Great Falls Creative Movement

Come dance with us!

We offer unique, holistic, community-based dance programming in Franklin County, MA

Current Classes

First Steps

A family dance class for babies, toddlers and their caregivers

Tuesdays, 10:00 – 10:35am
January 17th – February 28th

How do YOU dance? 3 – 4 year-olds

An inclusive, community-based creative dance class for young children and their caregivers

Saturdays, 9:15 – 10:00am
January 21st – May 20th

Awesome Art in Motion: The Flying Kangaroos

A year-long holistic dance program for 1st – 3rd graders

Saturdays, 11:30 – 12:45
Starting September 17th!

An additional Flying Kangaroos class may open up on Wednesday afternoons. Please be in touch if you are interested!

News

In the news!

Thanks to the Montague Reporter for the great article about our dance residency at the Hillcrest Elementaty School!

Residency at Hillcrest Elementary School!

From January 4th – January 13th Hillcrest Elementary Schools’ first grade classrooms will be participating in a Community Dance residency with Great Falls Creative Movement! During the residency, each first grader will participate in daily dance classes focused on building community and dancing together. Thanks to the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s STARS Residencies program for funding free dance education in Turners Falls!

Winter Newsletter

Greetings friends and supporters! This past 2 years has been a time of greth growth and change for us, both in the programs we offer and the curriculum we teach. We are so excited to share our upcoming events, classes and programs with you! We look forward to dancing together soon!

YOU ARE INVITED!

To a family DANCE PARTY with Awesome Art in Motion! Sunday December 18th, 2 – 4pm at the Guiding Star Grange.

Child Friendly, Movement Based Tashlich!

Join Rabbi Andrea of Temple Israel and Dance Educator Anna Hendricks for a child-friendly Tashlich Monday Sept 26 3:30-4:30pm. Register for location information. Tashlich (literally translated to “casting off”) is an embodied water ritual performed in community and in personal reflection on Rosh Hashanah. Our tradition teaches us to cast our sins, our transgessions, into…

COVID policy

After careful consideration we have decided to no longer require that students wear masks during our studio classes. We will continue to keep window open for increased ventilation. We will require that students who have had a close contact with someone with COVID wear a mask for 5 days following exposure and that students wear…