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SUMMARY:Site-Specific Performance Making Workshop Series (Albany: Nature Site)
DESCRIPTION: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\, and sites. Inspired by movement composition and theater making techniques like Moment Work\, Viewpoints and movement technologies like Contact Improvisation. MovingGround collaborators Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes\, Ramlah Yavar\, and Sophia Grimani will lead this workshop. \nMaxine Flasher-Düzgüneş is poet\, dance artist\, and filmmaker engaging with the disciplines of choreography and visual art as tools for grasping poetic language. She has served as resident artist at Djerassi Resident Artist Program\, Tofte Lake Center\, Surel’s Place\, iMPACt Center for the Arts\, and The Center at Eagle Hill\, and has been commissioned by Sadler’s Wells (UK) for her dance writing and by World Stage Design (Canada)\, 92NY’s Future Dance Festival (New York)\, and FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival (San Francisco) for her choreography. She is currently a teaching artist for California Poets in the Schools and Gallery Route One\, and the coordinator of Marin County’s first Youth Poet Laureate Program. \nFollowing a love affair with tango that took her halfway around the world\, Ramlah has danced with a gorgeous array of human and equine artists in the Bay Area. She received an MFA in Art at the University of Iowa and acted in film and stage projects over a decade in Los Angeles\, and her movement practice is rooted in conversation with these and other forms. Ramlah is ever grateful for collaborations with musicians\, artists\, and culture workers and the chance to explore relational narratives and collective liberation through the embodied language of dance. \nSophia Grimani is a Bay Area based artist focusing in the mediums of dance\, film\, and photography. She obtained her BA from Bennington College in 2022 and is now working in San Francisco. Her work functions around the themes of the female experience\, sexuality\, the gaze\, and nature. She is interested in the intersection of dance and media\, making the majority of her work multimedia performance. Sophia has presented work at Safehouse arts and Dance Mission Theater. She works as a solo and collaborative artist and is especially interested in interdisciplinary making.
URL:https://movingground.org/event/site-specific-performance-making-workshop-series-albany-nature-site/
LOCATION:The Albany Bulb\, 1 Buchanan St\, Albany\, CA\, 94706\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sanctuary Spaces - CounterPulse Festival 2025
DESCRIPTION:Join MovingGround on Sunday September 14th 3:30-6:30pm for CounterPulse Fest! We will be hosting Sanctuary Spaces: a workshop and dialogue. \n\n\n\nThe Sanctuary Spaces team will co-facilitate this workshop\, utilizing arts-based\, interactive\, experiments\, investigating our relationship with Sanctuary and creating safe spaces for humans. The following dialogue circle will be centered on questions the Sanctuary Spaces project centers\, and the shared research uncovered within the afternoon workshop. \n\n\n\nWorkshop description: The Sanctuary Spaces team will co-facilitate this workshop\, as we investigate our relationship with Sanctuary and creating safe spaces for humans\, altogether. Participants will move through several locations and interactive\, site-responsive experiments\, including: an opening group score for warm-up and community building\, followed by dialogue\, movement\, visual art and design based improvisations\, and an interactive poetry + visual art experience focused on cultivating sanctuary through found language and “felt-sense”\, [utilizing source text from Amanda Williamson’s Back to the Dance Itself]. Participants will play a vital role in the experiments and experiences created\, as active researchers with the facilitators. \n\n\n\nDialogue description: This dialogue will include a guided community report back from the workshop participants\, to share out the live\, participatory research that was engaged during the workshop. We will also center some of our project questions and research\, like : How has your life (or lives of your community members) been endangered due to current governmental or social policies and rhetoric? What spaces in your communities provide safety for you now? What would an ideal sanctuary space look like for you\, given your identities and values? The nature of the dialogue may shift\, based on the live and participatory interactions in the moment\, in the space that we will all be creating. \n\n\n\nCollaborating Artists: Krista DeNio\, Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes\, Jayden Torrey\, Lisa Calderon\, Deb’e Taylor\, Bhumi Patel \n \nMovingGround produces collaborative\, interdisciplinary performance experiences using site-specific and audience-interactive models. We build community\, facilitate dialogue across differences and create common ground. \n\n\n \nKrista DeNio (she/her) is an interdisciplinary choreographer\, director\, performer\, writer and educator. She facilitates creative projects based in the principles and practices of ensemble-based theater. Her work is based in embodied experience\, social justice\, civic engagement and human-to-human interaction. She is the Artistic Director of MovingGround \n\n\n \nMaxine Flasher-Düzgüneş (she/her) is a Turkish-American poet\, dance artist\, and educator engaging with the disciplines of choreography and visual art as tools for grasping poetic language. She is passionate about disability justice in a world where she’s seen firsthand how the most intelligent\, kind\, and vulnerable people are neglected and denied care. She is the founder of Marin’s Youth Poet Laureate Program\, Area Coordinator of Marin Poets in the Schools\, and a 2025 DrawBridge Community Artist. \n\n\n \nJayden Torrey (He/They) is an emerging multifaceted artist hailing from the vibrant heart of Los Angeles. With a career that spans over seven years in the arts\, he seamlessly weaves together his passions for painting\, music\, and acting to create a rich tapestry of creative expression. Jayden’s work often delves into themes of mental health\, veteran support\, and LGBTQIA+\, reflecting a deep engagement with the world around him. With his warm spirit and genuine kindness\, Jayden continues to inspire those around him\, championing creativity and connection in every endeavor he pursues. He believes that art\, in all its forms\, has the power to heal\, unite\, and transform lives. \n\n\n \nLisa Aurora Calderon is a community organizer\, artist and activist.  Lisa has inspired artists of all ages and over many genres to ignite in a collective passion for freedom of expression and the right to enjoy the privileges of adulthood and fun and what is queer and optimistic.  That said\, Lisa is also a brutalist in her forming of networks and utilizing resources and relationships to build what comes from her and the artists she works with.   When we are being taken seriously and take others seriously we can endeavor to bring great ideas to life.  We explore our evolved selves and we create in others a sense of wonder.  \n\n\n \nDeb’e Taylor is a dancer\, actor\, taiko drummer and teacher who both creates her own work and performs with Dance Brigade\, Moving Ground\, and Maikaze Daiko\, among others. She has performed and taught internationally with David Rousseve/Reality\, Dance Berlin and more. Deb’e co-taught and collaborated in creating work with Anna Deavere Smith at Stanford University. She toured as a dancer/actor with the National Theater of the Deaf and was on the faculty of their Professional Summer School. She performed and co-directed with Fairmount Theater of the Deaf\, winning awards at the Brno Deaf Theater Festival in Czechoslovakia\, and worked with Tyst Teater in Sweden. Deb’e is a dancer in the documentary film Call of Life about mass extinction of species. Deb’e teaches Improvisation/Composition and Contemporary Dance at Alonzo King LINES Ballet School. She teaches and creates Taiko/Dance pieces for Social Justice themed performances for Dance Mission’s Youth/Grrrl Brigade programs. She offers public workshops in Contemporary Dance and Improvisation/Composition. Deb’e is also a certified Gyrokinesis teacher and ASL/English interpreter. \n\n\n \nMovement artist and writer Bhumi B Patel directs pateldanceworks and is a queer\, desi\, home-seeker\, and science fiction choreographer (she/they). In its purest form\, she creates performance works as a love letter to her ancestors. While Patel has trained in Western forms\, she seeks to create movement outside of white models of dance at the intersection of embodied research and generating new futures\, using improvisational practice for voice and body as a pursuit for liberation. Patel seeks liberation through dancing\, choreographing\, curating\, teaching\, and scholarship and attends to her desires to create nourishing community spaces.
URL:https://movingground.org/event/sanctuary-spaces-counterpulse-festival-2025/
LOCATION:CounterPulse\, 80 Turk\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Freedom We Make: Queer Artists on Sound\, Struggle\, and Sanctuary Spaces - Panel 2
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nThe 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. \nJoin 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\, Safety\, and Protection? How does art become a tool for peace in the face of chaos? How do we preserve sanity while fighting for liberation? And what does it mean to teach\, create\, and thrive when governments change abruptly? Join us for a conversation on music\, memory\, and the radical act of making room for ourselves. \n\n\n\nFrom Window\, the Black lesbian vocalist and author of Black Lesbian Bedtime Stories\, to Mister Lady Zen\, an internationally acclaimed composer\, cabaret artist\, poet\, and queer elder. Together these artists use sound\, word\, and community to build sanctuaries. Meanwhile\, Rene “Casino” Reneand\, the Berlin-based musician and podcaster behind BABE: Black American Berlin Expat\, amplifies diasporic voices across borders. \n\n\n\nCO-ORGANIZERS / MODERATORS: Lisa Aurora – ToMaRoGallery.com Krista DeNio – MovingGround.org \n\n\n\nPANELISTS/ ARTISTS Window – Vocalist\, Singer Songwriter\, Artist\, and Author of Black Lesbian Bedtime Stories. Najee Rene aka “Casino“ – The Emperor’s Tarot and BABE Black American Berlin Expat \n\n\n\nWhen: Sunday June 22nd 12-2pm & Sunday June 19th 12-2pm \n\n\n\nWhere: Online \n\n\n\nRegistration link: https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/the-freedom-we-make-queer-artists-on-sound-struggle-and-sanctuary-spaces-2/ \n\n\n\nCost: $5-50 sliding scale. Additional donations can be made to Venmo | MovingGround; write one word in the payment note that gives or creates in you a sense of sanctuary **Please note that your contribution goes directly to paying the artist fees for all panel experts!
URL:https://movingground.org/event/the-freedom-we-make-queer-artists-on-sound-struggle-and-sanctuary-spaces-2/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:The Freedom We Make: Queer Artists on Sound\, Struggle\, and Sanctuary Spaces - Panel 1
DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nJoin 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\, Safety\, and Protection? How does art become a tool for peace in the face of chaos? How do we preserve sanity while fighting for liberation? And what does it mean to teach\, create\, and thrive when governments change abruptly? Join us for a conversation on music\, memory\, and the radical act of making room for ourselves.\n\n \n\nFrom Window\, the Black lesbian vocalist and author of Black Lesbian Bedtime Stories\, to Mister Lady Zen\, an internationally acclaimed composer\, cabaret artist\, poet\, and queer elder. Together these artists use sound\, word\, and community to build sanctuaries. Meanwhile\, Rene “Casino” Reneand\, the Berlin-based musician and podcaster behind BABE: Black American Berlin Expat\, amplifies diasporic voices across borders.\n\n \n\nCO-ORGANIZERS / MODERATORS: Lisa Aurora – ToMaRoGallery.com Krista DeNio – MovingGround.org\n\n \n\nPANELISTS/ ARTISTS Window – Vocalist\, Singer Songwriter\, Artist\, and Author of Black Lesbian Bedtime Stories. Najee Rene aka “Casino“ – The Emperor’s Tarot and BABE Black American Berlin Expat\n\n \n\nWhen: Sunday June 22nd 12-2pm & Sunday June 19th 12-2pm\n\n \n\nWhere: Online\n\n \n\nRegistration link: https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/the-freedom-we-make-queer-artists-on-sound-struggle-and-sanctuary-spaces-2/\n\n \n\nCost: $5-50 sliding scale. Additional donations can be made to Venmo | MovingGround; write one word in the payment note that gives or creates in you a sense of sanctuary **Please note that your contribution goes directly to paying the artist fees for all panel experts!
URL:https://movingground.org/event/the-freedom-we-make-queer-artists-on-sound-struggle-and-sanctuary-spaces/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Dance & Art Experience
DESCRIPTION:MovingGround is delighted to return to the Djerassi Program for another memorable afternoon of creativity\, movement\, and artistic exploration. \nJoin 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. \nThe afternoon concludes at the Artist House with a beautifully curated grazing table featuring seasonal delights and small bites\, accompanied by refreshing beverages\, perfect for conversation and reflection as the sun sets over the landscape. \nMovingGround will be bringing our past work and research at the Djerassi Program together with our current project\, Sanctuary Spaces\, an art-action network that shares narratives and sheds light on real stories from people in our communities through conversation\, performance\, and co-creating real Sanctuary Spaces together. \nWhen: Saturday May 10th 2-6pm \nWhere: Djerassi Resident Artists Program (2325 Bear Gulch Rd\, Woodside\, CA 94062) \nTickets: https://bit.ly/4jyATAL (sliding scale $50 – $200)
URL:https://movingground.org/event/dance-art-experience/
LOCATION:Djerassi Resident Artist Program\, 2325 Bear Gulch Road\, Woodside\, CA\, 94062\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Dance Week: Site-Specific Performance Making Workshop
DESCRIPTION: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! \nRegister for free here: https://www.bopsidy.com/e/2989 \n \n  \n  \nThe 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 \n  \nMore Details: \nMovingGround 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 \nMaica 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. \nSarah 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.
URL:https://movingground.org/event/bay-area-dance-week-site-specific-performance-making-workshop/
LOCATION:Hawk Creek Farm\, 203 Cotter St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94112\, United States
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SUMMARY:10 Year Anniversary Fundraising Campaign
DESCRIPTION: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 2025 and our next 10 years!\n\nWant to learn more? Head to our fundraiser info page right here!\n\nBid in our 10 year anniversary auction here!
URL:https://movingground.org/event/givingtuesday-fundraising-campaign/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:MOVING INSIDE OUT: North Macedonia Residency
DESCRIPTION: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.\n\n \n\n\n\nWORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: \n\n \n\nKrista DeNio (USA) and Iskra Shukarova (N. Macedonia) will co-teach a workshop at SCS-Jadro in Skopje\, North Macedonia from November 15-17 for community members\, dance students and professionals\, and theater professionals. This workshop will explore interdisciplinary approaches to site-specific performance making and utilize dance and theater methodologies. DeNio and Shukarova will bring together embodied practices and site-specific devising techniques\, that support participants in exploring storytelling and creative making\, investigating the architecture of the Jadro gallery and engaging the nearby park\, trees and nature in our explorations. DeNio will draw on research from her project: the NETWORK project\, inspired by ecological systems of communication\, resource-sharing and survival employed in tree communities and what human communities can learn from them. Shukarova will bring her work in subsystems of Non-Verbal Communication to guide somatic practices as a framework for artistic expression.\n\n \n\nThe workshop will incorporate movement and voice training that includes somatics and developmental movement\, some partnering and weight sharing\, based in the Contact Improvisation and some Action Theater techniques\, bringing together voice and movement through the use of strongly structured improvisational exercises. The workshop will culminate in short performance scores that the participants create.\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nABOUT THE PERFORMANCE/ PRESENTATION: \n\n \n\nDeNio and Shukarova will also create a performance and presentation in SCS-Jadro in Skopje on November 20th\, 6pm as part of the International Theatre Festival\, MOT FESTIVAL.\n\n \n\nIskra Shukarova as an artist has been interested in the relation between body and voice\, as well as finding connections with nature and animals. She also explores new ways of relating to the audience as part of the performative process. Shukarova is especially drawn by the interdisciplinary approaches where she can explore mediums intersecting as part of the research process which she shares with the community\, professionals\, as well her students. \n\n \n\nKrista DeNio works with movement\, sound and narrative storytelling. Her performance work currently explores the creative design of interactive\, participatory experiences. The research and performance experiences include the site where they are housed and often include both scripted and choreographed work as well as improvisational interactions. She is interested in how interdisciplinary exchange can create new kinds of experiences\, rather than replicating predictable performances.\n\n \n\nIn the performance\, Krista and Iskra will present together the outcome of their research in Skopje. After the performance there will be a talk with the audience to share together on interdisciplinary approaches to body-based work as a medium for interactive exchange.\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nARTIST BIOGRAPHIES: \n\n \n\nIskra Sukarova accomplished her contemporary dance studies at the National Conservatorium Superior in Lyon. In 2002 she obtained her Masters Degree at the Laban Center – London. Iskra Shukarova is a choreographer\, performer and professor. She has completed numerous dance trainings with established artists. Sukarova’s pieces have toured regionally and internationally. She has been honored with fellowships such as CEC Arts Link (New York) and Dance Web (Vienna).\n\n \n\nIskra was a principal soloist in the Macedonian Opera and Ballet since1991. She is one of the founders of Lokomotiva-Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture. She was also the co-founder and co-programmer of the contemporary dance festival Locomotion in Skopje and one of the founders of the Balkan Dance Network and the NOMAD Dance Academy network. Shukarova is also a member of Movement Research’s Global Practice Sharing (GPS) network\, and a member of the dance board as part of the Macedonian ITI Center as well as participant of the International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium. Since 2010\, Iskra is a professor at the University Ss. Cyril and Methodius – Faculty of Music – department of Dance pedagogy in Skopje. In 2014 she obtained her PHD a the University Ss. Cyril and Methodius-Faculty of Dramatic Arts.\n\n \n\nPhotos of Iskra Shukarova by Ana Lazarevska\n\n\n\n\n\nKrista DeNio is an interdisciplinary choreographer\, director\, performer\, writer and educator. She facilitates creative projects utilizing principles and practices of ensemble-based theater. Her work integrates embodied experience\, education\, community engagement and human-to-human interaction. As Artistic Director of MovingGround\, she works with her collaborators to produce interdisciplinary performance experiences using site-specific and audience-interactive models\, with a focus on building community\, facilitating dialogue across differences and creating common ground. Each experience is accompanied by forums for interaction. Krista has worked with many choreographers and directors\, in the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout the U.S. For the past (7) years\, Krista served as a leader of Arts\, Education and Advocacy programs within the social service organization\, Larkin Street Youth Services\, working with young adults navigating homelessness. She is a House Artist at CounterPulse\, where she has also been a two-time Artist-in-Residence and is a member and ongoing participant with the International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium. She received her BA in Dance/Dramatic Art and I.S.F. [Development and Human Rights] from U.C. Berkeley and her MFA in Theater: Contemporary Performance from Naropa University.\n\n \n\nPhotos: Left: Krista DeNio by Anna Maynard\, Right: Krista DeNio by Hillary Goidell\n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n 
URL:https://movingground.org/event/moving-inside-out-north-macedonia-residency/
LOCATION:Centar Jadro\, Albert Einstein 2\, Skopje\, North Macedonia
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SUMMARY:Art & Dance Immersion Hike
DESCRIPTION:On October 12th\, MovingGround returns to the Djerassi Resident Artists Program\, for another Art & Dance Immersion Hike! An interactive Experience with Artists and Nature.\nWe’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! During a previous residency at Djerassi Program\, through Leonardo/ISAST (the intersection of art and science)\, MovingGround collaborators developed an interactive performance experience\, called the NETWORK project.\nThe NETWORK project is inspired by ecological systems of communication\, resource-sharing and survival employed in tree communities to develop tools for resilient community building. Considering the ongoing climate crisis\, how can all beings—trees\, land\, and animals including humans–survive and thrive together?\nBringing some of our research from The Network Project together with current work and research on culture\, land and survival–MovingGround will instigate community building\, dialogue\, beauty\, and art throughout our hike together!\n \n\nDISCOUNT CODES for BIPOC & low-income folks: \n 100OFF – $100 discount \n75OFF – $75 discount
URL:https://movingground.org/event/djerassi-art-immersion-hike-3/
LOCATION:Djerassi Resident Artist Program\, 2325 Bear Gulch Road\, Woodside\, CA\, 94062\, United States
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SUMMARY:(Sept 28) Site-Specific Performance Making Workshop Series (Oakland: Urban/Architecture)
DESCRIPTION: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 Folch weave together this creative making training. Sign up for this event on Bopsidy: https://www.bopsidy.com/e/2856. Pay via venmo: @MovingGround \n \n 
URL:https://movingground.org/event/sept-28-site-specific-performance-making-workshop-series/
LOCATION:Oakland Theater Project\, 1501 Martin Luther King Jr Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:(Aug 24) Site-Specific Performance Making Workshop Series
DESCRIPTION: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 weave together this creative making training. Sign up for this event on Bopsidy: https://www.bopsidy.com/e/2855. Pay via venmo: @MovingGround \n \n 
URL:https://movingground.org/event/aug-24-site-specific-performance-making-workshop-series/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Series: Site-Specific Performance Making Workshop
DESCRIPTION: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 MovingGround Artistic Director Krista DeNio and collaborator Maica Folch\, at the wonderful Hawk Creek Farm! Bring a water bottle\, notebook\, sun protection and layers! \nCost is $35-50 sliding scale. To register\, sign up here https://www.bopsidy.com/e/2843 or email contact@movingground.org
URL:https://movingground.org/event/series-site-specific-performance-making-workshop/
LOCATION:Hawk Creek Farm\, 203 Cotter St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94112\, United States
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SUMMARY:Site-Specific Dance & Performance Making Workshop
DESCRIPTION: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 MovingGround Artistic Director Krista DeNio and collaborator Maica Folch\, at the wonderful Hawk Creek Farm! Bring a water bottle\, notebook\, sun protection and layers!
URL:https://movingground.org/event/site-specific-dance-performance-making-workshop/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Tierra Y Raices Exhibition
DESCRIPTION: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 experience with our collaborators. Tickets coming soon!
URL:https://movingground.org/event/tierra-y-raices-exhibition/
LOCATION:School of Arts and Culture at MHP\, 1700 Alum Rock Ave\, San Jose\, CA\, 95116\, United States
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SUMMARY:FlowState w/ KD & DJ Mystique
DESCRIPTION:FlowState w/ KD & DJ Mystique \nmovement & sound explorations facilitated by Krista DeNio  \nmusic flow facilitated by DJ Mystique \n  \nA movement\, sound and flow state. \nMoving 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.  \nState shifts facilitated by deep and rhythmic sound flows from DJ Mystique! \n  \nWhat to bring:  \nYourself\, water bottle\, a notebook (if you wish) \nPlease note:  \nThis space is an open\, inclusive\, judgement free zone.  \nBring yourself as you are\, and as you wish to be. \nAll genders\, orientations\, movement styles and practices welcome. No specific training or experience needed. \n  \nBIOS:  \nKrista DeNio (she/her/hers) is an interdisciplinary choreographer\, director\, performer\, writer and educator. She facilitates creative projects based in the principles and practices of ensemble-based theater. Artistic Director of MovingGround\, her work engages interdisciplinary collaborations that bridge embodied experience\,performance\, education\, activism\, and human-to-human connections. Krista has taught and performed in the Bay Area\, nationally and internationally.  www.movingground.org\n \n  \n\nPrince Mystique (he/they/them) \nNew York City Energy\, coming from athletic\, and dance background from age three. Music is life and it runs through my veins.  I‘m all about gratitude\, positive vibes and \nhow I make folks feel (love\, happiness\, comfortable in their skin). Serving from a place of love\, compassion\, kindness and understanding that life is happening in each moment. Be present\, love\, and serve without judgment. I love meditation\, weight training\, music\, Djing\, poetry\, nature walks\, basketball\, skulls\, faces\, and lots of family time.
URL:https://movingground.org/event/flowstate-w-kd-dj-mystique/
LOCATION:Ellen Webb Studios\, 2822 Union St\, Emeryville\, CA\, 94608\, United States
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SUMMARY:Improvisation in Action: Improvisation-as-Contemplation with Miriam Wolodarski
DESCRIPTION: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 integrate your moving body with imaginal tools and skills\, for a satisfying group practice. Class is from 7-8:30pm\, followed by a movement jam until 10pm. \nAll experience levels are welcome. \nImprovisation Class + Jam: $20 \nImprovisation Jam Only: $10 \nYou may use Venmo (@MovingGround) or cash at the venue. \nRegister in advance here. \n11/20 Improvisation-as-Contemplation with Miriam Wolodarski: In this class\, we will work in and out of contact in a mode where sensation tells us what to do: not concerned with showmanship or good ideas\, but cultivating states of awareness. Loosely borrowing Mary Overlie’s Six Viewpoints schema\, and sourcing tools from Barbara Dilley’s Contemplative Dance Practices\, we will chart some trajectories for our attention to slide\, skip\, expand and contract between different foci. Noticing\, supporting and developing what is already happening\, we can surrender to intuitive delight and humor\, balancing effort and release\, delving into specific patterns and pathways while prioritizing states of wonder. Come as you are! \nMiriam Wolodarski’s work frames dance as a contemplative practice\, taking a kinesthetic approach to the socio-political\, emotional\, and philosophical questions we hold in our bodies. Miriam’s original performances have been supported by programs at YBCA\, CounterPULSE\, TragantDansa\, Centre Cívic Barceloneta\, and The Hemispheric Institute\, among others; she is currently the Artistic Director of the arts organization Sense Object. senseobject.com \nKrista DeNio is an interdisciplinary choreographer\, director\, performer\, writer and educator. She facilitates creative projects based in the principles and practices of ensemble-based theater. Artistic Director of MovingGround\, her work engages interdisciplinary collaborations that bridge embodied experience\,performance\, education\, activism\, and human-to-human connections. Krista teaches movement and performance making in the Bay Area and nationally. She has been a practitioner of Contact Improvisation for twenty years and approaches the form from technical foundations\, choreographic applications and the radical personal and political potential that exists within the practice and participating communities. www.movingground.org
URL:https://movingground.org/event/improvisation-in-action-improvisation-as-contemplation-with-miriam-wolodarski/
LOCATION:Ellen Webb Studios\, 2822 Union St\, Emeryville\, CA\, 94608\, United States
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SUMMARY:Improvisation in Action: Body-Mind Centering with Diana Lara
DESCRIPTION: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 integrate your moving body with imaginal tools and skills\, for a satisfying group practice. Class is from 7-8:30pm\, followed by a movement jam until 10pm. \nAll experience levels are welcome. \nImprovisation Class + Jam: $20 \nImprovisation Jam Only: $10 \nYou may use Venmo (MovingGround@MovingGround) or cash at the venue. \nRegister in advance here. \n11/20 Body-Mind Centering with Diana Lara: In this class we will use elements of Body-Mind Centering experiential anatomy and developmental movement and kinesiology to awake body and movement awareness. We also incorporate elements of contemporary dance and kinesiology to move in the space in the three planes of motion\, and to move in and out of the floor. We will learn movement phrases based on somatic principles\, and we will use scores to improvise. We will also create a space for reflection and sharing of movement experience. \nDiana Lara MS\, RSME is a choreographer\, dancer\, and somatic educator from Honduras. She graduated from the choreography program of the Center for Research and Choreography at the Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts in 2003 and from the Somatic Research and Participatory Arts program at Moving-on-Center in Oakland in 2007. In 2011\, she completed the Body-Mind Centering certification program on Developmental Movement. Diana holds a master in science in Population and Health from Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Mexico City\, and she is an ISMETA (International Somatic Movement Education and Therapist Association) registered somatic movement educator. She graduated in 2022 from the master in science in Kinesiology with emphasis in movement science at San Francisco State University. Diana is bilingual English/Spanish. www.dianalara-somatics.com \nKrista DeNio is an interdisciplinary choreographer\, director\, performer\, writer and educator. She facilitates creative projects based in the principles and practices of ensemble-based theater. Artistic Director of MovingGround\, her work engages interdisciplinary collaborations that bridge embodied experience\,performance\, education\, activism\, and human-to-human connections. Krista teaches movement and performance making in the Bay Area and nationally. She has been a practitioner of Contact Improvisation for twenty years and approaches the form from technical foundations\, choreographic applications and the radical personal and political potential that exists within the practice and participating communities. www.movingground.org
URL:https://movingground.org/event/improvisation-in-action-body-mind-centering-with-diana-lara/
LOCATION:Ellen Webb Studios\, 2822 Union St\, Emeryville\, CA\, 94608\, United States
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SUMMARY:Improvisation in Action: Choreographic Writing with Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş
DESCRIPTION: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 integrate your moving body with imaginal tools and skills\, for a satisfying group practice. Class is from 7-8:30pm\, followed by a movement jam until 10pm. \nAll experience levels are all welcome. \nImprovisation Class + Jam: $20 \nImprovisation Jam Only: $10 \nYou may use Venmo (MovingGround@MovingGround) or cash at the venue. \nRegister in advance here. \n11/6 Choreographic Writing with Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş: This workshop will serve as an introduction to using poetry scores in the creation of movement. It will consist of a physical improvisatory warm-up based on the language aesthetics of visual poetry techniques. The warm-up will be followed by a composition exercise with poetry scores and an opportunity to share discoveries made within the creative process. Writing materials will be provided. \nMaxine Flasher-Düzgüneş (she/her) is a poet\, dance artist\, and filmmaker and currently a company member of eMotion Arts under the direction of Mariana Sobral. As a choreographer\, she has held residencies at Djerassi Resident Artist Program\, The Center at Eagle Hill\, Stapleton School for the Performing Arts\, and Safehouse Arts\, and been awarded for her dance films by 92NY’s Future Dance Festival (New York)\, World Stage Design (Canada)\, and SzólóDuó International Dance Festival (Hungary). In the Bay Area\, she has guest performed with pateldanceworks\, the NETWORK project\, Joe Landini Dance\, Alive & Well Productions\, Monsoon Dance Company\, Eclipse Dance Theatre\, CALI & Co Dance\, and Hamilton’s David Diggs. She holds a BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch and and MA in Dance Philosophy from University of Roehampton\, London. \nKrista DeNio is an interdisciplinary choreographer\, director\, performer\, writer and educator. She facilitates creative projects based in the principles and practices of ensemble-based theater. Artistic Director of MovingGround\, her work engages interdisciplinary collaborations that bridge embodied experience\,performance\, education\, activism\, and human-to-human connections. Krista teaches movement and performance making in the Bay Area and nationally. She has been a practitioner of Contact Improvisation for twenty years and approaches the form from technical foundations\, choreographic applications and the radical personal and political potential that exists within the practice and participating communities. www.movingground.org
URL:https://movingground.org/event/improvisation-in-action-choreographic-writing-with-maxine-flasher-duzgunes/
LOCATION:Ellen Webb Studios\, 2822 Union St\, Emeryville\, CA\, 94608\, United States
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SUMMARY:the NETWORK project: A Dialogue on Building Resilience in our Nature Bodies
DESCRIPTION: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. \nAn 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 will be moderated by Krista DeNio\, Artistic Director of MovingGround. \nthe NETWORK project\, created by MovingGround\, is inspired by ecological systems of communication\, resource-sharing\, and survival employed in tree communities\, to develop tools for resilient community building. Considering the ongoing climate crisis\, how can all beings–trees\, land\, animals\, and humans–survive and thrive together? \nThis conversation will bring together local and non-local experts who have sustained relationships with researching and learning together with the natural world\, through embodied work and practices. Our conversation will include questions like: How are we in relationship with the land where we live now and where we originated? How do we connect or work with nature? How are we creating sustainability through our models of living? What kinds of support do our communities need for resilient infrastructure for surviving and thriving\, together in the face of climate and other disasters? \nOur time together will include a dialogue\, embodied activities\, and a brief screening of a video featuring the NETWORK project’s premiere at Djerassi Resident Artists Program in the Santa Cruz mountains in July 2022. Tea\, coffee\, and light snacks will be available. \nAbout the Panel \nKrista DeNio is an interdisciplinary choreographer\, director\, performer\, writer and educator. She facilitates creative projects based on the principles and practices of ensemble-based theater. Her work is based in embodied experience\, social justice\, civic engagement and human-to-human interaction. MovingGround produces collaborative\, interdisciplinary performance experiences using site-specific and audience-interactive models. She builds community\, facilitates dialogue across differences\, and creates common ground. www.movingground.org. \nDiane Butler is a dance-movement artist\, teacher\, and cultural program director who has collaborated with artists from varied cultures and faiths in the Americas\, Europe\, and Asia for 38 years. Since 2001 resided in Bedulu and Tejakula in Bali\, Indonesia. She and Suprapto Suryodarmo co-founded DharmaNatureTime Foundation with members in eight nations to support interculture in cultural environments through sharing in the arts\, religiosity\, and nature. Diane is an alumna of the 2011 UNITAR World Heritage Training; holds a BFA in Dance (The Juilliard School); MALS in Dance & Culture (Wesleyan University); and Ph.D. in Cultural Studies (Universitas Udayana\, Bali) where since 2014 she has served as an Associate Professor. Since 1997\, Diane offers Awakening InterArts workshops. \nTheresa Harlan is the founder and director of the Alliance for Felix Cove\, a grassroots Indigenous-women-led organization working to protect\, restore and reclaim her family’s 19th century ancestral home at Point Reyes National Seashore. Theresa is an advocate for the re-matriation of ancestral homelands on public lands and the use of Indigenous science to restore these homelands. She is the 2022 winner of the Anthony Grassroots Prize\, an award from the Rose Foundation\, recognizing an outstanding example of inspiration grassroots environmental activism. Her family’s story is featured in Emergence Magazine’s podcast “Coming Home to the Cove“. Theresa is a published writer with op-eds in the Los Angeles Times and Marin Independent Journal. Published essays include\, “A View of Our Home\, Tomales Bay\, Calif.: Portrait of a Coast Miwok Family\, 1930-1945” in Our People\, Our Land\, Our Images: Indigenous Photographers\, Heyday Books\, 2006. Born in San Francisco\, Theresa Harlan was raised by Elizabeth Campigli Harlan (Támal-ko/Coast Miwok) and John Harlan. By birth she is Jemez Pueblo and an enrolled member of Kewa Pueblo of New Mexico. \nKen Otter: For the past 30 years\, the presence of this place–unceded ancestral lands and waters of the Coastal Miwok of the Tomales Bay–has been one of Ken’s greatest blessings and teachers. It informs his life and lifework in profound and generative ways. Professionally\, Ken designs and facilitates innovative and transformative learning experiences for people in academic\, organizational\, and community settings to cultivate embodied presence\, creativity\, and a deep kinship with the living earth to bring about health and wisdom in self and society. The life and work of Anna Halprin and Joanna Macy\, with whom he studied intensively\, are significant streams of influence in this work. \nClaire Peaslee is a long-time Point Reyes community member. A naturalist and holder of Earth-based ceremony; a writer; a teacher and performer of Action Theater improvisation; a salt-water swimmer; and now a West Marin climate activist: Claire credits greater Point Reyes for her fortunate life. \nA movement score will be offered from Jennifer Monson/iLAND. \nJennifer Monson (iLAND) is a choreographer\, performer\, and teacher. Since 1983\, she has explored strategies in choreography\, improvisation\, and collaboration in experimental dance. In 2000\, her work took a new turn to investigate the relationship between movement and environment. This ongoing research has led her into inquiries of cultural and scientific understandings of large-scale phenomena such as animal navigation and migration\, geological formations such as aquifers\, and re-functioned sites such as the abandoned Ridgewood Reservoir. These studies provide the means to unearth and inquire into choreographic and embodied ways of knowing and reimagining our relationship to the environments and spaces humans/all beings inhabit. Her projects BIRD BRAIN (2000-2005)\, iMAP/Ridgewood Reservoir (2007)\, and the Mahomet Aquifer Project (2008-2010)\, SIP (sustained immersive process)/watershed are investigations that have radically reframed the role dance plays in our cultural understandings of nature and wilderness. Her current work Live Dancing Archive proposes that choreography itself is an archival practice for environmental phenomena. \nNTAFLF- No one turned away for lack of funds. Please email claire@dancepalace.org for a free ticket.
URL:https://movingground.org/event/the-network-project-a-dialogue-on-building-resilience-in-our-nature-bodies/
LOCATION:Dance Palace\, 503 B St\, Point Reyes Station\, CA\, 94956\, United States
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SUMMARY:Being with Place: Site-Specific Response workshop
DESCRIPTION:With Krista DeNio and Tanja London \nThrough somatic responses to place\, electromagnetic field and philosophical explorations we will create site-specific\, interactive\, performative experiences\, working with architecture and nature. \nWe 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 choice-making\, improvisational and Medical QiGong practices to ponder and express what Being and Being part of Nature means to us. \nTogether the group will integrate our creations into a shared\, creative journey of both structured and improvised performance experiences. \n*A lunch break will be included 
URL:https://movingground.org/event/dance-palace-workshop-1/
LOCATION:Dance Palace\, 503 B St\, Point Reyes Station\, CA\, 94956\, United States
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SUMMARY:Art Immersion Hike @ Djerassi Program
DESCRIPTION:Together with Djerassi Resident Artists Program and the Hike Program Director\, Danny Goldberg\, the Spring Art Immersion Hike will be co-created by: \nKrista DeNio\, Heidi Erickson\, Maica Folch\, Diana Lara\, Tanja London\, Bhumi Patel\, Grace Shaver\, Ester Young and Francisco Ramirez.\n\nWitness art unfold in nature at the Djerassi Artists Program’s Art Immersion Hike! \nMovingGround Artistic Director Krista DeNio and collaborators return with their interactive performance hike experience this Spring\, co-created with the land and environs of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. \nParticipants will move through the land\, enjoying encounters with performers\, interactive opportunities and art installations throughout. Incorporating their research and development of the Network Project\, which premiered in July 2022 at Djerassi Program. Their team will continue to deepen their relationship with this precious land together with you. \nJoin us in challenging your creativity and fitness! These hikes span 3.5 miles with an elevation change of 300 feet over 4 hours. \nThe 4-hour Art Immersion Hike in collaboration with Krista DeNio is on Sunday\, May 7th\, 2pm – 6pm. Reservations are available on a first-come\, first-serve basis and are open to the public on February 19th at 10am \nNOTE: Tea and fruit will be included\, but please bring your own food\, warm layers\, water and whatever you need to be sure you have a comfortable and delicious experience.
URL:https://movingground.org/event/art-immersion-hike/
LOCATION:Djerassi Resident Artist Program\, 2325 Bear Gulch Road\, Woodside\, CA\, 94062\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230422T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230422T160000
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SUMMARY:Tenderloin Arts Festival
DESCRIPTION: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\, its inhabitants as well as the organizations that exist within it. \nThis Festival is an opportunity to rejuvenate and celebrate the vibrant spirit and history that is the Tenderloin and it is our intention to highlight the many unique non-traditional spaces and people who should be celebrated in this neighborhood every day. \nMovingGround will be hosting the first interactive dialogue of a series pertaining to topics from the NETWORK project. 
URL:https://movingground.org/event/tenderloin-arts-festival/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Contact Improv at Ellen Webb with Krista DeNio
DESCRIPTION: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 the mechanics of more easeful movement. Dancers are moving through space in response to gravity\, momentum\, and inertia\, responding to impulse and sensation in a relaxed\, constantly aware state. This form involves deep physical listening\, thus it is a moving meditation\, a mindfulness practice. Practicing contact improvisation builds a sense of trust and surrender that can benefit one even outside of the dance floor. The abilities and skills cultivated through dance can improve the practitioner’s daily life and relationships. \nIn CI class\, we’ll explore themes of listening\, movement patterns\, physical relational qualities and intentions\, structures\, weight-sharing\, signaling\, rolling\, lifts\, and more. The jam is an opportunity to come together in an open format\, further deepen the material from the class you are curious about\, freely move\, connect\, or just be in the space. \nFirst-timers as well as experienced dancers are all welcome. \nContact Improvisation Class + Jam: $20 \nContact Improvisation Jam Only: $10 \nYou may use Venmo (@Csaba-Kotsmar) or PayPal (kotsmar@gmail.com) to register\, or cash at the venue. \nPlease read through the guidelines\, so that we can dance safely\, respectfully\, and joyfully with each other! Purchasing a ticket and coming to contact the improvisation class and/or jam will indicate that you have read and agree to all of these guidelines. Thank you very much! \nYou can find more reading material about the form of contact improvisation on the web and numerous videos on YouTube. You may also start here: https://contactquarterly.com/contact-improvisation/about/index.php \n\n\n\n\nClass will be led by Krista (she/her) \nKrista DeNio is an interdisciplinary choreographer\, director\, performer\, writer\, and educator. She facilitates creative projects based on the principles and practices of ensemble-based theater. Artistic Director of MovingGround\, her work engages interdisciplinary collaborations that bridge embodied experience\, performance\, education\, activism\, and human-to-human connections. Krista teaches movement and performance-making in the Bay Area and nationally. She has been a practitioner of Contact Improvisation for twenty years and approaches the form from technical foundations\, choreographic applications\, and the radical personal and political potential that exists within the practice and participating communities. \n 
URL:https://movingground.org/event/contact-improv-at-ellen-webb-with-krista-denio/
LOCATION:Ellen Webb Studios\, 2822 Union St\, Emeryville\, CA\, 94608\, United States
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SUMMARY:"Tierra y Raices" Closing Reception
DESCRIPTION: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. \nA special performance by MovingGround collaborators begins at 6:30pm and ends at 7:30pm. This will be an interactive\, site-specific experience that encapsulates our senses of sight\, sound\, movement and touch as we connect with the land and trees\, celebrating our shared ancestry of earth and roots (tierra y raíces). \nAbout Works/San José: Founded in 1977 by local artists\, Works/San José is an all-volunteer\, non-profit\, alternative art and performance center dedicated to providing a venue for artists\, ideas\, and images that expand the scope of cultural and artistic experience. \nWebsite | Facebook | Instagram \nAbout the School of Arts and Culture: The School of Arts and Culture at the Mexican Heritage Plaza is a vibrant\, cultural institution in East San José. La Plaza’s mission is to catalyze creativity and empower community by uplifting East San José’s rich diversity through authentic placekeeping and relevant multicultural productions.  \nWebsite | Facebook | Instagram
URL:https://movingground.org/event/tierra-y-raices-gallery-show/
LOCATION:School of Arts and Culture at MHP\, 1700 Alum Rock Ave\, San Jose\, CA\, 95116\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220702
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220704
DTSTAMP:20260416T054536
CREATED:20220301T175607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220301T175607Z
UID:2199-1656720000-1656892799@movingground.org
SUMMARY:NETWORK Project Premiere
DESCRIPTION:The NETWORK Project will premiere at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program on July 2nd and 3rd.  \nFind 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\,  \n@kdmovingground \nKDMovingGround \nNetwork \n  \n 
URL:https://movingground.org/event/network-project-premiere/
LOCATION:Djerassi Resident Artist Program\, 2325 Bear Gulch Road\, Woodside\, CA\, 94062\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220521T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220521T170000
DTSTAMP:20260416T054536
CREATED:20220301T174522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220301T174522Z
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SUMMARY:Djerassi Art Immersion Hikes
DESCRIPTION:Witness art unfold in nature at the Djerassi Program! \nThis is a special opportunity in which small groups will meet & converse with multidisciplinary artists-in-residence in their studios. \nWitness 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. \nHike to explore 30+ sculptures and installations led by Djerassi artist board members painter Shara Mays\, writer Yalitza Ferreras\, and painter Anna Sidana. \nJoin us in challenging your creativity and fitness! These hikes span 3.5 miles with an elevation change of 300 feet over 4 hours. \nSaturday\, May 21\, 1:00pm – 5:00pm
URL:https://movingground.org/event/djerassi-art-immersion-hikes/
LOCATION:Djerassi Resident Artist Program\, 2325 Bear Gulch Road\, Woodside\, CA\, 94062\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220416T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220416T170000
DTSTAMP:20260416T054536
CREATED:20220301T174332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220301T174332Z
UID:2194-1650114000-1650128400@movingground.org
SUMMARY:Djerassi Art Immersion Hike
DESCRIPTION:Witness art unfold in nature at the Djerassi Program! \nThis is a special opportunity in which small groups will meet & converse with multidisciplinary artists-in-residence in their studios. \nWitness 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. \nHike to explore 30+ sculptures and installations led by Djerassi artist board members painter Shara Mays\, writer Yalitza Ferreras\, and painter Anna Sidana. \nJoin us in challenging your creativity and fitness! These hikes span 3.5 miles with an elevation change of 300 feet over 4 hours. \nSpring art hikes are $50 and take place: \nSaturday\, April 16\, 1:00pm – 5:00pm\nSaturday\, May 21\, 1:00pm – 5:00pm
URL:https://movingground.org/event/djerassi-art-immersion-hike-2/
LOCATION:Djerassi Resident Artist Program\, 2325 Bear Gulch Road\, Woodside\, CA\, 94062\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220403
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220410
DTSTAMP:20260416T054536
CREATED:20220315T191750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220315T191750Z
UID:2211-1648944000-1649548799@movingground.org
SUMMARY:NETWORK Costa Rica Residency
DESCRIPTION: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. 
URL:https://movingground.org/event/network-costa-rica-residency/
LOCATION:VidaAnanda\, Costa Rica
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220401
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220601
DTSTAMP:20260416T054536
CREATED:20220315T192512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220316T185947Z
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SUMMARY:Tenderloin Tree Plantings
DESCRIPTION: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.  \nMore thanks go to the following community organizations for their support of the Network Tree Planting Project. Larkin Street Youth Services Art Program\, and young people for doing the Tree Counting! La Cocina for providing meals to Larkin Street Youth Services Tree Counters. Mid-Market Business Association for underwriting the Tree Counters Stipends.
URL:https://movingground.org/event/tenderloin-tree-plantings/
LOCATION:Tenderloin District of San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220312T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220312T170000
DTSTAMP:20260416T054536
CREATED:20220301T174000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220301T174000Z
UID:2187-1647090000-1647104400@movingground.org
SUMMARY:Djerassi Art Immersion Hike
DESCRIPTION:Witness art unfold in nature at the Djerassi Program! \nThis is a special opportunity in which small groups will meet & converse with multidisciplinary artists-in-residence in their studios. \nWitness 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. \nHike to explore 30+ sculptures and installations led by Djerassi artist board members painter Shara Mays\, writer Yalitza Ferreras\, and painter Anna Sidana. \nJoin us in challenging your creativity and fitness! These hikes span 3.5 miles with an elevation change of 300 feet over 4 hours. \nSpring art hikes are $50 and take place: \nSaturday\, March 12\, 1:00pm – 5:00pm\nSaturday\, April 16\, 1:00pm – 5:00pm\nSaturday\, May 21\, 1:00pm – 5:00pm
URL:https://movingground.org/event/djerassi-art-immersion-hike/
LOCATION:Djerassi Resident Artist Program\, 2325 Bear Gulch Road\, Woodside\, CA\, 94062\, United States
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