Love Letters at Sunsetis a writing workshop inviting movement, play, and presence to use writing as a healing tool. This series will serve as an open invitation to the community to write, share, tell stories, and serve as research for her dance making process. This workshop is free to the public.

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 Athena Dunleavy.

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.

Athena Dunleavy’s work for the Rio Hondo Artists’ Residency explores storytelling, memory, and conversation through dance as ritual. Creating oneness as a living, breathing, evolving, piece that reflects the community, the land, the people, and the audience as a part of the dance. Her process seeks to explore the fine-line between everyday mundanity and the space where the divine breaths when observed; allowing something bigger than herself to move.