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Minor in Flute Performance
NC State’s Terrain Dance Project will present Themes of Gathering, a collection of new site-specific choreographic works at The Corner on Centennial Campus at 2 p.m. April 17 and 7 p.m. April 18. The Terrain Dance Project is a site-specific dance company dedicated to the creation and performance of choreographed and improvised dance works in nontraditional spaces, including dance film projects.
This interdisciplinary performance investigates The Corner as a site of gathering and identity, featuring live musicians and choreography by co-director Amy Love Beasley, guest artists Jill Guyton Nee and Anabelle Scarborough and NC State senior Annabelle Sharp. Select works explore the intersection of dance and science, inspired by work by NC State`s Gage Lab and the North Carolina Sweetpotato Commission. This project is supported by an arts and science grant from the Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Arts NC State.
This event is FREE and open to the public!
Apr 14
Terrain Dance Project Choreographer Spotlight: Co-Director, Amy Love Beasley […]
My work was created in collaboration with the dancers and is inspired by work undertaken by researchers in NC State’s Crop and Soil Sciences and the Gage Lab, particularly looking at heirloom maize and its genetic potential for creating sustainable crops in a changing climate. Just as it was central to societies like the ancient Mayans who revered it as a source of creation and life, corn is central to culture throughout the world, and is central to contemporary life in the United States, whether we recognize it or not- it is vital for food, fuel, medicine, infrastructure. As movement researchers, we considered corn and the work that our science partners do from many angles. We moved through tendencies, elements, human labor, and the joy, urgency, community, and endurance around tending to a crop or considering climate change. We thought about how diversity creates vitality. We looked at what is heirloom in our own families (our lists included food, dishes, paintings, some with images of corn or included corn in the recipes). We moved through what it could look like to communicate across experiences or to invite what is heirloom into contemporary conversations. Invitations are folded into the dance- the invitation of past to present, the invitation to look closely or connect, to bridge science and art for the greater good. The final work especially reflects the invitation of wind, wide open spaces and rows of corn, open hands, connection and joy, as well as the invitation provided by the performance space, the Corner, to gather and innovate. This piece is made possible by an Arts and Science Grant from the Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Arts NC State.
Come see Amy`s work April 17 at 2pm and April 18 at 7pm at The Corner on Centennial Campus! Free and open to the public.
Apr 10
Inspire Lifelong Performing
