We Dance with our feet on the Earth and our hands in the soil
Our message: Return to the body, return to the Earth. Amplify Earth-centered ways of knowing and connect our dancing bodies directly with Mother Earth.
We are creating artistic works that transform local landscapes, leaving restored riverbanks and newly planted groves as our artistic legacy. We are working in direct relationship with the land around us, engaging in dance forms that honor our bodies and teach us how to become part of the land again. By becoming more conscious inside our bodies, we are helping to build a more conscious society. By dancing in direct connection with the land, together, we are combatting disconnection and isolation.
This is a pivotal moment in our history – will our species survive itself, or not? Enough disconnection. Let us dance with our feet on the ground, and our hands in the soil.
We are asking the question:
Can a dance company create restored landscapes as its artistic legacy?
OUR DANCES PLANT SEEDS
When we plant, we find a certain rhythm, a repetition of movements, and a grounding, releasing energy; much like when we dance. Return Dance Project is creating original music and dance inspired by the natural world. We are challenging dancers and audiences to engage in a relationship with the natural world.
We are calling our community home.
WE DANCE TO PROTECT
EARTH | WATER | AIR | FIRE
We dance on the hands of our ancestors
In studying the dances of our ancestors, we connect with Earth-Centered ways of knowing. We amplify dancing wisdom that leads us back home, to reconnect in healthy ways with our bodies and with the land under our feet.
We are moving away from dance as a commodity, dance as a profession, only for the trained elite. We are moving toward community, toward connection, toward restoration. We are honoring the dancing memory held within all our bodies, and following the desires held within our hearts, to dance in connection with spirit, community, and land.