Vince Chavez

We are deeply grateful for our CSUSM residency, performance, and the opportunity to share “Stories from Home” with the San Marcos community. Connection, conversation, and creation are three words that sum up our time in this beautiful place. 🤍 Thank you @csusm_artsandlectures for inviting us us to share “Stories from Home” with you all. We left feeling full and inspired ✨ 🧑‍🩰: Ruby Morales, Vincent Chavez, Angela Bass ❤️🙏: @don.te.peaches @movedasoul 🎨: Megan Neese #StoriesfromHome #ymontoydance #safosdance

✨ Stories From Home goes to San Marcos, CA ✨ How does dance and movement bring us closer to an understanding of a shared humanity? How does storytelling affirm our livelihood? May we continue to make art, spend intentional time with one another, and share our embodied histories. . . . Stories From Home, a @safosdance and @ymontoyadance project.

“It’s true. I might never finish anything. But I am telling you now the beat down ends here and now, in front of you, and with your help of course.” 💭 excerpt from Robert Moses’ 2016 program notes One of Robert’s many unfinished notions in which the vignette experienced by the audience was only a fraction of the ideas bubbling within...  Video: Hien Huynh, Vincent Chavez, and Katherine Disenhof in “21 Fully Realized Incomplete Thoughts” (2016)

30 years of work. 30 years of questions. 30 years of ideas returning, evolving, reshaping themselves as the world changes. The conversation isn’t over. Join us in writing what comes next. Link in bio to support our work! Video: Amy Foley and Nick Korkos in a 2009 rehearsal; Cora Cliburn with Samuel Melecio-Zambrano and Vincent Chavez in a 2019 rehearsal.

Three decades of making, remaking, and responding. The work has never lived alone—it has lived alongside history, culture, conflict, joy, grief, and change. Some pieces hold answers. Most hold questions. Many still hold unfinished thoughts. Your support helps those ideas continue to grow into the next 30 years and beyond. Click the link in our bio to make a year-end donation today! Pictured: Robert Moses and Katie Ibarra, Company Dancers, Ramon Ramos Alayo and Raissa Simpson by RJ Muna, Natasha Adorlee and Brendan Barthel by RJ Muna, Company Dancers by Steve Disenhof, Norma Fong and Crystaldawn Bell by Steve Disenhof, Emily Hansel and Vincent Chavez by Jim Coleman, Jenelle Gaerlan and Vincent Chavez by Steve Disenhof.

It’s ✨GivingTuesday✨ Would you like to make a meaningful impact on the Arizona and Southwest dance communities? In the spirit of giving, we’re asking for a donation of any size to support the work of our projects Stories from Home and Dance in the Desert. Donations accepted through Paypal Giving Fund! LINK IN OUR BIO!! All donations to Safos Dance Theatre are tax-deductible, offering you a chance to give back while enjoying potential tax advantages. You can also support Safos Dance Theatre by: 🌀 Sharing our work with your family & friends 🔁 Resharing our posts on Instagram & Facebook 🌵 Visiting our website to learn more about our mission & upcoming projects 🛒If you live in Arizona and shop at Frys, register your Frys VIP card to our non-profit through their Community Rewards Program. Ask us how! Together, let’s uplift Southwest-based dance artists this #GivingTuesday. 💃🌄 Graphic Design: Baylie MacRae 👩‍🎨 Costume Designer: Mary Leopo 👗 Dancer: Ruby Morales 💃🏼 Photographer: Estefania Mitre 📸 Artistic Director: Yvonne Montoya 🧠 #safosdance #StoriesfromHome #DanceintheDesert #Donation #Giving #Dance #Southwest #Dancers #Project #Arizona #Artist #Choreographer #Tucson #Phoenix

Final weekend to watch! Visit the link in our bio to watch Robert Moses’ 2024 work “The Little Book of Parental Losses”, part of an unfinished triptych that includes “Fugitive Literacies” (2023). Music by Robert Moses. #ARAA #RobertMosesKIN

Reminder: Saturday workshops start this weekend! Join Robert Moses at @odcsf for “The Evolution of Inexpressible Ideas”. This two-part workshop series offers dancers a unique and comprehensive exploration of the creative process. Each 3-hour session will begin with a warm-up and quickly progress into a deep dive into instinctual processing. These workshops will focus on technical and artistic exploration, integrating diverse approaches to evolve your skill and contextual construction. WORKSHOP SESSIONS: Saturday, November 1, 2:30-5:30pm Saturday, November 8, 2:30-5:30pm *workshops can be taken individually or as a series Register at the link in our bio.

In “Fugitive Literacies” bodies gather like ideas in the mind—resisting silence together. Final week to watch! Our October #ARAA offerings include Robert Moses’ 2023 work “Fugitive Literacies”. Part of an unfinished triptych that includes “The Little Book of Parental Losses” (2024), this piece is an examination of censorship, book banning, and the deliberate suppression of voices, individual thought, and information. Click the link in our bio for access! #ARAA #robertmoseskin

In a fantasy, these two ideas come together in this duet performed by Z Jackson & Vincent Chavez. Available to watch now! Our October #ARAA offerings include Robert Moses’ 2023 work “Fugitive Literacies”. Part of an unfinished triptych that includes “The Little Book of Parental Losses” (2024), this piece is an examination of censorship, book banning, and the deliberate suppression of voices and information. Click the link in our bio for access! Music by Robert Moses #ARAA #robertmoseskin

Available to watch now! Our October #ARAA offerings include Robert Moses’ 2023 work “Fugitive Literacies”. Part of an unfinished triptych that includes “The Little Book of Parental Losses” (2024), this piece is an examination of censorship, book banning, and the deliberate suppression of voices and information. Add it to your weekend watch list 📺 Click the link in our bio for access! Photos by Steve Disenhof