Feeling drained and unclear? Unmotivated and stagnant?
Tap into your own creativity, clarity, and happiness in a warm, respectful environment. Zero dance experience is expected - Moving Dialogues Workshops are for everyone!

Explore a question that is essential to you and share responses and experiences through individual writing, dance and discussion in a mutually supportive and respective atmosphere.

“Moving Dialogues is so powerful, it changed my life, really helped me to clarify my mission in this world.”

- Artis Mooney; Educator, Healer, and Artist

Participants Experience (90 minute sample):

• Gentle, guided warm-up (10-15 mins)
• Written exercise to answer the essential question (5 mins)
• Create stationary shapes based on words they select from their own writing (5 mins)
  Participants create their shapes individually, but simultaneously (everyone is moving at the same time - so there’s no pressure to “perform”)
• Share the shapes in small groups, with or without words spoken aloud (15 mins)
• Generate a movement phrase based on the shapes (10 mins)
• Share the phrase in small groups, with or without words spoken aloud (15 mins)
• Share again making new choices, building awareness of other people in the space (10 mins)
• Reflection (10 mins)

Moving Dialogues workshops started at American University's Emerging Arts Leaders Syposium in 2015. Artistic Director Kelly King led a group of participating arts leaders to answer the question: "What makes me happy?"

Since then, Kelly has led Moving Dialogues workshops for businesses and community groups, including: Visit Baltimore, The Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, ReCreative Spaces, The Girl Scouts of America's Keys to Success Conference, Round House Theatre, Anacostia Arts Center, and more.