Interdisciplinary Arts Lab 2026
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Friday-Sunday, August 7-9, 2026 WildHeart Center for Performance and Embodiment Practice 183 East Road, Wallkill, New York Come investigate and experience ways that movement, sound, image, and performance can inform human culture. With multiple workshops each day, teaching artists who have just engaged in a 5-day International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium (IIAC) Residency at WildHeart join with participants from around the world to create an embodied dialogue at the intersection of modalities—contemporary dance, improvisation, voice, writing, site-specific work, somatic practices, social rituals and more. Open to all backgrounds and experiences. Facilitated by Peter Sciscioli (Brooklyn, NY) Schedule below and pricing to the right. The Interdisciplinary Arts Lab has historically taken place at Movement Research in New York City (2022-2024), and in the form of the Moving Arts Lab at Earthdance in Western Massachusetts (2013-2021). Saturday, August 8, 8pm Performance Night Teaching artists for the Lab will share practices and performance sketches from their ongoing research. |
2026 teaching artists*
Esther Baker (Philadelphia, PA) Will Bond and Marianne Kim (New York, NY / Phoenix, AZ) Sahar Damoni (Palestine / Germany) Krista DeNio (Reno, NV / Berkeley, CA) Debra Disbrow (Philadelphia, PA) Martín Lanz Landázuri (Mexico / Bennington, VT) Thea Little (Brooklyn, NY) Tatyana Tenenbaum (Philadelphia, PA) Abner Torres Delina, Jr. (The Philippines / Indianapolis, IN) Larissa Velez-Jackson (Middletown, NY) bios and workshop descriptions below *teachers and schedule subject to change Sliding Scale* $400-$500 Single-occupancy (private room in a shared house) $350-$450 Double-occupancy bedroom (per person) $275-350 Camping (bring your own tent and equipment or bedding for inside options) $200-300 Commuter (meals included) $150-250 Commuter (without meals) $20-$50 Drop-in rates (workshop only) Two free BIPOC spots *please visit our page on WildHeart's website here for more information. |
Covid-19 Safety Protocols
- To protect the group, please don’t come if you have any symptoms of any kind of illness.
- Masks are optional.
- Please respect others’ decisions to take care of their own bodies.
2026 Teachers and workshop descriptions
Day 1:
Manifesting Through Feng Shui, Movement & Voice
with Thea Little
Friday, August 7, 4:00-6:00pm (Nest space)
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Manifesting Through Feng Shui, Movement & Voice is an experiential workshop that combines Feng Shui, movement, voice, visualization, and creative expression to help you clarify and activate your dreams. Together, we'll explore the qualities of Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, and Metal, discover what your birth element is, and learn which elements best support you. Through regulating practices, guided visualizations, journaling, movement, and vocal exploration, you'll embody the energies of your intentions and expand what you wish to create. We'll also map where and how to manifest within the home, cultivate feelings of peace and joy, and create a short solo or group composition (with the option to present to the group) to deepen and celebrate your vision. Bring comfortable clothing, your journal, and your imagination!
Thea Little, she/her, is a Brooklyn-based choreographer, interdisciplinary artist, and arts leader whose work bridges movement, voice, composition, and spatial inquiry. She has created and performed work in venues ranging from DIY spaces to the Asia Society, National Sawdust, and the Brooklyn Museum, as well as internationally in Mexico City, Brussels, Nancy, France, Berlin, Vienna, London, and Los Angeles. Thea serves on the boards of National Sawdust, LEIMAY, and New Dance Alliance. She also teaches Feng Shui through in-person workshops, consultations, and online courses, including The Feng Shui of Art, exploring the relationship amongst space, creativity, wellbeing and manifestation. www.thealittleperformance.com| Instagram (performance) | Instagram (feng shui) | www.dance-enthusiast.com
with Thea Little
Friday, August 7, 4:00-6:00pm (Nest space)
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Manifesting Through Feng Shui, Movement & Voice is an experiential workshop that combines Feng Shui, movement, voice, visualization, and creative expression to help you clarify and activate your dreams. Together, we'll explore the qualities of Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, and Metal, discover what your birth element is, and learn which elements best support you. Through regulating practices, guided visualizations, journaling, movement, and vocal exploration, you'll embody the energies of your intentions and expand what you wish to create. We'll also map where and how to manifest within the home, cultivate feelings of peace and joy, and create a short solo or group composition (with the option to present to the group) to deepen and celebrate your vision. Bring comfortable clothing, your journal, and your imagination!
Thea Little, she/her, is a Brooklyn-based choreographer, interdisciplinary artist, and arts leader whose work bridges movement, voice, composition, and spatial inquiry. She has created and performed work in venues ranging from DIY spaces to the Asia Society, National Sawdust, and the Brooklyn Museum, as well as internationally in Mexico City, Brussels, Nancy, France, Berlin, Vienna, London, and Los Angeles. Thea serves on the boards of National Sawdust, LEIMAY, and New Dance Alliance. She also teaches Feng Shui through in-person workshops, consultations, and online courses, including The Feng Shui of Art, exploring the relationship amongst space, creativity, wellbeing and manifestation. www.thealittleperformance.com| Instagram (performance) | Instagram (feng shui) | www.dance-enthusiast.com
Grounding In: Listen and Respond
with Esther Baker
Friday, August 7, 4:00pm-6:00pm (Barn space and Outdoors)
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We will start in the large studio with a gentle meditation and warm up. We will connect with the wood floors/walls and our sense of play and community. We will work in partners and small groups listening and responding. Then we will move outside (weather permitting) to connect with the trees, rocks, plants, sky around us. We will listen and respond. This workshop includes physical movement, drawing, writing, and building temporary installations.
Esther Baker is a choreographer, interdisciplinary artist, educator, parent, and dance improviser whose collaborative, site-responsive performances engage ecology, social justice, and community participation. Her work has been presented regionally and internationally, including Senegal, Latvia, and North Macedonia. A recipient of MAP Fund, USAI Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and Movement Research GPS, she has held residencies at RAIR, Marin Headlands, Subcircle, and Headlong. She is an adjunct at Temple University and co-founded Propelled Animals and BT Dance Project. She is a happy IACC member for 10 years and recently performed at Cherry Street Pier, The Schuylkill Environmental Center in Philly, and MOT Festival Skopje. www.estherbakerdance.com | Instagram | www.madronemassage.com | Instagram
with Esther Baker
Friday, August 7, 4:00pm-6:00pm (Barn space and Outdoors)
Register Here
We will start in the large studio with a gentle meditation and warm up. We will connect with the wood floors/walls and our sense of play and community. We will work in partners and small groups listening and responding. Then we will move outside (weather permitting) to connect with the trees, rocks, plants, sky around us. We will listen and respond. This workshop includes physical movement, drawing, writing, and building temporary installations.
Esther Baker is a choreographer, interdisciplinary artist, educator, parent, and dance improviser whose collaborative, site-responsive performances engage ecology, social justice, and community participation. Her work has been presented regionally and internationally, including Senegal, Latvia, and North Macedonia. A recipient of MAP Fund, USAI Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and Movement Research GPS, she has held residencies at RAIR, Marin Headlands, Subcircle, and Headlong. She is an adjunct at Temple University and co-founded Propelled Animals and BT Dance Project. She is a happy IACC member for 10 years and recently performed at Cherry Street Pier, The Schuylkill Environmental Center in Philly, and MOT Festival Skopje. www.estherbakerdance.com | Instagram | www.madronemassage.com | Instagram
Day 2:
Vocal Pathways
with Debra Disbrow
Saturday, August 8, 10:00am-12:00pm (Nest space)
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Inspired by Roy Hart extended voice, physical theater, contemporary dance practice and song making forms, we will experiment with the power and untold stories within our voices. We will playfully follow our curiosity through singing/sound making, movement and melody investigations, extending into writing and gentle composing to provide tools for generating material.
Debra Disbrow is a performer/creator, singer/songwriter, educator and producer. She has created interdisciplinary works with collaborators in New York and Philadelphia for the past twenty years. She recently co-created/performed "La Monica" for The International Human Rights Art Festival at the Tank and is currently writing and recording her solo album in Philadelphia. She has taught voice, singing and speech, improvisation, and theater making for schools, universities, and community centers, leads professional development for educators and directs drama and debate programs in Philadelphia public schools. Debra is a founding member of Workshop for Potential Movement (dance theater) and holds an MFA in theater from Naropa University. Instagram
with Debra Disbrow
Saturday, August 8, 10:00am-12:00pm (Nest space)
Register Here
Inspired by Roy Hart extended voice, physical theater, contemporary dance practice and song making forms, we will experiment with the power and untold stories within our voices. We will playfully follow our curiosity through singing/sound making, movement and melody investigations, extending into writing and gentle composing to provide tools for generating material.
Debra Disbrow is a performer/creator, singer/songwriter, educator and producer. She has created interdisciplinary works with collaborators in New York and Philadelphia for the past twenty years. She recently co-created/performed "La Monica" for The International Human Rights Art Festival at the Tank and is currently writing and recording her solo album in Philadelphia. She has taught voice, singing and speech, improvisation, and theater making for schools, universities, and community centers, leads professional development for educators and directs drama and debate programs in Philadelphia public schools. Debra is a founding member of Workshop for Potential Movement (dance theater) and holds an MFA in theater from Naropa University. Instagram
Lemon Water ma’a Nana (Moving in your own space, and out of it)
with Sahar Damoni
Saturday, August 8, 10am-12pm (Barn space and Outdoors)
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Inspired by the cleansing ritual of lemon water with mint, this workshop invites participants to clear the head and heart while exploring their personal movement language and intuitive artistic voice. Through guided somatic, meditative, repetitive movement, and writing practices, participants will develop greater awareness of their bodies, emotions, and creative impulses. You can expect periods of lying down, moving gently, working with eyes closed, reflective writing, and group exploration. The workshop offers a safe and inclusive space for self-discovery, stress release, and embodied healing, encouraging participants to trust their intuition, deepen self-expression, and connect with their own unique movement journey while developing practical tools for navigating stress and reconnecting with themselves.
Sahar Damoni is an Arab Palestinian Christian choreographer, performer, dancer, movement researcher, and dramaturge from Palestine/Israel, currently based in Germany. She has been developing her artistic work at the intersection of contemporary dance, physical theatre, improvisation, and interdisciplinary performance, with a strong focus on trauma and women’s lived experiences within Arab and Palestinian sociopolitical realities. Her work has been presented internationally, including at Holland Dance Festival, Fabrik Potsdam, Movement Research at the Judson Church, and at festivals across the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, and Italy, and she has been commissioned to create a new work for Staatstheater Kassel, Germany. She has participated in residencies supported by PACT Zollverein, New York University, IIAC, and O Espaço do Tempo. She holds BA in Dance and Movement and Business Management. www.sahardamoni.com
with Sahar Damoni
Saturday, August 8, 10am-12pm (Barn space and Outdoors)
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Inspired by the cleansing ritual of lemon water with mint, this workshop invites participants to clear the head and heart while exploring their personal movement language and intuitive artistic voice. Through guided somatic, meditative, repetitive movement, and writing practices, participants will develop greater awareness of their bodies, emotions, and creative impulses. You can expect periods of lying down, moving gently, working with eyes closed, reflective writing, and group exploration. The workshop offers a safe and inclusive space for self-discovery, stress release, and embodied healing, encouraging participants to trust their intuition, deepen self-expression, and connect with their own unique movement journey while developing practical tools for navigating stress and reconnecting with themselves.
Sahar Damoni is an Arab Palestinian Christian choreographer, performer, dancer, movement researcher, and dramaturge from Palestine/Israel, currently based in Germany. She has been developing her artistic work at the intersection of contemporary dance, physical theatre, improvisation, and interdisciplinary performance, with a strong focus on trauma and women’s lived experiences within Arab and Palestinian sociopolitical realities. Her work has been presented internationally, including at Holland Dance Festival, Fabrik Potsdam, Movement Research at the Judson Church, and at festivals across the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, and Italy, and she has been commissioned to create a new work for Staatstheater Kassel, Germany. She has participated in residencies supported by PACT Zollverein, New York University, IIAC, and O Espaço do Tempo. She holds BA in Dance and Movement and Business Management. www.sahardamoni.com
Gilded Waters
with Tatyana Tenenbaum
Saturday, August 8, 2:00pm-4:00pm (Nest space)
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Where is the border between sound, movement initiation, and linguistic thought construction? I will lead us through a gentle braiding of movement and language by approaching words as sensual creatures. This work grows from my longtime practice of activating energetic and vibrational pathways of the voice through holistic movement. Please bring a notebook. Some exercises will utilize gentle hands-on partner work to amplify vibrational feedback and feel your container, center and edges. (Participants are always welcome to use imagination or utilize self-touch for these moments.) This work may yield a wild movement potential— or something more interior, yet vast! Together we will ignite poetry, trick ourselves out of habitual linguistic pathways, and channel an in-between place of meaning-making.
Choreographer/composer Tatyana Tenenbaum employs breath, voice, fascia, and musculature to excavate spaces of memory, power, and transformation. Her work sits at the juncture of experimental music and dance and has been commissioned and presented by The Chocolate Factory Theater, Movement Research, Danspace Project, ISSUE Project Room, Temple University, School for Contemporary Dance & Thought, New Jewish Culture Fellowship and others. Her practice has been deeply impacted by collaborations with Yoshiko Chuma, Daria Faïn and Robert Kocik, Jennifer Monson/iLAND, Emily Johnson/CATALYST and Hadar Ahuvia. She is on faculty at Movement Research and currently makes a home in Philly. www.tatyanatenenbaum.com | Instagram | Untitled Work for Voice (2018) | Night Transits Day (2026)
with Tatyana Tenenbaum
Saturday, August 8, 2:00pm-4:00pm (Nest space)
Register Here
Where is the border between sound, movement initiation, and linguistic thought construction? I will lead us through a gentle braiding of movement and language by approaching words as sensual creatures. This work grows from my longtime practice of activating energetic and vibrational pathways of the voice through holistic movement. Please bring a notebook. Some exercises will utilize gentle hands-on partner work to amplify vibrational feedback and feel your container, center and edges. (Participants are always welcome to use imagination or utilize self-touch for these moments.) This work may yield a wild movement potential— or something more interior, yet vast! Together we will ignite poetry, trick ourselves out of habitual linguistic pathways, and channel an in-between place of meaning-making.
Choreographer/composer Tatyana Tenenbaum employs breath, voice, fascia, and musculature to excavate spaces of memory, power, and transformation. Her work sits at the juncture of experimental music and dance and has been commissioned and presented by The Chocolate Factory Theater, Movement Research, Danspace Project, ISSUE Project Room, Temple University, School for Contemporary Dance & Thought, New Jewish Culture Fellowship and others. Her practice has been deeply impacted by collaborations with Yoshiko Chuma, Daria Faïn and Robert Kocik, Jennifer Monson/iLAND, Emily Johnson/CATALYST and Hadar Ahuvia. She is on faculty at Movement Research and currently makes a home in Philly. www.tatyanatenenbaum.com | Instagram | Untitled Work for Voice (2018) | Night Transits Day (2026)
Oblique Strategy / Some Worthwhile Dilemmas - prompt, process and practice
with Will Bond and Marianne Kim
Saturday, August 8, 2:00pm-4:00pm (Barn space)
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In this workshop we will spend some time at the beginning in movement improvisation based on the 6 Viewpoint practice as innovated by the late dancer / choreographer Mary Overlie. This may include some rigorous movement and floor work. Please dress comfortably for movement. Layers May be helpful. We generally work in bare feet but socks are fine as long as one can move safely. We will continue, then, with quick and short compositional practices in small groups or duets based loosely upon the OBLIQUE STRATEGIES prompts as described by composers Brian Emo and Peter Schmidt, and Yoko Ono’s GRAPEFRUIT. Please bring something for writing, i.e., journals & pens.
Will Bond is emeritus founding member of the NYC based SITI Company, co-founders Anne Bogart & Suzuki Tadashi. For 30 years he performed, taught workshops and master classes in Suzuki & Viewpoints training, nationally and internationally. Will has danced with Deborah Hay, Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Dance, Elizabeth Streb Extreme Action, and Liz Lerman, and performed with Tadashi Suzuki SCOT and Robert Wilson. He is published in the edited volumes Movement for Actors, Allworth Press 2002, The Routledge Companion to Stanislavski, Routledge Press 2013, and This Is Not a Handbook: the story of SITI Company, Yonkers International Press 2023. www.siti.org
Marianne Kim (b.1970 Seoul) is a Korean American interdisciplinary artist working in screendance, multimedia installation, choreography, and performance art. Her areas of research include the disorienting effects of technologized labor, cultural identity, consumerism, and most recently the forces within industrial food production and promotion that mediate race, gender, and bodies. www.asu.edu
with Will Bond and Marianne Kim
Saturday, August 8, 2:00pm-4:00pm (Barn space)
Register Here
In this workshop we will spend some time at the beginning in movement improvisation based on the 6 Viewpoint practice as innovated by the late dancer / choreographer Mary Overlie. This may include some rigorous movement and floor work. Please dress comfortably for movement. Layers May be helpful. We generally work in bare feet but socks are fine as long as one can move safely. We will continue, then, with quick and short compositional practices in small groups or duets based loosely upon the OBLIQUE STRATEGIES prompts as described by composers Brian Emo and Peter Schmidt, and Yoko Ono’s GRAPEFRUIT. Please bring something for writing, i.e., journals & pens.
Will Bond is emeritus founding member of the NYC based SITI Company, co-founders Anne Bogart & Suzuki Tadashi. For 30 years he performed, taught workshops and master classes in Suzuki & Viewpoints training, nationally and internationally. Will has danced with Deborah Hay, Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Dance, Elizabeth Streb Extreme Action, and Liz Lerman, and performed with Tadashi Suzuki SCOT and Robert Wilson. He is published in the edited volumes Movement for Actors, Allworth Press 2002, The Routledge Companion to Stanislavski, Routledge Press 2013, and This Is Not a Handbook: the story of SITI Company, Yonkers International Press 2023. www.siti.org
Marianne Kim (b.1970 Seoul) is a Korean American interdisciplinary artist working in screendance, multimedia installation, choreography, and performance art. Her areas of research include the disorienting effects of technologized labor, cultural identity, consumerism, and most recently the forces within industrial food production and promotion that mediate race, gender, and bodies. www.asu.edu
Day 3:
Lugar obscuro
with Martín Lanz Landázuri
Sunday, August 10, 10:00am-12:00pm (Nest space)
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We will work on revealing, for ourselves, that dark side that we sometimes avoid seeing or facing. Incorporating various artistic practices but also being open to the fact that what is understood as darkness and/or light varies culturally and according to context. Creating a safe environment for everyone to explore darkness in the way they understand it or choose to approach it.
Martín Lanz Landázuri is an interdisciplinary Mexican artist who constistantly moves between NYC, Mexico City and other places in the world. The fields that he works on include mobility, interculturalism, human rights, and cultural exchanges have fueled his work for several years. Martín is concerned with contemplation and how social codes are established to categorize different bodies and how we perceive them. He also approaches materiality from architecture, site and the acoustics, the sound, friction... YouTube
with Martín Lanz Landázuri
Sunday, August 10, 10:00am-12:00pm (Nest space)
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We will work on revealing, for ourselves, that dark side that we sometimes avoid seeing or facing. Incorporating various artistic practices but also being open to the fact that what is understood as darkness and/or light varies culturally and according to context. Creating a safe environment for everyone to explore darkness in the way they understand it or choose to approach it.
Martín Lanz Landázuri is an interdisciplinary Mexican artist who constistantly moves between NYC, Mexico City and other places in the world. The fields that he works on include mobility, interculturalism, human rights, and cultural exchanges have fueled his work for several years. Martín is concerned with contemplation and how social codes are established to categorize different bodies and how we perceive them. He also approaches materiality from architecture, site and the acoustics, the sound, friction... YouTube
Engaging: Site, Story, Stage
with Krista DeNio
Sunday, August 10, 10am-12pm (Barn space and Outdoors)
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How do we enter a place and begin to understand it? How do we engage creative action, while listening and learning the stories of this place? What stories want to be told here? Who is telling these stories? Working with approaches to site as a place for making, we will begin with questions for the space itself, for ourselves and our collaborators. Based in my work and training in choreography, somatic practices, ensemble theater making, and a history of creating site-engaged and audience interactive experiences, I will guide workshop participants in collaborative experiments, using what we have, what we find, and what shows up.
Krista DeNio 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 integrates embodied experience, civic engagement and human-to-human interaction. Artistic Director of KD>>MovingGround, Krista is committed to engaging interdisciplinary collaboration that bridges performance work, education and activism, navigating the impacts of injustice and crises we humans have created and face. With her collaborators she builds site-specific, audience-interactive performance experiences where performers, audience participants, and community partners engage in storytelling from various perspectives and choice-making. Each experience is accompanied by forums for interaction and dialogue: opportunities for connection and action. www.movingground.org | www.sfchronicle.com | Vimeo | Facebook | Instagram
with Krista DeNio
Sunday, August 10, 10am-12pm (Barn space and Outdoors)
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How do we enter a place and begin to understand it? How do we engage creative action, while listening and learning the stories of this place? What stories want to be told here? Who is telling these stories? Working with approaches to site as a place for making, we will begin with questions for the space itself, for ourselves and our collaborators. Based in my work and training in choreography, somatic practices, ensemble theater making, and a history of creating site-engaged and audience interactive experiences, I will guide workshop participants in collaborative experiments, using what we have, what we find, and what shows up.
Krista DeNio 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 integrates embodied experience, civic engagement and human-to-human interaction. Artistic Director of KD>>MovingGround, Krista is committed to engaging interdisciplinary collaboration that bridges performance work, education and activism, navigating the impacts of injustice and crises we humans have created and face. With her collaborators she builds site-specific, audience-interactive performance experiences where performers, audience participants, and community partners engage in storytelling from various perspectives and choice-making. Each experience is accompanied by forums for interaction and dialogue: opportunities for connection and action. www.movingground.org | www.sfchronicle.com | Vimeo | Facebook | Instagram
Life Pulse / Failure Flow
with Larissa Velez-Jackson
Sunday, August 10, 2:00pm-4:00pm (Nest space)
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Connect to the spirit and inner logic of your bodymind that yearns for movement and expressive flow in super accessible ways. Recede from societal and dance-historic expectation to bask in failure, a form of exquisite resistance and creative possibilities. The workshop will draw from LVJ’s Star Pû Method, disability arts justice and the wisdom gleaned through healing and creating with illness; using voice, movement, writing and somatic presence. Beginners and seasoned improvisers alike are welcome. Curiosity and care is a must!
Larissa Velez-Jackson is a NY-based choreographer, movement educator and multi-platform artist who creates improvisational strategies in their original performance practice called Star Pû Method. Called “an adroit physical comedian” who “seems to be questioning entrenched conventions of contemporary performance” in the New York Times, LVJ blends movement, digital and vocal sound, storytelling and intergenerational community practice. As an ongoing blood cancer survivor since 2019 and an AXIS Dance Company Choreographic Fellow in 2024; LVJ is a practitioner of disability artistry and the healing potential of art and body mind spirit practice. www.larissa-velez-jackson.com | www.smallpresstraffic.org | www.interiorbeautysalon.com | Instagram (LVJ) | Instagram (Yackez) | Instagram (Dr. Absurdjoy) | Facebook
with Larissa Velez-Jackson
Sunday, August 10, 2:00pm-4:00pm (Nest space)
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Connect to the spirit and inner logic of your bodymind that yearns for movement and expressive flow in super accessible ways. Recede from societal and dance-historic expectation to bask in failure, a form of exquisite resistance and creative possibilities. The workshop will draw from LVJ’s Star Pû Method, disability arts justice and the wisdom gleaned through healing and creating with illness; using voice, movement, writing and somatic presence. Beginners and seasoned improvisers alike are welcome. Curiosity and care is a must!
Larissa Velez-Jackson is a NY-based choreographer, movement educator and multi-platform artist who creates improvisational strategies in their original performance practice called Star Pû Method. Called “an adroit physical comedian” who “seems to be questioning entrenched conventions of contemporary performance” in the New York Times, LVJ blends movement, digital and vocal sound, storytelling and intergenerational community practice. As an ongoing blood cancer survivor since 2019 and an AXIS Dance Company Choreographic Fellow in 2024; LVJ is a practitioner of disability artistry and the healing potential of art and body mind spirit practice. www.larissa-velez-jackson.com | www.smallpresstraffic.org | www.interiorbeautysalon.com | Instagram (LVJ) | Instagram (Yackez) | Instagram (Dr. Absurdjoy) | Facebook
KAMALAYAAN: An eco-embodiment practice
with Abner Torres Delina Jr.
Sunday, August 10, 4:00pm-6:00pm (Barn space and Outdoors)
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KA-MA-LAYA-AN, inspired by the Filipino word kamalayan (consciousness), is an eco-embodiment practice that explores the intersections of interconnectedness (KAPWA), care (MA), liberation (KALAYAAN), and power (KAPANGYARIHAN). Through breathing, de-centering, and deep listening, participants will reconnect with the ecologies of our consciousness, inviting the body to lead and re-member the weaving of the self, the Earth, and the cosmos. Our workshop moves from indoor to outdoor, from self to collective and from intimate to transcendental experiences. It flows from context-sharing, intention-setting, somatic explorations, guided physical re-wilding, intentional pleasure and rest, movement interactions, and collective reflections leading to a closing ritual.
Abner Torres Delina Jr. is a Filipino artivist-storyteller, performance-maker, and founder of BLACK CANVAS, a post-disciplinary collective nurturing care culture, global justice and ecological healing. His socially-engaged practices, projects and programs have received recognition through grants and fellowships across Asia, Europe, USA, and beyond. He is an Asian Cultural Council alumnus, Georgetown University’s Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics fellow, and ITAC IMPACT: Climate Artist. For two decades, Abner has trained thousands of Filipino youth, educators and leaders through arts education, arts therapy and arts for climate action in the Philippines. Holding an M.A. Arts and Cultural Leadership from University of the Arts Singapore, he is now based in Indianapolis and remains committed to nurturing a caring, connected, and colorful world for everyone. www.abnerdelina.com | www.itac-collaborative.com | bit.ly
with Abner Torres Delina Jr.
Sunday, August 10, 4:00pm-6:00pm (Barn space and Outdoors)
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KA-MA-LAYA-AN, inspired by the Filipino word kamalayan (consciousness), is an eco-embodiment practice that explores the intersections of interconnectedness (KAPWA), care (MA), liberation (KALAYAAN), and power (KAPANGYARIHAN). Through breathing, de-centering, and deep listening, participants will reconnect with the ecologies of our consciousness, inviting the body to lead and re-member the weaving of the self, the Earth, and the cosmos. Our workshop moves from indoor to outdoor, from self to collective and from intimate to transcendental experiences. It flows from context-sharing, intention-setting, somatic explorations, guided physical re-wilding, intentional pleasure and rest, movement interactions, and collective reflections leading to a closing ritual.
Abner Torres Delina Jr. is a Filipino artivist-storyteller, performance-maker, and founder of BLACK CANVAS, a post-disciplinary collective nurturing care culture, global justice and ecological healing. His socially-engaged practices, projects and programs have received recognition through grants and fellowships across Asia, Europe, USA, and beyond. He is an Asian Cultural Council alumnus, Georgetown University’s Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics fellow, and ITAC IMPACT: Climate Artist. For two decades, Abner has trained thousands of Filipino youth, educators and leaders through arts education, arts therapy and arts for climate action in the Philippines. Holding an M.A. Arts and Cultural Leadership from University of the Arts Singapore, he is now based in Indianapolis and remains committed to nurturing a caring, connected, and colorful world for everyone. www.abnerdelina.com | www.itac-collaborative.com | bit.ly
Peter Sciscioli (Facilitator) is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary performer, creator, educator, and producer whose work encompasses dance, music, theater, and film. Since 1997 he has been creating performance works through a choreographic lens with a wide variety of collaborators for concert, site-specific, and theater venues around the world. In 2008, he created Peter Sciscioli Performance Projects, and in 2012 founded the International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium (IIAC), a network of artists and producers working across disciplines and cultures. As a performer, he has worked extensively with Meredith Monk, Jane Comfort, and Daria Faïn, and appeared in work by Jonathan Bepler/Matthew Barney, Ping Chong, DD Dorvillier, Susan Marshall, and Philip Glass/Mary Zimmerman, among others. Peter has taught his approach to Voice as Movement in countries from Mexico to Bulgaria, co-initiated The Sounding Body workshop series at Movement Research (MR) in New York, and offers private lessons and coachings. Peter has been honored to receive support from MR’s GPS/Global Practice Sharing program to attend meetings with partners in Eastern Europe and the Caucuses, and to help bring several artists from the region to the U.S. to participate in the IIAC residency and Interdisciplinary Arts Lab. He is currently continuing his research abroad, online and at home.
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Images information:
1. A composite image of all of the teachers for the 2026 Interdisciplinary Arts Lab.
2. A portrait of Thea Little, a Japanese-American woman gesturing toward a flowering bush, smiling with her eyes closed. Photo by Anna M. Maynard.
3. A portrait of Esther Baker, a white woman wearing a colorful and sparkly costume, veiled in green, with a headdress of made of tubes, grasses and sunflowers, holding a large palm leaf. Photo by Sandy Barry.
4. A full-body shot of Debra Disbrow, a white woman jumping in the air on a beach with her arms extended to the sky, a joyful expression on her face. Photo courtesy of the artist.
5. Sahar Damoni, an Arab Palestinian woman dancing with two fingers of her right hand circling her eye, left arm extended, in a maroon lace shirt and white dress. Photo by Tamar Lamm.
6. Tatyana Tenenbaum, a white woman wearing a multi-colored jacket sitting with her hands on the ground spread over sheets of paper with a cup of markers in front. Photo by Maria Baranova.
7. A composite of Will Bond, a white man wearing a black fedora, suspenders and a tie while looking in a theater mirror and Marianne Kim, a Korean-American woman seen from the back, wearing a white dress with a black and green projection over her and along the back wall. Photos courtesy of the artists.
8. Martín Lanz Landázuri, a Mexican man seated on the floor of an all white studio, wearing black sun glasses, black clothes, raising a coffee mug and surrounded by large white sheets of crumpled paper. Photo courtesy of the artist.
9. Krista DeNio, a white woman wearing a dark blue tank top bends backward with one arm over her head and the other hand on a wooden platform, surrounded by nature. Photo by Anna M. Maynard.
10. A group shot of multiethnic performers from Larissa Velez-Jackson's "Star Pû Method" wearing colorful costumes, laughing while embracing in a line and falling into a pile of multicolored beanbag chairs. Photo by Jonathan Sweeney.
11. Portrait of Abner Torres Delina Jr., a Filipino man sitting in a white decorative chair wearing a textured white and black jacket while leaning back and to his right, one hand on his forehead, the other in the air, with his eyes closed. Photo courtesy of the artist.
12. Portrait of Peter Sciscioli wearing glasses and a blue casual shirt and smiling vividly at the camera. Photo by Barbara Dietl.
1. A composite image of all of the teachers for the 2026 Interdisciplinary Arts Lab.
2. A portrait of Thea Little, a Japanese-American woman gesturing toward a flowering bush, smiling with her eyes closed. Photo by Anna M. Maynard.
3. A portrait of Esther Baker, a white woman wearing a colorful and sparkly costume, veiled in green, with a headdress of made of tubes, grasses and sunflowers, holding a large palm leaf. Photo by Sandy Barry.
4. A full-body shot of Debra Disbrow, a white woman jumping in the air on a beach with her arms extended to the sky, a joyful expression on her face. Photo courtesy of the artist.
5. Sahar Damoni, an Arab Palestinian woman dancing with two fingers of her right hand circling her eye, left arm extended, in a maroon lace shirt and white dress. Photo by Tamar Lamm.
6. Tatyana Tenenbaum, a white woman wearing a multi-colored jacket sitting with her hands on the ground spread over sheets of paper with a cup of markers in front. Photo by Maria Baranova.
7. A composite of Will Bond, a white man wearing a black fedora, suspenders and a tie while looking in a theater mirror and Marianne Kim, a Korean-American woman seen from the back, wearing a white dress with a black and green projection over her and along the back wall. Photos courtesy of the artists.
8. Martín Lanz Landázuri, a Mexican man seated on the floor of an all white studio, wearing black sun glasses, black clothes, raising a coffee mug and surrounded by large white sheets of crumpled paper. Photo courtesy of the artist.
9. Krista DeNio, a white woman wearing a dark blue tank top bends backward with one arm over her head and the other hand on a wooden platform, surrounded by nature. Photo by Anna M. Maynard.
10. A group shot of multiethnic performers from Larissa Velez-Jackson's "Star Pû Method" wearing colorful costumes, laughing while embracing in a line and falling into a pile of multicolored beanbag chairs. Photo by Jonathan Sweeney.
11. Portrait of Abner Torres Delina Jr., a Filipino man sitting in a white decorative chair wearing a textured white and black jacket while leaning back and to his right, one hand on his forehead, the other in the air, with his eyes closed. Photo courtesy of the artist.
12. Portrait of Peter Sciscioli wearing glasses and a blue casual shirt and smiling vividly at the camera. Photo by Barbara Dietl.