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Concert Programs

Terrain Dance Project

April 9 and 11, 2025
6:30 p.m.
Reds and Whites on Centennial Campus

presents

Terrain Dance Project

At Reds and Whites
on Centennial Campus

Directed by

Amy Love Beasley
Autumn Mist Belk


PERFORMANCE OVERVIEW

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PROGRAM

The Science of Joy (2025)

Choreographer
Autumn Mist Belk with the dancers

Music Credits
The Blue Room: II. March by Ethel
Danzón No. 2 (feat. Orquesta Mexicana de las Artes) by Arturo Márquez
Text from Joy as a Virtue: The Means and Ends of Joy by Pamela E. King

Performers
Allyson Bach, Caitlyn Eagan, Amanda Geddie-Garcia, Anastacy Golovidov, Chloe Mumy, Paul Randolph, Reese Sutton*

  • *Reese is unable to perform due to a recent injury; however, her name has been left in the credits of these works because she was instrumental in the creation of both pieces of choreography.

The Science of Joy is dedicated to the memory of Dan Cook, longtime fan and supporter of the arts at NC State. This work explores the intersection of organization, methodical flow, and chaotic expressions of jubilation. Imagine the dancers as elements within a giant spreadsheet; they interact with each other and the site to form the molecules of dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin – the causes of joy within our bodies.

Prism Calls (2025)

Choreographer
Katherine G. Moore + Kathryn Nusa Logan in collaboration with the performers

Music Credits
Sound design by Kathryn Nusa Logan

Performers
Allyson Bach, Caitlyn Eagan, Amanda Geddie-Garcia, Anastacy Golovidov, Chloe Mumy, Paul Randolph, Reese Sutton*

  • *Reese is unable to perform due to a recent injury; however, her name has been left in the credits of these works because she was instrumental in the creation of both pieces of choreography.


FACULTY AND GUEST ARTISTS

Amy Love Beasley is co-director of Terrain Dance Project and an Assistant Teaching Professor in North Carolina State University’s Department of Performing Arts and Technology, teaching dance and somatic practices. She holds a B.A. in Studio Art from the College of Charleston and a M.F.A in Choreography from the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Beasley brings her experiences as an artist in the field to her teaching, including performing for John Gamble, Susan Haines, Gerri Houlihan, BJ Sullivan, Sean Sullivan, Talani Torres, and Jan Van Dyke. Her own work has been presented at several universities, ACDA, NDEO, the NC Dance Festival, UNCSA, Art-o-Matic in Washington, DC and through Triskelion Art’s Waxworks and the Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn. Beasley’s research merges her studies and considers how visual art making and processes intersect with dance making and dance education. Inspired by her somatic practices and teaching, her research in each classroom looks at how mindfulness intersects with learning, moving, and self agency. Before joining the faculty at North Carolina State University, she was on faculty at Elon University, UNC Greensboro, Wake Forest University, and the UNC School of the Arts’ Summer Intensive

Autumn Mist Belk (MFA, University of Maryland; BA, University of Alabama) is the co-director of Terrain Dance Project and a teaching professor in the Department of Performing Arts & Technology at NC State University, where she earned the honor of Distinguished Undergraduate Professor in 2023. During her nearly 20 years at NC State, Autumn has directed multiple academic dance companies, co-created two dance minors and multiple courses, and taught thousands of students in 20 unique courses. Outside of academia, she founded and served as artistic director of the multimedia dance group Code f.a.d. Company from 2008-2020, collaborating with a strong core of dancers, musicians, and artists for over 50 performances across the country over those 12 years. In the local community, Autumn directed danceSPARK from 2008-2013, then moved up to serve as a senior organizer of the overarching SPARKcon arts festival from 2014-2016. Autumn also directs FAD: Film-Art-Dance Festival, which includes curating Screendance in Schools – educational programs of dance films complete with lesson plans and learning objective-driven activities for K-12 classrooms. Her own dance films have screened in festivals around the world, and she has been chosen to participate in artist residencies (making dance films) in Italy, Iceland, Austria, Scotland, and Argentina.

Kathryn Nusa Logan is an interdisciplinary artist imagining alternative relationships between humans, technology, and the natural world. Her work ranges across contemporary dance, film and video, music and sound design, and multi-media installation and performance. She has shared work internationally in Scotland, Cyprus, Sweden, France, and Brazil and across the U.S. in venues including the Lincoln Center Clark Studio Theater, Movement Research, The Wexner Film/Video Theater, and Center for Performance Research. She brings a site-specific lens to all of her work: composing uniquely for different spatial and conceptual concepts. Logan holds degrees in Dance from University of North Carolina School of the Arts and The Ohio State University, and is currently serving as the Executive Director of the Office of Creative Propulsion in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at James Madison University.

Katherine G. Moore is a movement and teaching artist whose work spans theaters, outdoor environments, galleries, and community spaces. Active professionally as a performer, choreographer, and educator across the US since 2010, her recent artistic work has received funding from the Greater Columbus Arts Council and Ohio Arts Council and has been supported through creative residencies at The Croft (MI), Keshet Center for the Arts (NM), Akron Soul Train (OH), and Wildacres (NC). Throughout her career she has had the pleasure of performing or presenting her own work in venues that include Jacob’s Pillow (MA), Dixon’s Place (NY), LaMama (NY), Center for Performance Research (NY), Movement Research at Judson Church (NY), Dumbo Dance Festival (NY), RADFest (MI), The Flea (NY), Ailey Citigroup Theater (NY), Greenspace (NY), Ohio State University (OH), Urban Arts Space (OH), the University of Southern Mississippi (MS), Ohio University, and Ohio Wesleyan University, as well as numerous parks and community spaces. Katherine currently lives in Columbus, OH, where she serves on the leadership team of the Columbus Dance Alliance and holds teaching affiliations with Ohio Wesleyan University, Ohio University, Ohio State University, and the Perennial Movement Group. Katherine earned a BA from Hope College and an MFA from The Ohio State University, and she is 200hr yoga teacher certified through the Perri Institute for Mind and Body.


MEET THE PERFORMERS

Terrain Dance Project

Allyson Bach is a second-year student majoring in Genetics with a minor in Environmental Toxicology. She has 14 years of dance experience, beginning at Tammy Arrowood’s Stars of Tomorrow Dance Studio in Shelby, NC. Allyson was a competitive dancer throughout grade school with her favorite styles being lyrical, jazz, and contemporary. In high school, she served as a student instructor in ballet, tap, gymnastics, and conditioning classes. Allyson joined Terrain Dance Project in its inaugural semester and has continued to grow as a dancer and individual through unique site-specific dance.

Caitlyn Eagan is a junior majoring in Human Biology with a minor in Dance and Sports Science. She’s a founding member of TDP and has been dancing for 18 years, with 15 of those at Debbie Huffman Dance Academy where she trained in Ballet, Lyrical, Tap, and Jazz. Caitlyn was part of the competition team for nine years, and some of her favorite roles include Carabosse in her senior year and Pirate King in her ballet competition group.

Amanda Geddie-Garcia is a first-year majoring in Marine and Coastal Resources with minors in Dance Performance & Choreography and Spanish. Amanda has been dancing since she was 5, training in ballet, contemporary, modern, and jazz. She trained at Greensboro Ballet, where she was able to dance some of her favorite lead roles including Swanhilda in Coppélia and Dewdrop & Snow Queen in The Nutcracker. She’s been attending the Burklyn Ballet Summer Intensive since 2021 and has spent the last couple of years as a counselor there. She is excited to go back again this summer. Here at NC State, she enjoys being in her second semester with Terrain, as well as the Studio 804 Ballet Company and other student choreographic works.

Anastacy Golovidov is a junior majoring Graphic & Experience Design with a minor in Music Performance. She has been dancing since she was 2 and trained with Triangle Academy of Dance for 16 years. She participated in their student ballet company, with their Jazz Team, and took classes of tap, hip-hop, modern, and contemporary. She attended numerous competitions and conventions, participated in their Nutcracker, and Spring shows. She participated in Carolina Ballet summer intensives and performed in their shows as well. Some of her favorite roles include Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker and Alice from Alice in Wonderland. Her freshman year she participated in creating and performing a dance film at SCAD through their performing arts department. At NC State she has been taking dance classes and this is her first semester with Terrain Dance Project.

Chloe Mumy is a second-year student majoring in Biological Sciences with minors in Dance Studies and Forensic Science. Chloe has been dancing since she was 4 and trained with Step Up Studio of Conover, NC for 14 years, 8 of those years on the competition team. While at NC State, Chloe is in her first semester with Terrain, and also is a member and choreographer for DanceLife. In her free time, she is also an assistant at Step Up Studio and hosts classes for various studios in the Raleigh area.

Paul Randolph is a graduate student studying aerospace engineering. Paul is currently in his third and final semester with Terrain after joining his senior spring of undergraduate studies at NC State. During completion of the dance minor, Paul discovered improvisational and site specific forms of modern dance for the first time. Luckily he found has and greatly enjoyed the Terrain Dance Project that uses these two ideas quite often.

Reese Sutton is a Sophomore majoring in Communication with a concentration in Interpersonal, Organizational, and Rhetorical Studies, while also minoring in Dance Studies. With 18 years of dance experience, she has been both classically trained and has competed extensively, training at North Carolina Academy of Dance Arts and Legacy Dance Center. Now, she continues to pursue her passion for dance as a dedicated member of Terrain Dance Project, where she has been involved for three semesters, embracing the opportunity to create, connect, and grow as both an artist and leader.


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thank you to the Terrain dancers for your creative courage, trust, and conviviality as we bring dance out into open spaces at NC State. We would also like to acknowledge the work of the four dancers of “Sails,” which we were not able to perform this week. Your efforts and dedication to that work, which is postponed, are meaningful and appreciated. 

Thank you to Jude DesNoyer and Marian Fragola for helping this performance come to life on Centennial campus. Thank you to our wonderful department staff Joanne Sutton, Noah Crawford, Tamina Sidorova, and LilyGrace Wolfe, our supportive dance faculty members and the entire faculty of DPAT. Thank you to Department Head Dr. Stuart Benkert, and the Vice Chancellor and Dean of DASA, Dr. Doneka Scott, and all in leadership who support the arts at NC State.

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