Episode Overview: Haley Interviews Chasity, delving into the layered origin story that created Chasity’s movement quality. Chasity talks about dance as redemption, and exploring movement with GBC as a healing process.

More about the speakers: 

Chasity Flores is a professional Dancer/Choreographer, an Arizona State University Alumni. She recieved her BFA in Dance and has been a part of many works at Arizona State University and throughout her community of Arizona. Since she and her twin sister, Destiny Flores (aka Ave Marcello of The Sintrics;local Arizona Rock Band)were young girls they would sing in beauty pageants together and at many event as well as performing songs in ASL (American Sign Language).She has been performing since she could walk, she started out a beauty pageant baby, young philanthropist for the cool hand club foundation, competitive cheer and was featured on ESPN with her pop-warner cheer-team, the boilermakers, Fiesta bowl runner up for Best soloist 2014, and 10 years of teaching experience from learning centers , group homes,studios, interships, and her true passion for dance. She is a trauma informed artist and facilitator. She choreographed a duet called Fallen Robin that was showcased in the spring 2016 undergraduate show at ASU as well as a Solo titled Shhh...eets and the bed along with it presented in the spring showcase of 2016.She has danced in works by artists around the valleywith artists such as Jenny Gerena, Ricardo Alvarez,and Molly Schenck.

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Haley Nielsen is the costume designer for Understanding Otherness. She has an undergraduate degree in art from ASU and a Masters in Design from Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Her focus areas are folk costume, natural dye and the dialogue between body and culture.

Producing Company Bio: Grey Box Collective (GBC) devises interdisciplinary, experimental, and post-dramatic work about social and emotional wellbeing (i.e. we make weird art about tough stuff). GBC finds innovative ways of exploring, challenging, and igniting difficult conversations. This is achieved by living in the messy grey areas of life and tackling socially relevant topics such as hate, shame, sexual violence, depression, and anxiety. GBC was founded in 2016 by Molly W. Schenck. Since then, GBC has produced over 20 new works, created by nearly 100 artists, and partnered with a dozen local organizations. GBC has presented work at the Boulder Fringe Festival, the Network of Ensemble Theaters’ annual conference, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and at the Phoenix Center of the Arts while in residency with nue[BOX].  In response to the pandemic, GBC expanded it’s digital offerings by hosting virtual workshops on Trauma-Informed Creative Practices, opening an online store with devising tools, and launching a podcast. For more information, sign up for GBC’s newsletter, check out GBC’s website, and follow GBC on social media.

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This episode was edited by Rayshawn Watkins

Theme music Fox Williams 

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