Ecstatic/Conscious Dance Events in the Boston Area, November 2025
Welcome to another month of conscious movement! The leaves are settling onto the ground, as the world cuddles into itself, preparing for Winter. But even in stillness, we keep on moving, because the dance never ends...not even when you leave the dance floor.
…anyways, onto the ecstatic/conscious dance events for November!
Short List
11/15: Contact Improv Flying Workshop for Advanced Beginners in Cambridge
11/15: Contact Improv Jam with Live Music by Eva Gertz in Cambridge
11/16: Contact Improv Flying Workshop for Intermediate Level in Cambridge
11/22: Movement, Rhythm, & Voice with Live Drumming in Arlington
11/29: FlowState 5Rhythms with Joel Stanley in Jamaica Plain
Detailed List
Saturday, November 1st: Contact Improv Jam in Arlington
10:30 am - 12:00 pm. Contact Improvisation is an open-ended exploration of the kinaesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through contact. There will be a gently facilitated class for the first 45 minutes, than 45 minutes of open dancing.
Saturday, November 1st: Soul Dance in Cambridge
1:30 - 3:00 pm. Join us for Soul Dance, a guided improvisational movement practice that engages somatic awareness to facilitate personal growth, emotional well-being, and collective healing. Soul Dance was created by Allison Talis, a somatic therapist, yoga teacher, and trauma specialist with over 25 years of experience in the healing arts. The dance begins gently, followed by a deeper, more visceral exploration, and ends with relaxation. Understanding that the body holds our inherited epigenetic patterns and our present, we work with—and through—the body to release, untangle, and create new pathways towards integration. Soul Dance is an intuitive, non-verbal practice set to music, where you can expect to sweat, although you are always in control of your rhythm and pace.
Monday, November 3rd: JourneyDance in Arlington
7:00 - 8:00 pm. JourneyDance is a portal to reclaiming your power, feeling what needs to be felt, expressing yourself and dropping into altered states for healing. This is a free event, offered in the Community Room of the Arlington Library. Facilitated prompts will invite you to move, and get in touch with your body and emotions.
Tuesday, November 4th: Biodanza in Jamaica Plain
7:00 - 9:00 pm. Biodanza is an invitation to connect with yourself, others, and the fullness of life, in a space of welcome and respect. Join us for a night of music, movement, restorative lay, gentle container, and community. These events will be held at JP Cohousing. Email biodanzajpboston@gmail.com for further details.
Tuesday, November 4th: Contact Improv Jam in Cambridge
7:30 - 10:00 pm. Regularly every Tuesday. Contact Improvisation is an open-ended exploration of the kinaesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through contact. Each week has a different facilitator and theme, with a class for the first hour, followed by open dancing. It’s usually done to silence, but sometimes to live music.
Thursday, November 6th: FlowState 5Rhythms with Joel Stanley in Somerville
7:00 - 9:00 pm. Joel is an accredited teacher of 5Rhythms, a form of movement therapy that brings us on a wave through a wave of five different rhythms: flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical, and stillness. This night is part of 6-week series with a special focus on each rhythm, culminating with an extra long 3 hour session on Dec 11th. This time, the focus will be on “staccato.” No need to attend all…each night will be it’s own independent experience!
Thursday, November 6th: Contact Improv Jam in Jamaica Plain
7:30 - 10:00 pm. Regularly every Thursday. Contact Improvisation is an open-ended exploration of the kinaesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through contact. The space will be held for new longer hours, at a beautiful space at Spontaneous Celebrations.
Saturday, November 8th: Contact Improv Jam in Arlington
10:30 am - 12:00 pm. Contact Improvisation is an open-ended exploration of the kinaesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through contact. There will be a gently facilitated class for the first 45 minutes, than 45 minutes of open dancing.
Sunday, November 9th: Medicine Dance: The Journey in Cambridge
11:30 am - 2:00 pm. Welcome to our Monthly Journey. A curated experience that is a bit different each time, weaving sacred ritual, creative modalities, somatic awareness and movement. We begin with Soul Dance, and then move into a guided process created by Allison called Emotion in Motion- where the individual and the collective meet. We move and dance our ancestral and our now, our epigenetic inheritance the ones we want to keep and the ones we want to unhook from. We move and dance our grief and our joy, our uncertainty and what we know in our bones. We will land and anchor with meditation and visualization, followed by our closing circle.
Tuesday, November 11th: Biodanza in Jamaica Plain
7:00 - 9:00 pm. Biodanza is an invitation to connect with yourself, others, and the fullness of life, in a space of welcome and respect. Join us for a night of music, movement, restorative lay, gentle container, and community. These events will be held at JP Cohousing. Email biodanzajpboston@gmail.com for further details.
Tuesday, November 11th: Contact Improv Jam in Cambridge
7:30 - 10:00 pm. Regularly every Tuesday. Contact Improvisation is an open-ended exploration of the kinaesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through contact. Each week has a different facilitator and theme, with a class for the first hour, followed by open dancing. It’s usually done to silence, but sometimes to live music.
Thursday, November 13th: FlowState 5Rhythms with Joel Stanley in Somerville
7:00 - 9:00 pm. Joel is an accredited teacher of 5Rhythms, a form of movement therapy that brings us on a wave through a wave of five different rhythms: flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical, and stillness. This night is part of 6-week series with a special focus on each rhythm, culminating with an extra long 3 hour session on Dec 11th. This time, the focus will be on “chaos.” No need to attend all…each night will be it’s own independent experience!
Thursday, November 13th: Dance Lab in Cambridge
7:00 - 9:00 pm. Dance Lab is a weekly gathering where we explore what happens when our bodies lead. Carefully curated music and simple prompts help you find your way. We call it a lab because we’re all experimenting—discovering what movement does for our bodies, imaginations, and communities.
Thursday, November 13th: Contact Improv Jam in Jamaica Plain
7:30 - 10:00 pm. Regularly every Thursday. Contact Improvisation is an open-ended exploration of the kinaesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through contact. The space will be held for new longer hours, at a beautiful space at Spontaneous Celebrations.
Friday, November 14th: Dance Friday in Cambridge
8:00 - 10:00 pm. Join us for an immersive experience of Ecstatic Dance and Wellness at Dance Friday’s upcoming event. Dive deep into conscious movement, self-exploration, and healing through movement as we come together in a safe and supportive environment to explore the depths of our inner selves. Led by experienced facilitators, this Dance offers a unique blend of trance dance, energy healing, and self-empowerment practices.
Saturday, November 15th: Contact Improv Flying Workshop for Advanced Beginners in Cambridge
9:30 am - 5:00 pm. In this workshop taught by Sarah Konner, we’ll explore the mechanics of flying: giving and receiving weight, tracking centers, soft collisions, offering ledges, and getting under. Saturday will be suited for Advanced Beginners to the form, while Sunday will be geared towards an Intermediate level. Saturday introduces the foundations of safely sharing and supporting weight for flying. We’ll begin to test where we can go in the air.
Saturday, November 15th: Soul Dance in Cambridge
1:30 - 3:00 pm. Join us for Soul Dance, a guided improvisational movement practice that engages somatic awareness to facilitate personal growth, emotional well-being, and collective healing. Soul Dance was created by Allison Talis, a somatic therapist, yoga teacher, and trauma specialist with over 25 years of experience in the healing arts. The dance begins gently, followed by a deeper, more visceral exploration, and ends with relaxation. Understanding that the body holds our inherited epigenetic patterns and our present, we work with—and through—the body to release, untangle, and create new pathways towards integration. Soul Dance is an intuitive, non-verbal practice set to music, where you can expect to sweat, although you are always in control of your rhythm and pace.
Saturday, November 15th: Biodanza in Arlington
3:00 - 5:00 pm. Biodanza is: movement, music, connection, restorative play, rest, revolution. Join for an afternoon practicing your own good medicine in community, and our collective good medicine together! In English and Spanish. This will be facilitated by Clara Rubin-Smith McKie.
Saturday, November 15th: Contact Improv Jam with Live Music by Eva Gertz in Cambridge
7:30 - 10:00 pm. At the conclusion of Saturday’s Contact Improv Flying Workshop, there will be a contact improv jam with live music by Eva Gertz. Improvised vocals and keyboards, dancing the line between polished and unpolished; intentional and accidental; expected and unexpected; tranquil and rambunctious. The jam is free to workshop participants, but open to the entire community for an entry free of $20.
Sunday, November 16th: Contact Improv Flying Workshop for Intermediate Level in Cambridge
1:30 - 6:30 pm. In this workshop taught by Sarah Konner, we’ll explore the mechanics of flying: giving and receiving weight, tracking centers, soft collisions, offering ledges, and getting under. Saturday will be suited for Advanced Beginners to the form, while Sunday will be geared towards an Intermediate level. Sunday deepens the training - focusing on transitions in and out of flight, moving in and out of contact to catch each other’s momentum, improvising through evolving possibilities.
Tuesday, November 18th: Contact Improv Jam in Cambridge
7:30 - 10:00 pm. Regularly every Tuesday. Contact Improvisation is an open-ended exploration of the kinaesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through contact. Each week has a different facilitator and theme, with a class for the first hour, followed by open dancing. It’s usually done to silence, but sometimes to live music.
Thursday, November 20th: FlowState 5Rhythms with Joel Stanley in Somerville
7:00 - 9:00 pm. Joel is an accredited teacher of 5Rhythms, a form of movement therapy that brings us on a wave through a wave of five different rhythms: flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical, and stillness. This night is part of 6-week series with a special focus on each rhythm, culminating with an extra long 3 hour session on Dec 11th. This time, the focus will be on “lyrical” No need to attend all…each night will be it’s own independent experience!
Thursday, November 20th: Dance Lab in Cambridge
7:00 - 9:00 pm. Dance Lab is a weekly gathering where we explore what happens when our bodies lead. Carefully curated music and simple prompts help you find your way. We call it a lab because we’re all experimenting—discovering what movement does for our bodies, imaginations, and communities.
Thursday, November 20th: Contact Improv Jam in Jamaica Plain
7:30 - 10:00 pm. Regularly every Thursday. Contact Improvisation is an open-ended exploration of the kinaesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through contact. The space will be held for new longer hours, at a beautiful space at Spontaneous Celebrations.
Friday, November 21st: Vortex Ecstatic Dance in Cambridge
7:00 - 9:00 pm. One of the biggest monthly ecstatic dances in the area. Each Vortex dance begins with a cacao ceremony and warm-up, before flowing into the main dance (with light show), and ending with a guided meditation or soundscape.
Saturday, November 22nd: Contact Improv Jam in Arlington
10:30 am - 12:00 pm. Contact Improvisation is an open-ended exploration of the kinaesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through contact. There will be a gently facilitated class for the first 45 minutes, than 45 minutes of open dancing.
Saturday, November 22nd: Soul Dance in Cambridge
1:30 - 3:00 pm. Join us for Soul Dance, a guided improvisational movement practice that engages somatic awareness to facilitate personal growth, emotional well-being, and collective healing. Soul Dance was created by Allison Talis, a somatic therapist, yoga teacher, and trauma specialist with over 25 years of experience in the healing arts. The dance begins gently, followed by a deeper, more visceral exploration, and ends with relaxation. Understanding that the body holds our inherited epigenetic patterns and our present, we work with—and through—the body to release, untangle, and create new pathways towards integration. Soul Dance is an intuitive, non-verbal practice set to music, where you can expect to sweat, although you are always in control of your rhythm and pace.
Saturday, November 22nd: Movement, Rhythm, & Voice with Live Drumming in Arlington
7:00 - 8:30 pm. A guided and holistic experience that invites participants to transform through symbolic movement, voice, and the power of rhythm, all supported by live drumming and the collective energy of the group. This class will be held at The Foundry in Cambridge. Contact sophie@ouidanceouiyoga.com to register.
Sunday, November 23rd: JourneyDance in Natick
2:00 - 4:00 pm. Facilitated by Sandra Rose and this form’s founder, Toni Bergins. JourneyDance is an embodied movement practice that blends music, imagination, and self-exploration to help you feel more free, alive, and empowered. Don’t miss this chance to be part of a community that’s passionate about healing, movement, and heart-centered living. Let’s come together to inspire and transform.
Tuesday, November 25th: Contact Improv Jam in Cambridge
7:30 - 10:00 pm. Regularly every Tuesday. Contact Improvisation is an open-ended exploration of the kinaesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through contact. Each week has a different facilitator and theme, with a class for the first hour, followed by open dancing. It’s usually done to silence, but sometimes to live music.
Thursday, November 27th: Contact Improv Jam in Jamaica Plain
7:30 - 10:00 pm. Regularly every Thursday. Contact Improvisation is an open-ended exploration of the kinaesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through contact. The space will be held for new longer hours, at a beautiful space at Spontaneous Celebrations.
Friday, November 28th: Buy Nothing Day Party in Arlington
8:45 - 9:45 pm. Don’t consume…connect. For it’s third year running, Extinction Rebellion Boston will be hosting a free night of celebrating anti-consumerism and community on Buy Nothing Day, the counter-holiday to Black Friday. There will be an hour of facilitated ecstatic dance at the night’s end, starting at 8:45! Feel free to join before hand, for an epic free stuff swap, snacks, music, and more dancing from 6:30 pm.
Saturday, November 29th: Contact Improv Jam in Arlington
10:30 am - 12:00 pm. Contact Improvisation is an open-ended exploration of the kinaesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through contact. There will be a gently facilitated class for the first 45 minutes, than 45 minutes of open dancing.
Saturday, November 29th: FlowState 5Rhythms with Joel Stanley in Jamaica Plain
1:30 - 3:30 pm. Joel is an accredited teacher of 5Rhythms, a form of movement therapy that brings us on a wave through a wave of five different rhythms: flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical, and stillness.