dare (they/them) is a nondual animist, multidisciplinary artist-facilitator and educator, heavily influenced by their long and ongoing practice of Daoist arts and related philosophies. Their work explores the integration of animist practices, liberatory anti-oppression principles and multi-modal theater arts, which can be pithily summed up as Death Practice & Deathclown. They are based in Chinook Lands aka Portland, OR, USA.

Briefly, part of my work here is to tell people that the spirits are real and to help folks figure out how to tune their instrument (whole self) towards that larger, more diverse, more multi-plural conversation called Death (Dao). I do that through various modes of narrative art practice - poetry, writing, singing, movement, theater... I have a podcast called UNDERWORLDPARTY, a collaborative vocal project called Rhizomatic Choir, and various trainings in nondual theater arts (Theater of Precarity, Deathclown). These are rooted in and informed by my long practice of Daoist arts (polestar astrology, yijing divination, daoist dream yoga, etc.)

I design my art with and through lenses such as Queer Ecology, Disability Justice, trans-species animism, Dreaming and Deep Time Ancestry. Being of mixed-race heritage, chronically sick and poor (these labels can become prisons) has been a wisdom path, poison and medicine in this life and informs all my choices. Pain, Fear & Hunger are Wisdom Teachers, not necessarily problems to be solved.