This year, Dance Workshop is excited to produce its first split bill concert, RITUAL BEING. Dance Workshop will present a new work, SOIL BODIES alongside the premiere of BAIRA and The Michigan Krump Movement's new collaboration, WOLF. Both works invite audiences to reflect on tensions between community and individuality, life and death.

SOIL BODIES is a new project by Dance Workshop that examines relationships with and between the earth, agriculture, and the cycles of nature. Using a research-based approach to devising dance theatre work, members of the company explore communal and societal issues such as food sovereignty, farming practices, generational conditioning, land rights, and more. As with past years, Dance Workshop members use collaborative choreographic methods along with rich multimedia and set design to create a new world. This season, the company has been in residence with Brother(hood) Dance! and BAIRA / MVMNT PHLOSPHY to develop the dancers’ physical, spiritual, and theatrical practices toward creating an evening-length work. 

WOLF is a new work led by Shaina Baira, Bryan Baira, and Jerwaun 'Renegade' Suddun that brings together diverse professional dance artists from across Southeast Michigan to share form, passion, and identity as we unite through the universal language of movement to tell an intimate story of community and survival. Melding Contemporary Dance Theater and Krump, WOLF examines the instinctual quest to belong and embodies the heart and endurance to stand alone.