About this Event
MUSCLE | BONE is an in-person movement workshop with Sam Aros-Mitchell, open to movers of all backgrounds and experience levels.
Explore the body as landscape
As part of the NE/X festival 2026, Sam Aros-Mitchell invites participants into an embodied movement practice rooted in the work of Japanese dancer and farmer Min Tanaka, founder of the Body Weather laboratory. Tanaka’s approach sees the body not as a fixed instrument, but as a living landscape shaped by environment, memory, labor, imagination, and continual transformation.
Drawing on these principles, an Indigenous Yaqui worldview, contemporary dance practice, and research into performance as ceremony, MUSCLE | BONE explores the relationship between physical structure, ancestral memory, and embodied presence. Through improvisation, somatic inquiry, breath, and attention, participants will investigate how muscle, bone, and sensation can become pathways to creativity, resilience, and collective connection. The workshop offers space for deep listening, experimentation, and an expanded understanding of the body as both archive and possibility.
Funding and community support
NE/X Festival 2026 is made possible in part through support from the City of Minneapolis Cultural District Arts Fund, supporting arts and cultural programming in the Central Avenue Cultural District. Additional support is generously provided by Rosy Simas Danse and The Northeaster, our community media sponsor, and the Eastside Co-op.
Event venue & nearby stays
Northrup King Building, 1500 Jackson Street Northeast, Minneapolis, United States
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