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Signature Partnership Events - Ergo/Movement Production and Soft Rocks Presents
Stories of Spirit and Spirits
June 11-13, 2026 at 7:30pm
& June 13 at 2:30pm
Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center
60 Lake Street, Burlington, VT 05401
Stories of Spirit and Spirits is an evening-length experimental dance and music production featuring the ten members of the improvisation ensemble, soft rocks: dancers Danielle Tekut, Julian Barnett, Hanna Satterlee, Jessie Owens, Nicole Dagesse, and Beth Morelli, and musicians Matt LaRocca, Jeremy Frederick, Kyle Saulnier, and Will Andrews.
Through music and movement and with the support of structured improvisations, chance methods, costumes, personal mementos, and talismans, they explore myths and archetypes, personal ancestry, shared histories, and experimental social dynamics, as they peer into the bardo and dance with risk in search of a new kind of togetherness. With the pull of a card or the spin of a bottle, each moment will unfold according to chance, creating alternate timelines and outcomes with every performance. They invite you to join them in their seeking. See this performance more than once to experience how chance creates a new turn of events.
This project is supported by a 2025 Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant, and is funded in part by New England Foundation for the Arts' New England Dance Fund, with generous support from the Aliad Fund at the Boston Foundation. The creation of this project has been generously sponsored by
The First Congregational Church of Burlington.
For accessibility questions please contact Jessie Owens: info@jessieowens.com, 802.363.5544
Signature Partnership Events - Middlebury
Liquid Strength
Liquid Strength™ Teacher Training
A 3-Day Professional Development Intensive with Christal Brown
June 25–28 | Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
Cost: $575
Lunches provided. Housing and travel not included.
Liquid Strength™ Teacher Training is a three-day immersive professional development workshop designed for dance educators, teaching artists, and movement practitioners working across K–12, higher education, and community-based settings.
Developed by choreographer, educator, and cultural leader Christal Brown, Liquid Strength™ is a contemporary dance training module that integrates somatic awareness, strength, flow, musicality, and expressive clarity. Rooted in both rigor and accessibility, the module supports dancers in cultivating physical intelligence, resilience, and artistic presence.
This intensive offers hands-on training in the Liquid Strength™ module, alongside pedagogical tools and frameworks that support effective, inclusive, and sustainable dance instruction.
Featured News
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TRACES RETURNS 2026
We are so excited to announce we will be bringing back TRACES, Vermont Dance Alliance’s site-specific day of dance performances in Waterfront Park! Taking place June 20, this is a celebration of dance, and the dancers we have in our state! If you’d like to participate fill out the form below once it is live, and bring us your choice of a complete short dance piece, a works-in-progress, or even an improv performance. If you want to help out and watch, we will also be looking for many volunteers!
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Choreographer's Seed Cohort Announced!
Thank you to everyone who applied for our micro-grants this year! We have recently announced our Cohort for 2026, follow the link below to see who we will be supporting, and what projects they are working on!
Our Alliance
Our Alliance is comprised of dance artists, arts organizations, businesses, institutions, and patrons from across the state who are united under a shared love for dance and a recognition of the important role it plays in Vermont’s creative economy. Vermont’s natural beauty and quality of life attract great talent—but its rural nature and limited public funding for the arts make it challenging to keep talent here. Rather than losing talent to better opportunity elsewhere, the Alliance is working to help Vermont reach its full potential as a dance destination.
Join the Movement
Our progress serves your progress; our success is your success. While dancers have long been conditioned to believe that creating art at their own cost and sacrifice is normal, it’s time to change the status quo. Art is central to community connectedness, livability, and resilience. It gives community members a sense of belonging to their communities and helps increase the visibility of marginalized groups. It connects people and places in new ways. It’s also a major economic driver for Vermont. Join our movement to ask our policy makers to recognize the value dance (and the arts as a whole) bring to Vermont. Your membership comes with benefits such as discounts on classes and studio space, fiscal sponsorship, networking, and the opportunity to promote your events and classes.
