Artichoke Dance Company engages communities in performances and beyond.
Artichoke Dance Company’s community engagement is for all interested in moving and taking action. Our integrative movement programs, workshops, hands on activities and environmental actions involve people together making change.
INTEGRATIVE PERFORMANCE PROGRAMS
liberate the Earth
This site-adaptive performance opens with a community integration section which participants learn through 1-2 rehearsals with the company. No dance experience required. Hands on craft workshops engage participants in creating costumes from recycled materials, spurring creativity and demonstrating zero waste principles.
Final performance: 45-55 minutes. More Info Here.
Your Planet
Site-adaptive performance for beaches that is often accompanied by a beach clean up with data gathering and art build. This has been performed with local drum circles, though not necessary.
40-50 minutes. More info here.
Workshop Offerings
modeling environmental justice
An experiential workshop using individual movement and collective activities to model environmental justice principles at work and investigate how they can be utilized more fully in our lives. The workshop includes a brief history of the environmental justice movement.
No movement experience is necessary. It has been given for, and tailored to, youth and adult populations and offered as professional development for educators, administrators and arts and educational staff.
Trashion - Fashion from Trash
Hands on workshop to create ready wearable fashion out of plastic bags and other recyclables, which can culminate in a parade/fashion show.
This workshop generally accompanies Liberate the Earth, an integrative performance program, and can be a stand alone experience suitable for ages 12 and older.
Participants generally collect materials from within their communities ahead of the workshop for use within it.
Performing Arts Activism
Delving into creative processes, purpose and impact, participants, through individual and interactive activities, create works of art in any medium(s) based upon a relevant topic and begin to devise a plan for action and engagement.
This workshop has been used with students who are embarking on individual and/or collaborative projects, those interested in interdisciplinary work, and for climate action and environmental organizations, groups and conferences.
This workshop involves multiple arts mediums.
Clean Up/Art Build
Trash clean up of a beach, park, street or other designated area with data collection utilizing an app with participatory creation of artistic objects or an installation using materials collected from the clean-up.
This experience is a great family engagement activity and welcomes all ages. Participants become environmental stewards, citizen scientists and artists.
This generally accompanies Your Planet, a performance engagement program and can be a stand along experience.
Modeling Complexity
The complexities of climate change are enormous. This improvisational movement workshop presents a variety of approaches to embodying complexity as individual movers, in pairs and in groups that we used in creating Water…We Waiting For? and explores existing in seeming disparate states and energies.
This workshop is most suitable for movers with some experience investigating and improvising.
