Inspired by his doctoral research on the creative and collaborative embodied practices of social movements and funded in part by an Arts Innovation Grant, Sensing Bodies In Common was an interactive and multi-sensory performance for social change workshop developed, produced, and facilitated by Daniel in February of 2023. Focusing on relating through movement and contact, this workshop reinforced our kinesthetic and proprioceptive attunement to facilitate greater self-awareness as well as a deeper empathic connection with others thereby enhancing collaboration through various forms of embodied communication. In a post-workshop survey, one participant said they “felt more connected to the people in the room than I ever do when I’m at a talking-only workshop,” and another noted that “the interaction with others was immediate and deep and felt really open in a way that sometimes spoken language does not allow.” 

Bodies for a Molecular Revolution was a performance activism workshop that Dilliplane co-designed and co-facilitated with scholar and somatic practitioner Dr. Christina Banalopoulou. Hosted by the autonomously-managed free theatre Embros (Εμπρός Ελεύθερο Αυτοδιαχειριζομένο Θεάτρο) in Athens, Greece in February 2020, this workshop contributed to the movement opposing privatization and the use of police to evict and destroy various occupations throughout the city. By combining instruction in critical theory—especially the theories of Felix Guattari—with embodied exercises, the workshop offered artist-activists tools for community building and creative activism while simultaneously challenging dominant roles, identities, and modes of relation, including those associated with forms of political resistance considered relatively acceptable by systems of social control.

These Eyes… was a community-building art intervention undertaken in neighborhoods of Rogers Park, Chicago and Northeast Portland  in 2011. Based on interviews, Dilliplane conducted with local residents, he produced posters relating their hopes for the improvement of their neighborhood. He subsequently posted these throughout the neighborhoods in order to empower the voices of residents and encourage community dialogue.