WildHeart

Artist Residencies
2025-01-01 00:00 - 2025-12-31 00:00 (America/New_York)

Community Contemplative Practice
2025-12-04 10:30 - 11:00
10.30am to 11am 🙂 FREE Community Contemplate Practice (online)-

A weekly 30-minute silent unguided space. Feel free to bring your own practice (sitting/ moving/ meditation/ writing/ journaling/ drawing etc.) along with any props to make yourself comfortable. We will start and end in silence.

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Contemporary Dance (Mixed Level)
2025-12-06 10:00 - 12:00
Vija’s two-hour contemporary class starts with a careful, full body warmup influenced by her decades-long practice of Simonson Technique. The emphasis is on anatomical awareness with a healthy balance of stretching, strengthening, and dance technique. After center warmup and floor stretches, Vija leads the class in progressions—short combinations traveling across the studio. The class culminates in a longer dance combination, followed by a short period of student improvisation. Vija loves music and uses a variety of genres. Her contemporary movement incorporates attention to musicality, percussive/lyrical contrast, fluidity, and emotion

Wellness at WildHeart
2025-12-06 10:00 - 2025-12-07 17:30

Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart
2025-12-07 16:00 - 18:30
Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart

First and Third Sundays

4:00-6:30pm (2nd and 4th Sundays in Kingston!)

BYO dinner for a studio-floor picnic afterward

CI Lab 4-5pm (with rotating teachers)

Open Jam 5-6:30pm

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Or if you prefer to pay cash at the door, send us an email to let us know you’re coming, so we can help you find your way to the studio.

Overnight guests welcome (with advance notice). Let us know if you want to make a longer visit to WildHeart… email contact@wildheartcenter.art

Weeks that we’re not Jamming @ WildHeart, Hudson Valley Contact Improv continues in Kingston. Email Hudsonvalleycontactimprov@gmail.com for more on the Kingston Jam

Location- This workshop will take place in the Barn. If you’re coming to WildHeart for the first time, please visit our Directions page for arrival info. Refund policy No refunds, no transfers

Film Screening and Album Release of ‘Tell Me How You Breathe.’
2025-12-12 19:00 - 21:30
Please join Loom Ensemble on December 12, 7pm for the Film Screening and Album Release of ‘Tell Me How You Breathe.’ This musical theater work on climate crisis toured over ten cities throughout Vermont, Massachusetts and New York and is finally available for your eyes and ears.

Suggested contribution $5-$20

Queer Body Jam/Improv
2025-12-13 11:00 - 12:30
Queer Body Jam/Improv is a monthly dance/flow class for Queer Bodies! This is an all-levels movement class made for every body. We will move through 75 minutes of open-format continuous movement, guided by vocal and movement cues. No previous dance experience necessary – willingness to sweat and stay open minded welcome! The goal of this class is to create a safe space for Queer folks to practice an embodied mind+body connection through joy, effort, texture, stamina, and release.

Facilitated by Jessy Dae Crist. Register and learn more here!

Vertical Dance Workshop with Steep Horizon Dance
2025-12-13 13:00 - 2025-12-14 16:00

Shared Stage Performance
2025-12-13 19:30 - 21:00
Join us for a delightful evening of short performances! This special evening features 3-6 performances, each 10-20 minutes long from artists of different disciplines. This is a chance for artists to share work, or excerpts of their work, alongside other artists. Audiences will be given the option to write a note for each artist, sharing their experience of the work. This is a wonderful opportunity for artists to receive feedback about the impact of their work, and for audiences to feel into the impact of each piece. The mixture of pieces – from dance, to music, to theater, to visual art, to experimental art – makes for a fun, inspiring, and diverse evening.

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In December we are thrilled to present a variety of theater and dance created and performed by local artists ⎯ Rod Sauquillo, Stephen Park and Kelly Coffield Park, Gathering Wild, Leighann Kowalsky, Natalie Deryn Johnson, and Glenna Yu.

unfolding now

Performed by: Rod Sauquillo

Description:

This piece explores the practice of presence in an experimental form and invites participation from those gathered!

Rod is a creative who searches for ways to connect and express. Movement and poetry are their most cherished forms.

So, that just happened…

Performed by: Stephen Park and Kelly Coffield Park

Description:

Our work deals with capturing a moment in time and exploring it from many angles. We will perform the culmination of a work that is being crafted specifically and uniquely for this Shared Stage Event at WildHeart.

Stephen and Kelly have been making art from their lived experiences for as long as they have been together. They will celebrate their 26th wedding anniversary this New Year’s Eve

The North Wind

Performed by: Gathering WildDancers: Emma Laufersweiler, Meredith Casimiro, Brianna Dixon, and Lillian KemanisChoreographed by: Jerylann WarnerMusic by: The North Wind by Jim Perkins, Daigo Hanada

Description:

This piece can be described as a study to keep us in motion, in our creativity, and connected to each other. This is a Hudson Valley iteration of an Atlanta based dance company ⎯ a slowly growing and emerging new group.

In the realm of performance ideation, Jerylann, as a choreographer and seasoned teacher, has made an unstoppable creative impact. She has guided her students far in their artistic pursuits while mentoring, nurturing, and developing professional dancers and actors. Her choreography and dance company, Gathering Wild, have provided opportunities and acclaim for many performing artists. Her signature approach has been to foster community, conversation, and collaboration among vocal, visual, musical, theatrical, movement, and literary artists. Her roles in performance, production, and direction all center around this alchemy. Her production credits are numerous, ranging from site-specific immersive events to staged musical theater, as well as performances for the concert stage.

Jerylann has served on the faculties of Harvard and Emory University, directed dance programs in two performing arts high schools, and also served as dramaturge in residence. She launched a dance program in Title I schools in Atlanta, directed a school of dance in metro Atlanta, and wrote and directed a series of evening-length productions.

Solo With A Stool

Performed by: Leighann Kowalsky

Description:

A live active moment of processing life (in this case, grief) using the body and its’ dancing form.

Leighann Kowalsky makes art. She choreographs and produces dance, film, circus and visual theater works independently and for a number of organizations, as well as educates and experiments at the intersection of disciplines. Collaborative in nature, Kowalsky cultivates relationships and expands the dimensions of attention and sensation in her work, while playfully inviting others into that world.

tender nest

Photo Credit: Jim Lafferty

Performed by: Natalie Deryn Johnson

Description:

An improvisational dance and spoken word piece.

Natalie Deryn Johnson is a multi-dimensional movement artist, embodiment facilitator, intuitive guide, healing photographer, and poet. She has created for stage, art film, community gatherings, and evening-length solo shows—improvisational explorations of quantum physics, chronic illness, and water consciousness—and she is newly emerging publicly as a singer / songstress. She is a lover of moss, waterfalls, bathtubs, and communal enchantment.

cleave (this body)

Performed by: Glenna yu

Description:A shrouded body navigates the split between spirit and flesh, private ritual and public gaze.

Glenna is a movement artist based in Andes, NY. She has danced with H.T. Chen & Dancers, Raven White, Nicole Kadar, clyde fusei forth, and Djahari Clark. Beyond performing, Glenna strives to build a more vibrant dance community in the Western Catskills through her work as a member of NYS DanceForce and as a dance teacher for children and teens. Finally, Glenna is the proud co-founder of Pillow Fort Arts Center, an interdisciplinary artist residency and community. She created Pillow Fort to be a resource for artists; to imagine alternative systems; and to provide a space for exploration, sensitivity, rest, and (re)creation.

Performance Location

WildHeart is located on 46+ beautiful acres in the Hudson Valley at 183 East Road, Wallkill, NY. This event will take place in the Barn, the large building at the end of the driveway. You can park in either of the two parking areas on the right side of the driveway before you get to the Barn. There are also a few spots in front of the Barn. More info about directions and transportation options HERE.

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Shake with Niki
2025-12-14 16:30 - 17:30
Shake with Niki (in-person only)

4:30 – 5:30pm Second Sunday of every month, starting November 10th (60-75 mins)

Group Shake – A somatic movement practice during which we will shake to music or sometimes, silence. Shaking, individually but as part of a group to ground us, can be healing as it is a natural way to relieve tension. You may choose to shake standing, seated, lying down or alternating between those depending on what your body needs in the moment. You can choose your own intensity, when to stop or when to keep going as you listen to your own body. While it is important to keep ourselves open to what, if anything, may arise emotionally, please only engage to the degree that you can still care for yourself. This is not a therapeutic space. The practice will start with a demonstration and it will end in silence. Dress comfortably and stay hydrated!

$10-$25

Sonic Immersion
2025-12-14 18:00 - 19:00
Come experience a multi-instrumental Sound Bath with composer-performer Sasha Bogdanowitsch. This full body listening experience will draw from Sasha’s extensive instrument collection of original and global winds, strings and percussion and his background of intensive musical studies of the world’s musics from countries such as India, Indonesia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. Sasha will couple this with his unique vocals and electronics to create an ever evolving sonic tapestry that will immerse the listener in resonance and overtones; aiding all in their own sonic journey, relaxation, stress reduction and/ or meditation.

Participants will be free to recline (savasana pose), sit or stand as needed. Some yoga mats and blankets will be available but please bring whatever materials you need to feel warm and relaxed.

The event will last 60 minutes.

Come just for the Sonic Immersion or come early for Shake with Niki, and stay for both.

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Authentic Movement Immersion
2026-01-10 10:00 - 2026-01-11 16:00
This Authentic Movement Immersion offers space to explore the Self and relational connection, awaken the multidimensional layers of the psyche, and cultivate conscious awareness through embodiment. Together we will practice seeing and being seen, moving and witnessing, speaking and holding silence.

Cuddle Party Retreat
2026-02-13 15:00 - 2026-02-16 12:00
HUG MEDICINE. CONSCIOUS CUDDLES.A Cuddle Party™ is a drug and alcohol-free space and NONSEXUAL environment.It is a place to feel safe, practice consent, and share human connection.Please feel free to go to cuddleparty.com for more information!

DANCING THE MESS OF RELATIONSHIP: An Art-Monastic Experiment in Relational Meditation
2026-04-03 15:00 - 2026-04-15 15:00
Our intention for this 9-day program is to practice meditation on the relational field. Where a traditional meditation retreat might have practitioners focusing on their breath, or sensations throughout their body, this meditation practice will have us focusing on what is coming up between us in relationship moment-to-moment, the ever-unfolding dance between self and other. Unlike other retreats which focus on relational practices (such as Circling or Group Relations) this program will oscillate between verbal relational processes, most often Circling, and nonverbal relational processes, most centrally Contact Improv and Meditation.

Community Contemplative Practice
2027-08-19 10:45 - 11:15
10.30-11amFREE Community Contemplate Practice (online)-

A weekly 30-minute silent unguided space. Feel free to bring your own practice (sitting/ moving/ meditation/ writing/ journaling/ drawing etc.) along with any props to make yourself comfortable. We will start and end in silence.

Join Zoom Meeting https://us05web.zoom.us/j/86265272473?pwd=[REDACTED] ID: 862 6527 2473Passcode: [REDACTED]

No need to register, just show up.
