What Our Bones Know: Remembering Our Ancestors Through Movement and Story
Sunday, October 20, 2024,
4pm - 6pm
FREE
As the MAH welcomes its annual celebration of Día de los Muertos, we want to expand our programming and invite community partners to collaborate and create diverse programming. This October, we are thrilled to have Motion Pacific Dance Studio provide a movement class that incorporates the themes of life and death celebrated during this cultural celebration.
The class is a movement inquiry into our ancestors' imprint in our bones, bodies, and the landscape around us. Through ritual, guided dancing, and movement creation we will celebrate our bodies as living memorials of our ancestors. We will call on our Queer ancestors and dance in their magic as well as our own. We will be asking ourselves, what if we remembered our bodies as a community?
No dance experience is necessary and all are welcome who are 18+. Queer, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color are encouraged to attend and are prioritized.
Please RSVP on Eventbrite. This is a FREE event and all donations will be given to the Black, Brown, and Queer Festival of Santa Cruz County, BBQ Fest.
Accessibility disclaimer:
There are two accessible ramps you can use to get into the MAH, one on Front St and one in the back of the building through Abbot Square, on Cooper St. The class will be on the first floor, but if you would like to check out the exhibits on the other floors there is an elevator. Gender-neutral bathrooms are located on the second floor of the museum.
About the instructors
Che Che Luna (they/them) is a movement storyteller, (eco)erotic artist, and certified sexuality educator dedicated to collaborative liberatory praxis. Their lens as queer, trans, Autistic, kinky, polyamorous, Indigenous-chicanx informs their multidisciplinary work, which includes ecosystem-based philosophies, inherited ancestral knowledge rooted in the O’odham lifeways, social justice frameworks, and multi-cultural dance studies. It is their honor and life’s work to support underserved communities in reclaiming the body as a source of pleasure, elemental wisdom, expansion, transformation, erotic aliveness, autonomy, interconnectedness, and love. Luna evokes permission for others to live into their truth, heal from systemic oppression, embody their desires, and find their access points into the sensual body and the collective interdependent body of the more-than-human world.
Mo Katzman (they/them) guides dance and movement classes for all ages, performs and dances with Joe Goode Performance Group in San Francisco, and is the Queer Ambassador at Motion Pacific where they have the honor of producing Queer spaces in Santa Cruz County. They believe that dance is a liberatory and transformational art form that everyone should have access to. They are passionate about crafting spaces where folks can come home to themselves.