A Space for Land is a workshop offering a space where conversation and movement become a way of reflecting on our individual and communal relationships with the land.
No prior movement experience is needed to participate. This workshop aims to provide space and time for individuals to reflect and verbalize why our relationship to the land is important, our fears, and most importantly, our hopes for that relationship in the future. The workshop also serves a research for Anaka's choreographic creation for RHAR. This workshop is free to the public.
We also invite you to participate in another A Space for Land workshop on Saturday, June 27th at Rio Fernando Park. This workshop will be held in conjunction with the Taos Land Trust's Rio Fernando Park Monthly Workdays.
Class Locations:
✨ June 23, 5:45-6:45pm ✨
Sunset Park, 709 Valverde St, Taos, NM 87571
✨ June 27, 9:30am-2:30pm ✨
Rio Fernando Park, 410 La Posta Road Taos, NM 87571
Please email us at riohondoartistsresidency@gmail.com with any questions!
This class is part of Rio Hondo Artists' Residency's Community Workshop program, and will be led by Anaka Weiss-Jones.
Rio Hondo Artists’ Residency (RHAR) is an annual dance-based artistic residency program designed to forge connections: to the land, to our culture, and between people.
Each year, we will bring together selected dance artists from across the country to work in collaboration with local Taos artists creating in a multitude of mediums. Resident artists will design free programming and events designed to activate the community and give people direct access to the arts-making process, which will in turn inform the work they create and stage. RHAR aims to build a cyclical relationship between artists, this place and its people.
Anaka Weiss-Jones seeks to understand perspectives of spirituality, religion, the earth, and humanity through conversations and research. She believes strongly that there is a symbiotic relationship that comes from embracing these elements as parts of a whole, and that the cycle of symbiosis breaks down when the same are abandoned, and so her work for RHAR begins with an open mind, seeking to learn more about the relationships and stories of and between the land and community from the people who make their lives in this beautiful place.