Artist-in-Residence: Marcela Michelle
Rosy Simas Danse (RSD) welcomes to Marcela Michelle as our next artist in residence in the three thirty one space December 5th-22nd, 2022.
Marcela Michelle is a transdisciplinary artist, educator, facilitator, and producer living and working primarily on the occupied and ancestral Dakota land colonially known as the Twin Cities. She is the former Artistic Director of 20% Theatre Company and is currently the Executive Artistic Director of Lightning Rod - a QTPOC-led arts organization focused on legacy, development, and opportunity for QTGNC Artists and Activists. Marcela's work frequently deals with the simultaneity of being and the malleability of identities, informed in part by her ever-shifting childhood growing up in Texas, her foster care experiences in the midwest, her Afro-indigenous Chicanx heritage, and her queer transgender being. Marcela's work spans genres and disciplines, touching theatre, dance, music, design, cabaret, burlesque, culinary arts, and performance art. Her practice is meditative, repetitive, literary, architectural, and spherical, usually devising work after deep periods of ongoing research. She is a 2019 Mentee of the National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation (Pangea World Theater, Art2Action) and a member of Actor's Equity. Marcela is grateful to have recently worked with Emily Gastineau (PRRRRRR {Hot Theory}, MOVO Space), Valerie Oliveiro (Soft Freedoms, Cowles Center for Dance), Wanderlust Productions (Lost and Found, Raspberry Island), Walker Art Center (Choreographer’s Evening 2021), Rough Magic Performance Company (Anne Carson’s Norma Jean Baker of Troy, The Train Shed; The Tempest Project Podcast), 20% Theatre Company + Lightning Rod (Brujeria for Beginners by Keila Anali Saucedo, Mixed Blood Theater), and Hope Communities (TRCSTR Cohort 2022, Dreamsland). Upcoming projects include Maddie Granlund’s By the Glimmer of a Half-Extinguished Light in February, and Alexandra Bodnarchuck’s Rock, Paper, Scissors in March, both at the Southern Theater.