A New Kind of
Regenerative Artist Residency

How do we become the change we wish to see in the world and our art?

 

Regenerative ARTS requires
Regenerative ARTISTS

Our mission is to create regenerative arts: to make the world a better place through the stories we tell, how we tell them, and how we cultivate the next generation of story-tellers.

Our residency is unique and in progress: seeking to re-ignite the reciprocal energetic flow between all living beings - mind to body, individual to community, human to the natural world. We experiment with combining Alexander Technique, activism, mindfulness, wellness coaching, ecology, and gardening - crossing over common borders and boundaries in our art forms in search of dynamic, fully-alive story-telling that embraces and changes the world and us for the better.

Our Philosophy

  1. Learning is forever on-going, and should be about who wants to grow and learn, not about how old you are, what your ethnic background is, or how much money you have. Our residency is paid with no application fee, and we actively seek performing artists of all ages, ethnicities, body shapes and disabilities, neuro-divergencies, genders, and sexual orientations.

  2. We create an environment for exploration, discovery, and growth. Learning means changing. We cannot begin to change unless we feel like we can take risks: financially, emotionally, and physically. That’s why our residency is paid, rehearsals and classes are conducted with an eye towards areas for positive growth rather than negative critique, and encourage ease and freedom in your body with the light, learned touch of Alexander Teachers.

  3. We encourage beginner’s mind and embracing the unknown. Repeating the same thing and expecting a different result is one definition of crazy. Perfectionism requires that we know something before we try it, but if all we try are things we already know, we will never learn and change. The free play of a child through the technique of a learned adult creates some of the most powerful work we know. We encourage artists to embrace an experiential, child-like exercise process, that under close and safe supervision, takes them into the unknown to have a new experience, that they can then integrate their experience back into their adult technique and practice.

  4. We teach that the mind and body are holistically connected. We treat the student as a whole: mind, body, and craft and encourage students to think of themselves in the same way. Sometimes the quickest way to change your physical technique is to change your thinking. Sometimes the quickest way to change your thinking is to change your physical use.

  5. We go slow to go fast. Scientific inquiry into “deliberate practice” has proven what master teachers and students have known all along: deep, positive, long-lasting change requires slowing down and “chunking up” our work into manageable bits that can be examined, practiced, and then re-integrated back into the whole and “a tempo”.

  6. We encourage artists to find, develop, and embrace their own unique artistic identity. The internet has changed the rules for performing artists. Performing artists used to be responsible for the first time that someone would hear “Carmen” or see “Swan Lake” danced. With several generations of the greatest artists now captured on film and often available with the click of a button for free at home performing the core repertory, there is now freedom for artists to either find a personal reason to perform a select work from the core repertory, or to leave it all together and pursue repertoire that has deep, personal meaning for them.

  7. We believe that audiences aka our communities are important. Audiences are smart, and if they like something, they are showing good taste. We seek to incubate art that will resonate meaningfully in our community and yours, and art that our communities cannot get sitting at home alone from someone who does not know them personally.

  8. We believe that rituals and story-telling can help heal the world. By integrating different art forms and people from different walks of life into a common story-telling narrative thread, our art form can help show an ever more polarized and divided world how to find a common pulse amongst us all and the earth once again, not just in the stories we tell, but how we tell them.

Apply Today

Join us for our artist residency in Maine June 21 - August 4, and learn how we are building a community of next-generation regenerative artists to change the world.