Dance Artist

Community Organizer

Visual Arts leader

about ronice

Ronice (Ro) Stratton (she/they) is the Executive Director of Oakland Art Murmur, where they advance public access to the East Bay’s visual arts by leading initiatives that amplify local artists. Ronice advocates for the arts as a CA for the Arts Fellow (Grassroots Artist Advocacy Program).

Ronice is also a dance artist and cultural organizer.  With Dancing Earth, Ro performs and teaches at the intersection of dance, ecology, and cultural resilience, and with Diana Lara Projects, they collaborate in international residencies and performances exploring Honduran ancestry and Indigenous resistance. 

Ronice is a co-founder of RECLAIM, a dance gathering for BIPOC and/or Queer communities.  RECLAIM creates intentional spaces where dance, rest, and solidarity become tools for liberation and collective care.

Through these roles, Ro is dedicated to cultivating inclusive spaces where creativity drives belonging, justice, and collective transformation.

What I’ve been up to

Yelkaram. It’s a Lenca word that means “in the river”. Just one word to be one *with the water*. A fish, a stone, a light refraction. In the piece, we slowed to feel the weight and expansion of our organs. We were tectonic plates,
Last summer we performed Yelkaram in SF. The piece was based on remembering our Honduran ancestry. Lenca weavings. Indigenous activism. In these shots, I’m working through emerging, being forest, being a microorganism that eats wood, being wra
We went to Honduras to research for Yelkaram @yelkaram_dance. Learning from the Lenca, their weaving, pottery, language, tortillas, how to be family. And I learned the land. Dancing with it. My root tendrils trying to find their way. Gracias @dian
I’m preparing a performance with my Honduran collaborators and it’s making me think of this solo I created “Tupalkafira”, which is about the Lenca Creation Story. Tupalkafira is the goddess that created the world for the ind
A little living-room improvisation. See more (and others) improving on the darkest day of the year, tomorrow, 12-6pm, at the Finnish Hall in Berkeley. I was playing with the concepts of levers, fluidity, and layers. It was a reflection of what I&r
~~Performing Sunday~~. You are invited to witness an improvisational dance & music performance this Solstice, Sunday, December 21, 12-6:30pm at the Finnish Hall in Berkeley. I will be joined by a group of other improvisational dancers, all movin
**The Listening Project: House of the Matriarchs**. This Sunday, Oct. 5, we dance the wisdom we’ve gathered from elders in our community. I’ve been honored to learn from Johnella LaRose from Sogorea Te Land Trust. From working the land
Calling all East Bay visual artists! Here is an opportunity to exhibit your artwork to art lovers this December. Registration for East Bay Open Studios is open now until Sept 12. Join us for one or two weekends, Dec 6-7 and 13-14. We get thousand
.FILM. The incredible force, @rulantangen . Trying out the double exposure film technique :)
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