"Water Changes Rock. We Are Here" - Art Opening Reception & Exhibition (11/9/25)

On November 9, 2025, at the San Francisco Lodge of the Theosophical Society, MpowerDance presents "Water Changes Rock. We Are Here" - an Art Opening Reception and Exhibition featuring the work of San Antonio based guest artist Courtney Wynn-Sheets and San Francisco local Butoh choreographer and artist Mary Power. Please join us and together we will bear witness to compelling, mystical, provocative art produced during the first quarter of the 21st Century.

“I dare Butoh. Again and again, I dare the Butoh seed planted in me to push through the

husk of what was dark nothingness into shadow and lies of possibility. Butoh lies, where

granite waits and oceans hide, before our ancient 4.54 billion rounded rock speaks of

time.Without requirement, no one listens to the alchemy of light, sound, movement and

stillness. Life dances with primal coherence in particles and waves and frequency, a

rhythm hurling into attraction so unbreakable, with such passion, purpose and

commitment, for the whole of its body and surrounding space, a moon smiles.

That time when a volcano’s burst of laughter created sculpture, every San Andreas fault

made us tremor, it was a butterfly dreaming it was human. The dance breaks the

surface of conformity. It absorbs irradiance until blossoms of color and terrestrial

insolation explodes of the seed space with its truth. Living magma, turns rock, turns

loamy womb of holding. And time disintegrates. It is the water bearer. Time is quenched

to the core. Water, within and without, shapeshifts an overflow into a glacier that floats in

an earthen cup of water. Before that time, unseen time, vapor drifts with ghost like

fingers caressing and clinging to solid edges before it gets carried away into cyclical

finality. Each form weaves moments into mystery and meaning.” - Mary Power 2025

 Both artists are lifetime members of the San Francisco Theosophical Lodge.

Courtney Wynn Sheets is a self-taught mixed-media artist creating within mediums
from wood sculpting, design, photography, collage, drawing to painting. Her background
includes performing arts with a San Francisco boutique circus, collaborating
on interactive sound installations, and making life-cast portraits. Courtney was born in
the cornfields of northwest Indiana in analog times,and has lived all over the country
including New England, New York City, Tucson, San Francisco, Portland, and Maui.

 Currently based in San Antonio, she makes her art, co-operates the gallery Space C7,
and curates Outrider Art + Objects, a boutique pop-up gallery. As a healing arts
practitioner for many years, Courtney Wynn Sheets, works as an end of life educator,
death work activist and doula.  

‘Much of my subject matter centers on our embodied connection to Nature, the energies

found there that are also within us, and their relationships to our individuated primal

natures. I often weave in themes related to the political zeitgeist that range from eco-

feminism to human rights. With my watercolor practice I engage with the space, the

water and colors in a way that allows for the unfoldment of harmony and the surrender

of any fixed plans. It allows for divine “accidents,” unexpected magic and an openness

to the Mystery that can’t be described through language. Expressing my true nature

through art is my path to self-actualization, and the integration of my many selves into

wholeness.’ - Courtney Wynn Sheets

For more information, visit http://courtneywynnsheets.com

Mary Power, dancer, choreographer and artistic director of MPOWERDANCE
PROJECT, is a member of the San Francisco non-profit dance community through
Independent Arts and Media. Mary holds a Masters in Exercise Science and
Kinesiology with an extensive teaching background in Sports and Dancemedicine. Her
choreography is sourced from Butoh, Contemporary Dance (Modern, Ballet), African,
Flamenco and other mind-body systems: Pilates, Gyrotonic, Yoga, Martial Arts and body
leverage for partnering/TRX. MpowerDance Project offers interdisciplinary workshops,
dance training classes, performance works, process and performance opportunities,
collaborations with dancers, artists, writers and film makers, musicians, and connects
community experience through dance film media. Through MpowerDance Project, Mary has been producing dance art performance events continually since 2010. And in 2012, MpowerDance Project launched Mary's annual Global Dance Project (GDP), which features free global imaginal content for choreography, dance art and performance via the world wide web.

For more information, visit http://mpowerdance.net

MpowerDance Mission

Our project maintains high artistic content through Butoh and contemporary dance,

multidisciplinary collaborations, and interactive manifested production. Our focus

promotes a creative commentary on human-centric views in relation to our biocentric

world, man’s ideas in relation to nature’s laws. Our work eliminates space for misogyny.

We drive with critical thinking, scientific research, real experience, world philosophy and

symbol to create choreography, performance and art. We inspire and connect diverse audiences, both locally (San Francisco) and globally, through the GDP/Global Dance Project, an annual choreographic offering.We build toward sustainability in all relationship, promoting professionalism and friendship with respect among ourselves, other humans, other species and to nature itself. We are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion and social awareness.

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