Laurel facilitates the collaborative devising of dance and theater work with large community groups.
These inquiry-based processes engage with social justice themes like the Prison Industrial Complex and mass incarceration in the United States,
or corporate financial irresponsibility and the oppressive nature of 21st century labor practices.
or corporate financial irresponsibility and the oppressive nature of 21st century labor practices.
TRUTH BE TOLD
Collaboratively created by the men of the Resolve to Stop the Violence program at San Francisco Jail #5
and the youth of the Young Artists at Work program at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Directed by Laurel Butler. Co-facilitated by Laurel Butler and Kaela Terreson.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum Theater
San Francisco CA, April 2014
Collaboratively created by the men of the Resolve to Stop the Violence program at San Francisco Jail #5
and the youth of the Young Artists at Work program at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Directed by Laurel Butler. Co-facilitated by Laurel Butler and Kaela Terreson.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum Theater
San Francisco CA, April 2014
CELLHOUSE DANCE
Co-choreographed by Laurel Butler, Lauren Dietrich-Chavez, Amie Dowling and Ava Roy
We Players on Alcatraz, October 2011.
Co-choreographed by Laurel Butler, Lauren Dietrich-Chavez, Amie Dowling and Ava Roy
We Players on Alcatraz, October 2011.
THE GREAT NEGOCIO
University of New Mexico Theater X
Directed and choreographed by Laurel Butler
Winner: Best Choreography and Best Original Script
Albuquerque NM, 2010
University of New Mexico Theater X
Directed and choreographed by Laurel Butler
Winner: Best Choreography and Best Original Script
Albuquerque NM, 2010
Laurel's guest blog post for the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley about embodiment in activism and public protest.
