INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE ENGAGEMENTS
Arts Unity Movement's Interactive Performance Engagements are moving and immersive experiences, featuring AUM's award-winning NewGround Theatre Dance Company and select guest artists. These story-based engagements are renowned for the ways they explore topics that both inspire and challenge. Past themes have centered around:
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self-empowerment & compassion
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unity & inclusion
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racial equity & unconscious bias
Perhaps the most unique aspect of AUM's Performance Programs are the opportunities they present throughout the performance for participants to become involved in group discussion and even create their own art, by crafting original, in-the-moment, art-response pieces. This compelling production style has gained AUM's NewGround Theatre Dance Company local, national and global recognition. NewGround continues to explore new styles and storyline concepts in its delivery of original works for the community.
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2010
Founded
New Ground Theatre Dance is founded and performs first show "Earth Dance."
2014
Introducing Empathic Art
NewGround Theatre Dance introduces the first “Empathic Art Exchange" as an immersive dance experience engaging the audience to discuss and respond through art.
2021-2023
Educational Outreach and Audience Interaction
NewGround Theatre Dance introduces “Threads of Compassion” Series as a means to explore complex themes such as bias, societal pressure and injustice in order to educate and raise awareness.
2011-2013
Early Productions
Early productions “AXIOM,” “Terrain Project,” and “Catalyst” explore complex and therapeutic themes such as domestic violence, war and projection, and neuroscience in the arts.
2015-2020
Touring Local and International
NewGround Theatre Dance is invited to tour locally and internationally with productions “Shanti,” “Shekinah,” and “Star Seed” throughout the Bay Area and “Letters from Earth” at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh Scotland
The dance at the end was so beautiful and moving. I don't even know that I have words to describe my experience of it, which on some level feels right to me. So much of this important healing that needs to happen won't and can't involve words. I want to thank you for creating space for us, to share your process with us, and to inspire us to be brave, feel, and tune in to such a deeply meaningful and difficult topic.
- 'Into The Mirror' Bias Experience Participant, May 2019