BODYART’s inaugural International Dance Festival New Orleans brought together the local dance community like never before! With Chilean arts organization Cooperativa Corredor de Danza Valparaíso, BODYART presented 3 Chilean artists and 15 local artists in 3 nights of performances and 2 packed days of masterclasses. Missed the action last year? Join us for the 2024 International Dance Festival New Orleans this fall, September 12-15!

Artistic Director Leslie Scott welcomed Chilean artists Igancio (Nacho) Diaz and Diego Alvarez to New Orleans for a 2-week creative film residency in September, after having met in 2019 on tour. Their time at Tulane was funded by The School of Liberal Arts Center for Scholars.

Last month BODYART filmed Candy Apple, a dance film that explores women’s self-realization through the context of media. Candy Apple was filmed at Northwestern State University of Louisiana’s long-forgotten natatorium. Thirteen Northwestern dance students and three young dancers from the local community came together to create a new work at the bottom of a derelict swimming pool.

BODYART started 2022 with a bang. We spent the majority of January in Chile where we presented hymn+them, hosted masterclasses, devised new work, and engaged with the communities of Valdivia, Valparaiso, Calle Larga, and Puerto Montt.

BODYART is working hard to serve our communities and we wanted to take a comment to spotlight our community partners.

Our new AR project was featured in Country Roads Magazine. Read on to find out more.

In response to this global health crisis, BODYART launched Moving to Heal (M2H), an engagement program that offers trauma-informed movement classes to survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

What if we had to choose between our digital and our physical lives? At first glance, it seems like an easy pick. Who would choose online infamy over a life of touching, loving, laughing, and crying in the flesh? But those who have highly curated digital personas might feel differently once it comes to the details.

2020 made us confront our concepts of reality. And now BODYART is diving into its first AR project. Are AR and VR the future for performing arts? Part 2 now live.