Sonder Space

Sonder Space is a new visual and performing arts project providing a platform for emerging and accomplished artists to present their work with creative freedom. This project aims to organize and produce dance performances that will highlight the creative talents of the dancers involved while investigating themes that are central to the human experience. When searching for a name for this project, we stumbled upon the word “sonder”, which means “the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.”  With that in mind, a priority in producing performances is to encourage an open exploration of who we are, both as individuals and in the collective, and what makes each of us unique.

With this project, we want to widen our scope of how we experience art through collaboration with other media of art. We hope that the connection and collaboration between artists of different media and backgrounds can inspire boundary-pushing creativity. It is our conviction that art is the human connector, the eternal teacher and preserver of history and culture.  Unfortunately, as funding for the arts is being stripped away, small projects such as ours are at the bottom of the food chain in an ever-growing need for support.  A continuing mission of Sonder Space is to pay artists what we know they deserve so that they can continue to push and spread more love and art into the world.

CO-FOUNDERS

Blake Krapels

Andie Yorita

Zachary Kapeluck