What stories have shaped our collective consciousness, our world? What new stories can we tell that will uphold and protect the sanctity of all life?
Invaders of the Heart: The Return is a touring multimedia dance theater production from renowned choreographer and director Myra Krien, featuring the Mosaic Dance Company, the Starbelly Dancers, Drake Von Trapp, and Kamrah. By exploring sacred symbols of rebirth, renewal, ecstasy, and our inextricable interconnectedness with the natural world, The Return looks to the past as a touchstone for examining our present and building our collective future. With prominent artist Michael Bergt's paintings as a striking backdrop for the dance, this collaboration is both visually stunning and powerfully prescient for these times.
"Eternal return is the promise of the snake."
-Craig S. Barnes
"If you go off into a far far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything."
— Alan Watts
Santa Fe, NM - May 24th & 25th, 2024
NDI NM Dance Barns
San Miguel de Allende, MX - January 30th & 31st 2025
Teatro Ángela Peralta - Tickets coming soon
Hawi, HI - March 29th, 2025
The Barn - Tickets coming soon
New York City, NY - September 7th, 2025
The SoHo Playhouse - Tickets coming soon
Austin, TX - November 15th, 2025
Dougherty Arts Center - Tickets coming soon
“The world of imagination is the world of eternity.”
— William Blake
About the Director:
Myra Krien is the founder and director of Pomegranate Studios, a Santa Fe-based dance school and performing arts organization dedicated to education and community outreach.
The 2019 recipient of the Santa Fe Mayor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, Krien is an award-winning dance artist, professional dance mentor, and international performer, choreographer and instructor of MENAHT (Middle Eastern, North African, Hellenistic and Turkish) dance forms.
"What I am really saying is that you don't need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy."
- Alan Watts
About the Artist:
Michael Bergt (b.1956) is a figurative artist whose work has been in a deep dialogue with art history over the course of his more than forty-year career. Working across drawing, sculpture, and primarily egg tempera painting, Bergt currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
He has had major exhibitions in New York, San Francisco and Santa Fe. Bergt has works in the permanent collection of: The Arnot Museum, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Crystal Bridges Museum, Currier Museum, Evansville Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco—de Young Museum, Frye Art Museum, Kalamazoo, Museum.
His works can be seen at michaelbergtart.com.
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in one drop. ”
— Rumi
Are you a dancer interested in performing in
Invaders of the Heart: The Return?
Select opportunities are available for intermediate-advanced level dancers.
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Artwork by Michael Bergt. Photography by Audrey Derell, Daniel Quat and Peter Holt.