Dance Friday/Freedom Weekend Arlington MA. Chris Ellinger- True Story Theatre
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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
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.
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.
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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