SOM - Austin Premiere

Factory on 5th

3409 East 5th Street, 78702, Austin, TX, United States

Wild She Dances

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Wild She Dances' mission--with an emphasis in collaboration and community—is to provide performance & creative opportunities for professional artists, while ensuring fair treatment, profound inclusivity, and equitable compensation as core values. We create unique connections with audiences through multisensory experiences and engage our community through movement-based partnerships, outreach, and social justice advocacy. Our artistic vision is to create work through collaborative processes that explore a tenderness for humanity and the world we live in through gestural, visceral, and explosive movement. We organize community outreach initiatives and programming that is developed with the whole person in mind utilizing social-emotional movement practices. Currently, we are in partnership with The Women's Home providing Healing Movement classes.The company’s past community initiatives include partnerships with: (1) the International Rescue Committee, a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development organization, where we donated 25% of ticket proceeds, (2) The PILLARS NYC, a holistic substance-use recovery center, where we taught ongoing classes in dance movement and yoga for adults, as well as after-school youth dance classes. Having relocated the company to Houston, Texas, the company recently formed a new partnership with The Women's Home, where we teach Healing Dance & Expressive Movement workshops. We are passionate about continuing to make work that is socially-conscious and gives back to our community.Wild She Dances is proudly funded in part by Dance Source Houston's Groundwork Grant Program for the 2023-24 season and received Houston Arts Alliance’s Let Creativity Happen Grant for the 2022-23 season.