The 5th Annual, virtual Practice Progress UNtensive
In Partnership with ARCOS Dance and Garden
Friday June 20th through Sunday June 22nd, 

10am-12pm (virtual playground open till 3:30pm PST)

1pm-3pm (virtual playground open until 6:30pm EST) 7pm-9pm (virtual playground open until12:30am CET)

5 years into the pandemic, and 5 years since the 2020 Uprising for Black Lives, the UNtensive marks 5 years of resistance.

Offered in the midst of defunding DEI by a violent federal administration, UNtensive organizers are unshaken. This year’s UNtensive is organized around the theme of Making T I M E, which is an invitation to refuse urgent reactivity and turn towards the brilliance of ancestors and contemporaries whose resistance work has already mapped the course. 

Each day of the UNtensive is broken into two parts. The first half of the day includes the UNtensive mainstay, Embodied Anti-Racisting, which takes place in race-based affinity groups. Hazelwood facilitates the BIPOC Circle, a radical creative gathering for purging, dreaming, and care. Ashkin facilitates the White Working Group, which uses nervous system practice to disrupt our embodied white supremacy.

The second half of the day celebrates the contributions of renowned guest artists who have guided the UNtensive over the last five years. Participants can explore audio, video and written materials from these artists embedded throughout the virtual space. UNtensive participants are invited to engage with the content however they choose, while Making T I M E together.  

The UNtensive has featured an impressive list of guest artists: Alice Sheppard, Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Haruna Lee, Irvin Gonzalez, Alfonso Cervera, Rajni Shah, Antoine Hunter, Zahna Simon, Bernard Brown, Andrew Suseno, Miles Tokunow, Ehren Kee Natay, Cheyenne Dunbar, Sydney Rogers aka Miss BarbieQ, Rebecca Fitton, Alex Christmas, and Keegan Sarimiento Kloer. 

More details and registration may be found at ARCOS’ website (arcosdance.com).