"Eternal return is the promise of the snake."

-Craig S. Barnes

What stories have shaped our collective consciousness, our world? What new stories can we tell that will uphold and protect the sanctity of all life?

Invaders of the Heart: The Return is a touring multimedia dance theater production from renowned choreographer and director Myra Krien, featuring the Mosaic Dance Company, the Starbelly Dancers, Drake von Trapp, and Kamrah. By exploring sacred symbols of rebirth, renewal, ecstasy, and our inextricable interconnectedness with the natural world, The Return looks to the past as a touchstone for examining our present and building our collective future. With prominent artist Michael Bergt's paintings as a striking backdrop for the dance, this collaboration is both visually stunning and powerfully prescient for these times.

Not able to make any of the live performances, or want to see the show again? Purchase the full-length recording of The Return below. All proceeds help support the tour!

About the Director

Myra Krien is the founder and director of Pomegranate Studios, a Santa Fe-based dance school and performing arts organization dedicated to education and community outreach.

The 2019 recipient of the Santa Fe Mayor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, Krien is an award-winning dance artist, professional dance mentor, and international performer, choreographer and instructor of MENAHT (Middle Eastern, North African, Hellenistic and Turkish) dance forms.

About the Artist

Michael Bergt (b.1956) is a figurative artist whose work has been in a deep dialogue with art history over the course of his more than forty-year career. Working across drawing, sculpture, and primarily egg tempera painting, Bergt currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

He has had major exhibitions in New York, San Francisco and Santa Fe. Bergt has works in the permanent collection of: The Arnot Museum, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Crystal Bridges Museum, Currier Museum, Evansville Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco—de Young Museum, Frye Art Museum, Kalamazoo, Museum.

His works can be seen at michaelbergtart.com.

Are you a dancer interested in performing in

Invaders of the Heart: The Return?

Select opportunities are available for intermediate-advanced level dancers.

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Propulsion

May 11–12, Milton Keynes

May 11, 10am – 12pm: Cave Goblin Fusion

Known for his propensity for moving like a cave goblin who learned to belly dance, Drake teaches the fundamentals of his unique “cave goblin” grunge style of fusion. This class will explore counterintuitive movement pathways, creative floorwork, and body conditioning to unlock the goblin within. Alternative movement options will be offered to floor work.

3:30pm - 5:30pm: Stage Presence

In this workshop, we explore how to reconcile with inner conflicts to be our most authentic and vulnerable onstage. Movement and intellectual exercises will be led to help identify sources of presence, develop a relationship with the audience, and practice self-forgiveness. This workshop is a hybrid of lecture and movement.

May 12th, 9:30am – 11:30am - Fragile Like a Bomb

Dynamism and contrast are essential to creating visual texture in a performance. Using a variety of combinations, this workshop explores the juxtaposition of sinuous, grounded belly dance technique with explosive, high-impact movement qualities.

Gothla France

Apil 26–28, Aix en Provence

April 27, 14h – 16h : Spectral Embrace

We will expand your improvisation skills and dance tool belt by using celestial bodies to inspire movement. This workshop will include guided improv exercises, movement scores, and creativity mining techniques to inspire the imagination.

April 28, 15h – 17h: Muscle Micromanagement - Layering & Isolation

This class will help students refine their mind-body awareness to create complex, complimentary layered movements. We will explore muscle cueing and resistance-assisted techniques, so resistance bands or something comparable are recommended.

17h-18h: - History of Fusion Bellydance Lecture

This short lecture will provide a brief overview f the history of fusion belly dance, along with a discussion regarding topical concerns in the fusion belly dance community, such as cultural appropriation, integrity, and ethics.