Djerassi Art Immersion Hike

Djerassi Resident Artist Program 2325 Bear Gulch Road, Woodside, CA, United States

Witness art unfold in nature at the Djerassi Program! This is a special opportunity in which small groups will meet & converse with multidisciplinary artists-in-residence in their studios. Witness art inspired by nature including The NETWORK Project, directed by alumni choreographer Krista DeNio, Artistic Director of MovingGround, alumni poet and installation artist Cintia Santana. Hike […]

Tenderloin Tree Plantings

Tenderloin District of San Francisco

The NETWORK Project will be supporting the Tree Plantings with the creative exchange in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco, in collaboration with CounterPulse, the Tenderloin Community Benefit District, and Larkin Street Youth Services. Tree planting will be carried out through the months of April and May.  More thanks go to the following community organizations for […]

NETWORK Costa Rica Residency

VidaAnanda , Costa Rica

Thanks to the connections of NETWORK collaborator, Chloe Crotzer, and her connections, the NETWORK project is able to be in residency at a house in Costa Rica in early April. 

Djerassi Art Immersion Hike

Djerassi Resident Artist Program 2325 Bear Gulch Road, Woodside, CA, United States

Witness art unfold in nature at the Djerassi Program! This is a special opportunity in which small groups will meet & converse with multidisciplinary artists-in-residence in their studios. Witness art inspired by nature including The NETWORK Project, directed by alumni choreographer Krista DeNio, Artistic Director of MovingGround alumni poet and installation artist Cintia Santana. Hike […]

Djerassi Art Immersion Hikes

Djerassi Resident Artist Program 2325 Bear Gulch Road, Woodside, CA, United States

Witness art unfold in nature at the Djerassi Program! This is a special opportunity in which small groups will meet & converse with multidisciplinary artists-in-residence in their studios. Witness art inspired by nature including The NETWORK Project, directed by alumni choreographer Krista DeNio, Artistic Director of MovingGround alumni poet and installation artist Cintia Santana. Hike […]

NETWORK Project Premiere

Djerassi Resident Artist Program 2325 Bear Gulch Road, Woodside, CA, United States

The NETWORK Project will premiere at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program on July 2nd and 3rd.  Find more information about the project on KD>>MG social media pages, NETWORK Patreon account, and the NETWORK page on the KD>>MG website all linked below,  @kdmovingground KDMovingGround Network    

“Tierra y Raices” Closing Reception

School of Arts and Culture at MHP 1700 Alum Rock Ave, San Jose, CA, United States

Works San José and SOAC come together to produce “Tierra y Raices.” Step through La Plaza’s doors to embrace the down-to-earth art installations by San José’s finest artists. The co-produced exhibition launches on March 10 – 31; hours vary. A special performance by MovingGround collaborators begins at 6:30pm and ends at 7:30pm. This will be […]

Free

Contact Improv at Ellen Webb with Krista DeNio

Ellen Webb Studios 2822 Union St, Emeryville, CA, United States

Contact improvisation (CI) is an improvised dance art that explores the relationship of one's body to gravity, the floor, and others. By using the fundamentals of touch, movement awareness, and weight sharing, CI plays with the artistry of being physically off balance at times, finding the supportive structures and “shelves” of the body, and learning […]

$10 – $20

Tenderloin Arts Festival

To celebrate the community, CounterPulse, and SAFEhouse Arts have begun planning The Tenderloin Arts Festival which will match local artists with site-specific locations including lobbies, landmarks, and performance spaces across the neighborhood in an effort to strengthen the creative and cultural intersections that makes the Tenderloin unique and to fortify stronger interdependent connections between artists, the Tenderloin community, […]

Art Immersion Hike @ Djerassi Program

Djerassi Resident Artist Program 2325 Bear Gulch Road, Woodside, CA, United States

Together with Djerassi Resident Artists Program and the Hike Program Director, Danny Goldberg, the Spring Art Immersion Hike will be co-created by:  Krista DeNio, Heidi Erickson, Maica Folch, Diana Lara, Tanja London, Bhumi Patel, Grace Shaver, Ester Young and Francisco Ramirez. Witness art unfold in nature at the Djerassi Artists Program’s Art Immersion Hike! MovingGround […]

$100

Being with Place: Site-Specific Response workshop

Dance Palace 503 B St, Point Reyes Station, CA, United States

With Krista DeNio and Tanja London Through somatic responses to place, electromagnetic field and philosophical explorations we will create site-specific, interactive, performative experiences, working with architecture and nature. We will begin in the studio, with an embodied and creative warm-up, based in the senses and elements of performance. From here we will work with compositional […]

$150

the NETWORK project: A Dialogue on Building Resilience in our Nature Bodies

Dance Palace 503 B St, Point Reyes Station, CA, United States

In-person and streaming tickets available. Registration is required; in-person space is limited. Registration closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the event. Masks recommended. An embodied dialogue about nature, humans, and our interconnection. The panelists include Theresa Harlan, Ken Otter, Diane Butler, and Claire Peaslee, with a movement score offered from Jennifer Monson/iLAND. The dialogue […]

$5

Improvisation in Action: Choreographic Writing with Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş

Ellen Webb Studios 2822 Union St, Emeryville, CA, United States

Improvisation in Action is MovingGround's ongoing fall class series, every 1st and 3rd Mondays at Ellen Webb Studios. Facilitated by Artistic Director Krista DeNio, with each class taught by a different MovingGround collaborator, this class series integrates various forms of movement Improvisation, including: Contact Improvisation, Viewpoints, Composition techniques and practices, writing and movement scores, and […]

$20

Improvisation in Action: Body-Mind Centering with Diana Lara

Ellen Webb Studios 2822 Union St, Emeryville, CA, United States

Improvisation in Action is MovingGround’s ongoing fall class series, every 1st and 3rd Mondays at Ellen Webb Studios. Facilitated by Artistic Director Krista DeNio, with each class taught by a different MovingGround collaborator, this class series integrates various forms of movement Improvisation, including: Contact Improvisation, Viewpoints, Composition techniques and practices, writing and movement scores, and more! Come […]

Improvisation in Action: Improvisation-as-Contemplation with Miriam Wolodarski

Ellen Webb Studios 2822 Union St, Emeryville, CA, United States

Improvisation in Action is MovingGround’s ongoing fall class series, every 1st and 3rd Mondays at Ellen Webb Studios. Facilitated by Artistic Director Krista DeNio, with each class taught by a different MovingGround collaborator, this class series integrates various forms of movement Improvisation, including: Contact Improvisation, Viewpoints, Composition techniques and practices, writing and movement scores, and more! Come […]

FlowState w/ KD & DJ Mystique

Ellen Webb Studios 2822 Union St, Emeryville, CA, United States

FlowState w/ KD & DJ Mystique movement & sound explorations facilitated by Krista DeNio  music flow facilitated by DJ Mystique   A movement, sound and flow state. Moving through physical and vocal warm-ups, into open improvisation, this journey includes a variety of movement techniques, vocalization, and improvisation.  Developmental movement, Contact Improvisation, Authentic Movement and more.  State shifts facilitated by deep and rhythmic sound […]

Tierra Y Raices Exhibition

School of Arts and Culture at MHP 1700 Alum Rock Ave, San Jose, CA, United States

MovingGround's 2nd annual performance experience, created as a part of the Tierra y Raices Exhibition and closing reception at the School of Arts and Culture in San Jose, CA is happening Thursday March 28th from 6-9pm. Enjoy gorgeous visual art and installations, and move through the Mexican Heritage Plaza integrating art, nature and embodied, participatory […]

Site-Specific Dance & 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? Free and facilitated by […]

Series: Site-Specific Performance Making Workshop

Hawk Creek Farm 203 Cotter St, San Francisco, CA, United States

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? Free and facilitated by […]

(Aug 24) Site-Specific Performance Making Workshop Series

Learn tools and skills for creating site-specific performance work (for all disciplines). Discover the opportunities of site-responsive design in nature, working with the environment, sounds, light, sites. Inspired by movement composition and theater making techniques like Moment Work, Viewpoints and movement technologies like Contact Improvisation, MovingGround Artistic Director Krista DeNio and MovingGround collaborator Maica Folch […]

$35 – $50

(Sept 28) Site-Specific Performance Making Workshop Series (Oakland: Urban/Architecture)

Oakland Theater Project 1501 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Oakland, CA, United States

Learn tools and skills for creating site-specific performance work (for all disciplines). Discover the opportunities of site-responsive design in a theater, working with architecture and surrounding urban spaces. Inspired by movement composition and theater making techniques like Moment Work, Viewpoints and movement technologies like Contact Improvisation, MovingGround Artistic Director Krista DeNio and MovingGround collaborator Maica […]

$35 – $50

Art & Dance Immersion Hike

Djerassi Resident Artist Program 2325 Bear Gulch Road, Woodside, CA, United States

On October 12th, MovingGround returns to the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, for another Art & Dance Immersion Hike! An interactive Experience with Artists and Nature. We’re deeply grateful to return to the beautiful land of the Djerassi Program to co-create an immersive experience with wonderful collaborators, participating hikers and the Hike Program Director, Danny Goldberg! […]

$150

MOVING INSIDE OUT: North Macedonia Residency

Centar Jadro Albert Einstein 2, Skopje, North Macedonia

Partners: SCS-JADRO and YOUNG OPEN THEATRE - MOT Festival in Skopje the International Interdisciplinary Artist Consortium  and with support from the  GPS/Global Practice Sharing as part of Movement Research, NYC and funding from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.   WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:  Krista DeNio (USA) and Iskra Shukarova (N. Macedonia) will co-teach a workshop at SCS-Jadro […]

10 Year Anniversary Fundraising Campaign

MovingGround is turning 10 years old! We are celebrating this milestone throughout our 2024-2025 season with several events: First we're hosting a GivingTuesday fundraiser! Leading up to and on Tuesday December 3rd, we're asking our community to help us reach our $10,000 fundraising goal, to support some of our fundamental operations, as we launch into […]

Bay Area Dance Week: Site-Specific Performance Making Workshop

Hawk Creek Farm 203 Cotter St, San Francisco, CA, United States

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 […]

Dance & Art Experience

Djerassi Resident Artist Program 2325 Bear Gulch Road, Woodside, CA, United States

MovingGround is delighted to return to the Djerassi Program for another memorable afternoon of creativity, movement, and artistic exploration. Join Djerassi Program alumna Krista DeNio, MovingGround's dancers, theater artists, and musicians as they guide you through the picturesque trails, infusing the natural surroundings with interactive performance and thoughtful inspiration. The afternoon concludes at the Artist […]

$50 – $200

The Freedom We Make: Queer Artists on Sound, Struggle, and Sanctuary Spaces – Panel 1

The Freedom We Make: Queer Artists on Sound, Struggle, and Sanctuary Spaces Sunday June 22nd and Sunday June 29th 12-2pm, produced by Freedom Festival USA. Join MovingGround’s Artistic Director Krista DeNio and Tomaro Gallery's Lisa Calderon, in conversation with panelists Najee Rene aka “Casino“, Window the Artist and Mister Lady Zen, as they discuss: How do we create Sanctuary, […]

$5 – $50

The Freedom We Make: Queer Artists on Sound, Struggle, and Sanctuary Spaces – Panel 2

  The Freedom We Make: Queer Artists on Sound, Struggle, and Sanctuary Spaces Sunday June 22nd and Sunday June 29th 12-2pm, produced by Freedom Festival USA. Join MovingGround’s Artistic Director Krista DeNio and Tomaro Gallery's Lisa Calderon, in conversation with panelists Najee Rene aka “Casino“, Window the Artist and Mister Lady Zen, as they discuss: How do we create […]

$5 – $50