Dance Travel
There is nothing like dancing in a specific site to really get to know a place. When we dance in response to a place, we let the architecture, nature, art, and people of that place affect us. This 'dance travel' lets us process and integrate all that we are being exposed to in an embodied, creative way. Get in touch with Michael to plan your dance trip.
Michael improvises at the BAPS Hindu Temple in Robbinsville, New Jersey
Michael dances with 2 peacocks and a peahen at Grounds for Scultpure in Hamilton, NJ.
Michael discovers so many sculptures to play with at Grounds for Scultpure in Hamilton, NJ.
Michael dances at the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ.
Michael improvises at Cross Estate Gardens in Bernardsville, NJ ! Sunny appears too!
Michael dances at Mercer Labs in downtown Manhattan! Iram says that this is one of his favorites!
Michael improvises with plants, flowers (dahlias!) and trees at the Planting Fields Arboretum in Long Island, NY.
Michael improvises amidst the skyscrapers which is amazingly captured by the videography of Iram Arontes! Thank you Iram for your artistry!
Improvising on Thacher Island, where there is a protected seagull nesting area, off the coast of Rockport, MA. Michael dances with Dawn Pratson of Rockport and Philadelphia.
Museo del Barrio exhibit of Altars by Amalia Mesa-Bains invites Michael to improvise, Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, July 2024
Stop at a park to break up a road trip with some dancing in nature. Milton State Park, Milton, PA, March, 2024
Improvising at the 9/11 Memorial on Staten Island, NYC, February, 2024
Near and Far winter dance in the midst of a mid-day hike, Byram River, Greenwich CT, December 2023
Improvising at MoMA PS1 Long Island City, NYC; November, 2023
We were the first people to enter the Van Gogh Immersive experience in Montreal so we got to dance with the images before more patrons arrived. Montreal, Sept 2023
Improv excerpt at Brandeis-Bardin campus in Brandeis, CA with Beth Megill and Paula Perlman, Aug 23, 2023
Improvising with Keith Haring's paintings at the Broad museum in downtown Los Angeles, CA Aug, 2023
Improv at the Torrey Pines Beach with Mary Peterson, August, 2023
Dance with Paula Perlman @ The Broad museum in downtown Los Angeles, CA - Aug, 2023
Quick dance in the Sculpture Garden at Edith Wharton's home in Lenox, MA Sept 2, 2023
Improvising at the Templo del Calvario en Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco March 9, 2023
Improvising in the chalk room at the Contemporary Art Museum, downtown San Luis Potosi March 2023
So many spaces at this museum calling for dances...
Museo Laberinto de Ciencias y Artes San Luis Potosi March 2023
almost dodecahedron dance
inside the entrance to the Labyrinth Museum of Science and Art in San Luis Potosi, March 2023
between walls
outside the entrance to the Labyrinth Museum of Science and Art in San Luis Potosi, March 2023
The City Hall area of lower Manhattan is quiet on the weekend when almost no one is working... Michael discovers a public/private dance inspired by the architecture and falling leaves.
Cassie, Dawn, Laura and MIchael respond to the factory environment. August 2022 in Wallkill, NY
MassMOCA in North Adams, MA is a favorite museum to dance in... watch to see why...
Improvising in the Untermyer Garden in Yonkers was a wonderful treat - the peace and beauty that this man created - free for all! I feel a debt of gratitude to this German-Jewish Holocaust survivor for his vision and generosity to make such a gorgeous place.
Improvising to paintings and sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum, NYC - June 2022
Summer 2022 - dancing to live music in Central Park, NYC
Improvising to let the leaves, trees, earth, etc. communicate.
Inspiring space (and huipils) at the Mayan Textile Museum next to the Santo Domingo de Guzmán church in San Cristobal. Sept 2021
Michael and Iram visited San Cristobal, Chiapas in southern Mexico in September 2021. Here Michael improvises on the steps to the Guadalupe Church on a hill that has a panoramic view of the city.
Michael improvised at a historic site in Tepotzlan in Mexico in March 2020.
Michael improvised above Coromuel beach in La Paz, BCS, Mexico
Michael responds to the trees and cacti for the first time in Rancho Yesod, April, 2021.
Michael and Natha danced together with the murals in Bogota in 2019. Videoed and edited by Iram.
Michael improvises both at the botanical garden and the museum in Bogota, Colombia.
Michael improvises in the Museum of Modern Art in Medellin, Colombia in August 2019.
Michael improvises with the desert in El Comitan, La Paz, BCS in 2019.
Cassie and Michael improvise on a Manhattan sidewalk in 2019.
Michael improvises on the La Paz malecon in 2020
Michael dances with a mural by Uli Martinez, La Paz based artist from Oaxaca, MX. Uli's website
Michael improvised on a stage in a beautiful organic garden in Antigua, Guatemala, April, 2017
August 2018 - Dancing at monastery in the Basque region of Spain
Robbyn Scott and Michael improvised in the woods among the aspens on Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada, August, 2017
Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. April 2017
Michael improvised in the ancient structure of Capuchinas Convent with flower carpets for Semana Santa in Antigua, Guatemala, April, 2017