the NETWORK project: A Dialogue on Building Resilience in our Nature Bodies
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…
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Being with Place: Site-Specific Response workshop
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…
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Art Immersion Hike @ Djerassi Program
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 Artistic…
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, its inhabitants…
the NETWORK project Premiere at the Djerassi Program
Djerassi Program PROJECT PREMIERE: July 2 & 3, 2022 @ Djerassi Resident Artists Program Based on experiential research in the environs of the Djerassi land and trees our team of performers, scientists, urban foresters, community tree stewards and designers will create a multi-dimensional, participatory, tactile experience–working with the trees, land, and site; dance, theater and…
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Costa Rica Residency
April 1-10 2022 Working in a local home and studio, and with the land, ocean, and forests—NETWORK collaborators will further research the biological processes that tree communities use to survive and thrive, to apply to a working design for the NETWORK experience that will be created in the Summer 2022 LEONARDO residency at Djerassi Resident…
Djerassi Art Immersion Hikes
March 12, April 30th, and May 21st 2022 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…
WORK IN PROGRESS EXPERIENCE @ Djerassi Resident Artists Program
November 2021 MovingGround shared the NETWORK project research and process developed during our day-use residency at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program during Summer 2021. This work in progress, workshop experience, invited audience to participate and observe, as active choice makers in the experience. The NETWORK project experience featured movement, improvisation, dialogue, and interaction designed by…
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Djerassi Resident Artists Program: Day-use Residency
Artistic Director, Krista DeNio and Chloe Crotzer (biologist) worked together with an interdisciplinary team of collaborators (performers, scientists, designers, musicians, technologist), to begin research and development of the project, for a 2022 production at Djerassi, co-produced by KDMG, CounterPulse and the Djerassi Program. This residency culminated in a work-in-progress.
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MovingGround Residency
Krista DeNio and Chloe Crotzer embarked on interdisciplinary research, bringing together performative and somatic work with biology, for the NETWORK project–in the trees of the Santa Cruz Mountains. They worked in Boulder Creek, Henry Cowell State park, Big Basin, and Wilder Ranch.
Laboratorio Condensacion
Krista DeNio worked in a research residency and workshop in Mexico City, with Arely Landeros and Martin Lanz Landazuri and led experiments with workshop participants (performers, scientists, community workers) at Centro Nacional de Las Artes (CENART).
UCB Berkeley Dance Project
Inspired by the theme “digging deep,” the performance featured original works by MovingGround’s Krista DeNio and department lecturer and alumnus James Graham, as well as by students José Nuño and Angie Corley, who strive in different ways to address our complex human, and extra-human, relationships. Featured is a new work by guest choreographer DeNio, “Network,” an…
Bioneers Conference
Krista DeNio, Director of MovingGround invited Mirah Kellc Moriarty and Rodrigo Esteva, DANCE MONKS, to collaborate at Bioneers in an immersive experience on the grounds of the festival. MovingGround and Dance Monks collaborate to create a physical, experiential installation and body-based recharge. The installation invites you to integrate and commune directly with the trees and…