Artist-in-Residence: Conie Borchardt
Rosy Simas Danse welcomes back artist-in-residence in three thirty-one space Conie Borchardt with explorations of Songs In My Body On This Land.
Conie Borchardt is a Mixed Asian Public Heart Artist and Cultural Catalyst, a listener and vibration holding space for truth, pain, and delight while inviting expression in sound, movement, and color within themselves and in others. With skills of being a spiritual companion, community song and circle dance leader, ritual co-creator, vocal coach, and self-taught visual artist and interests in embodied, transformative change in individuals and communities, Conie weaves these together to create new culture. A couple of ways they are doing this is developing “Freeing Refrains,” an auto-biographical song circle, to foster conversation around what binds and liberates us, and “Biracial & Rural,” an arts-centered community of care and storytelling space for folks who connect with that experience, currently or in the past. Born to new and old immigrant farmers from Asia and Europe before the internet on the rural plains of Mni’sota, Conie currently lives near B’dote, the Dakota word for "Where Two Rivers Meet", the confluence of the Mni’sota and Misi-ziibi Rivers, in the settler place known as St. Paul, MN.
