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Pioneer Winter Collective

Democratizing performance through the unexpected. As a young q***r artist, he uses social and cultural narratives to anchor his work.

Pioneer Winter is a Miami-based choreographer, and director of the Pioneer Winter Collective – invested in interdisciplinary collaboration, transmedia, physical theatre and contemporary dance. The Collective is interested in creating and presenting work that is risk-taking, progressive, and experimental.

10/10/2026

✨ You have the perfect body to dance.

“I’ve always been a lover of ballet, but it’s always been something that seems to be intimidating to people if they don’t think that they have the perfect body.”
— Gaile Holland

Our Adult Ballet series with the incredible Gaile Holland (Gaile McPhee Holland) kicks off again from this Monday 10/12 through November!

From October 12th through November 30th, we’ll be meeting Monday nights from 7:30 pm-9:00 pm at The Light Box Studio at MTC.

Spaces are limited. RSVP opens morning of October 12! More info and link is in our bio. 🔗

10/09/2026

🩵 Tonight, the Pioneer Winter Collective returns to for The Geneva Window: A Centenary Celebration.

I am so grateful to my collaborators bringing this work to life with me: dear friends & artists Lisa Kusanagi (Lisa Kusanagi, MFA) and Laurah Merisier (Laurah Merisier), with costume design by Mr. Mostacho (Ｍｏｓｔａｃｈｏ 💜) and prop design by Karloz Torres (Karloz Torres).

I’m deeply honored to be commissioned by The Wolfsonian–FIU (The Wolfsonian–FIU) to create a new site-specific performance responding to Harry Clarke’s mesmerizing stained-glass masterpiece known as “The Geneva Window,” a century after its commission.

💃 Laurah Merisier Lisa Kusanagi, MFA
🧵🪡 Ｍｏｓｔａｃｈｏ 💜
🎨📕 Karloz Torres

📸 April Nicole (slides 1-5); Osmani Tellez (slide 7)

The evening kicks off with a talk by renowned Clarke scholar Dr. Róisín Kennedy tracing the window’s creation and censorship, followed by our new performance in the 4th and 5th floor galleries.

📅 Friday, October 9 | 6:30–9:30 PM
📍 The Wolfsonian–FIU (1001 Washington Ave, Miami Beach)

🎟️ Tickets are $20 ($10 for members) on The Wolfsonian’s events page! Capacity is limited. 🔗 Link is in our bio!

Dr. Kennedy’s talk is free with support from the Consulate General of Ireland in Miami.

10/08/2026

We’re celebrating a decade tonight…that’s a long time.

I measure time through dance. I seek out dance in all bodies.

Dance-making is my way to courage. I am a believer in the strength of sharing our vulnerability and humanness, and I have found through choreography that offers up our bodily knowledge, we move out of the cross-hairs of judgement and toward empowerment.

Here, we take control of ourselves in such a way that dares to be told there isn’t enough room for you’ in the chorus of all other bodies.

Thank you for being a part of this constellation of artists and collaborators.

See you tonight 6:30 pm Green Space Miami for our 10th anniversary kick-off. RSVP is in our bio! Don’t miss it! 💫

📸 Pedro Nieblas
🎥 “Reprise” & “Apollo”

09/26/2026

10 years of Gimp Gait — a solo for two, performed with Marjorie Layne Burnett (Marjorie Layne Burnett).

A decade later, the dance film we made from the stage work with 𝗝𝗔𝗖𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗥𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗢 & Tabatha Mudra is still making its festival rounds.

Last month: På Tværs Festival (IntegrateddanceDK) in Denmark, celebrating integrated and disability arts.

This past week: Motion State Arts’ ScreenDance RoadShow (Motion State Arts) traveling throughout New England.

And in November: Cucalorus Film Festival (Cucalorus), the first film festival I ever attended (and set such a high bar!) in Wilmington, NC.

A reminder that you never really know how long a work will keep moving through the world.

09/24/2026

🖤 🤍 Doing the Shim Sham with my WHOLE leg lol (ca. 1993). Edwin Holland School of Dance recital at Barry University. I think the song was Michael Jackson’s Black or White.

09/22/2026

✨ Video recap from Grass Stains 2026! Revisit our site-specific performance residency and special event Searching for Collective Memory at The Bass Museum of Art (THE BASS), presented in partnership with Commissioner (Commissioner) and Maven Leadership Collective (Maven Leadership Collective).

Inspired by Sir Isaac Julien’s Vagabondia (2000), our 2026 cohort developed site-responsive works across the museum grounds, exploring memory, truth-telling, and cultural reclamation.

🌱 2026 Grass Stains Artists:
Darryl Brown (Darryl brown)
Nina Osoria Ahmadi (nina)
Lisa Kusanagi (Lisa Kusanagi, MFA)
Arsimmer McCoy (Arsimmer McCoy)
Nicole Pedraza (nicole pedraza)
Cecilia Benitez (Cecilia Benitez)
Hattie Mae Williams (The Tattooed Ballerina)

Alongside returning mentor / process doula Gabri Christa (Gabri Christa) and Pioneer Winter (Pioneer Winter & The Pioneer Winter Collective)!

Guided tours and interventions led by Lauryn Lawrence, Lauren Baccus, and Veronica Pesantes Vallejo, followed by a panel conversation moderated by Corey Davis of Maven Leadership Collective (Maven Leadership Collective) featuring Vanessa Charlot, Jason Fitzroy Jeffers, and Lise Ragbir.

🎥 Documentation by Alexa Caravia Alexa Caravia, courtesy of Pioneer Winter Collective
🎥 Reel edit Sarah Lutzky

09/13/2026

✨ This beauty that will pass…

On Friday, October 9, Pioneer Winter Collective returns to for The Geneva Window: A Centenary Celebration.

I am so grateful to the incredible artists bringing this work to life with me: incredible collaborators Lisa Kusanagi (Lisa Kusanagi, MFA), Laurah Merisier (Laurah Merisier), and Mr. Mostacho (【Ｍｒ．　Ｍｏｓｔａｃｈｏ 💜】) 💃

We’re deeply honored to be commissioned by The Wolfsonian–FIU (The Wolfsonian–FIU) to create a new site-specific performance responding to Harry Clarke’s mesmerizing stained-glass masterpiece a century after its commission.

📸 Thank you Osmani Tellez (Osmani Tellez) 🙏

The evening kicks off with a talk by renowned Clarke scholar Dr. Róisín Kennedy tracing the window’s creation and censorship, followed by our new performance moving through the galleries of 4th and 5th floor.

📅 Friday, October 9 | 6:30–9:30 PM
📍 The Wolfsonian–FIU (1001 Washington Ave, Miami Beach)

🎟️ Tickets are $20 ($10 for members). Use promo code CLARKE for a discount! Capacity is limited, so secure your spot early via the link in our bio.

Dr. Kennedy’s talk is free with support from the Consulate General of Ireland in Miami.

09/12/2026

🩰 We are thrilled to announce that our Adult Ballet Series with Gaile Holland (Gaile McPhee Holland) is returning this fall!

If ballet left you with more trauma than joy, this space is for you. Whether you’re brand new to ballet or returning after years away. All bodies. All levels.

Please note our NEW time: Mondays from 7:30–9:00 PM!

🗓️ Mondays · 7:30–9:00 PM (8 consecutive weeks)

• October: 12, 19, 26
• November: 2, 9, 16, 23, 30

📍 The Light Box Studio at Miami Theater Center
9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138

A few important details:

Free & Open: Completely free and open to all bodies and levels.

RSVP Required: To make sure everyone has room to move safely, space is limited to 30 dancers. Registration opens at 9:00 AM on the morning of each class via the link in our bio or at pioneerwinter.com/adult-ballet.

Attire: Wear whatever lets you move comfortably. Ballet shoes are welcome but not required (socks or bare feet are fine). Bring water!

Come as you are. Let’s dance. 💃✨

♥️ The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation Mellon Foundation Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs — thank you for making these free classes possible.

09/06/2026

This fall, our free series "Recovery in Motion" is happening in two places: a 15-week Wednesday night series at Miami Theater Center, plus 4 special Saturday sessions at Little River Club.

Recovery in Motion is a free movement and theater space for people in recovery. No dance experience needed, just curiosity and a willingness to move, reflect, and be in the room together.

- Wednesdays at Miami Theater Center: Sept. 9–Dec. 16, 7:30–9:00 PM
- Saturdays at Little River Club: Sept. 12, Oct. 17, Nov. 21 + Dec. 19, 10:00–11:30 AM

If you know someone who might connect with this, please send it their way.

09/05/2026

I lost my mom on this day in 1997, and every year the date finds me different.

I’ve been thinking about “In the Belly of the Bird/Godmother,” which we performed an iteration of last October at Miami Beach Regional Library, and about the artists who made it real with me.

Made with Laurah Merisier (Laurah Merisier), Juraj Kojš (Juraj Kojs), Lisa Nalven (Lisa Nalven Photography) , Andréa Labbee (Andrea Labbee), and Gaile Holland (Gaile McPhee Holland).

I’m grateful for what I remember.
I’m grateful that I’m able to create art in the absence of answers.

That I can take whatever grief is still there and transform it into something other people might recognize themselves in, or maybe even find some catharsis in.

Lately I’ve been returning to the somapoems that came out of this process and working toward a book project with them. More on that soon.

“In the Belly of the Bird/Godmother” was presented at Miami Beach Regional Library with support from the City of Miami Beach (City of Miami Beach) and O, Miami (O, Miami Poetry).

Costume design by Olga Saretsky (Olga Saretsky), prop/set design by Karloz Torres (Karloz Torres), lighting by Anamaria Morales.

📸 Morgan Sophia Parker (Morgan Sophia | Miami Wedding & Elopement Photographer), Passion Ward (Miami Photographer), Herold Merisier

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