Spring Dance Weekend In Arlington MA. Class: Oliver Besson Contact Improv
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DANCE FRIDAY/DNE WEEKEND March 27 and 28th 2026
74 Pleasant St. • Arlington 02476 www.dancefriday.org
come for the whole event or single dance or class.
# Olivier Besson
Improv Partnering.
This class aims to provide a container where mutual flow and deep play manifests the emergence of a consensual dance. How do we create a dance with space, allowing it to flower in our presence? We tune our senses to one another while exploring the many layers of mindful touch and enter newly charted territory where the known and the unknown merge. We show up, more fully present, and experience freedom within form.
(Bio)
Olivier Besson is a movement artist of Japanese and French heritage who’s been involved with the study and inquiry of improvisation since 1980. His performances have been presented in France, Taiwan, Russia, Japan, India and the US. He ran the Improv jam with live music at the Dance Complex for 30 years. He is currently on faculty at The Boston Conservatory At Berklee where he curates Moment's Notice, an interdisciplinary improv performance series.
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The full weekend is only $100.00 by March 15th!
$110 walk-ins / day-of. See other attendance options in the chart below schedule
## Friday March 27th and Saturday March 28th, 2026
Tentative 2026 Weekend Schedule
### FRIDAY, March 27th
St. John’s Episcopal Church, 74 Pleasant St, Arlington, MA (Lombard St entrance at back of building)
OPENING DANCE
7:20pm – 7:40pm Check in, Welcome, Opening Circle (Foyer)
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 (Lombard St entrance at back of building)
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 ExperienceTime 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)
8:30pm – 10:30: DANCE — DJ das Mojo (Dave Sheppard)
Then, closing circle