Arneshia Williams is a weaver and mover who co-builds to create cultures of belonging from community to community. She views her artwork as snapshots into the social, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of life. She is interested in dance, vocality, sound, and media, and is particularly invested in Black American and African Diasporic forms of expression.

Valerie Oliveiro is a dance and performance maker based in the Twin Cities and from Singapore. While they currently engage movement as their primary motor for expression, they also engage in other expressions, such as design, writing, drawing, and photography, as generative, complexly relational proposals.

Taja Will (they/them) is a queer, chronically ill, Latinx (Chilean) adoptee, performer, choreographer, somatic therapist, and Healing Justice practitioner based in Mni Sota Makoce, on the ancestral lands of the Dakota and Anishinaabe.

Leila Awadallah ليلى عوض الله (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker based in Minneapolis and partly in Beirut, Lebanon. Dancing with a body of Palestinian, Arab-American, Sicilian, and diasporic Mediterranean ways and waves.

Rosy Simas Danse (RSD) gives a warmest welcome to Masanari Kawahara 川原正也 as artist in residence January 15- January 29, 2022.

Masanari Kawahara 川原正也 is a Butoh doer, theatre artist, puppeteer, and teaching artist. Please refer to welovemasa.com for a list of his past and present works. Masanari is a resident teaching artist and Director of the Naked Stages program at Pillsbury House + Theatre.

During this residency, Masanari will be working with his collaborer Sho Nikaido.

Sho Nikaido is a Japanese musician. He has played in various bands for over two decades in the Twin Cities music scene. Also, he composes the soundtrack for film and stage performances. welovemasa.com

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.

Rosy Simas Danse (RSD) is excited to welcome Sequoia Hauck for their first three thirty one space residency October 24-November 5, 2022!

Sequoia Hauck is a Native (Anishinaabe/Hupa) queer multidisciplinary artist based in the Twin Cities on the stolen and ancestral Dakota lands of the Wahpeton, Mdewakantonwon, Wahpekute, and Sisseton peoples. Sequoia's focus is on creating theater, film, poetry, and performance art that decolonizes the process of art-making. They make art surrounding the narratives of continuation and resiliency among their communities. They are a graduate from the University of Minnesota -Twin Cities with a B.A. in American Indian Studies. Sequoia has worked on and offstage with organizations such as Aniccha Arts, Art Shanty Projects, Exposed Brick Theatre, The Jungle Theater, Māoriland, An Opera Theatre (AOT), Pangea World Theater, Patrick's Cabaret, Poetry and Pie, The Southern Theater, and Turtle Theater Collective. Sequoia recently co-directed a documentary, “Never Turn Your Back to the Wave: The Travis Jordan Story'' which was in the 2021 Mpls-St. Paul International Film Festival. www.sequoiahauck.com

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.

A conversation focusing on dancing and resisting from the margins of the field, moving inwards. We will unpack frictions, power-dynamics, failures, experiences and talk about our wellness and new approaches as we root and dream from the margins.

Rosy Simas Danse (RSD) welcomes artist-in-residence in three thirty-one space Nick Daniels November 1-14, 2021.

Considered to be a Pittsburgh pioneer in exploring race and sexual identity, Nick M. Daniels is the founding Artistic Director of the D.A.N.A. Movement Ensemble (Dancers Against Normal Actions) which he started in 1991. With over 30 years of dance and choreography experience, he has reemerged after a 20+year hiatus. Since returning in 2016 his choreographic style continuously has developed. His style is based on butoh, African, modern and contemporary styles based on pure raw emotion. His creativity often entices the use of self realized soundscapes and video imagery.His dance career began at a young age, as a student in McKeesport High School where he began developing and perfecting various styles of dance. The now Pittsburgh resident has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance from Slippery Rock University and started the DANA Movement Ensemble prior to graduation. Along with his Company he has received many awards, accolades and favorable reviews across the country and internationally.

Rosy Simas Danse welcomes Pedra Pepa as our next artist in residence in the three thirty one space.

Pedro Pablo is a Caracas born, Minneapolis based queer performance maker. They are the founder/director of Viva la Pepa, generating collective, unapologetic performances crossing multiple mediums; sourcing from the overlapping values of Latinx and Queer cultures: passion, melodrama, decadence & sensuality. An inaugural Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Pedro is a teaching artist with the Pillsbury House Theatre and Upstream Arts. They are on an ongoing transnational collaboration with Argentinian choreographer Celia Argüello. Their most current research in the US, Contained, Alive has taken many shapes over the past year and will be performed next July 2021. During the day, Pedro co-creates children and family theater programming, and at night Pedro entertains adults as their draglesque persona Doña Pepa.

Oogie_Push is from the Meskwaki Nation near Tama Iowa. She started dancing Fancy Shawl as soon as she could walk and grew up competing on the Pow-wow Trail. She and her relatives started doing dance performances and sharing Meskwaki culture with students in schools around Iowa. She performed in these dance presentations from 4th grade all the way through undergrad teaching people about Pow-wow and Meskwaki culture plus some Native history. Oogie found herself in undergrad at Haskell Indian Nations University, studying American Indian Studies with an emphasis in Theatre. From there she then graduated from University of Missouri-Kansas City with a MFA in Theatre Design & Technology. She has alway been on a mission to educate people about Native culture and issues through dance and theatre as well as challenge stereotypes about who Native people could be on stage. Since the pandemic, the uprising after the murder of George Floyd, and everything else she has spent 2021 incorporating healing elements into all the work she does. She plans to continue doing so for the foreseeable future. She is currently developing a one woman show with Full Circle Theater that she plans to tour next year, if not sooner. She will include song, dance, storytelling, utilizing Meskwaki spirituality, personal experience, and healing techniques she has learned throughout her adult life. She is also helping to devise a slapstick comedy touring show called Arla Mae's Booyah Wagon with Sod House Theatre which will also include song and dance, with talks of including Fancy Shawl dancing.