This performance weaves dance improvisation, stand-up comedy, theatre, and audience interaction, inspiring inner growth from its viewers.
“Love Letters to Humanity“
A Performance of Conscious Dance Theatre
Description of “Love Letters”
This one-woman show weaves Dance Improvisation, Stand-Up Comedy and Theatre to reveal both the struggle and humor on the search for inner peace. From movement poetry to grotesque play, this piece holds satire with compassion in a sincere depiction of the human condition.
Vignettes expose escapism, uncomfortable emotions, and cultural imbalances, with insights for coming back to wholeness.
What people are saying:
Inspiring
Hillarious
Edgy
Self-compassionate
Provocative
Brave
Tender
Wild
Broadway worthy, side-splitting, poignant.
Katie is a brave innovator, an example for others on how to open and be vulnerable on the road to self-love.
Katie’s personal journey from birth to wise woman offered us dynamically bold movement…giving us a felt sense of her experiences and genuine introspection for meaning and love.
Katie’s honest vulnerabilities called us to step into our own
self-reflection.
This performance is a teaching of Embodied Mindfulness – A somatic felt sense of coming home to the whole self… I experienced in this performance that we as a human beings took on layers of protection and falsehood. Katie exposes those layers, peeling them off one by one, to come back to a place of self-compassion.
A movement memoir of self-discovery and social commentary… Like therapy mixed with creative play
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Love Letters offered me instructions to nurture the parts of me that I demonize, the parts that I don’t want to acknowledge or work with.
Katie Wells is a spectacular dancer and performance artist. Dancers like this don’t come around too often—a body that can defy gravity, shoot through space, and float and dig deep in. I also love that Katie is articulate and smart about what she does, where she is going, and what she knows.
Katie Wells, MFA
As a dance artist, director of the Goddess Retreats, part-time professor, mind~body~spirit coach, and founder of Interweave Conscious Movement®, Katie creates embodied experiences that open us to more love. To her, dance is far more than glitzy entertainment, sex appeal, or technical virtuosity, but opens us to what really matters, realms that transform the self and our communities.
With a bachelors from Columbia College Chicago and a masters from the University of Colorado at Boulder, she is trained in many styles of dance and theater, and has performed in dances by Joe Goode, David Dorfman, Shirley Mordine, and Kathleen Hermesdorf. Her performance and teaching have been presented across the USA as well as in Italy, Greece, Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Mexico.
What is Conscious Dance Theatre?
Conscious Dance Theatre is an art form that weaves dance, theatre, improvisation, and audience interaction, to inspire inner growth.
This is a way of experiencing performance. Rather than passive entertainment, the audience is guided into embodied presence. Actions such as rhythmic clapping, mindful breathing, and cheering, raise the collective experience.
Improvisation, a large component, is an artful manifestation of being in the now, requiring a deep listening of the body, the music, the environment, and the intention. The performance culminates in an optional ecstatic dance allowing the audience to put their energy into motion.
