Chloe Groom

With rhythm & plants as teachers, I identify as a dancer with 16 years of training in post-modern contemporary, Silvestre technique (Brazil), African contemporary, Afro-Brazilian, Jamaican dancehall, a dash of House dance, and American modern dance. Fueled by facing an unstable environment, I earned a Summa Cum Laude Bachelor's degree in Sustainable Ecosystems and Soil Science with undergraduate studies in Dance Media & Choreography at Arizona State University and Dance Performance at University of Waikato in New Zealand. Since graduation, I occasionally lead classes in Urban Contemporary, or an interpretation of my own style with live music, and free-form or contact dance jams paired with plant medicines as a social tool for camaraderie. Professionally, I have performed with international companies and projects based in coastal Salvador, Brazil and Lisbon, Portugal while training in their contemporary & fusion movement specialties. In my home-city of Phoenix, Arizona I continuously sought out invigorating ways to create & train as an artist while regularly performing for live musical artists at various activism-centric festivals and venues. As a full-time certified herbalist, I subtly encourage the holistic approach of movement as a way to heal through psycho-nueroimmunology. 

A current exploratory project I am playing with is how plants can be our teachers of intuitive movement. I call this series, Botanarchy. Botanical anarchy: Decolonizing the Euro-centric methodologies and techniques to look to beings close to earth for guidance on new kinesthetic pathways and somatic approaches. 

Over the past two years, I've been teaching contemporary dance and yoga in Honolulu and am now making conscious art with Dancer's Unlimited!