Movement Class with artist Sam Mitchell

Everyone is welcome. Native community members are strongly encouraged to attend.

Sam's movement class incorporates his work with Rosy Simas, as well as the many physical training methods he's trained with as a performer and teacher, including yoga, Feldenkrais, Indigenous practices, cognitive re-patterning, Suzuki training, Viewpoints, Augusto Boal’s Games for Actors and Non-Actors, contemporary dance technique, gymnastics, and Min Tanaka's Body Weather/MB training. By centering love, respect, reciprocity, and empathy into this movement practice, we as a community will move towards an experience that flows with continuous non-stopping intention, pushing into our personal self-empowerment, agency, and empathy. It will also be really fun!

This class is free and open to the public, but we strongly encourage you to reserve a ticket in advance, as space is limited.

Sam Aros Mitchell is Yaqui (enrolled Texas Band of Yaqui Indians). Sam earned his MFA in Dance Theatre from UC San Diego (Kumeyaay territory), and a BFA in Dance from UC Santa Barbara (Chumash territory). Sam has performed and taught professionally for over 25 years. He continues to work, teach, and learn, from within his Yaqui community, from within Native American and First Nations communities, and from within contemporary dance communities. He is currently in his fourth year of a performance studies PhD program at UC San Diego.
https://sammitchelldance.com/

Weave
This class is part of Rosy Simas’ Weave dance project. It is one of multiple community engagement activities in the Philadelphia area. To learn more about Weave in Philadelphia, which performs on March 8 and 9 at the Performance Garage (1515 Brandywine St), please visit interculturaljourneys.org/weave