Workshops
Everything Spills Studio hosts monthly interdisciplinary workshops and a quarterly, four-session online intensive. Browse some of our past and future offerings below and join our mailing list to stay in the know about upcoming events.
Waltzing with
the Waves
June 2025
On June 21st, as the sun dipped below the horizon, we gathered in Brooklyn to Waltz with the Waves. This summer solstice meditation incorporates breathwork, movement, and an offering to the sea.
Participants were held in your their experience while also becoming part of the water’s motion, and sharing a moment of presence with all who gathered.
Queering
Partner Dance
April 2025
This workshop introduces participants to basic waltz choreography before breaking the rules, and experimenting with how we might move through leader and follower roles with a little more fluidity, flexibility and queerness.
No partner or experience needed—just come ready to dance!
Hosted at Sapphic House
Photo by A. Parker
Truth and Madness: Interpreting (In)Sanity
April 2025
This four-week curriculum invites participants to consider the relationship between truth and madness. We’ll examine how a culture’s values inform its assertions of truth, and how this understanding determines which behaviors and beliefs are defined as deviant (and are often then punished or forcibly disappeared from the public eye as a result).
In the inaugural installment of this intensive, artists explored culturally and neurologically diverse interpretations of and responses to "madness" across time and culture. Participants used their minds, bodies and voices to create text and performance pieces which imagine a mad and free future.
Students presented their work to the public on the evening of May 1st, 2025 at Sunset Stoop in New York City.
Student work by Paul Root
How to Write a Love Letter
February 2025
If a Hallmark card could never hold the depth of your devotion, this is for you.
Whether you're moved to honor a dear friend, a romantic partner, a family member, or someone whose presence defies category, this workshop offers a gentle, powerful framework for writing a letter that becomes a keepsake—tender, true, and entirely your own.
Together, we’ll look to iconic love letters from literary figures across history for inspiration. Then, you’ll be guided step-by-step through my personal method for crafting love letters, which is rooted in ritual, built on years of practice, and shaped by my own devotion to naming, blessing, and honoring love in all its forms.
You’ll leave not only with a letter, but with a practice. Something you can return to anytime you want to write something real, something that greeting cards never could.
Tango and Transformation
February 2025
Hosted at Performance Space New York
Who are you on the dance floor? What does this liminal space allow us to embody or cast off? How can we move through the tension between who we are, who we once were, and who we long to be? And what does it look like to do this together, in relationship with the other moving members of this ecosystem?
Together, we’ll engage with standard tango choreography and learn about the varied musical and cultural influences which shape the dance’s origins and evolution. We’ll better understand how the desire to assert power and pursue passion in the face of loss and othering has motivated ballroom styles across cultures, using this context to explore how we might break from or expand upon tango’s traditions with reverence and intention. Through movement, we’ll consider the hotbed of tensions which defined tango’s birth in the newly industrialized, late 19th century Buenos Aires, and explore the pursuit of glamor which colored the instructor’s study of ballroom dance as a first generation American of Russian descent.
Visioning Language: Text as Image & Painted Poems
December 2024
Hosted at The Cambridge Foundry in collaboration with Dani Nordenberg of The Valve Boston
This course invites writers, visual artists and newcomers to explore text and poetry through a visual lens, offering students a framework to create their own “painted poem”.
We explore the intersections of text and visual arts across centuries and continents, including works of Japanese haiga, illuminated manuscripts from the Mughal Empire, calligrams by Guillaume Apollinaire, Dimitri Prigov and E.E. Cummings, and contemporary work by artists like Adam Pendleton, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Genesis Breyer P.Orridge.
Waltzing with the Waves
September 2024
Waltzing with the Waves is a guided meditation and water ritual. We’ll learn the fundamentals of a basic waltz box step before being led through some breath work and optional intention setting or prayer. Then we ask the ocean to dance with us, the water becomes our partner, we’ll be waltzing with the waves 🌊