I exist. I exist. I exist.

~ The Big Show Co.

In addition to counseling, Arianne partners with organizations throughout LA through recovery groups, memory writing & movement workshops, readings, & performances.

Women’s Somatic Circles

Arianne facilitates workshops in the LA area that center around connecting to ancestral wisdom and the real-life bodily experience of womanhood. Featuring somatic visualizations, simple movement, ritual, and discussion, the gatherings provide quiet safe space to return to, and re-member, our personal myths so that we may each be the heroine of our own journey.

The Collective Memory Project

This 5-year community performance initiative partnered with the non-profit organization, Veterans in Media & Entertainment, which works to help bridge the military-civilian divide - to gather source text from veterans through a series of Memory Writing Workshops. With generous support from the CA Arts Council and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, text from writing workshops was used to develop the performance script. Blending dance, theater, text, music, and visual imagery, veterans and artists created a series of inclusive, highly personal performances where memories were activated and re-imagined to create communal performance experiences. The Collective Memory Project explored the creative act of memory-making, its effects through time, the agency of remembrance and forgetting, and the aspects of the present by which the past is always haunted. This project culminated in a world premiere performance at The Ford in Hollywood in June 2019.

She/Her: Memory Trace

With support from the MAP Fund and The Ford, this community-based performance initiative focused on the female veteran experience, along with male veterans’ memories of the women in their lives. The project examined, how we can define femininity through memory, imagination and the military in a culture that is increasingly challenging gender norms. Workshops integrate creative writing and movement to generate original dance-theater based on the script developed together.

Public Workshops & Readings

With support from City of Los Angels Department of Cultural Affairs, Arianne organized and facilitated, along with poet and play write, Nathan Clum, free Memory Writing Workshops for Military Veterans and Families at Bob Hope Patriotic Hall, American Legion Post 43, and the Van Nuys Public Library.