jekkiri, imp#3…or on becoming
solo work in progress
March 2026
Image Credit - Winni Carter
Original and live sound - Pallavi Sriram
Sari and rice starch sculpture - Pallavi Sriram
Lighting - Heidi Eckwall
Technical Production - Paul Martin and Holly Wenger. @cctheatredance
Meet choreographers and artists Yvonne Montoya, Sam Aros-Mitchell, Pallavi Sriram, and Patrizia Herminjard for an intimate open discussion after this evening’s performance (February 28th). We will be joined by student performers and other creatives involved with Of Earth and Error for a unique opportunity to hear more about the questions at the heart of the works within and the processes that shaped them.
All are welcome and encouraged.
📍 Cornerstone 130
⏰ Directly after the performance.
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About the Artists:
Yvonne Montoya, Founder, Safos Dance Theatre
Grounded in the movement aesthetics of the Southwest, her choreography draws from land, water, cultural practices, and embodied memory. What emerges is not a single narrative, but many voices moving together.
Sam Aros-Mitchell, Visiting Performer, Choreographer and Scholar
A Yaqui dance artist enrolled with the Texas Band of Yaqui Indians, Aros-Mitchell performs two works by José Limón, a pioneering Mexican American choreographer who was also of Yaqui heritage.
Patrizia Herminjard, Colorado College Faculty Member in Dance
Patrizia Herminjard describes her work as an exploration of how we are shaped by the environments we move within, both real and imagined.
Pallavi Sriram, Colorado College Faculty Member in Dance
Of Earth and Error is less about presenting a finished statement and more about asking questions. It reflects what can happen when people across campus, our community, and beyond make something together, allowing questions to remain open and inviting audiences to sit with them.
With three days left until opening night, the dancers, choreographers, crew, and artists behind this year’s Dance6 production, Of Earth and Error, are putting the finishing touches on every detail. From full-day rehearsals to last-minute lighting adjustments, this year’s Block 6 culmination performance is coming together beautifully.
Join us for Of Earth and Error, an evening of embodied questions and quiet revelations, where movement traces the fault lines between environment and self.
Featuring choreography by guest artist Yvonne Montoya of Safos Dance Theatre, a guest performance of two solos by José Limón by Yaqui artist and scholar Sam Aros-Mitchell, an original solo piece created and performed by Dance Faculty member Pallavi Sriram, and an original piece choreographed by Dance Faculty member Patrizia Herminjard and performed by CC dance students, Of Earth and Error invites you to experience an evening of dance that celebrates, honors, and explores lineage, legacy, and life.
Of Earth and Error
February 27-28 | 7:30pm
March 1 | 2pm
March 6-7 | 7:30pm
Celeste Theatre | Cornerstone Arts Center
Tickets are free and open to the public.
Please see the link in bio for directions and more.
*Please note that Sam Aros-Mitchell will perform in the first week only (February 27-28 and March 1).
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The Colorado College Department of Theatre & Dance proudly presents its annual Dance6 production, “Of Earth and Error”.
This evening of performance features choreography inspired by the Southwest by guest artist Yvonne Montoya of Safos Dance Theater, two iconic works by pioneering Mexican-American choreographer José Limón, performed by Indigenous performer and scholar Sam Aros-Mitchell, an enrolled member of the Texas Band of Yaqui Indians, and original dance creations by CC faculty Patrizia Herminjard and Pallavi Sriram.
February 27-28 | 7:30pm
March 1 | 2pm
March 6-7 | 7:30pm
Celeste Theatre | Cornerstone Arts Center
Tickets are free and open to the public.
Please see the link in bio for directions and more.
Please note that Sam Aros-Mitchell will perform in the first week only (February 27-28 and March 1).
About Dance6:
Dance6 is the collective term for the courses, workshops, and events that culminate in the Department of Theatre & Dance’s yearly mainstage dance production, performed in Block 6 of the academic year.
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Can’t believe this a year and a half ago. How intense and how joyful. These gorgeous dancer/co-dreamers went all the way in. How vital productive rage is to the worlds we want to create. Concept/Direction - Pallavi Sriram; Lighting Design - the amazing Heidi Eckwall; Costume Design - Maiya Ponsky, guided by Jan Avramov; Inimitable production team led by TD Paul Martin and ATD Holly Wenger. Choreography: Pallavi Sriram with Dancers/Core Team - Ella Boyd Brocker, Zianah Griffin, Keiko Ito, Natalie Logue, Atquetzali Quiroz, Malia Rivera, Lena Saunders, Michelle Solomon, Beth Thompson, Olivia Towlen. Special Mention to Keiko Ito’s contribution of the dakkini and how that led to our imagining of ‘skygoers’ <3
I am so late sharing I’m *almost* embarrassed. But there was truly so so much beauty in Jo-Burg and Cape Town (was there July ‘24) that I’ve found it hard to digest and share. Here are some snippets from various moments. From @zeitzmocaa , work from @athipatra and more. More coming from @foundation_jcaf , Joburg and more amazing artists, now acquaintances.
Yoooo. Look at what arrived on my doorstep yday?! Dance History(s): Imagination as a Form of Study edited by Tommy DeFrantz and Annie B Parson and rockstar contributors. The other book is Radical Solidarities, amazing artists reader from Zeitz Mocaa out of their radical solidarities summit 2020. Picked it up on my travel to SA July. I can’t tell you how legitimately excited I am for upcoming teaching and my own work. Let’s gooooooo.
I just restarted a very quiet daily yoga practice with Krishnamacharya yoga mandiram. I have a couple thoughts. I was doing it regularly last year. But with a tumultuous first half of the year, I paused. Coming into the second half of the year, along with the intentions I have for myself, I restarted as a ground setting. I’ve always had trouble with yoga. I tried a bit when I was in my teens, went with my grandma and was profoundly impatient, we just breathed. I’ve tried since then and am too hyperactive in my brain. In the US, I was too annoyed with the way it was practiced and everything surrounding it (though I did find some wonderful moments in specific Iyengar classes, it was still not for me). This KYM class is very simple and I’d still get restless.
Today I realized something. Weirdly, I always have trouble breathing out. My out breath is shallow and far shorter than breathing in. I was instructed as usual to let me abdomen sink. And it seems so simple but for the first time I realized how much tension I was actually producing, tightening (and thus raising) my abdomen muscles at the bottom of my breath telling myself release release, and then gasping for breath in between! Somehow I found a moment of actual sinking in today. It was so gentle and I could perhaps empty forever. Filling is so easy for me, emptying was so hard. But also the key to the whole thing and possibly even more vital. I feel sharpened like steel. I feel it in my eyeballs and in the quiet in the small of my back. A quiet that is entirely ready to attack simply by making available to me the entire force of my being (the universe) into pin point presence in front of me in less than a second. With simplicity, without malice, without even fire. But with the cool of air.
Anyways… let’s see. Till then, learning to empty.
