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.

What is your vision for Boulder over the next 20 years? What community issues are most important to you? What community assets are unseen or underutilized in the Boulder Valley that could support our shared future? Do you want to feel seen and heard by policy writers for the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan?

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

The city of Boulder is developing the next Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan (BVCP) to set priorities and goals for the future and the BVCP writers want to hear from YOU! Motus Playback Theater is here to help you express what you feel will build “A Boulder Future.” By sharing our stories we can influence the direction of Boulder for the next 20 years!

What is your vision for Boulder over the next 20 years? What community issues are most important to you? What community assets are unseen or underutilized in the Boulder Valley that could support our shared future? Do you want to feel seen and heard by policy writers for the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan?

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

The city of Boulder is developing the next Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan (BVCP) to set priorities and goals for the future and the BVCP writers want to hear from YOU! Motus Playback Theater is here to help you express what you feel will build “A Boulder Future.” By sharing our stories we can influence the direction of Boulder for the next 20 years!

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).