountain"
Hanna Satterlee creates performance experiences and conceptual artworks for stage, site and film. Hanna holds degrees and certifications in dance therapy, psychology, performance, choreography, vinyassa/yin/restorative yoga, non-profit management and arts integration. Hanna shares these passions as an intergenerational educator, interdisciplinary performer + collaborator, experimental curator and event producer.
Alex practices improvisational dance. They create placed based work that maps the emotional landscapes of being human and unleashes the emergent magic of embodied presence. Alex loves organizing community movement practices from ceremonies honoring our dead to dance parties just for the fun of it!
Ellen Smith Ahern (she/her) is a dance artist and social worker/community organizer living with her family on Abenaki lands in N’Dakinna/New Hampshire. As a 2023 Creative Community Fellow with National Art Strategies and a 2024 Artist in Residence with the National Parks Service at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park, Ellen creates performance projects that include a wider array of people than might otherwise feel welcomed into traditional dance spaces.
Hanna Satterlee creates performance experiences and conceptual artworks for stage, site and film. Hanna holds degrees and certifications in dance therapy, psychology, performance, choreography, vinyassa/yin/restorative yoga, non-profit management and arts integration. Hanna shares these passions as an intergenerational educator, interdisciplinary performer + collaborator, experimental curator and event producer.
A movement for dance.
VDA is an arts service organization for Vermont's dance sector, coalescing, supporting, and advocating for dance artists across the state. Vermont's natural landscape and inclusive policies draw many artists to the state, but its public funding for the arts falls short of the need. As a result, too many talented artists are eking out a living on the margins, or decide to leave the state for more opportunity elsewhere. VDA is working to build public understanding of and respect for the role dance plays in enriching our communities and bolstering our creative and tourist economy. It is actively creating new career pathways for dance artists to enable them to stay in Vermont, and combating rural isolation by connecting artists to resources and each other.
Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center
60 Lake Street
3rd Floor- Black Box and Great Room Studio
Burlington, VT 05401
United States