Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Wednesday, August 5, 5:30: Ecstatic Dancing is a fun way for people of all body types (including those not usually comfortable dancing) to follow their own natural movement impulses by focusing inward on their bodies rather than outward on other participants. Facilitated by Patricia van Dijkhuizen, with live music by the beloved Outer Cape music ensemble, “Woof Woof Meow.”

Thursday and Friday, August 6 & 7: 7:30. Movimento 2026 will continue the body-mind-movement-art encounter that has populated and fueled our choreographic cauldron since 2015. The Project brings together local movement artists who, now working together for a decade, have supported and developed choreographic creativity that seeks to embody and share steps into our human condition and the movement it might recommend and necessitate. Contemporary choreography moves between and beyond specific dance languages, incorporating "alternative" bodies and diverse perspectives, to reflect on and reveal new and forgotten steps in our own path toward knowing, being, living & celebrating. Our task is choreographic transparency and innovation, connecting to the past while looking at the present and toward the future. We hope to draw our audience, figuratively and literally, into this shared dimension of body movement, conceptually transformed.

Dancing is a metaphor for living life, and as such needs to be explored in all possible spaces. As in past years, the audience will be invited to experience movement in various settings throughout Wellfleet Preservation Hall, from the front yard to the interior spaces and into the back garden.

Sunday, August 9: 12:30: Languages of Nature Workshop. In this workshop facilitated by Becky Burrill, we explore the primal and primary language of movement as living perceptual metaphor through improvisational movement-sound games. This is foundation for making mini dances in which each participant is an artistic director of, and participant in, their dance. With this preparation we enter into the very origin of this languaging -- the Natural World. Here, through perceptual metaphor with our surround, each participant makes a dance and teaches it to the rest of us. With all these mini dances we create a dance ceremonial in honor of Nature, accompanied with a musician. No previous experience necessary.

Note: The workshop will begin at Preservation Hall and then move to Uncle Tim’s Island, to create and hold the performance there.