Revolutionary Embodied Sovereignty Together

Dear Beloved Dreamers,

Sending you a song from ATX echoing around the world.

"Who makes the future? We do. We do... We will not be controlled. I am sovereign in my body;

I am sovereign in my soul."

-Sovereignty Hymns by The Bengsons

After celebrating growth (and enduring growing pains),

we entered 100 days of rest thru

REST Fest October 20-23, 2022.

We believe in RESTiprocity, solidarity through rest because well-being and belonging are a divine human right *Inspired by @thenapministry and @pleasureactivism*

Join us wherever you are, however you are.

"I am convinced that revolutions begin with play and rest."

-Angela Davis at Austin's Black Art Matters 

with hope,

SUMMER EDITION w/Amy Morrow

XYZ ARTIST RETREAT

Experiment with pleasure, resiliency, and compassion through our bodies as our teachers. All welcome!

3 seasons

3 day weekends

3 hour sessions

X | Aug 19-21 | Summer sweets

Y | Sep 30-Oct 2 | Fall harvest

Z | Nov 18-20 | Winter prep 

Friday | 5:30-8:30pm

Sat/Sun | 10am-1pm

EARLY BIRD SAVINGS!

FIGHTING MONKEY

All movers welcome for a 5 day workshop and adventure led by the inspiring Jakub Zeman. 

September 3-7, 2022

Austin, TX

DREAM TOGETHER

REST FEST

Calling all experimental, courageous, and compassionate artists!

Residency | October 10-23, 2022

Festival | October 20-23, 2022

ATX

full - wait list open

DEBORAH HAY

10 days choreographic workshop mentored by Deborah Hay in a private historic ballroom by Lady Bird Lake

finding coherence in movement and choreography for performers interested in both

My mind is my body in dance. This coherency sustains my practice. It is how I maintain and confirm my interest in movement, performance, and choreography. Tools will be offered to support access to your own experience of coherence while dancing. -DH

September 12-22, 2022

Austin, TX

Wilderness Resting

Redwood Duets

& Rocket Science

Have you read Octavia Butler's "Earthseed"? This summer solstice, we dropped our city armor and went off-grid in the valley she wrote about in the year she wrote about-- one catch! She wrote about it forty years ago! June 24th we blacked out social media for some deep womb healing. Sara Shelton Mann and Abby Crain guided us to re-wild qigong, gourmet food, and river dancing retreat under the stars.

Then I escaped to a tree house with the magical Helen Wicks and liberated myself July 4th with a redwood duet. My mother tree partner survived a fire 90 years ago. Her winds led me south where I  found my lost coat at Djerassi Resident Artists Program in the arms of performer Mindy Zarem.

Denver Gonzalez and I will consult with a NASA rocket scientist in SF who grew the first plants in space. Denver's Hydrophoenix garden will feed Austin's camps and more. Stay tuned for a subscription blog with the inside scoop!

The Journey

by On and Off

the Stage

Our friends from On and Off the Stage present a new workshop and improv show "The Journey" this month at the Carver before returning for a world premiere at REST Fest. 

A review from an audience member:

"Pleasantly surprised, I did not know I was tall enough to ride the roller roaster. I did not know I was even on an emotional ride, and yes, I am glad I got on.

All Together Now is entertaining, hilarious, healing and informative. A well-placed therapy session in the middle of a comedy show who's punch line didn't waste anyone's time. All Together Now has it together." 

Do you feel collective PTSD these past few months? 

Resources after Roe:

Did you know that survivors of assault receive free EMDR at Safe Austin? We support them wholeheartedly.

Solstice Solos Ancestors

& Mile High Art

Solstices mark a high and low of the year, one of light energy and the other dark rest. We begin our bright fade towards winter with 100 days of REST.

June 21st, I attended a performance "At the Edge of the Shore, At the Edge of the World" at the dock of the bay on the 97th Birthday where Theorist Founder William Twain Morrow shipped off for WWII in 1943. The experience of seeing the solstice sun set on the faces of 300 audience members and sink into the San Francisco Bay birthed a new solo to premiere at REST Fest 2022. The first showing will be at GIVE on the Fall Equinox, halfway between heaven and earth.

Denver is in Denver! After 10 years away from the city he loved so deeply he changed his name, the city that imprisoned him but birthed his artistic practice from his cell...Denver get ready! Denver is returning brush in hand, drawing together the unhoused to make mile high art.