In this workshop we’ll begin deliciously slow. You’ll be gently guided inward to the birthplace of your own dance; your breath, sensation and emotion. We’ll notice where movement originates and how it travels through the body. While keeping that inner awareness engaged, we’ll turn outward and share exchanges with others, focusing on skills of leading, following, initiating, responding, stillness and co-creation. We’ll open the scope of attention to group improvisation and to the sweet spot of interdependence that comes when each person is present to themselves and contributing to the unfolding flow of the group. This class is open to everybody interested in movement, improvisation, real-time connection and a portal into a deeper embodied relation to self and others. Bring a blanket or yoga mat, we’ll start out on the floor. Wear comfortable clothing for moving.

DELISA MYLES is a choreographer, performer, director and dancer with a passion for promoting the arts as a vehicle for community connection, personal inquiry and healing. Delisa was central in creating the Performing Arts Program at Prescott College and was a professor there from 1994–2016. She and her husband are stewards of Delicious Earth Farm, a gathering ground for growing food, making art and weaving community. She serves on the board of Cosmos Theatre Arts and is the curator for Portals of Possibility. 

We will be working from my unshakable belief in every body’s innate musicality and uniqueness. We will find ways to create community music on the spot. There will be musical instruments for us to play around with. You can bring your own instrument(s) both traditional and found objects. You will be encouraged to play instruments you have never played before.

JONATHAN BEST (AKA Enjolis Sidai Pii which means Hedgehog Completely Good in the Maasai language) has been a full time musician since moving to NYC in 1980. He has traveled the world with rockstars but hit the wall of disillusionment and moved to Prescott in 2002. From 2007 to 2010 he simultaneously made many trips to NY and Kenya. In NY he enrolled in a four year program where he learned to facilitate groups of people in improvising music on the spot. In Kenya, he worked with Maasai communities in building a media center and creating documentaries by and for the Maasai people. It was there that he learned the true power of music and dancing (one word: Osingolio) to keep communities strong in spite of drought and extreme poverty.

    

Character can be approached in many ways. This workshop invites participants to explore two complementary perspectives: internal, naturalistic character work often associated with film, and external, transformational character work often associated with the stage. Our time together centers on curiosity, creative exploration, and being fully present in the moment. After a warm-up to establish comfort and trust, participants will rotate between both facilitators in small groups, exploring each approach through guided experiences. The session culminates in a full-group exploration that integrates both approaches through practical application and reflection. No prior acting experience is required, and all activities are designed to be playful, accessible, and inclusive.

KALEIGH KENNEDY is an actor, painter and teacher with a decade’s worth of experience in LA. Her screen credits include the feature film An American Carol and television appearances on Dexter, Mad TV, and Cold Case. Her stage work in Prescott includes various Shakespeare productions. Her passion in Prescott lies in contributing to original work here in town. She has played various roles in helping produce Threads, Destiny Checks in, It’s a Wonderful Life?, and So This is Christmas.

ROGER TIPPING II is an actor, writer, and director active in the Prescott theatre community. He created and directed the original devised work It’s a Wonderful Life?, and has appeared in King Lear, Jersey Boys, The Wizard of Oz, and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; he also wrote the original musical So This Is Christmas, which premiered last season and was restaged this year.

Shake it up! is a creative workshop that combines story circles, singing together and movement building. Kathy Randels and Gloria “Mama Glo” Williams lead participants to reflect on the themes in The Road to Damascus (As Told by Grandmother to Little Red). Where and how do prisons and churches intersect? How do lessons from our personal challenges become the road map to collective healing and utopia? Share your “Damascus Experience” (Performances at the Hazeltine Feb. 27, 28 and March 1) and tap into your own unique creative expression, while harmonizing with your community.

KATHY RANDELS is a native New Orleanian, a theatre artist/educator, and the artistic director of ArtSpot Productions. She co-founded and co-directs the LCIW Drama Club (since 1996) and The Graduates, a performing ensemble of formerly incarcerated women (since 2012), and from 2023–2025 co-directed the ARCH (Arts, Racial Justice, Culture and Healing) program with Bar None by Design and the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office at the Orleans Justice Center. She has contributed writing to several books, including
SEE ME: Prison Theatre Workshops and Love, by Jan Cohen-Cruz, and is working on a book with and about Gloria “Mama Glo” Williams entitled
The Unbreakable Queen.

Whether you’re navigating a difficult choice or a life or role transition (aging, graduating, parenthood, empty nesting, grieving, moving, job changing, retirement, etc), writing can be a way to access your inner wisdom and provide clarity on the questions, challenges, and possibilities of your crossroads. Writing is a gentle way to explore your patterns and untangle your thoughts. In this workshop, we’ll use generative writing portals to meet the questions and characters that populate your unique crossroad. We’ll play with poetry (don’t be scared!), speculative writing, and ways of changing and embodying different points of view. This is a safe, inclusive space, and no one will be required to share. Please bring writing materials and dress comfortably.

LARAINE HERRING is the author of A Constellation of Ghosts: a speculative memoir with ravens; The Grief Forest: a book about what we don’t talk about, a trilogy of writing books from Shambhala: Writing Begins with the Breath; The Writing Warrior; and On Being Stuck: Tapping into the Creative Power of Writer’s Block, and Lost Fathers: How Women Can Heal from Adolescent Father Loss. She edited the essay collection Becoming Real: How Women Reclaim the Power of the Imagined through Speculative Nonfiction from Regal House. She’s a retired professor of creative writing and psychology, and is now focusing on the intersections of visual art and grief work.

MICHAELA CARTER is the author of the novels Further Out Than You Thought and Leonora In the Morning Light, which has been translated into four languages. She is the cofounder of the Peregrine Book Company, a founding board member of Cosmos Theatre Arts, and the director of their production of Eurydice in 2025. 

       

Open up the flow of verbal inspiration through somatic states and physical movement. Using kinetic relationship, contact improvisation, and situational awareness within the present moment, Words from Water explores the interplay between mind and movement in catalyzing expression. Wear loose clothes, a pen and paper and be ready to suspend judgement while sharpening discernment to hunt for the essential words that weave intention into articulation.For writers with dancer’s block and dancers with writer’s block and those that love movement and wordcraft. This workshop will be accompanied with live music from guitarist Greg Ruby.

JAY RUBY is the founder of The Carpetbag Brigade Physical Theater Company, renowned for their outdoor performance spectacle mixing acrobatic stilts, butoh dance, and contact improvisation. Jay performs his solos “Democracy” and “Fayettenam”, directs Carpetbag Brigade performances, and applies ensemble theater practice to shape political vision as a Prescott City Council member.

GREG RUBY  “lives and breathes guitar” states the Fretboard Journal. From acoustic swing to jazz manouche to surf guitar, NYC based Ruby inhabits many musical forms and brings his compositional voice to each of them. Mixing string jazz, surf music, psychedelic cumbia, and looping Greg provides atmosphere and soundscaping to exploratory creative process.

Embodiment is a language, it is communication, it is inspiring as it is insightful. Our embodiment and our ability to relate to others is nothing short of holy and a part of the sacredness in being alive. I offer you a playground for inner exploration, an invitation to discover more of yourself. Immerse into the sacred whisperings of the body, of movement and practices in relational presence. We will explore our inner nature, our soul’s expression as well as the challenges and brilliances that are revealed. In the process of growing somatic intelligence, your relational and emotional capacities expand toward your fullest expression. The deliciousness of life is in the movement of all things!

THOMAS RADTKE has been studying, facilitating and teaching the healing arts and human development practices since 1999. He navigates from the foundation that the human body and the human experience are the access points to our healing. His focus leans on cultivating emotional intelligence, nervous system regulation and IQ to deliberately build “spiritual” living. The cornerstones of his modalities are sovereignty, presencing, embodiment, and integration.

Humanity is living through a time of Great Transformation and our actions, our choices, our voices matter more than ever. Come practice the Art of Peace — giving and receiving through our living resonant bodies, building soul and restoring connection in a shattered world. We will sing together, move together, listen together, and celebrate our creative human intelligence.

MEG BOHRMAN is a mother, activist, artist, and birth doula, as well as a board-certified Music Therapist based in Prescott, AZ. Check out her groovy family band, Galactagogues. She is the creator of the Hero(in)es Journey, an illustrated Song Cycle and Creative Exploration through the Archetypes. Along with her husband, Thatcher, they create original archetypal performances through The OK Apocalypse Project, including the modern/ancient rendition of Inanna’s Descent to the Underworld. Meg is dedicated to human connection, soul exploration, and creating spontaneous community.