Tiger Balm
PROCESS DANCE PROCESS
March 5, 2025
Red Eye
Sam Aros-Mitchell | Gayatri | Scott Stafford | Parisha Rajbhandari
From dance, to dance, by dance, for dance: for the skeptics, the ambivalent, and the believers
A salve for those who are jaded by talkbacks
An irritant if you insist on a singular lens
An ongoingness, a continuous labor, an unarrival
A viewing practice of holding complexity, difference, context, impact
The pleasure of the sting, the slow burn, and, if you're lucky: an opening.
Four short dance works in process. One running experiment in discussion, together. Because relational, because dance, because dance wants to be in conversations of dance, because dance is what wants.
WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
7 pm
Red Eye
2213 Snelling Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55404
TICKETS
$5 - $15 sliding scale
ACCESSIBILITY
Red Eye's performance space is fully wheelchair-accessible. To request ASL interpretation, audio description, large-print programs, or other accessibility-related accommodations for any event, please contact us with as much advance notice as possible. staff@redeyetheater.org | 612.870.7531
About the artists
Sam Aros-Mitchell
Sam Aros-Mitchell (he/him) is an enrolled member of the Texas Band of Yaqui Indians and an interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and educator. His work spans performance, sound, design, choreography, and embodied writing, activating performance spaces as sacred sites of transformation, remembrance, and futurity. He holds a Ph.D. in Drama and Theatre (UC San Diego/UC Irvine) and an MFA in Dance Theatre (UC San Diego). A 2025 Jerome Fellow and 2023 McKnight Dance Fellow, he recently produced the inaugural Macalester Native Play Festival and will lead an Indigenous arts festival in Mni Sota Makoce in November 2025. He has performed with Rosy Simas Danse, Aniccha Arts, and Tanya Lukin Linklater, among others. Choreographic works include Ania Bwia Bwia Toochia and Finding Sentience. For more information, visit www.samarosmitchell.com
Photo: Canaan Mattson
Gayatri
Gaya (they/them) practices dance, facilitation and writing as methodologies of consent, generative conflict, and enacting anti-caste principles. They are specifically interested in healing their relationship with their body through deeply critical and sensitive investigations of how and why they dance. Gaya is currently a graduate student in the Environmental Justice program at the University of Michigan, writing an autoethnographic thesis on the caste, gender, and land politics of Brahmanical Bharatanatyam. At Tiger Balm, Gaya will present their ongoing choreography practice which accompanies their thesis work. Their piece explores movement as a means of disturbing the material of Brahminical knowledge, tracing and punctuating the ground and air in both prescribed and unsettling patterns, developing sounds of life to expand their political imagination.
Photo: Drew Arrieta
Scott Stafford
Scott Stafford is a dance artist based in Minneapolis - his choreographic inquiry lies in the space between feeling something deeply and the expression which physiclizes the experience.
The Overture
- A document of where it’s all at now
- somatic / entertainment
- watch and think - feel and enjoy
Photo: Isabel Fajardo
Parisha Rajbhandari
Parisha Rajbhandari is a Nepali dance artist residing in Mni Sota. She explores movement through vibrations, sounds, rhythms, body memory and spinal articulation. Her choreographic process is grounded in collaboration and connectivity. She is deeply activated by spinal and rhythmic exploration. Her recent works have been evoking red, blood, ancestral wisdoms and generational wounds.
Sound and Voice Collaborators: Kavya Chirayil, Bhintuna Rajbhandari
Photo: Valerie Oliveiro
Tiger Balm is supported by a grant from the Jerome Foundation.