Pioneer Winter Collective presents free Recovery in Motion dance class series

Pioneer Winter Collective (PWC), the nationally acclaimed dance company, announces its summer Recovery in Motion series, a community-focused, multiweek workshop series that uses movement and theater practices to support people in addiction recovery. This free five-week workshop series takes place on Wednesdays, July 1-26, 2026 at Miami Theater Center from 7:30-9pm.

The Fall Recovery in Motion will begin in September 2026, details soon to be announced.

Recovery in Motion workshops are facilitated by PWC teaching artists Octavio Campos, Andréa Labbée, and Darryl Brown, who bring their own artistic voices and lived perspectives on recovery. Together they guide participants through movement and theater practices that build trust, encourage vulnerability, and create community.

“I grew up going to AA meetings with my dad and, even as a kid, I remember the energy in those rooms. People return daily or weekly, sharing stories and prayers together. There’s definitely comfort in that rhythm, but also something underneath it. Restlessness. Shame. Hope. So much living inside the body with nowhere to go,” shares Pioneer Winter, founder of Pioneer Winter Collective.

Winter continues, “In Recovery in Motion workshops, people sweat, laugh, improvise, soften, and witness each other. I’ve watched strangers slowly become a community. I’ve watched people who felt disconnected from themselves begin to trust their bodies again, without needing to be perfect. When addiction can make a person feel powerless, self-expression is a radical way to recover their power.”

Recovery in Motion was created in 2024 as a part of Pioneer Winter Collective’s Creative Connections program which provides resources and mentorship for artists to experiment with and share new artistic and dance-related ideas in community. Miami resident Andréa Labbée, a former performer and showgirl, created a Creative Connections project that revealed the need for an ongoing series where people in recovery could come together regularly and use movement as a way of processing and connecting. What began as a single artist’s project has become one of PWC’s anchor programs, showing that the arts can be a vital tool for healing and connection in the recovery process.

Classes are free and drop-in participants can attend all or just one. No registration is necessary, and no dance or theater experience is necessary.

Questions? Email the facilitators: Octavio Campos octaviocprs@gmail.com; Andréa Labbée labbeeandrea@gmail.com; or Darryl Brown quizcks@gmail.com 

You can also learn more at https://pioneerwinter.com/

A moment from Recovery in Motion. Photo by Passion Ward