Artists in Residence
Visible Bodies Collective is an Indigenous-led IBPOC group of knowledge keepers and artists who use performance to express embodied stories through theatrical experiences. During the 2025/25 Season, the collective will embark on a new project exploring eco-somatics, structured improvisation, and the creation of a land-based performance. Rooted in Indigenous protocols and practices, the work will include workshops, guest speakers, and embodied expressions of land, story, place, and belonging.
Visible Bodies Collective is an Indigenous-led IBPOC group that uses performance to express embodied stories through theatrical experiences. This collective of knowledge keepers engages in research, training, creation, and performance, with an emphasis on somatic processing and structured improvisation. Their mission is to establish a collaborative process that expresses concepts of cultural resurgence and embodiment as the revitalization of ancestral knowledge through traditional and contemporary dance and movement practices—thereby informing creative research, artistic process, collaborative performance, and collective ceremony and ritual. They engage the body as the primary vehicle of political expression, addressing social issues, intergenerational and ancestral healing, and the underlying desire for transformation and reconnection with the teachings of Mother Earth and the universal laws of nature.
Visible Bodies Collective’s practice is rooted in Indigenous epistemologies and spirituality (including Indigenous peoples from other lands), social and political justice, land-based dramaturgy, and cultural resurgence. This powerful council of IBPOC women gathers to revitalize stories and ignite the fire of embodied truths. They come together for the restoration and nourishment of their spirits—mending past, present, and future—while weaving traditional and contemporary story, rhythm, and their natural abilities and intuition to orate their experiences as people of culture. They unite to explore, discover, connect, and communicate through theatre, dance, movement, and storytelling expressed through their sovereign bodies.