Artichoke Dance Company works through the lens of environmental justice with forward thinking performances, collaborations and community programs.

Our Mission

Artichoke Dance Company offers unique public performances and educational arts experiences. Through the interactive nature of dance, we help people become more physically, socially, and environmentally conscious. Our cross-medium artistic collaborations entertain, educate, and empower our audiences to create positive changes among their communities.

In 2006, Artichoke Dance Company founder, Lynn Neuman, was struck by how much trash (particularly plastics) littered the streets of her neighborhood. This led to groundbreaking environmentally focused dance work. Through environmental arts activism, we have inspired thousands to coalesce around pressing environmental issues and advocate for change.. and we aren't stopping now!

How Artichoke Dance became environmentally focused.

How we work

We abide by the Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing and work from the lens of Environmental Justice guided by the Principles of Environmental Justice laid out in 1991 at the People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit.

We work toward a net zero existence and demonstrate creative reuse by upcycling materials headed to landfill for productions. Artichoke Dance Company has reclaimed thousands of pounds of materials that have escaped the waste stream and entered the environment as well as collected target materials, mainly single use plastics, from industry and communities that would otherwise be discarded, and share this practice in all our projects.