"This is an amazing and wonderful experience. This is what society is missing – people telling and sharing stories, a sense of connection to a place and time, and to each other." Workshop Participant

Turning the Wheel has developed a model for using creative expression and performance as a way of addressing community problems and issues. This model establishes ongoing dance/theater communities, where participants have the opportunity to dance, sing, perform and fully experience the artistic process. Using the unique issues of each community, including the personal stories of the participants, we collaboratively create professional-quality performance pieces. This cooperative, creative experience provides participants and audiences with inspiration and an effective model for transforming communities.

The results are as individual as the challenges addressed. For example, in one city, outreach focused on drawing together residents of an economically depressed factory town, with those of a very upper middle class community. In these workshops, building trust among participants was the greatest challenge. Ultimately, this challenge was successfully overcome through facilitated hours of moving and playing, and sharing together in a safe and nurturing atmosphere, with the goal of creating and presenting a performance together.