The Collective Thread Residency is an extension of MADC's annual Collective Thread Dance Festival. This free residency is an incubator for BIPOC women dancers and choreographers ages 18+ to reconnect to themselves and their creative practice through a social justice curriculum consisting of:

• a 75 minute movement based class rooted in movement from the African and Black American Diaspora: modern, jazz, and West African

• 15 minutes of mobility and mindfulness tools, i.e. guided breathing exercises, mediations,  visualization exercises, and coloring/drawing 

• 45 minutes of communal connection that focuses on three accessible principles of social justice: sympathy, compassion, & empathy towards self, the communities that they serve, and the world around them through journaling prompts and conversation amongst the artists and the facilitator

• 45 minutes of self exploration and investigation through movement in personal creative processes

 

***PLEASE NOTE: MADC uses the term “women” to encompass all those that self-identify as women including cisgender, transgender, nonbinary, or gender non-conforming. We honor and respect all identities.*** 

 

The purpose of this residency is to provide artists access to resources to assist in cultivating new concepts, methods, and ways to approach their creative process and how in doing so can greatly impact the communities that they serve. This residency will give women of color permission to heal in a safe, open space, the opportunity to share and strengthen their often silenced voices through dance, and create more platforms for communities of color to have opportunities to witness the creative process to better understand the lived experiences and stories of BIPOC dance artists.