Muscle Bone MB class with Sam Aros-Mitchell

MUSCLE | BONE
A movement workshop with Sam Aros-Mitchell

As part of my 11-day residency at Red Eye Theater, I invite participants to join MUSCLE | BONE, an embodied movement practice rooted in the work of Japanese dancer and farmer Min Tanaka, founder of the Body Weather laboratory. Tanaka's approach understands the body not as a fixed instrument, but as a living landscape—shaped by environment, memory, labor, imagination, and continual transformation.

Drawing from these principles alongside my own Indigenous Yaqui worldview, contemporary dance practice, and research into performance as ceremony, MUSCLE | BONE explores the relationship between physical structure, ancestral memory, and embodied presence. Through improvisation, somatic inquiry, breath, and attention, participants will investigate how muscle, bone, and sensation can become pathways to creativity, resilience, and collective connection.

Open to movers of all backgrounds and experience levels, the workshop offers a space for deep listening, experimentation, and an expanded understanding of the body as both archive and possibility.

This residency is supported by a Minnesota State Arts Board Creative Individuals grant and the Bridge Fund for Dance, administered by the Arts Council Minneapolis. Their generous support makes this artistic research, community engagement, and the continued development of Indigenous contemporary performance practices possible. I am deeply grateful for their investment in artists and experimental movement work in Minnesota.