The Field Center

Center for Contemporary Performance, Dance, and Multimedia Arts
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09/02/2026

VADIANDO 2026 RECAP⚡️
This past June we held the second annual Vadiando Vermont, 10 days of teaching, training and immersion in Capoeira.
With half a dozen teachers and over 60 participants from as far away as Columbia and California and as close as Western Mass and Vermont, the warm summer days were spent making instruments, playing music, practicing Capoeira. swimming and eating home grown food. Daily classes were held for both new and experienced capoeiristas, and rodas were held nightly.

Capoeira is unique in its ability to cultivate community and group connection. The tools we develop in the form musically, physically and mentally around improvisation, group listening and stepping into one’s power are rich and ancient. Vadiando VT offers a long-form way to both rest and engage within the culture we create through Capoiera and offers a place where people from multiple lineages, groups and styles and gather and play with one another.

We are grateful the 2026 teaching team!

Mestre Chegado
Mestra Sarara
Mestre Muito Tempo
Mestre Tabareu
Mestra Marreta
Mestre Bodinho
Contra Mestra Morena
Professora Cafeina
Professora Zuca
and Instrutor Leopardo

And thank you for theses incredible photos by Lipe ‘Curioso’ Borges Lipe Borges

Hope to see you all next year!

08/31/2026

Jared Williams facilitates this month’s Contact Improvisation Jam at the Field Center!

In this warm-up into open jamming we will explore how we might track, enter, cultivate and exit trios and group improvisation

Jared has been studying, researching and falling down inside of CI spaces since 2011.
He has learned Contact Improvisation from and worked with Nancy Stark Smith, Karen Nelson, Taja Will, Chris Aiken, Jennifer Nugent, Keith Hennessy and Scott Wells among many others and has been facilitating and teaching Contact Improvisation since 2016.

He founded the JP Contact Improvisation Jam in Jamaica Plain, Boston where he lived for many years and continues to teach and facilitate CI based workshops and events in his role as Director at the Field Center in Vermont.

In his dancing he is interested in how we dance with the world as it is, how we cultivate an ethical wildness, group wilderness as places of emergent structure, rest and edges.

All Levels Welcome
Beginners - we ask that you please attend the classes.
*EVERY SECOND WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH*
SEPTEMBER 9TH | 6-9 PM
@ PIKE STUDIO
DOORS OPEN @ 6 PM
6:30 PM OPENING CIRCLE —>
PRE-JAM CLASS WITH JARED WILLIAMS — >
OPEN JAMMING UNTIL 9 PM

$20 [or pay what you can]
CASH [preferred], Stripe App, check, Venmo

08/15/2026

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION OPEN NOW💫
DRIFT: a drawing and movement workshop

Teaching artists:
Anya Smolnikova
Lilianna Kane
Julio Neijens

DRIFT: is a multi-day workshop in mark-making and presence practices. Bridging the worlds between seeing, drawing and somatics, teaching artists and collaborators Anya Smolnikova, Lilianna Kane and Julio Neijens will lead participants through a series of exercises, proposals, scores and classes which will include drawing techniques [including working with a figure model], daily movement classes, Contact Improvisation and working in nature. The sessions are designed to integrate the senses, open gateways to empathetic relating and train skills.

all levels welcome • beginners encouraged
homecooked meals | fresh garden vegetables | sauna | river dips | woods

08/12/2026

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION OPEN NOW🍄🥀🐾
STRANGE NATURE | HANA VAN DER KOLK + LEA KIEFFER
What might be revealed by touching, listening to, looking at, being deeply with a shell, a glittery garment, another’s body, a fallen log turned home for an ecosystem? How might these intimate encounters be felt and expressed through our bodies? And how might they change how we conceive of our bodies all together? What are the dances, rituals, practices, new ecosystems, tributes that emerge from here?

In this week-long workshop anchored in collaborative ritual, engaging body, attention, and imagination-centering physical/dance practices, and passionate and uncanny encounters with objects, landscape, and costume, we will “dialogue” with ourselves, one another, and everything to ask: how and why might we become more tender, more monstrous, more clairvoyant, more fluid; recognizing/uncovering our already multiple, hybrid, contradictory, messy, monstrous selves, groupings, world in the process. Rigorously courting strangeness, we play along the fluid spectrums of quotidian/performative, minimal/extravagant, personal/political, mundane/magical.

In 2026 we gather around Samhain/Halloween and will welcome the veil-thinning quality of this time; the night growing longer, the earth decaying and transforming towards rest, our alter egos, shadows, monsters, grief, and ancestors perhaps closer and calling to us. Dancers, artists, writers, schemers, activists, healers, and aspiring/inspiring freaks, come join us in play, risk, and world-making.

Guided by dancers, makers, researchers, and facilitators Lea Kieffer and Hana van der Kolk, Strange Nature began at the Field Center in 2022 with the curatorial and match maki
ng vision of Field Center founder Jared Williams. We have reconvened yearly since.

08/10/2026

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION OPEN NOW!
Jogo de Cinturas is an annual 4-day residential skillshare for capoeiristas here in Vermont. Each fall we gather to exchange music, movement and ideas and to build our understanding of the complexity of what capoeira is today.

Mestra Marreta
Mestra Fogueira
Mestra Tigressa
Mestra Cocada
With Special guests TBA

Days include classes, rodas, and conversations facilitated by recognized leaders in the form.

Highlighting the work of women teachers in capoeira, this event is open to all genders, ages, levels, groups and lineages. Room and Board provided, sliding scale pricing and scholarships available.

08/06/2026

Join us for the MONTHLY CONTACT IMPROVISATION JAM at The Field Center:
This month’s monthly jam falls smack dab in the middle of our Summer CI Festival! Please expect many people on site and in the jam, and CI festival energy in the atmosphere!
All Levels Welcome
Beginners - we ask that you please attend the classes.
*EVERY SECOND WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH*

AUGUST 12TH
6-9 PM
@ PIKE STUDIO

DOORS OPEN @ 6 PM
6:30 PM OPENING CIRCLE —>
PRE-JAM CLASS WITH LILIANNA KANE — >
OPEN JAMMING UNTIL 9 PM

$20 [or pay what you can]
CASH [preferred], Stripe App, check, Venmo K's

07/01/2026

IN ONE WEEK: Join us for the MONTHLY CONTACT IMPROVISATION JAM at The Field Center!

All Levels Welcome🌻
Beginners - we ask that you please attend the classes.

EVERY SECOND WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH
6-9 PM
@ PIKE STUDIO

DOORS OPEN @ 6 PM
6:30 PM OPENING CIRCLE —>
PRE-JAM CLASS WITH ANYA SMOLNIKOVA — >
OPEN JAMMING UNTIL 9 PM

More about the pre-jam class and warm-up with Anya Smolnikova: We will be looking at the possibility of what could happen if we show up fully and without rushing. We’ll start with some physical and perhaps metaphysical warm-ups; moving towards group grooves creating and entering the jam space together.

$20 [or pay what you can]
CASH [preferred], Stripe App, check, Venmo K's

06/15/2026

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION OPEN NOW:
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.

Slide 2 photo by Yiran Zhao

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!

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Bellows Falls, VT
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