Ritual Theatre for Changing Times
Art as offering. Ritual as remembrance. Creation as communion.
Animist Arts is a ritual theatre practice exploring the meeting place between art, personal transformation, collective myth-making and the more-than-human world.
Through online journeys, creative mentorship, land-based immersions and live performance, we create contemporary rites of passage for the thresholds we are living through — personally and collectively.
THE PRACTICE
The earth is speaking. Our practice is to remember how to listen.
We begin with what is alive — a question, transition, longing or threshold.
Through council, more-than-human relationship and artistic practice, we listen for what is asking to emerge.
What we receive becomes material for ritual theatre through visual art, movement, sound and prayer.
The art becomes a way of crossing the threshold.
Our Guiding Practices
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MORE-THAN-HUMAN COUNCIL
Listening beyond the human and entering relationship with land, place and more-than-human allies.
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RITES OF PASSAGE
Exploring the thresholds we are personally living and where they meet our collective experience.
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THE MUSE + CO-CREATION
Approaching creativity as relationship through intuition, play, experimentation and collaboration.
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LIVING MYTH + COLLECTIVE REHEARSAL
Giving form to the stories we are becoming — and rehearsing transformation through ritual theatre.
Ways to participate
— Artist Pathways —
You do not need to be a professional artist or performer.
Come with a question, a threshold or something asking to be made.
Online collective Ritual Theatre journey
6 weeks · Online · $800
Create a solo ritual theatre piece rooted in a transition, teaching or threshold you are personally moving through.
November 1 – December 6, 2026
March 7 – April 11, 2027
1:1 CREATIVE RITE OF PASSAGE
6 weeks · Private · $1,600
Move through the Animist Arts Method with Phoebe through an intimate process of personal transformation and artistic development.
Available online internationally.
SACRED SITE — Ritual theatre IMMERSION
6 days · Vancouver Island · $2,400
A women-only immersion in art, sisterhood, land and transformation.
Enter relationship with place and create individual and collective ritual theatre through movement, sound, visual art, prayer and ceremony.
Dates TBC
FESTIVAL CONVERGENCE
Online + In Person · $2,600
Bring your individual work into a larger ensemble and create a site-responsive ritual theatre performance culminating at a festival.
Online: June 13 – July 18, 2027
Convergence: July 23 – August 1, 2027
Prerequisite: completion of one of the pathways above.
RECENT WORKS
REGENESIIS, 2026
Created with an interdisciplinary ensemble and presented on Salt Spring Island and at Enliven Festival in British Columbia, REGENESIIS brought together movement, live sound, projection, scenography, storytelling and ceremony.
Centred around the presence of a Mother Tree, the work invited performers and audience through a collective rite of passage — moving through remembrance, dissolution, grief, rage, renewal, reciprocity and offering.
REGENESIIS became the first full-scale expression of the creative methodology now at the heart of Animist Arts.
