Raw Groove Presents…
Lead by Constance Harris and Taylor Madgett
Spring 2025
Raw Groove Presents… is a live performance and party series bringing together some of Denver’s most vibrant artists, dancers, DJs and musicians. This event, hosted by up-and-coming Denver based fusion dance collective Raw Groove, celebrates the creativity, resilience, and power of art from the Black Diaspora, offering an unforgettable experience where music, dance, history, and togetherness converge.
Rooted in the nightlife traditions of the Black Diaspora, Raw Groove Presents… invites you to join a journey that honors the lineage of timeless steps and rhythms through a reimagined lens. Each evening promises a curated lineup of live music, DJ sets, mesmerizing performances, line dancing, and an after party—all set to soundtracks ranging from Funk to House to Afrobeats. Each component of the night is designed to connect you more deeply with the soul of each highlighted music and dance genre.
Led by George Delaney and stevie gunter
Spring 2025
Field Trip is a centering of the Mad, Queer, Disobedient, and Fugitives of Denver’s iconic artery: Colfax Avenue. Serving as a living archive of East Colfax, Field Trip gathers together a glittering body of transdisciplinary artists to create a constantly evolving experience where audience members become entrenched in the world of the Mad and Colfax as a site of the voices discarded by domesticated culture to roar. Field Trip exists as and highlights the connective tissue of East Colfax and how all of Denver’s lives are intertwined and implicated within it.
Brought together by our shared home “Denver, CO”, we - collaborators and audience alike - engage our distinct and collective bodies through movement. We know the movement of our bodies is anything but separate from the political movement these times are desperately yelling and crying for.
Breathing Healing Bus
Led by Cinnamon Kills First, Kaden Walks Nice, Patrick Mueller, Laurie Rugenstein, Bill Tall Bull, Kristine Whittle Summer 2025
We have to feel it to heal it. The Breathing Healing Bus asks us to confront hard history, in order to join in celebration of Indigenous resilience and invitations to collaborate on a stronger future together.
The Breathing Healing Bus transforms Control Group’s event bus into a mobile monument to history and healing around the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre. This next step in our long-term project Breathing Healing into the Banks of Sand Creek translates three years of historical research, community dialogues, and artistic development into an immersive gallery-style experience centering education and contemplation that will pop up at community gatherings across the metro area and around state in 2025-26.
neverhome
Led by Brian Freeland, Patrick Mueller, and Kristine Whittle
neverhome is an embodied, participatory experience of displacement – an expeditionary performance guiding audiences on a walk through public space, contemplating the meaning of “home” and “journey.”
neverhome is an expeditionary performance guiding audiences on a 2-mile walk through public space, exploring displacement experiences through a participatory performance journey.
The project intersects disparate experiences of displacement. Developed through diverse dialogic engagements with people who’ve experienced houselessness, refugee emigration, work migrancy, and internal displacement by war and natural disaster, neverhome centers the act of displacement itself: a precarious journey, unwanted but forced by circumstance, untethered from home, with uncertain destination.