Walking Art is an initiative in Islington that supports local people’s mental health through mindful art and movement. Based at Hilldrop Community Centre and led by artist Helen Ainsworth, Walking Art provides free regular sessions for people of all ages and backgrounds to make drawings while walking and observing their surroundings. Source: Mindful Creativity and

Radiophrenia – https://radiophrenia.scot/listen/ – 13 April 2025 10:00 am – 11:30 am July. 40 miles off the top of the Outer Hebrides. Stand below St Ronan’s church. Walk south on lazy bed corrugations to the low cliffs. Turn east. Pass … Continue reading →

By Anabella Lenzu During my MFA at Wilson College, PA in Summer 2017, I started using drawings to leave vestiges of my body and my movements on paper, using crayons, chalk and pastels. Being a performance artist the remains of my dance have historically lived on as videos, photos, or simply in the memories of my spectators. […]

La Mama Moves Festival Presents “Listen to Your Mother” (World Premiere) by Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama May 16th -19th, 2024 @ La Mama, NYC Director & Choreographer: Anabella Lenzu Technology Advisor/ Video Art Design & Sound Landscape: Todd Carroll Text: Anabella Lenzu & Jerzy Grotowski. Drawings: Anabella Lenzu Performers: Anabella Lenzu & Fiamma Lenzu-Carroll Additional Choreography: Isadora […]

I’m happy to announce that my creative-nonfiction essay, “Surrender No. 40,” has been published in The Goose, as part of a jumbo issue on movement and the land. My paper is here, but the entire issue is amazing and worth reading. Thanks to the editors, Tanis MacDonald and Ariel Gordon, for including my work alongside … Continue reading “Surrender No. 40” now published in The Goose →

FREE Body Mapping Workshop with Anabella LenzuSat, April 8th at 2pmpresented by NEXT! Workshops Pioneers Go East Collective at The Clemente (107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002) RSVP! Space is limitedAll are welcome! ONLINE Studies Project: “Redefining our place as Mothers, Artists, and Immigrants in the NYC landscape”as part of Movement ResearchSaturday, April 29 @ from 1-2:30pm (NYC time) All […]

Out-FRONT! Fest. A Festival  curated by Pioneers Go East Collective  in partnership with The LGBT Community Center  presents “Listen to your Mother” by Anabella Lenzu Wed, Jan. 18 & Thur, Jan. 19  @ 7pm at The LGBT Center  (208 W 13 St, NYC) Free Admission GET TICKETS Choreographer, Performer & Script: Anabella Lenzu Music landscape, […]

Dear Friend, I am writing to extend my immense gratitude for your support of Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama over these last 16 years! 2022 was generous and exciting year, transitioning from an online presence to in-person classes, workshops, and performances. With my husband Todd Carroll, we have been collaborating non-stop from one project to the next, and […]

“Walking the Crack” takes place on the 2nd floor galleries of Taipei Fine Arts Museum, from Sept. 8, 2022 to Jan. 8, 2023. Curated by TFAM senior curator Fang-Wei Chang, it brings together 28 artists and art collectives from both Taiwan and abroad, spanning different generations since the 1960s, in a rumination on movement, lines,

Live Performances, Dance Films and Workshop DANCE FILMS IN DOWNTOWN MANHATTAN By Anabella Lenzu April 18-May 1, 2022 at Window at La Mama Galleria, 47 Great Jones St., Manhattan (Wednesday-Sunday from 1-7pm) Street Soirée, Friday, April 22 at 7pm FREE Admission  Films feature: “Out of the Folds of Women” tells a personal vision of femininity, and what […]

walkplacedistancetime – April’s episode is “No 2: no trace”  in the waters of a Northumberland River https://extra.resonance.fm In the river my walking is primarily an act of walking as touching. The senses that predominantly guide my movement along the bank … Continue reading →

Dance Composition/ Choreography WorkshopFocus: Form and Content Saturdays, January, 8, 15 & 22, 2022 11-1pm (EDT) NYC Time Faculty: Anabella Lenzu This workshop will give you the tools to create your own original dances, exploring the elements of composition, both for the stage as well as for dance films. We will examine the creative process […]

Score #18 by Mel Anie [score base: A white card with shampoo instructions; photo and score: Mel Anie (2021); score text: Shamp/articipation performance”’./Bottled on: /perception and cognition./,/the space and the self./Formula No: E0517KVE3FSH#002...

Workshop Online di Composizione Coreografica con Anabella Lenzu 20 e 21 Novembre, 2021 Time: 15-19 ora italiana, via ZOOM Il workshop offre ai partecipanti gli strumenti proncipali per la creazione di materiale coroegrafico, esplorando elementi di composizione sia teatrale che cinematografica. Verrà analizzato il processo creativo, imparando a correre dei rischi e a trasformare l’emozione in […]

Score #5 by Alisa Oleva [score base: a paper with crayon scribbles in the colours of purple, red, yellow and blue; photo and score: Alisa Oleva (2021); score text: Walking, he argues, requires one to learn a spatial language and act out that language...

In the century-old Malleshwaram locality, artists are creating street murals as part of a movement for sustainable mobility Source: These Bengaluru artists are painting to get people walking

The algorithmic infiltration threatens that profoundly personal nexus where our hidden hopes and desires tentatively emerge from our unconscious mind.  Covert is about protecting and developing this process. It offers — through its ‘movement meditations’ — a way for the emerging self to unfurl in a sheltered way, seeping into spaces of hidden potential throughout our

Upper Coulee walk, Lethbridge, ABWalking and talking make a good pair. This is one of those times in my life (there have been others) where almost all the social contact I have is through going for walks with people. The walks, which are always important, become even more important when otherwise I spend entire days sitting in my house alone. Pandemic walks are a big deal. I'm sure there will be dissertations written about it. A very simple activity, but it's a way to connect with nature and the [...]

River valley trail, Redcliff, AlbertaIt's been a day of baking bread and making soup and reading, a day mostly spent at home (as they will be from here on in).  But it's also a sunny spring day, a mud-puddle day, and we weren't the only ones taking a walk in the river valley. No matter how our lives are limited in other ways these strange days, people seem to be openly grateful for the simple freedom of walking outdoors. These are the things we need right now - movement, fresh air, direct c [...]

Published as part of a series on research methods in the social sciences, Walking Methodologies in a More-than-Human World: WalkingLab still has something to offer for those of us who walk as an artistic practice. However, it’s not an easy read, particularly if, like me, you’ve never read A Thousand Plateaux, know little about assemblage […]