Anna Brown Massey
Community Room Artist in Residence
July 11 to July 30 2022
FREE Forest-Bathing Workshop & Dance Performance
Friday, July 29th 6-7:30pm - CANCELLED (new date TBD)
Enter through the Garden gate on Herman Street
Sign up for the workshop HERE!
At this summer workshop, you will develop a relationship to the plants in the gorgeous Art Produce garden by activating each of your senses. We will harness that individual connection to nature to create a new folk dance together.
No skill, age, or ability required! Everyone is welcome.
Following our plant time, Anna will perform the new dance she’s been developing in her residency, and offer a talk about how to cultivate a forest-bathing and moving practice.
We will have oranges and apples grown in San Diego for anyone to snack on. If you have access, you are encouraged to bring any local food to share!
About Anna’s Residency at Art Produce:
Anna Brown Massey is researching earth-based movement theories, putting them into practice in the garden, and engaging with the public through interactive dance events.
Through this research, she asks, “How can dance in community resonate with the urgency of climate change? What is humane approach to nature? How can we move in ways that affirm our interrelated ecology?”
Anna creates movement that invites participation. She is interested in safely engaging the public as co-collaborators to observe and contribute. During this residency she is developing methods for building social “new” folk dances. She will consider how movement can be localized: rooted here and drawn from disparate ancestries.
Community Room Artist in Residence
July 11 to July 30 2022
FREE Forest-Bathing Workshop & Dance Performance
Friday, July 29th 6-7:30pm - CANCELLED (new date TBD)
Enter through the Garden gate on Herman Street
Sign up for the workshop HERE!
At this summer workshop, you will develop a relationship to the plants in the gorgeous Art Produce garden by activating each of your senses. We will harness that individual connection to nature to create a new folk dance together.
No skill, age, or ability required! Everyone is welcome.
Following our plant time, Anna will perform the new dance she’s been developing in her residency, and offer a talk about how to cultivate a forest-bathing and moving practice.
We will have oranges and apples grown in San Diego for anyone to snack on. If you have access, you are encouraged to bring any local food to share!
About Anna’s Residency at Art Produce:
Anna Brown Massey is researching earth-based movement theories, putting them into practice in the garden, and engaging with the public through interactive dance events.
Through this research, she asks, “How can dance in community resonate with the urgency of climate change? What is humane approach to nature? How can we move in ways that affirm our interrelated ecology?”
Anna creates movement that invites participation. She is interested in safely engaging the public as co-collaborators to observe and contribute. During this residency she is developing methods for building social “new” folk dances. She will consider how movement can be localized: rooted here and drawn from disparate ancestries.
Photo by Jess Cavender
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About the Artist:
Anna Brown Massey draws from a background in North Atlantic percussive and Scottish dances to bring rhythmic attention to choreographic forms. She works intimately with sound, and frequently enlists text in conversation with movement. Her research manifests in outside installations, multi-media immersions, and dances on stages. Anna danced with over 25 companies in New York City, and teaches diverse methods of action, composition, and entrepreneurship. She has received numerous grants and residencies, including from the Times Square Alliance, the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, The Work Office, and Marble House Project. Anna co-founded NACHMO and the Columbus Dance Alliance. She is a Research Fellow for Livable Futures. Anna holds an MFA in Dance from the Ohio State University. She currently lives on Kumeyaay land. |
