RADicle Residency

The RADicle Residency is in collaborative nature-based residency between RAD Fest and The Croft of Horton Bay, MI. The selected dance artist creates a work at the Croft in the fall, and that work premieres at RAD Fest in March. The next open call for Project submissions will go out in October 2023. For information about past RADicle Residency presentations click HERE.

2023/2024 RADicle Project description

Tierra by Amanda Ramirez

Intensions: To explore how land, cultural roots and ancestry support us when we face sorrow, uncertainty or lose our sense of self

Actions/research: Artists will listen to ancestry meditation to ground into the activities. Artists will write the earliest knowledge they have of their ancestry on note cards. Artists will imagine and write down what activities their ancestors may have done, what food they ate, what skills they had, etc. Artists will go into the land to grab items that their ancestors may have used in their day to day life (rocks, bark, plants, etc). Artists will use those items to create a sound and movement scores. Using these tools artists will embody who their ancestry could have been. As someone who has little to no knowledge of my lineage, this activity is to create that story for ourselves, because many latin/immigrant families did not have the resources to document their lives/stories.