DESERT MOVEMENT ARTS
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About


​Mission

Our mission is to create collaborative movement art that builds
embodied expression in the desert environment.


Vision
Our vision is to create somatic movement work that explores communal forms of immersion in a specific site or land and invites active audience involvement. We collaborate with musicians and artists to create original compositions and visual or sculptural art in our site-specific work.

Practices
Our practices are inspired by the desert environment, postmodern dance, activist art, queer and feminist explorations, contact improvisation and site-specific choreography.
Our bodies are in a rich ecology of human, non-human, animate and inanimate objects.
Our eco-somatic practices move toward acts of care, community, connection and regeneration.
Photo above by Monica Morones

Eve Gradilla
Author and Intuitive Artist
Deep appreciation for earth and her healing properties. Innate desire to unravel through art and movement.
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​Constance Clare-Newman
movement practitioner and educator,
​bridging somatic exploration, ​performance practices & modern dance techniques.

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Andrea Stone
Connecting improvisation and dance movement influenced by the desert landscape and architectural elements.

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Susan Detlefsen
writer, essayist,
​Argentine and queer tango dancer
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Previous Artists Collaborators:
Jamie Grace Davis

interests lie in pictorial construction through movement, patterns, geography, and prescience.
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​Emily Jane Steinberg
social artist, alchemist & activist 


Lois Graziano
former member of Chicago Moving  Company. Performed choreography of Nana Shineflug, Bill Evans, Martin Kravitz and others. 

Previous Artist Collaborators:

Faisal Alateeg

Lauren Bright

David Brown-music
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Sharon Davis Brown

Kim Foster-Tookey

​Alex Lopez

Christopher Musgrave-video

Dave Valencia with Chido Sounds-music
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Desert Movement Arts began with a small group of movers who came together to make a piece about the Salton Sea, for the art exhibit, "The Salton Sea Art Exhibit" at UCR Palm Desert in 2017.
Brittany Delaney, Constance Clare-Newman, Lauren Bright and Lois Graziano were the founders and main creators of "Circling the Shrinking Sea" with guest artists Sarah Ashkin and 
McKenzi Johnson.
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​In 2019, Brittany Delaney moved from the area, and is doing wonderful work in LA:
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https://brittanydelany.weebly.com/ 

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