Who We Are
A gathering of music, movement, and birdsong — where we remember what it feels like to be wholly, wildly alive. And from that remembrance, we protect all beings right to aliveness.
Creating more spaces for Birds and humans to dance
The Why:
People protect what they feel connected to
Connection is built through experience, not instruction
Through dance to Birdsong, we not only connect with and co-regulate joyfully to each other, but to Birds (for they are wild dancers), as well as what it means to be supported in being wholly alive- sensorily, spatially, and energetically.
Joy and collective movement increase openness, creativity, and prosocial behavior
Identity drives sustained action more than information does
Identifying with wild, alive life creates generative, sustained actions for all beings right to aliveness
“Take this feeling with you. Protect it—wherever you find it.”
Boogie for the Birds is a community-based, embodied conservation experience that invites people to reconnect with their own aliveness—and, through that reconnection, remember their relationship with the natural world. Rather than leading with information, urgency, or instruction, this experience uses music, movement, and collective rhythm to create a felt sense of joy, belonging, and interconnection. From this state, care becomes intuitive, and action becomes a natural extension of identity rather than obligation.
Restoring the dancefloor is an act of conservation —for birds, and for every being's right to be fully, wildly alive.
Birds need habitat to dance
To sing, to court, to thrive — birds need intact, living places. Habitat is their dancefloor. Without it, their song goes silent.
Humans need space to create
To express, to connect, to feel wholly alive — we need places where our bodies can move freely and joyfully
Restoring one restores both
When we reclaim our own aliveness, we naturally want to protect theirs. The metaphor becomes mission. The feeling becomes action
Meet the Creator
Dori Edwards has spent her life exploring all the messy, wild, playful ways there are to remember ALIVENESS. What it means to be body, animal, heart, soul, and creator in this infinitely participant existence. In the past few years, the incantation — I GET TO BE HERE — has become an anchor, an invocation, and an indefinite invitation. It has become the roots that remind her to celebrate that we GET the opportunity to move with and as this miraculous existence. An existence that probability says should not have happened and, yet, it did.
Boogie for the Birds is a convergence of everything that reminds her of the miracle — dance, play, animals, community, plants, music, rhythm, and creativity. It is her devotional to an undivided Earth where we remember we are all interconnected.
A UCLA graduate in Communications and Anthropology, she has ten years in scientific, conservation, and environmental communication and education, as well as immersive training in yoga, somatic dance, astroherbalism, and astrology. Dori believes that the way forward is together and that joy, awe, wonder, and curiosity are the foundation for a future where all beings have what they need for their own unique and whole aliveness. She also believes that conservation is not just a cerebral call to action, but rather an embodied experience that organically and intuitively inspires care, accountability, and a return to relationship, reciprocity, and our sacred responsibility as an integral part of this enchantingly entangled web of existence.
Boogie for the Birds: Restore the Dancefloor is her offering that explores the idea and belief that when we restore our right to LOVE life, that remembrance will inherently inspire us to move, act, and speak in ways that protect the right to aliveness for all beings — winged, walking, wild.
In Partnership with: The Denver Audubon
Denver Audubon believes that Birds are essential to our ecosystems—and conserving them protects the balance of nature and the health of our communities.
Since 1969, Denver Audubon has been rooted in a love of birds, wildlife, and the natural spaces that surround us. As an independent chapter of the National Audubon Society, DA shapes their own mission, focusing resources on local conservation, and listening closely to their community. Currently, the DA is growing a community of people, like you, who feel called to speak up, act boldly, and care deeply for the future of Earth and all her wild beings.
