The Field Center

Center for Contemporary Performance, Dance, and Multimedia Arts
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06/01/2026

We joyfully recount our last month’s DRIFT: a drawing and movement workshop!

Thank you to our fantastic teachers Anya Smolnikova, Lilianna Kane and Julio Neijens for this rich and productive week.

As we continued to explore this collaborative visual and movements arts curriculum; we engaged in experimental markmaking, fundamental drawing techniques, worked with a figure model, spent time in the holy spring woods, shook, moved on our brand new maple floors in the P.I.K.E Studio, shared living space and ate home cooked meals!

Special thank you to the kitchen team and chef Izzy Kane for all the beautiful meals!

SAVE THE DATE! next DRIFT: Workshop September 24 - October 4

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05/25/2026

SAVE THE DATES! REGISTRATION OPENS IN JUNE:
layers of listening | 5 DAY CI INTENSIVE TRAINING | ALESSANDRO RIVELLINO + LILIANNA KANE

5 days of deep practice and study of Contact Improvisation with Alessandro Rivellino and Lilianna Kane

Classes | jams | home cooked meals | rest | wood fired sauna | river dips

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This workshop will be a focused container for the study and practice of Contact Improvisation. Classes will range from slow, subtle, and meditative material surrounding presence, listening techniques, and somatic exploration, to dynamic, playful and athletic dancing scores. We will review foundations for dancing with weight in motion, and entering into and out of touch. We will meet the ground as it meets our feet. We will pay attention to detail and patiently attune to each other and ourselves. We will also liberate ourselves to play and run like silly foxes in the snow. We will investigate the sensational experiences of falling, flying, rolling, and stillness. We will dance a lot.

05/06/2026

Join us next week for the Field Center MONTHLY CONTACT IMPROVISATION JAM on May 13th!
6-6:30 Arrivals
6:30-7:30 Opening Circle into pre-jam class with Lilianna Kane
7:30-9:30 Open jamming
Cost: $20 [or sliding scale if needed, Cash or Stripe only]

04/26/2026

Forums for Indigenous Research & Exchange return this MAY for its 3rd iteration.

F.I.R.E. is a self-curated cohort of Indigenous multidisciplinary artists from across the Turtle Island [eg: Central / North / Arctic regions of America ] that gather for one week per year to work, rest, collaborate and connect around process, practice and life!

Each cohort is curated by and with the artists from the previous year, ensuring new artists, both established and emerging, have a chance to attend and for previous participants to return.

The artists range in discipline from noise and sound artists, painters, writers, visual artists and muralists, to dancers, performance-based artists and scholars.

This is a special event for us always and lands as the spring is really taking hold and the birds, spring peepers, flowers and animals are on the move. Always hilarious, beautiful and green!

04/22/2026

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION OPEN NOW!
Join us for the 5th annual SUMMER CONTACT IMPROVISATION FESTIVAL at the Field Center

This year’s festival is in THREE PARTS, with two intensives, and many guest artist offerings.

Intensives and classes will be held in our brand new PIKE studio, with overflow jamming, labs, and special offerings will take place in our original studios.

PART 1 (AUGUST 6-10)

INTENSIVE WITH NURIA BOWART + RAY CHUNG (+ offerings by guest artists Ryan Yamuachi and Chris Cahoon)

PART 2 (AUGUST 10-14)

INTENSIVE WITH SHERWOOD CHEN (+ offerings by guest artists Funda Gul, Gabi Revlock, and Lilianna Kane)

PART 3 (AUGUST 14-17)

WEEKEND JAM WITH KAREN PALAFOX + CINTHIA NAVARRO (+ Morning Feldenkrais with Sakura Shimada)

Registration options include Part 1 and/or Part 2 only, Weekend Pass only, or a FULL FESTIVAL PASS with camping options available. This event is limited to 40 participants including campers.

04/17/2026

VADIANDO VERMONT 2026 is only 2 months away and filling up fast!
Remember we have LIMITED BEDS available [but unlimited camping] for this incredible event - one of the longest and most unique Capoeira events in the u.s.
For 12 days we build instruments, train, sing, eat home cooked food and relax together. Daily rodas! ALL levels | ALL styles | ALL lineages welcome! Tiered pricing, work trade, teacher discounts, drop-ins and payment plans available!

2026 teachers include:
WEEKEND ONE: Mestre Chegado [CA], Mestre Tabareu [RI] Contra Mestra Morena [MA] Professora Cafeina [ COLUMBIA], Professora Zuca [RI] Instrutor Leopardo [VT]

WEEKEND TWO: Mestre Lobão [BRAZIL], Mestre Muito Tempo [CA] Mestra Sarará [CA], Mestre Bodinho [CA], Mestra Marreta [VT] Mestre Tabareu [RI] Professora Zuca [RI]

REGISTER NOW! Axé and see you in 8 weeks!

04/12/2026

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION OPEN NOW!
THE INVISIBLE GAME | Mestre Itapuã Beiramar + Mestra Marreta: Cultivating awareness and activation of inner states of collaboration and competition through shared games and practices.�Practicing capturing and recording our work for learning and sharing.
This week long workshop is a collaboration between martial arts and dance through the lens of partnering. We will work with Capoeira, Jiujitsu, music and dance, anatomical knowledge and the overall sense of play.. This is a familiarization of our own spectrum of collaboration and competition: understanding how we are engaging in them, and how they influence what we are capable of.
Workshop Highlights:�• Traveling a spectrum of collaboration to competition using solo practices and partner games�• Building comfort with competition while learning to let go into trust�• Cultivating awareness and playful regulation of various states of nervous system activation�• Partnering skills transferable to any situation where weight is shared�• Sharing practices for building states of awareness useful for capoeira, Jiujitsu, CI�• Cultivation of creativity, adaptability, tonal management�• Learning to enjoy falling, accepting loss, and being surprised�• Using a foundation of collective knowledge from Capoeira, Jiu Jitsu, Contact Improvisation and the Axis Syllabus©�• Practicing recording each other and ourselves for learning and sharing.

6-month + 4-month payment plans available! visit thefieldcenter.com/theinvisiblegame for more information

04/06/2026

Join us this Wednesday for the Field Center Monthly Contact Improvisation Jam on April 8th:
6-6:30 Arrivals
6:30-7:30 Opening Circle into pre-jam class with Lilianna Kane
7:30-9:30 Open jamming
Cost: $20 [or sliding scale if needed, Cash or Stripe only]

In this pre-jam class, we will greet this brand new beautiful maple wood floor!
We will warm up our bodies and our attention, we will discover the infinite roundness of our own structure, and we will play with our relationship to each other, to gravity, and to space. Class will lead into the first ever monthly contact jam in the new Pike Studio. Let us bless the space with our dancing!

04/03/2026

We now offer structured payment plans for our workshops!
We want folks to invest in themselves by attending our classes and workshops and we recognize the financial realities of paying for our events here We are committed to working with people to make it manageable! Finding the right balance of covering our running costs, paying our teachers well and accessibility is always a puzzle but our payment plan option means that people can break up the fee over 4 months.

Simply select Klarna or Afterpay at checkout to purchase any ticket with a payment plan!

We also offer our tiered pricing, Work Trade opportunities and our BIPOC scholarship program to assist folks. Hope to see you up here this year!

01/07/2026

SAVE THE DATES: SUMMER CONTACT IMPROVISATION FESTIVAL | AUGUST 6-17! Announcing teachers early 2026 ⭐️

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Address

61 Williams Road
Bellows Falls, VT
05101

Telephone

+18572078127

Website

http://thefieldcenter.com/

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