Spiral & Root

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12/09/2025

We are happy to introduce our last but not least teacher for this winters training: Daniel Hayes!

Daniel was born in Baltimore in 1977 and moved to the Netherlands when he was a year old. This is where he spent most of his childhood and also where he graduated from Medical school in Amsterdam in 2005. He later completed his PhD in Tropical Medicine and Epidemiology in the UK after multiple stints living in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi. He then moved to Catalonia, Spain, where he lived for ten years in Can Masdeu, an anarchist collective on the outskirts of Barcelona. Together with Lina, his partner and mother of their three children, Vitai, Osh, and Nanuk, they started the Vidalia eco-village an hour outside of Barcelona. His life path shifted after he was introduced to Contact Improvisation in 2000 while living in Barcelona. Through his questioning and research of this form and its community he started the Touch&Play Movement in 2010 in Berlin and continues to explore the intricacies of the Relational Body as it’s founder, and as the coordinator of the different T&P events taking place in Europe, Asia and the Americas. He is a committed peace builder and hopes to bring Earthdance back to life by strengthening the community spirit and ownership of Earthdance, as well as diversifying its activities and supporting the building of alliances with others who do good in the world.

11/25/2025

This program is especially meaningful when for those who wish to weave CI into their careers. Alongside physical practice, Spiral & Root offers tools for professional development, networking, and sustaining CI as part of your artistic path.

Class by Ray Chung @ Spiral & Root 2025
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11/18/2025

The roadblock is rarely what you think.

You say: "I don't have time."
Really: "I don't believe I deserve it."

You say: "I'm too old."
Really: "I'm afraid of judgment."

You say: "My partner wouldn't understand."
Really: "I'm afraid of being truly seen."

Most obstacles are stories we've internalized. Authentic living starts with naming the real one underneath.

What roadblock are you ready to examine? ✨

11/17/2025

We’re excited to introduce our eight hteacher for Spiral & Root 2026!⁠

Nina Martin is a choreographer, improviser, pedagogue & dance theorist with 50+ years of embodied research in postmodern dance and human perceptual systems.
Her work centers on perception, composition & spontaneous movement states.

Nina teaches and performs worldwide, drawing from her systems Ensemble Thinking™ and ReWire Movement States™, deeply connected to Contact Improvisation.

She has collaborated with iconic artists such as Martha Clarke, Deborah Hay, Simone Forti, Steve Paxton, Mary Overlie, Barbara Dilley, and Lower Left Performance Collective. Her choreography has earned six NEA fellowships and multiple honors.

A founding artist of Channel Z in NYC, Nina continues her work as a member of Lower Left, developing Ensemble Thinking™ and ReWire Movement States™ with the collective. She also offers dance destinations in Marfa, Texas, and recently became a certified Gyrotonic™ teacher. Nina is Professor of Dance Studies at TCU’s School for Classical & Contemporary Dance.

11/13/2025

For three weeks, Earthdance becomes a laboratory. Every day is an opportunity to explore CI from new angles: physical, pedagogical, historical, and artistic. The goal is not just to practice more, but to understand more deeply. 

11/05/2025

We’re excited to introduce our seventh teacher for Spiral & Root 2026!⁠
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Meta Bobbe (she/her) is an integrative body therapist, embodiment and movement researcher, and CI community organizer. Since her first encounter with CI in Israel 2012, this practice has been a focus of her life. In 2018 she joined the Underscore +/- group and has been exploring it weekly since. For 14 years, the group has been investigating the Underscore and experiencing the impact of what dedication and repetition does within it. She’s excited and honored to co-present some of these learnings. Meta is part of the leadership team at Earthdance serving on the CICo seasonal jam organization team since 2019 and is a former Earthdance Board Member. Meta is a Certified Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, Ilan Lev Method Practitioner, and Licensed Massage Therapist. She received her BBA in Management and Human Resources from University of Wisconsin-Madison. She’s a traveler and former expat and lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.⁠
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For more information and to apply to join us and learn from Meta and our other amazing teachers, link in bio.

11/01/2025

At Spiral & Root, training is not just about form and technique. It’s about asking: How do we practice CI responsibly? How do we create safe, supportive spaces for exploration? These questions are at the heart of the program. 

10/28/2025

We’re excited to introduce our sixth teacher for Spiral & Root 2026!⁠
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Angie Hauser is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher who’s work is grounded in improvisation, performance and collaboration. Hauser’s work is marked by her long-time collaborations with artists Bebe Miller, Darrell Jones, and Chris Aiken. She was awarded a BESSIE Award for Creation and Choreography for her work with Bebe Miller Company and has received major fellowships and grants for her performance with Chris Aiken. She is influenced by her other dancemaking collaborations with Mike Vargas, Jennifer Nugent, K.J. Holmes, Kathleen Hermesdorf, and Alex Springer/Xan Burley. She has taught contact improvisation and dance improvisation throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and in Colombia, and Peru. She received her MFA in dance from the Ohio State University. She is currently a Professor at Smith College in Massachusetts (USA.)⁠
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For more information and to apply to join us and learn from Angie and our other amazing teachers, link in bio.

10/25/2025

At Spiral & Root, we move from the inside out — exploring fascia, bones, muscles, and the nervous system as living partners in motion. Embodiment begins with awareness.

10/24/2025

We’re excited to introduce our fifth teacher for Spiral & Root 2026!⁠
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Lani Nahele, in her own words:⁠
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„I have been intrigued by the human body and its movement potential my entire life. I have been a professional dancer, a choreographer, a dance company member, a collaborator, a movement educator and a bodyworker. I earned my BFA at SUNY @ Purchase. In NYC, I danced with Ohad Naharin, then with Trisha Brown in her company for seven years. I then spent several years in Europe: Spain, France, Austria and Germany teaching, making choreographic work and performing. I was awarded a commission in Germany and made a women’s quintet. Collaborators have included Frey Faust, Dieter Heitkamp, Helge Musial, Ka Rustler, Eva Geueke, Catherine Musinsky, Olivier Besson, Jen Polins, Saliq Savage, Chris Aiken…and others. I taught dance and pedagogy at Springfield College while guest teaching at Bard, Marlboro, Smith, Julliard and Keene Colleges. I studied directly with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and have been a Practitioner of Body-Mind Centering since 1994. I have been trained and certified in Circulatory Massage, Pilates, Gyrotonic, Gyrokinesis and Reiki. I direct Studio rEvolution and there I center my private bodywork practice, Embodied Healing.“⁠
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For more information about Spiral & Root and to apply, link in bio.

10/19/2025

We’re excited to introduce our fourth teacher for Spiral & Root 2026!⁠
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Sarah Young (she/her) has been delving into the Underscore since 2011, when she had her first talk-through with Nancy Stark Smith at Eden’s Expressway in New York City. ⁠
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She has been a co-coordinator of the Global Underscore since 2020 and part of the Underscore +/- research group in Northampton, Massachusetts, US since 2013. She participated in the Underscore-based performance installation, Glimpse 2, at 92nd Street Y, NYC (2014) and attended Nancy Stark Smith’s January Workshop (2020) and Explore Underscore in Bremen Germany (2024). In addition to the Underscore, she’s interested in Nancy’s “States of Grace.” ⁠
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Sarah is a teacher and practitioner of contact improvisation, a Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner, former director of Earthdance in Plainfield, Massachusetts, and a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Morocco. She received her BFA in Dance from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is pursuing her MFA at Smith College. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts and Stolzenhagen, Germany.⁠
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For more information about Spiral & Root, Sarah Young, or to apply, link in bio.

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Plainfield, MA
01070

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