Special Events & Performances

the metta movement

the metta movement

The Metta Movement – for the first time at the Dragon’s Egg! May 19, 4 pm – midnight, performances 4 – 8:30;  and drumming, chanting, ecstatic dance party 8:30 – 12, yay Youth dance performances, acro yoga, belly dance, yik so kuen, afro brazilian capoeira, hooping, journey dance, west african, drumming, tribal chanting, songha, yoga, [...]


Children Dance – out of the Woods, into the Egg!

Sunday, May 6th, at 4 pm, at the Dragon’s Egg! CDC’s 23rd Annual Concert will feature dancing children, in and out of the woods, in and out of the Egg, and into your hearts!   Conceived and directed by L’ana Burton, with the help of all the children, and of many other supporters – people [...]


Marya dances in NYC 5/6, 2-4 pm, with Situ, at WestFest at Westbeth

Marya dances in NYC 5/6, 2-4 pm,  with Situ, at WestFest at Westbeth

Beasts Rove Again!

Beasts Rove Again!

Earth Day – a rousing earthy success!

Earth Day - a rousing earthy success!

Yay!  The first Earth Day at the Dragon’s Egg – and it was a glorious day full of drenching rains, skidding children, organic worms and foods, massage and soaps, sacred bundles and drumming, dancing, poetry, storytelling, tai chi, singing.   It was a fine day for all, and we look forward to this being a [...]


Earth Day!! a rousing earthy success!

Earth Day!!  a rousing earthy success!

Tibetan Stick Workshop

Tibetan Stick Workshop

Tibetan Stick Workshop

TIBETAN STICK DANCING A workshop with Dr. David Chandler Director,  Eagle’s Quest Tai Chi Center When:  Sunday, June  3    2-5 pm Where:  The Dragon’s Egg 401 Shewville Rd.  Ledyard, CT Cost:  $ 45  (snack included) Tibetan Stick-dancing covers a range of moving meditations that are used for training in stick fighting.  The techniques are fun, diverse, [...]


earth day

earth day

Earth Day at the Dragon’s Egg!

  Earth Day, Earth Day!!   Sunday,  April 22nd, from  1 – 5 pm.   — and what more organic location than the Dragon’s Egg….. Plus – it is the year of the Dragon. Come to this day celebrating solar, organic farming, worms, massage, organic foods, poetry, dance, story telling, hooping, drumming, and more! Here [...]


Hygienic Egg: Is March Hardy

The Hygienic Egg was hugely successful, with musicians/singers Bernadette Golden and Larry Kern leading off with a new song – – an unlikely love story about Lions and Lambs.  Four beastie bits lightly summing up the heavy hearted lush tale of Tess of the D’Ubervilles interspersed the performances, and were initiated by a riotous setting of [...]


Masks Emerge from the Cardboard Unconscious Delight

A new semester begins at the National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Centre, where Marya has been teaching since, gulp, 1984, and where Dan and Marya have been teaching mask making for ten years and more as the first workshop of the semester, initiating the students into a time of glorious imagination and [...]


Beasts Rove!

The Beasts will rove with glee for the Young People’s Hygienic Arts at the Garde Gallery on Saturday, January 28th – midday!   There will be extra masks and costumes to transform small artists into new Beasts!  Come and enjoy the weekend of antic Hygienic arts with the Beasts.


Dragon’s Egg at Construction Company!

The Dragon’s Egg is proud to present Dragon’s Egg at The Construction Company, two concerts of dance, theater, music, and monologue created by nineteen artists and companies who have had residencies at the Egg, a retreat/rehearsal space near Mystic, Connecticut. The event is produced by Marya Ursin, artistic director of The Mystic Paper Beasts Theatre [...]


Lysistrata Narrative Project June 12, 2011

Lysistrata Narrative Project June 12, 2011

LYSISTRATA JUNE 12TH, 2011,  1 PM, at the DRAGON’S EGG contact: Marya at mybeasts@aol.com “At once a convention of all wives through Hellas here for a serious purpose was held, To determine how husbands might yet back to wisdom despite their reluctance in time be compelled. For war from now on is the Women’s affair.” The [...]


Is March Hardy? – Hygienic Egg March 11, 2012

Is March Hardy? - Hygienic Egg March 11, 2012

Hygienic Egg – Is March Hardy? 3/11 at 1 pm at the Hygienic Location:   Hygienic Galleries in New London, Ct. Date:   Sunday, March 11, at 1 pm. This is a one time only event, and will last perhaps an hour. It is a gathering of artists, dancers, actors, musicians, from the Dragon’s Egg, who will [...]


Equinox Labyrinth Sept. 23, 2011

Equinox Labyrinth Sept. 23, 2011

Autumn Equinox Labyrinth Walk Fri, September 23, 7:30pm – 9:00pm contact: Bernadette BernGolden@yahoo.com or call Bernadette 860-443-4163 #2 You are invited to walk the labyrinth to celebrate the Autumn Equinox at Dragon’s Egg – Shewville Rd. 7:30-9PM with live meditative music Pause at the balance point, and then continue your journey A labyrinth is a [...]


Summer Narrative: Life is a Dream, June 5th 2010

Summer Narrative: Life is a Dream, June 5th 2010

Life is a Dream, by Calderon (1536) The Seventh Annual Narrative Assemblage Event at the Dragon’s Egg When: 4 pm on June 5, 2010. Where: Dragon’s Egg Studio By Donation (Hygienic Egg  June 22nd, 12pm, in New London, and may include work from any of the past summer events.) We shall be mounting the seventh [...]