For several years, Abby Crain and Margit collaborated in Art Workouts, which was a platform for collaboration in teaching, choreographing, facilitating research, curating events, and gathering people and practices together. It was a space for aesthetic, intellectual, somatic, semiotic, sensual, rioutous, complex, challenging, and nurturing to live together. While the two met decades before when they were young ones, and had found ways to work in community then, this project was specifically rooted in the Bay Area, starting 2009.