coLaboratory
coLaboratory
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The Mariposa Collective hosts ooLaboratory gatherings to facilitate creative explorations between artists of different disciplines within our community. The goal of these events is to inspire collaborations and weave the arts community together, building relationships. When the participants arrive for the coLaboratory, those present finalize the format and structure of the event. Depending on who is in attendance, there could be a movement warm up, theater games, drawing, a writing exercise or a vocal improv. Each coLaboratory is unique depending on the gifts of the group. Our most recent coLaboratory was April 4th from 2-4pm at Mi Chantli Movement & Art Sanctuary in Boulder. Alli Jones, Mariposa Collective Core member and Artistic Director of Nosilla Dance Project, led the movement, and choreography. She was joined by visual artist Laurel Miller on color, flow, and meditation and by vocalist and sound explorer Elena Camerin Young to create the soundscape with participants.
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Open Arts Share
Open Arts Share
The Mariposa Collective's Open Arts Share is an opportunity for artists to show their work to other artists and community members in an informal showing designed to foster dialogue and inspire connection and collaboration.
We welcome artists of all disciplines and look forward to seeing what you are working on! Our next Open Arts Share will be on January 17, 2027 from 2-4 pm at the Boulder Circus Center. Please submit the form below if you would like to share your work at our next Open Arts Share.
Mariposa Collective Community Dance Class
Join the Mariposa Collective Wednesday mornings from 10-11:30am at Mi Chantli Art & Movement Sanctuary. Classes are $20 to drop in. Discounts for punchcards are available, and your first class at the studio is $5! Mariposa Collective Artists and collaborators will lead dance and movement classes rotating on a monthly or bi-monthly basis. Sign up for classes at https://www.mi-chantli.com.
We are excited to welcome MacKenzie Schuller in August to facilitate play with flow and ease of movement. In this class, we will practice softening the body through its layers - skeletal, muscular, flesh - and building the relationship with the floor and space to support our dancing bodies! Her classes mix floorwork, release technique, somatic presence, and improvisation. Come prepared to listen deeply, laugh, play, and move with your coherent and connected body! We will dance slowly, quickly, playfully, and thoughtfully, by yourself and with others.
MacKenzie orients towards dance as a practice for becoming permeable - to life, to music, to feeling - and cultivating a body that is available to respond to each of these things, as she discovers more of how she is equally vast and held in this wide and subtle world. She nurtures presence, listening for how her body wants to express and experience itself, and is delighted by all the depth and surprise that she so frequently meets through her dancing body. She sees dance as a practice of moving with emotion, and all of her teaching and works explore something intangible and deeply felt.
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