Dance Friday Freedom Weekend Class Chris Ellinger - True Story Theatre

DANCE FRIDAY/DNE WEEKEND March 27 and 28th 2025 74 Pleasant St. • Arlington 02476 come for the whole event or single dance or class. Chris Ellinger True Story Theatre Christopher directs True Story Theater, which performs and teaches a style of improvisation theater called Playback in which audience or group members tell stories from their lives and watch them enacted on the spot. It's a moving and artistic form of embodied empathy. In over 25 years, Christopher has been in over 800 performances and workshops. This class will give anyone interested an experience of trying out simple dramatic embodied forms and getting to know something meaningful about others in the class. Class is part of Dance week end. Register for DANCE FRIDAY/FREEDOM WEEKEND March 27th and 28th, 2025 74 Pleasant St, Arlington Come for the whole event or single dance or class. Full weekend early bird pricing… $85 in advance (until March 8th), or bring a check to March 13th Dance. $110 day of event. See www.dancefriday.org for discounts and full list of options 2026 Weekend Schedule FRIDAY, March 27th St. John's Episcopal Church, 74 Pleasant St, Arlington, MA OPENING DANCE 7:30pm - 8:30 — Tuning Moving Meditations — Helena Froehlich 8:30pm - 10:30 — Live Music for Dancing with Stan Strickland with DJ'd interlude(s) by DJ das Mojo (Dave Sheppard) SATURDAY, March 28th Full Day of Classes, Dinner & Performances, Evening Dance St. John's Episcopal Church, 74 Pleasant St. • Arlington, MA 1:30 Registration and Opening Circle. Class Period 1 — 2-2:50pm Contact Improv Partnering — Olivier Besson (Parish Hall) Class Period 2 — 3-3:50 Movement, Rhythm & Voice in Community: A Transformative and Holistic Experience Time to Release & Connect **** with Live drumming **** — Sophie Leurent (Parish Hall) Embodying Stories From Our Lives — Christopher Ellinger (Parlor Room) Class Period 3 — 4 - 4:50pm The 5Rhythms®: The Shamanic Journey — Margaux Skalecki (Parish Hall) Class Period 4 — 5pm - 5:50pm Belly Dance to Bliss — Johara (Parish Hall) Foot Reflexology — Bill Kennedy (Parlor Room) SATURDAY Dinner & Evening Dance, March 28th: 6:pm - 8:30: Dinner and Bardic Circle (Time includes Set up) with Carrie , Paul, Ellie Harrington Jessica Lupien Patti Gurekian and many more talented folks singing songs reading poetry. 8:30pm - 10:30: DANCE — DJ das Mojo (Dave Sheppard) Then, closing circle St John's 74 Pleasant St., Arlington Ma. March 27th&28th Dance weekend, Additional dances in Arlington 3/13/26, 4/10/26 Dance Friday/Freedom will hold In–person Dances 8pm-10pm at 8 Inman st. Cambridge Fridays 4/24/26, 5/8/26, 6/12/26