AN IMMERSIVE ART SHOW EXPLORING THE PORTALS OF GRIEF
COMING TO A CITY NEAR YOU | 2027
There is an intimacy in grief that is not widely told. There is a pulsing loneliness to the experience of loss that deserves witness. Our world is aching with grief, it is running rivers between us and yet there is a deafening silence.
Grief is a garden within asking to be explored without.
MEET THE ARTISTS
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Founder / Creator
Kat is an artist and writer living in Denver, CO. Her work explores the unnamable fractals of the human experience through poetry, botanical artistry, and theater.
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Production Assistant / Movement Coordinator / Dancer
Amanda is a choreographer, dancer, and movement educator whose work lives at the intersection of art, community, and purpose. As the owner and creative director of Night One Productions, she creates bold, curated event experiences that elevate artists and raise vital funds for non-profit organizations — merging creative vision with meaningful community impact.
Her performance career has taken her from the stages of New York City to Dubai, with work rooted in Colorado and reaching across the globe. As an educator — including at Broadway Dance Center — Amanda brings the same energy and intention to the studio: fun, challenging classes rooted in proper alignment and technique, welcoming dancers, athletes, and movers of every background.
Whether producing events or leading a class, Amanda believes that movement done with intention and joy has the power to spotlight artists, build community, and create real impact.
https://www.night1productions.com
IG: @nightoneproductions & @manamaemovement
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LPC, ATR, Founder of How to Play in the Dark
Danielle is a Somatic, Art & Play Therapist and Grief Ritualist, who believes healing begins when we turn toward our struggles—and start to play with them. With a Master’s in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology and Art Therapy from Naropa University, she has spent the past decade creating spaces where people can reconnect with themselves and each other through creativity, emotion, and embodied presence.
She has designed and facilitated hundreds of transformative experiences—from intimate grief rituals and expressive arts sessions to immersive group journeys and 1:1 support. Danielle’s work blends clinical grounding with sacred ritual and playful exploration, creating environments where people feel safe enough to reveal their full truth—where nothing needs to be fixed or hidden.
She believes that the most powerful transformations happen through direct experience and in community—when the body feels safe enough to soften, and the soul feels free enough to emerge.
Website:www.howtoplayinthedark.com
Email: daniellerifkin@riseuprooted.org
Instagram:@dbree81@howto_playinthedark
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Immersive Experience Consultant, Artistic Director of Control Group Production
Patrick Mueller grew up in Lakewood, Colorado. He studied dance and performance art at Pomona College (Claremont, CA), Ohio State University, and Hollins University & American Dance Festival. He currently lives three blocks from his childhood home, with his wife Kristine and their amazing child Levi.
Patrick has performed internationally with dance companies in the U.S. and Europe, including Ben J. Riepe Kompanie (DE), Mancopy Danse (DK), Troika Ranch Dance-Theatre (NY), and Wild Heart Dance (CO). In 2016 he originated a role in Sweet & Lucky, DCPA Off-Center's immersive opus by Third Rail Projects (NY). In 2017 he served as choreographer for DCPA Off-Center's immersive production of the musical The Wild Party.
Patrick has taught dance technique and theory at Naropa University, Red Rocks Community College, Colorado Conservatory of Dance, and at various other studios, schools, and festivals.
As artistic director of Control Group, Patrick serves as Lead Vision-Holder for most company projects, and regularly performs and designs lights and physical environments.
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Experience Designer, Relational Artist
Amy Segreti is a certified experience designer, mentor and guide who specializes in relational alchemy and ceremonies for greater intimacy, connection and communication. Through devotion, inquiry and presence, her approach transforms ordinary encounters into profound connections. She works with couples, business partnerships and individuals seeking to liberate lifeforce and soulfulness in their relationships.
Her methodology draws from more than a decade of study with leading figures in experience design, Jungian psychology, conscious communication, and couples work, including Third Rail Projects, Esther Perel, Authentic Relating, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Dr. Stan Tatkin, Odyssey Works, Nicholas Janni and more. She is the founder of Our Circuitries, a relational artistry studio, consults as a Guest Critic with Odyssey Works' students, and has traveled to Portugal and France as a Masterclass Fellow designing 36-hour experiences for people at the threshold of significant life transitions. She has a talk on TED.com, and regularly gives talks on her methodologies to the World Experience Organization.IG: @amysegreti & @our.circuitries
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Artist, Graphic Designer
Alida Louise is an artist, graphic designer and deep lover of all aspects of nature. Growing her own garden, she uses a process called eco-printing to create pattern designs on fabric, using plants, that are then sewn into dresses. From a painter's perspective, she gravitates towards nature inspired mediums and silhouettes.
As a graphic designer, she is most motivated by the visual storytelling aspect. She led the brand design for a New York Times recognized restaurant in her home state of Minnesota and contributed to the rebrand of a Fortune 500 company.
Her bloodline are makers and entrepreneurs, so her drive to creative problem solve is deeply ingrained. She believes in getting your hands dirty as often as possible, embracing new methodologies, and knowing the rules before you break them.
@alida_louise | www.alidalouise.com
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.
Mary Oliver