08/12/2026
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION OPEN NOW🍄🥀🐾
STRANGE NATURE | HANA VAN DER KOLK + LEA KIEFFER
What might be revealed by touching, listening to, looking at, being deeply with a shell, a glittery garment, another’s body, a fallen log turned home for an ecosystem? How might these intimate encounters be felt and expressed through our bodies? And how might they change how we conceive of our bodies all together? What are the dances, rituals, practices, new ecosystems, tributes that emerge from here?
In this week-long workshop anchored in collaborative ritual, engaging body, attention, and imagination-centering physical/dance practices, and passionate and uncanny encounters with objects, landscape, and costume, we will “dialogue” with ourselves, one another, and everything to ask: how and why might we become more tender, more monstrous, more clairvoyant, more fluid; recognizing/uncovering our already multiple, hybrid, contradictory, messy, monstrous selves, groupings, world in the process. Rigorously courting strangeness, we play along the fluid spectrums of quotidian/performative, minimal/extravagant, personal/political, mundane/magical.
In 2026 we gather around Samhain/Halloween and will welcome the veil-thinning quality of this time; the night growing longer, the earth decaying and transforming towards rest, our alter egos, shadows, monsters, grief, and ancestors perhaps closer and calling to us. Dancers, artists, writers, schemers, activists, healers, and aspiring/inspiring freaks, come join us in play, risk, and world-making.
Guided by dancers, makers, researchers, and facilitators Lea Kieffer and Hana van der Kolk, Strange Nature began at the Field Center in 2022 with the curatorial and match maki
ng vision of Field Center founder Jared Williams. We have reconvened yearly since.
