The River Flows

Mon -Fri, May 16-20, 2022, 10AM-11:30AM

Join Sam for M.B. or Mind/Body, Muscle/Bone training for artists, dancers, actors, writers, directors, designers and scholars.

MB was created by artist Min Tanaka as a spatial preparation for performance. Sam will continue in that tradition, preparing for the showing of Entering Aniam. The session promises to be fast paced, physically rigorous and structured to create an expansion of the external body in space.

Health & Safety: Participants are required to show a full course of COVID-19 vaccinations administered at least 14 days prior to the workshop. Photos of the necessary documents are acceptable as proof of vaccination. Masks must be worn in the space. Extra masks will be available upon request at the entrance.

Sam Aros Mitchell (he/him/his) is an enrolled member with the Texas Band of Yaqui Indians. He is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Arizona State University, working with Akimel O'odham poet Natalie Diaz and Lumbee scholar, Bryan Brayboy.

As an actor, Sam has performed with Toot Performance in the film The Premise of Gripping the Wall When You’re Upset. Sam has also appeared in the audio play, Tawa's Rising by Jaren Navenma (Hopi/Tuscarora) for New Native Theatre’s National Native American 10-Minute Play Festival.

As a dancer, Sam appeared in Rosy Simas short film,yödoishëndahgwa'geh. More recently, Sam performed as a dancer/musician in a public performance titled In The River, in the Twin Cities, conceived by artist, Karthik Pandian. Sam is happy to return back to the Twin Cities from Arizona, where he performed a dance solo at The Artivist Festival, hosted by ASU Dance majors.

Sam’s publishing company, Aros and Son Publishing, published a collection of poetry titled, Longview Road, written by Yaqui poet and writer, Manny Monolin. Sam has a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from the joint doctoral program at UC San Diego/UC Irvine.