Sweaty Bones

Sweaty Bones hello and welcome to the process sweaty bones is both an exhibit, a dance party, performance event, happening, situationist movement, and healing gesture.

sweaty bones is a profit share. all door costs are shared equally with artists. sweaty bones has been run independently, in conjunction with artist run centres, festivals, in homes, galleries, and pop up spaces. sweaty bones is a name for a container made by heidi nagtegaal, for alternative arts experiences in a posi and safe fully embodied state, using the dance party as a medium. sweaty bones is

a co-creative project made each time by and with the artists involved in each event. sweaty bones was started in 2010 after Mandy Hardwick gave me a 1 year residency in artbank, and hasn't stopped since, although we keep on thinking it has, it's only ever gone to sleep in order to wake up new. heidi nagtegaal, oct 2014

Of importance!
03/04/2015

Of importance!

This episode finds Kori and Andi talking about the importance of the q***r dance party as a site of political resistance. We talk history, personal experience and hopes for the future.

10/19/2014

this happened last night, and it was amazing. thank you everyone for making the space magic and bringing all your gifts. so much magic, so much party times, new art combinations, friendship, connection, and straight up sweaty sweaty bones.

thinking about tent city and solidarity with all those who were jailed, and now released. my thoughts are with you, and ...
10/18/2014

thinking about tent city and solidarity with all those who were jailed, and now released. my thoughts are with you, and a big reason why i was able to keep on doing sweaty bones tonight was the thought of dancing all that energy through, and clearing space for healing, and possible new futures.

thank you for all my friends who intuitively facebooked me, fed me, gave me drinks, sang me songs, hugged, loved, and told me "whatever heidi, we're in this together." your love gives me legs to stand on. you know who you are, and i am very grateful for you.

can't wait to get weird with you all and make something beautiful happen. who cares if we don't know what to call it, it's magic. it needs no names.

10/18/2014

setting up @ rainbow connection @ 4pm // everyone welcome to come by and install with us // sweaty bones 11 ready to go!

10/11/2014

okay, so sweaty bones 11 x art trap is all set to go for next saturday, oct 18th! secret location, msg me for details! xo

10/11/2014

so long since i've talked with you!

there was a sweet solstice sweaty bones with mary mack in dec 2013 and that was amazing. we danced in the livingroom of the Hammock Residency until 4am with sweet peeps from calgary, vancouver, toronto, and all over the place. it was a beautiful night of continual visits, dance sets, and good vibes. for those of you who were there, thank you for sharing that night with me!

the next sweaty bones is imminent! Sweaty Bones 11 is going to happen in a week at 855 e hastings with Art Trap (Ezra Bloom & co), and i can hardly wait. it's been a while. facebook event coming soon, message me for any questions, it's going to be a great night.

saturday, oct 18th. convo/light mingling from 8-10pm, dance party/art exhibit/installations/whatever happens 10pm-3am. see you soon!

In the tongues, after Hazel Meyer and Logers Mac tongue performance where they licked my extremely sunburned back with t...
08/11/2013

In the tongues, after Hazel Meyer and Logers Mac tongue performance where they licked my extremely sunburned back with their giant vinyl tongues, while Mary peeled the skin off my back. Inner/outer healing experience, or as Logan and Hazel call it, "a space and time e***a."

SB8 x Mary Mack, 2013

Presented by the Feminist Art Gallery

Photo Credit: Jessica Lynn Whitbread

Super excited about collaborating with Mary Tremonte on this next Sweaty Bones! August 2nd! Hen House! Toronto!For those...
07/23/2013

Super excited about collaborating with Mary Tremonte on this next Sweaty Bones! August 2nd! Hen House! Toronto!

For those of you who knows Mary Mack as a dj in other parties... she was the force at the Beaver last night, and when I was getting tired around midnight, I did a little late night eight balling goofery asking if I should go to her party... the answer "MOST DECIDEDLY SO."

I take this as a good omen. Love you guys, Heidi

Sweaty Bones 5 was a collaboration with the Feminist Art Gallery (Toronto), with the Institutions By Artists Festival, a...
03/21/2013

Sweaty Bones 5 was a collaboration with the Feminist Art Gallery (Toronto), with the Institutions By Artists Festival, as a closing of the Access Gallery exhibition FAG Satellite. Thank you to artists: Patrick Cruz ㊚㊛㊚㊛㊚㊛, Guadalupe Martinez, Emilio Rojas, SaunaTruck (Adrian Sinclair, George Rahi, Karlis Kalnins), Heidi Nagtegaal (The School of the Free Hammock), Pillow Head (Justin Wright), Jen Partymartyr, Mangina (Frederick Cummings & James Diamond), Zoo Zhop, and Dynamo Arts Association for hosting.

10/13/2012

Double thanks to Kenneth Yuen + Jordan Bent for photographing SB5! Thank you to Saw-mon + Patrick Cruz for the videography! I am stoked! Folding 1000 Sweaty Bones posters for tomorrow night, and putting love into each one.

Pillow Head and Jordan Bent, Sweaty Bones, 2011 // CHILLINPhoto by Kenneth Yuen
02/12/2012

Pillow Head and Jordan Bent, Sweaty Bones, 2011 // CHILLIN

Photo by Kenneth Yuen

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