Bay Area Dance Week: Site-Specific Performance Making Workshop

Learn tools and skills for creating site-specific performance work, in this beautiful urban farm location. How do you work with and on land as a maker creating an audience-interactive experience? How do you create relationship with the places and spaces where you are working, then invite participants to do the same? Facilitated by MovingGround collaborators Maica Folch, and Sarah Morisette at the wonderful Hawk Creek Farm! Bring a water bottle, notebook, sun protection, layers and snacks/ whatever you need!

Register for free here: https://www.bopsidy.com/e/2989

The farm is a short walk from the Glen Park or Balboa BART stations and bicycle parking is available on the farm. If you drive, please park legally and do not block the driveways of neighbors–thank you! Please note that the farm is not currently ADA accessible. For more information: https://www.hawkcreekfarm.org

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MovingGround produces collaborative, interdisciplinary performance experiences using site-specific and audience-interactive models. We build community, facilitate dialogue across differences and create common ground.www.movingground.org

Maica Folch (she/her) is a movement artist and performing arts educator. She teaches performance arts and aerial dance for the SF Youth Theater and The Marsh Youth Theater, and on various SFUSD campuses.  She enjoys contact improvisation and is constantly dancing, singing, clowning, flying and moving in all directions.  Since moving to the Bay Area, she has partnered and collaborated with local artists and performers such as Rhodessa Jones, Theresa Dickinson, Lizz Roman, Kim Epifano, Moshe Cohen, Krista DeNio and Diana Lara. She is currently working with Nita Little and the Institute for the Study of Somatic Communication. Maica danced and worked on the choreography for the production of EVE an Opera, composed by Andrea Densmore presented at the Palace of Fine Arts.  She has been a MovingGround collaborator since 2022.

Sarah Morrisette (she/her) is a theatre and movement practitioner, musician, arts administrator, educator, and social worker. Her perspective combines extensive experience in creative spaces – in roles ranging from performer and choral director to creative producer, and her ability to meet each individual where they are. Through relational art-making, she aims to dismantle barriers, build empathy and create networks of care and belonging in order to build equitable, sustainable communities. She is a facilitator of the methods of Augusto Boal and has designed and facilitated workshops in Chile, Brazil, Pakistan, India, Mozambique, San Francisco and throughout the northeastern U.S. Sarah has devised original theatre work all over the world, including with Theatre Wallay of Islamabad, Pakistan, with support from the U.S State Department and the Fulbright Specialist Program, and with her company, Backyard Youth Theatre, based in Boston, MA. Sarah is currently the lead artist of operations for Skywatchers, a multi-ethnic, mixed-ability, cross-generational community-based performing arts ensemble of Bay Area artists and Tenderloin residents committed to leveraging arts for justice and equity. She has been a MovingGround collaborator since 2024.