The Motherground
The Motherground is a dance short film shot locally with filmmaker Trina Morago and Choreographer Ariadne Grace, the two collaborating artists behind “The Portal Project” and “The Last Feather.” It features dancer Isadora Millay and local, homesteading moms who together create “The Motherline.” The film uses current climate precarity as a genesis for hope and opportunity in community connection and planet protection, calling upon mothers to join forces in defense of our remaining eco systems.
Spanning a year and a half and 5 locations of majestic Southern Oregon wonder, Morago and Grace filmed a wordless story, told through dance, about how to find hope in the face of climate chaos and despair. Grace says, ”The film uses physical imagery and movement to conjure deeper feelings many harbor about the lack of control we feel ensuring our children and their children will have a habitable place to live.” She goes on, “too many of us don’t find a safe place to process our fear and feelings of powerlessness, nor a way to transform these into actions with impact. The Mother Way is an opportunity to remedy that.”
“The Motherground” is a film about motherhood, our great Gaia ‘One’ mother, the wisdoms she whispers, and our capacity for rising. Watch the trailer here, and find the full-length film at art festivals in the near future!
The Braid: What is the Motherline?
THE Halloween Carnival: First Annual!
Cultivate Kids at the Cave Junction Farmers Market
Motherline partners with Cave Junction Farmers Market in our “Cultivate Kids” sustainable gardening program. We teach the kids to grow food; tend herbs, flowers, and perennials; lead younger kids in enjoying the gardens during Market hours; and learn entrepreneurship skills.
The Course
This dance has become a tradition for every Motherline gathering, & everyone is encouraged to learn the choreography and participate!
It's Not Too Late
The RiverStars class of 2022-2023 present their final work: It’s Not Too Late.
Filmed in Kerby, Oregon, June 2023
The Portal Project
The Portal Project aims to bring more people consciously into the act of rejecting a return to so-called “normal”, and radically transform from a world culture based on extraction and destruction, to restoration, repair and creation. Transform with us.
MALE FANTASY
Our girls beat against the walls that contain them, so that they can be free to lead. They carry multitudes, easily flattened and discarded by a camera lens. The effects of capitalism on young women are a slow, gnawing off of dignity and self worth that emotionally damages our young women. These days, instead of girls being fed a few commercials every 20 minutes they can scroll through 200 messages in 60 seconds that all say “you are not enough”…“you suck!”…. “you need this”… “you need to BE this”. It is our responsibility as guides and generational teachers to flip the narrative for this next generation of women. Climate justice IS social justice IS inclusive justice for all.
May 2022
ONLY A LIFETIME
It’s our one lifetime. With every choice, every action, put Earth’s restoration first. Drown corporate profit in love, Now and Everywhere. Only A Lifetime is the fourth full dance film released by Dancefarm Oregon’s Portal Project.
April 2022
HOSTAGE
Imagine the revolution we could be if we weren’t held hostage by means of consumption? For all the beautiful young women who have been diminished by the persistent poison of unnatural imagery- whose discontent and self-hate is both manufactured by and harvested for Meta Profit, freedom will only come from within- and then– you will be the revolution. Hostage is the third full dance film released by Dancefarm Oregon’s Portal Project.
March 2022
IMAGINATION
I want to give my daughter the lake; full and clean. Crystal clear and sparkling under the sun. A want that I have no power to realize. I alone cannot protect this lake, but We The People could. So why don’t we?
February 2022
Beyond: Dances and Gardens
“Beyond are Dances and Gardens. This is where capitalism dies, where racism births courage to self reflect and correct, where sexism surrenders to humanism, when classism falls to its knees at the farm table where all eat like queens, where everyone’s life is a dance that sculpts the world. Dances and Gardens are the portal to the beyond…and the beyond itself.”
— Beyond: Dances and Gardens by Gina LoPreste
December 2021
JOIN US FOR
"THE MOTHERGROUND" PREMIERE!
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RiverStars and Southern Oregon Guild present “The Motherground,” for a Mother’s Day like no other. We will be presenting an exclusive engagement of the heart warming and hope lifting film, “The Motherground” at the Kerby Belt building to honor our valley’s mothers on Sunday, May 12 at “The Guild Gallery & Art Center”, located inside of the Kerby Belt Building at 24353 Redwood Highway Kerby, OR
2 pm: Motherground film showing with artist talk back: $20 per ticket
3:30 pm: Motherground film showing with fine wine and chocolate tasting, coupled with a very special art auction geared toward bestowing our mothers with local fine art delicacies: $40 per ticket
“The Motherground” is a film about motherhood, our great Gaia ‘One’ mother, the wisdoms she whispers, and our capacity for rising. If honoring your mother by affirming a commitment to restoration feels like the most meaningful way to spend the day, come and see a jaw dropping, epically beautiful and transformative dance and nature film, shot right here in our valley. You can PRE-PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE or at the door prior to entry.
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INTERESTED IN SUPPORTING THE MOTHERLINE'S FILM PROJECTS?
The Portal Project aims to bring more people consciously into the act of rejecting a return to so-called “normal”, and radically transform from a world culture based on extraction and destruction, to restoration, repair and creation.
Transform with us.
MALE FANTASY
Our girls beat against the walls that contain them, so that they can be free to lead. They carry multitudes, easily flattened and discarded by a camera lens. The effects of capitalism on young women are a slow, gnawing off of dignity and self worth that emotionally damages our young women. These days, instead of girls being fed a few commercials every 20 minutes they can scroll through 200 messages in 60 seconds that all say “you are not enough”…“you suck!”…. “you need this”… “you need to BE this”. It is our responsibility as guides and generational teachers to flip the narrative for this next generation of women. Climate justice IS social justice IS inclusive justice for all.
May 2022
ONLY A LIFETIME
It’s our one lifetime. With every choice, every action, put Earth’s restoration first. Drown corporate profit in love, Now and Everywhere. Only A Lifetime is the fourth full dance film released by Dancefarm Oregon’s Portal Project.
April 2022
HOSTAGE
Imagine the revolution we could be if we weren’t held hostage by means of consumption? For all the beautiful young women who have been diminished by the persistent poison of unnatural imagery- whose discontent and self-hate is both manufactured by and harvested for Meta Profit, freedom will only come from within- and then– you will be the revolution. Hostage is the third full dance film released by Dancefarm Oregon’s Portal Project.
March 2022
IMAGINATION
I want to give my daughter the lake; full and clean. Crystal clear and sparkling under the sun. A want that I have no power to realize. I alone cannot protect this lake, but We The People could. So why don’t we?
February 2022
“Beyond are Dances and Gardens. This is where capitalism dies, where racism births courage to self reflect and correct, where sexism surrenders to humanism, when classism falls to its knees at the farm table where all eat like queens, where everyone’s life is a dance that sculpts the world. Dances and Gardens are the portal to the beyond…and the beyond itself.”
— Beyond: Dances and Gardens by Gina LoPreste
December 2021