Join violinist Anthony Salvo and Motus Theater’s founding executive artistic director Kirsten Wilson for an opportunity to rest deeply in ourselves in a field of shared blessing. Entering into the holidays and a month after a tumultuous election, we are each holding diverse experiences of personal and political vulnerability, and negotiating what it is to be a human being at this time. Motus offers our community a candlelight event to help us rest in our hearts within a tranquil experience of melodious beauty. It is a sweet and tender holiday concert. Perfect for relaxation, reflection, and aligning your spirit with your truest intentions. 

We are each holding diverse experiences of personal and political vulnerability, and negotiating what it is to be a human being at this time. Over a month after the election and entering into the holidays, we have an opportunity to come together as neighbors and share stories from our lives. Then, Colorado’s most diverse Playback improv theater troupe, Motus Playback Theater, will reenact our stories on the spot. Join us and share your biggest questions, quirky reflections or stories. Whether your reflection is joyful, fearful or fantastic Motus Playback will play your experience back to you with a musical underscore from Adolfo Romero.  The performance will be followed by community tea and cookies. 

Rocks Karma Arrows is a film of Motus Theater’s multimedia contemporary theater piece of the same name that explores Boulder history through the lens of race and class. Historical figures, like the great Chief Niwot (Nowoo3, pronounced “Na-waath”), come alive to tell the story of the early founding of Boulder and the massacre at Sand Creek. Interviews with local historians and Buddhist monks are woven with historical photographs and film into the drama. At times the photographic images completely take over 180° of the theatrical space so that actors are literally immersed in the history – interacting with the photos, struggling with the voices of the past, and trying to understand how those voices echo in the present. 

Doors open for tea and cookies reception at 6:30p.m. followed by a 7p.m. performance of Motus Theater's TRANSformative Stories monologues for the Boulder Library’s Civic Dialogue series. In this special performance, transgender and nonbinary leaders perform artfully crafted personal stories about their hopes, dreams, and experiences of negotiating oppression and liberation, with live musical underscore. Colorado’s most diverse improv troupe, Motus Playback Theater, will then support the audience to reflect together on gender and reenact reflections on the spot. Regardless of your ideas about legislation focused on transgender & nonbinary people, come together for tea, cookies, and community to hear stories from your transgender & nonbinary neighbors so we all know more about the people impacted by anti-transgender legislation.

Doors open for tea and cookies reception at 6:30p.m. followed by a 7p.m. performance of Motus Theater's UndocuAmerica monologues for the Boulder Library’s Civic Dialogue series. In this special performance, immigrants with DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) perform artfully crafted personal stories about their lives, with a musical underscore. Colorado’s most diverse improv troupe, Motus Playback Theater, will then support the audience to reflect together on the experience of listening to the stories, and reenact reflections on the spot. Regardless of your ideas about immigration policy, come together for tea, cookies and community to hear stories from your undocumented neighbors so we all know more about the people impacted by these policies.

Featuring Motus Theater UndocuAmerica monologists Laura Peniche, Alejandro Fuentes Mena and Cristian Solano-Córdova. Featuring music from acclaimed violinist Anthony Salvo (he/him). 

Doors open for reception with tea and cookies at 6:30 pm. Performance starts at 7 pm.

Registration is recommended for email reminders and to hold a seat until 6:50 pm. Walk-ins are welcome, but seating is limited. After 6:45 pm,. entry only through the Canyon entrance (north side).

Who knew a discussion about the future of Boulder could be so fun? Bring your vision of Boulder’s future and watch it unfold on stage through improvisational theater. Your reflections will be brought to life by a diverse group of performers, creating a dynamic, interactive theater experience.

Motus Theater invites you to a special adventure of improvisational theater where you share a short reflection or a story, and then watch professional improv actors enact YOUR story on the spot using movement, music, and dramatic spoken word. 

There is power within our stories and our truths. Join us for an abundant exchange interconnecting our shared humanity through music, story, poetry, and improv theater — all whole helping make Boulder County an even better place to live!

Motus Theater & the Parent Engagement Network (PEN) present TRANSformative Stories, featuring transgender and non-binary leaders performing artfully crafted personal stories about their hopes, dreams, and experiences of negotiating oppression and liberation with live musical accompaniment. Join us to celebrate the humanity, joy, and gifts of gender-diverse leaders who are on the frontlines of dehumanizing rhetoric and policies. Monologists include Rev. Nicole García (she/her), Raye Watson (they/them) and Jahmil Roberts (no pronouns, name only). Featuring music from acclaimed violinist Anthony Salvo (he/him). This performance is sponsored by the Louisville Cultural Council.

Motus Theater presents TRANSformative Stories, featuring transgender and non-binary leaders performing artfully crafted personal stories about their hopes, dreams, and experiences of negotiating oppression and liberation with live musical accompaniment. Join us to celebrate the humanity, joy, and gifts of gender-diverse leaders who are on the frontlines of dehumanizing rhetoric and policies. Monologists include Jahmil Roberts (no pronouns, name only), Ruby Lopez (she/her), and Raye Watson (they/them). Featuring music from acclaimed violinist Anthony Salvo (he/him). This performance is sponsored by the Lafayette Cultural Arts Commission.

Motus Theater invites you to a special adventure of improvisational theater where you share a short reflection or a story, and then watch a diverse group of professional improv actors enact YOUR story on the spot using movement, music, and dramatic spoken word. The stories may be funny or sad; memories from long ago or yesterday. The audience and performers co-create a theater event whose subject is the life experiences of the people attending the show. Join us for an abundant exchange interconnecting our shared humanity through music, story, poetry, and improv theater.

This Motus Music session offers a tranquil experience of melodious beauty within a field of blessing. It is perfect for relaxation, reflection, and aligning your spirit with your truest intentions. There is room for 30 people to lie down and listen and another 90 to sit on a first come first serve basis. So come early if you want to lie down - and don’t forget to bring your yoga mat and blankets! Proceeds go to pay for the violinist, the space, and Motus social justice programs.

In this Motus Theater’s TRANSformative Stories performance, Shauna Brooks (she/her) presents her artfully crafted autobiographical monologue “The HRT with HRT.” Shauna tells her story of how as a Black transgender teenage girl without access to gender-affirming care she had to go to the streets to get the hormones and silicone shots that eased her dysphoria and helped her pass as female to survive transphobic violence. Sixteen years later, she is sharing her experience to call for gender-affirming care for all, because the street treatments that protected her from being killed are now poisoning her body. The performance features music from acclaimed violinist Anthony Salvo (he/him). 

Motus Theater and Redline Contemporary Art Center present a special empowering Motus Queer Immigrant Pride performance with monologues from Motus’ TRANSformative Stories and UndocuAmerica projects by LGBTQIA+ immigrant monologists. This performance features monologues by David Breña (he/him), Cristian Solano-Cordova (he/they) and Ruby Lopez (she/her). This special performance is part of a Motus three part series in June, “There is No Them in U.S.” and is presented at Redlines satellite location at the Evan’s school as part of its 2024 annual exhibition Stories_UnderScored.

Women of Resolution weaves the stories of four Colorado women — Ingrid Encalada Latorre, Sandra Lopez, Rosa Sabido, and Araceli Velasquez —  who took sanctuary to prevent the separation of their families through deportation. Guest readers include: Boulder County Sheriff Curtis Johnson and District Attorney Michael Dougherty. Featuring award-winning photos of Joel Dyer and musician Teresita Lozano. 

Motus Theater and Redline Contemporary Art Center present a special Motus performance with UndocuAmerica monologist Victor Galvan and Motus JustUs monologist, Candice Bailey. They share personal monologues about their experiences of multinational private prison corporations & immigrant detention centers, with music from Colorado’s acclaimed acapella group, Spirit of Grace. The performances featuring guest co-readers: Hassan Latif, Founder and Executive Director of Second Chance Center and Mekela Goehring, Executive Director of the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMIAN). This special performance is part of a Motus three part series in June, “There is No Them in U.S.” and is presented at Redlines satellite location at the Evan’s school as part of its 2024 annual exhibition Stories_UnderScored

Join Motus Theater and Redline Contemporary Arts Center for a special performance of powerful personal stories of undocumented leaders from Motus Theater’s award-winning UndocuAmerica project. Featuring UndocuAmerica monologists Laura Peniche, Tania Chairez, and Alejandro Fuentes-Mena uplifting the assets immigrants bring to our communities and challenging inhumane immigration policies. With special guests from Motus Playback Improv Theater.

Motus Theater’s UndocuAmerica: Reclaiming Our Presence Denver visual art exhibition invites visitors to engage with art that centers undocumented community members’ stories through a wide variety of mediums including photography, illustrations, films, and animations. At a time when people who are undocumented are often demonized as “other” for political gain, the art in this exhibit invites us to look past our differences and find our shared humanity. Regardless of individual beliefs about immigration policy, this project allows visitors to learn more about the impact of these policies on the lives of undocumented families.

Motus Theater & the Longmont Museum present TRANSformative Stories, featuring transgender and non-binary leaders performing artfully crafted personal stories about their hopes, dreams, and experiences of negotiating oppression and liberation with live musical accompaniment. Join together as a community as we celebrate the humanity, joy, and gifts of gender diverse leaders who are on the frontlines of dehumanizing rhetoric and policies. Monologists include Raye Watson (they/them), Ruby Lopez (she/her) and Dr. Morgan Henry Seamont (he/him).

Motus Theater invites you to a special adventure of improvisational theater where you share a short reflection or a story, and then watch a diverse group of professional improv actors enact YOUR story on the spot using movement, music, and dramatic spoken word. The stories may be funny or sad; memories from long ago or yesterday. The audience and performers co-create a theater event whose subject is the life experiences of the people attending the show. Join us for an abundant exchange interconnecting our shared humanity through music, story, poetry, and improv theater.

This Motus Music session offers a tranquil experience of melodious beauty within a field of blessing. It is perfect for relaxation, reflection, and aligning your spirit with your truest intentions. There is room for 30 people to lie down and listen and another 60 to sit on a first come first serve basis. So come early if you want to lie down - and don’t forget to bring your yoga mat and blankets! Proceeds go to pay for the violinist, the space, and Motus social justice programs.

Join Rep. Brianna Titone and Colorado State Legislators to honor International Transgender Day of Visibility through a special performance of Motus Theater’s TRANSformative Stories project sharing artfully crafted autobiographical monologues of transgender and nonbinary people about their experiences of oppression and liberation. Featured monologists include Ruby Lopez (she/her) and Dr. Morgan Henry Seamont (he/him) and music by acclaimed Colorado violinist Anthony Salvo.

In this special presentation from Motus Theater’s TRANSformative Stories project, David Breña (he/him) and Alison Reba (they/them) take center stage to share their stories, define their own lives, revel in their self love, and inspire change. The performance features a musical response from award-winning CU Boulder alum, cellist and composer Nelson Walker (they/them). The performance will be followed by a talkback with the artists.

Motus Theater invites you to a special adventure of improvisational theater where you share a short reflection or a story, and then watch a diverse group of professional improv actors enact YOUR story on the spot using movement, music, and dramatic spoken word. The stories may be funny or sad; memories from long ago or yesterday. The audience and performers co-create a theater event whose subject is the life experiences of the people attending the show. Join us for an abundant exchange interconnecting our shared humanity through music, story, poetry, and improv theater.

This Motus Music session offers a tranquil experience of melodious beauty within a field of blessing. It is perfect for relaxation, reflection, and aligning your spirit with your truest intentions. There is room for 30 people to lie down and listen and another 60 to sit on a first come first serve basis. So come early if you want to lie down - and don’t forget to bring your yoga mat and blankets! Proceeds go to pay for the violinist, the space, and Motus social justice programs.

Motus Theater‘s 2nd Annual “Dr. King Jr. & the Radical Roots at the Heart of Justice.” Special Guests The ReMINDers, Dr. Reiland Rabaka, Norma Johnson and JustUs Monologist Candice Bailey and TRANSformative Stories Monologist Jahmil Roberts 

Motus Theater invites you to a special adventure of improvisational theater where you share a short reflection or a story, and then watch professional improv actors enact YOUR story on the spot using movement, music, and dramatic spoken word.

Saturday, December 9th, 7:00pm

Motus Theater invites you to a special adventure of improvisational theater where you hear Motus JustUs monologist, Terri House, share a personal story about the criminal legal system’s impact on her and her family. Afterward, we will reflect as a community on ways we each have negotiated love, judgment, and systems of harm in our own lives, and then watch as professional improv artists enact OUR stories on the spot. Musician Adolfo Romero will underscore the stories from the audience as we co-create a theater event whose subject is the life experiences of the people attending the show. What’s your story?

Join us for the premiere of Motus Theater’s TRANSformative Stories, featuring transgender and non-binary leaders performing artfully crafted personal stories about their hopes, dreams, and experiences of negotiating oppression and liberation. Join together as a community as we celebrate the humanity, joy, and gifts of gender diverse leaders who are on the frontlines of dehumanizing rhetoric and policies. Two unique performances: join us for one or both of the performances, with half of the monologist group performing at 2pm and the other half at 5pm. 

Motus Theater invites you to a special adventure of improvisational theater where you share a short reflection or a story, and then watch professional improv actors enact YOUR story on the spot using movement, music, and dramatic spoken word.

Saturday, September 30th, 7:00pm

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Join Motus Theater at Christ the Servant Lutheran Church for a performance of Welcoming the Stranger: Stories from Coloradans on the Frontlines of Immigration Policy.  Motus’ UndocuAmerica project monologists will perform powerful personal stories about their experiences on the front lines of immigration policy. Pastor Stephanie Lord will co-read one of the UndocuAmerica monologues to step into the shoes of an immigrant rights leader who is undocumented. Interwoven between each monologue will be a musical response by Elisa Garcia and CTS musical director Dan Graeber.