Pioneer Winter Collective

Birds of Paradise honors and celebrates the enduring nature of marginalized people to shape themselves into something that is desirable, vulnerable, fierce, and reborn. Miami-based choreographer Pioneer Winter continues their exploration of beauty and virtuosity outside the mainstream by creating an evening of dance and film on the themes of agency, survival, and transformation. 

Birds of Paradise is a series of works that explore rebirth – both in the ideas threaded through its choreography and stagecraft; and in its process, as each iteration involves welcoming, incorporating new ideas, design elements, and performance configurations into an existing choreographic vocabulary and artistic team. Birds of Paradise is iridescent and effortful. It is a provocative, immersive piece perched between fight and flight.  

Estimated Artist Fee: $17,000/performance; $22,000/week.