WHO IS our NatureMoves COMMUNITY?
YOU…..and ALL human and other than human
BEINGS in your environment are our COMMUNITY!
NatureMoves is committed to honoring, empowering and dancing with the vast diversity of beings we intimately encounter everyday — both inside and outside of this physical “boundary” we often call our BODY.
As we experience NATURE with our BODY, it is our EARTH is our ART is our LIFE is our LANDSCAPE is our BEAUTY is our TRUTH is our COMMUNITY. 
NatureMoves provides a way for people of all ages, abilities, and cultural backgrounds to engage in an intimate exploration of their relationship with nature through simple, authentic arts and movement.
We see moving artfully with nature as an essential avenue of inspiration, participation and communication that can make nature conservation a more broadly accessible and compelling way of life for all people. Through moving arts, everyBody can fall deeply in love with the nature with which we are inextricably bound!
NatureMoves body of work has inspired thousands of people over the years and we have developed a dedicated –yet limited in demography– participant network.
This new website is part of our work to significantly increase the number and diversity of our cultural and biological network, with specific emphasis on building participation of more younger and ethnically diverse artists with more species, nature sites and landscapes.
We also engage in outreach efforts at Naropa University and CU Boulder Dance and Environmental Studies Programs to reach young artists and passionate future leaders and facilitators in this field.
In our lineage, inspired by Anna Halprin‘s life long work with nature-based dance making; our in-depth creative work with natural landscapes emphasizes site-specific, strongly intentional dance “scores” or “rituals” created and witnessed primarily by event participants.
Our foundation program; the “Embodied Arts Training (EAT)” is offered annually as a 5 day residential training at our home dance studio on 15+ wild acres in the Rocky Mt. Foothills near Boulder, CO.
Over these 30 years since our inception, many members and leaders in our local dance and nature conservation community have been welcomed here for our ongoing celebrations, retreats, performances and workshops. We make a point to GATHER with COMMUNITY to celebrate Solstices, Equinoxes, full and new moons and other nature-based festival days. 
For more than 25 years, we have produced the “WilderDance Retreat (WDR).” A small group of people travel to a backcountry hut for a 3 to 5 day adventure of creating site-specific dance “scores” or rituals. These rituals, or “dances with a purpose,” are deeply personal, intimate and witnessed only by other workshop participants. The high altitude (normally 11K feet) and back country nature of the WDR means dancer participants must be well-prepared for rugged outdoor conditions.
In 2019 we initiated our first 9 month NatureMoves facilitator training program called “Dancing on the Edge (DOE);” as it is time for a new generation of diverse and youthful artists to prepare to carry on our work, programs and lineages. 
NatureMoves views art and dance as expressions directly emanating from the life of a person or community. The dances are an enactment or participatory event, much like a ritual or festival of an indigenous community. Movement activities are inspired by natural elements in selected locations — rocks, trees, water, weather, fallen logs, and open spaces.
Like many organizations committed to “conservation of nature,” we realize that it is essential to expand the reach of our participants and supporters to include young, urban and diverse people.
Conservation of nature must not remain the province of an older, white and affluent population. We are committed that NatureMoves directly contributes to an expanding global nature conservation movement.
We are working to build our minimal administrative capacity, including social media, up-dating website, and up-dating current contact data base.
We are seeking to add people who represent this expanded youth and culturally diverse demographic to our small board of directors. Please be in touch if you would like to nominate yourself or anyone. Thank you! 