Tuesday, September 22
8-10am Pacific / 10am-12pm Central / 11am-1pm Eastern / 5-7pm CET
Registration is available by sliding scale and includes a recording of the workshop.
REGISTER FOR THE WORKSHOP BELOW ↓
This drop-in workshop is part of a 10-part series, Saturn/Neptune in Aries - An Initiation Into Spiritual Warriorship with Aziz Bisanz, a monthly series from March through December, 2026. Click here to register for the full series including access to recordings of all sessions.
Saturn-Neptune in Aries and Initiating Spiritual Warriorship
Palestinian Practices of Sumud (صمود) for Alchemizing Grief + Rage
+ Activating “Future Folk” Technology
How do different experiences of occupation and oppression talk to one another across time and space? How do we support the seeds planted in one place to be nourished, grow and flourish in many places across the globe? How does the movement of grief and rage in one body create ripples in the collective body and the bodies of our future ancestors?
Saturn-Neptune conjunctions (past, present and future) speak to each other across timelines, each renewal of their cycles echoing the unprocessed grief and rage of the previous cycle as well as the fruits of the struggle of that time that are available for us to inherit. The renewal of this planetary cycle in Aries provides an opportunity to witness the past with new eyes that can help us carry forward our ancestral tools in a way that can meet future dreams and realities.
Since the beginning of the series in March, we have discussed the ways Saturn-Neptune conjunctions in history have coincided with periods of dissolving and simultaneously the creation of power structures that have laid the groundwork for the current expression of colonial violence (and the response to it) that exists under this current conjunction. We will hold the current and generations-long occupation of Palestine and Lebanon as well as the current state violence occurring in the so-called U.S in conversation with one another as we explore this.
In this session, I invite two of my dearest friends and collaborators, Leila and Noelle Awadallah of Body Watani Dance Project who have been co-tenders of the Grief and Rage Circle for Palestine with me in Minneapolis. Together we invoke stories and experiences from the ground in Palestine and Minneapolis to inform our conversations.
In the session, we will offer martial movement and “future folk” practices that may support our bodies to feel our personal and collective agency while letting those expressions of strength help us welcome in grief and rage as alchemizing forces. This session will be largely experiential. We ask that folks come ready to move.
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Noelle Awadallah نوال is a Palestinian-American choreographer, improviser, and farmer residing in Mni Sota Makoce (Minneapolis). She is the Co-Artistic Director of Body Watani Dance project alongside sister, Leila Awadallah. Awadallah’s daily pursuit towards a land-based life emerges from sumud—a Palestinian ideology guiding steadfast perseverance and rooted relationality to homeland. Her artistic approach in upholding these ideologies extend from her commitment to multi-directional attention, embodied storytelling, grief and rage, sensuous imagination, and tending to relationship with land and more than human beings. She is currently a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow (2025-2028). Her artistic lifeforce is greatly influenced by her time as a company member with Ananya Dance Theatre (2019-2026) and practicing, playing, and learning with El-Funoun Dance Troupe. She farms at Cimarron Community Farm and lovingly co-holds the Grief and Rage Circle for Palestine. She received a BFA from Columbia College Chicago.
Leila Awadallah is a dancer, choreographer, and community collaborator in Minneapolis and sometimes Beirut. Her research in dance centers movement that activates relationships to land / place / peoples, rooted in the context of her own skin as a body and soul that holds Palestinian, Arab-American, SWANA, Sicilian and mixed Mediterranean waves and ways. With her sister-collaborator Noelle Awadallah, she holds and stewards the performances, workshops and collaborations of Body Watani Dance project. Leila has received multiple fellowships: DanceUSA, McKnight, Jerome Hill, and Daring Dances. Her artistry is meaningfully impacted by her years working with Ananya Dance Theatre and Mizna (Mni Sota), The Theater of Women of the Camp and Beirut Physical Lab (Lebanon), and El-Funoun (Palestine).
Aziz Bisanz is a queer + trans + Lebanese-American cultural worker, somatic therapist, and astrologer living in Minneapolis. Inhabiting liminal spaces, borderlands and intersections of experience has shaped him as a person and he brings this perspective to his offerings.
Aziz believes in the importance of connecting to land, body, ancestors, and community as integral parts of healing and aliveness. The personal + the collective are in constant conversation with one another, and each deeply informs the other. Mni Sota Makoce, the land where Aziz lives, in tandem with his ancestral homelands are his most valued teachers and these relationships are the foundation of his offerings. Learn more about Aziz here.
A percentage of the proceeds from this series will go to support Aziz’s most impacted neighbors and the mutual aid groups working tirelessly to care for their community.
Scholarshipsare available for those who need them.
Tuesday, September 22
8-10am Pacific / 10am-12pm Central / 11am-1pm Eastern / 5-7pm CET
Registration is available by sliding scale and includes a recording of the workshop.
REGISTER FOR THE WORKSHOP BELOW ↓
This drop-in workshop is part of a 10-part series, Saturn/Neptune in Aries - An Initiation Into Spiritual Warriorship with Aziz Bisanz, a monthly series from March through December, 2026. Click here to register for the full series including access to recordings of all sessions.
Saturn-Neptune in Aries and Initiating Spiritual Warriorship
Palestinian Practices of Sumud (صمود) for Alchemizing Grief + Rage
+ Activating “Future Folk” Technology
How do different experiences of occupation and oppression talk to one another across time and space? How do we support the seeds planted in one place to be nourished, grow and flourish in many places across the globe? How does the movement of grief and rage in one body create ripples in the collective body and the bodies of our future ancestors?
Saturn-Neptune conjunctions (past, present and future) speak to each other across timelines, each renewal of their cycles echoing the unprocessed grief and rage of the previous cycle as well as the fruits of the struggle of that time that are available for us to inherit. The renewal of this planetary cycle in Aries provides an opportunity to witness the past with new eyes that can help us carry forward our ancestral tools in a way that can meet future dreams and realities.
Since the beginning of the series in March, we have discussed the ways Saturn-Neptune conjunctions in history have coincided with periods of dissolving and simultaneously the creation of power structures that have laid the groundwork for the current expression of colonial violence (and the response to it) that exists under this current conjunction. We will hold the current and generations-long occupation of Palestine and Lebanon as well as the current state violence occurring in the so-called U.S in conversation with one another as we explore this.
In this session, I invite two of my dearest friends and collaborators, Leila and Noelle Awadallah of Body Watani Dance Project who have been co-tenders of the Grief and Rage Circle for Palestine with me in Minneapolis. Together we invoke stories and experiences from the ground in Palestine and Minneapolis to inform our conversations.
In the session, we will offer martial movement and “future folk” practices that may support our bodies to feel our personal and collective agency while letting those expressions of strength help us welcome in grief and rage as alchemizing forces. This session will be largely experiential. We ask that folks come ready to move.
—
Noelle Awadallah نوال is a Palestinian-American choreographer, improviser, and farmer residing in Mni Sota Makoce (Minneapolis). She is the Co-Artistic Director of Body Watani Dance project alongside sister, Leila Awadallah. Awadallah’s daily pursuit towards a land-based life emerges from sumud—a Palestinian ideology guiding steadfast perseverance and rooted relationality to homeland. Her artistic approach in upholding these ideologies extend from her commitment to multi-directional attention, embodied storytelling, grief and rage, sensuous imagination, and tending to relationship with land and more than human beings. She is currently a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow (2025-2028). Her artistic lifeforce is greatly influenced by her time as a company member with Ananya Dance Theatre (2019-2026) and practicing, playing, and learning with El-Funoun Dance Troupe. She farms at Cimarron Community Farm and lovingly co-holds the Grief and Rage Circle for Palestine. She received a BFA from Columbia College Chicago.
Leila Awadallah is a dancer, choreographer, and community collaborator in Minneapolis and sometimes Beirut. Her research in dance centers movement that activates relationships to land / place / peoples, rooted in the context of her own skin as a body and soul that holds Palestinian, Arab-American, SWANA, Sicilian and mixed Mediterranean waves and ways. With her sister-collaborator Noelle Awadallah, she holds and stewards the performances, workshops and collaborations of Body Watani Dance project. Leila has received multiple fellowships: DanceUSA, McKnight, Jerome Hill, and Daring Dances. Her artistry is meaningfully impacted by her years working with Ananya Dance Theatre and Mizna (Mni Sota), The Theater of Women of the Camp and Beirut Physical Lab (Lebanon), and El-Funoun (Palestine).
Aziz Bisanz is a queer + trans + Lebanese-American cultural worker, somatic therapist, and astrologer living in Minneapolis. Inhabiting liminal spaces, borderlands and intersections of experience has shaped him as a person and he brings this perspective to his offerings.
Aziz believes in the importance of connecting to land, body, ancestors, and community as integral parts of healing and aliveness. The personal + the collective are in constant conversation with one another, and each deeply informs the other. Mni Sota Makoce, the land where Aziz lives, in tandem with his ancestral homelands are his most valued teachers and these relationships are the foundation of his offerings. Learn more about Aziz here.
A percentage of the proceeds from this series will go to support Aziz’s most impacted neighbors and the mutual aid groups working tirelessly to care for their community.
Scholarshipsare available for those who need them.
