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 and community education that explores communal forms of immersion in a specific site or land. We invite active community 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 work moves toward care, community, connection and regeneration.
Eve Gradilla
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Andrea Stone
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Previous Artists Collaborators:
Jamie Grace Davis
interests lie in pictorial construction through movement, patterns, geography, and prescience.
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
Sharon Davis Brown
Kim Foster-Tookey
Alex Lopez
Christopher Musgrave-video
Dave Valencia with Chido Sounds-music
Faisal Alateeg
Lauren Bright
David Brown-music
Sharon Davis Brown
Kim Foster-Tookey
Alex Lopez
Christopher Musgrave-video
Dave Valencia with Chido Sounds-music
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.
In 2019, Brittany Delaney moved from the area, and is doing wonderful work in LA:
https://brittanydelany.weebly.com/
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.
In 2019, Brittany Delaney moved from the area, and is doing wonderful work in LA:
https://brittanydelany.weebly.com/