Music Credits
Andrew Bird

Costuming
Amy Beasley and Allison Beaty

Performers
Alyssa Adams
Megan Cardille
Camilla Carrington
Grace Cowan
Anastacy Golovidov
Talyn Vanmeter-Kirk
Hayden Wilson

This work 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. It reflects care, a celebration of diversity, and interdependence alongside the the invitation of wind, wide open spaces and rows of corn with open hands, connection, and joy.

The title, “The Wind Has Ideas” is borrowed from the poem Rogue Corn by Nikki Wallschlaeger.

Music Credits
Divan Gattamorta
Dustin O’Halloran
Michael Wall,
Deep East Music

Costume Design
Amy Beasley and Allison Beaty

Performers
Camilla Carrington
Caitlyn Eagan
Talyn Vanmeter-Kirk

“sweetpotato suite,” is a trio inspired by the North Carolina Sweetpotato Commission’s mission and production process. With movement generated by choreographer and dancers, the work is a reflection of planting, growth, harvest, and storage of the orange vegetable. With thoughtful fun and pensive flair, the dancers swipe, dig, toss, carry, and glean the space around them in representation of the farmer’s tender care during a year in the life of the  N.C. Covington Sweetpotato. 

This piece is made possible by an Arts and Science Grant from the Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Arts NC State.

Music Credits
“Sunrise” by Michael Wall
“Circular Translation” by Christopher Zurfluh
“Gap in the Wall” by Michael Wall

Costume Design
Amy Beasley and Allison Beaty

Performers
Alyssa Adams
Megan Cardille
Grace Cowan
Anastacy Golovidov,
Lily McCabe
Hayden Wilson

Cultivation explores relationships between care and control within an interconnected system. Dancers navigate tensions between nurturing and shaping through an evolving ecosystem in the natural landscape they inhabit, moving through stages of awareness, care, control, and release. Inspired by the cycles of growth and transformation in the natural world, the work asks what it means to care for something while allowing it to change beyond our control.

Cinematographer
Ryan Khan

Writer
K Brinson

Voiceover and Recording
Erin Logan

Music Credits
“Heaven’s Dust 1” by Michael Wall

Costume Design
Allison Beaty and Annabelle Sharp

Performers
Caitlyn Eagan and Annabelle Sharp

Among the Flowers was created in collaboration with K Brinson and Erin Logan of the Ethnobotany Lab at NC State University led by Dr. Jillian De Gezelle. Through an embodied, somatic lens, this screendance explores the relationship between the ecosystems around us and the ecosystems in our bodies. Inviting audiences to reconsider their relationship with Nature as active participants, the film reflects on memory held in the landscape, the interconnectedness of human and natural worlds, and our role in shaping the environment we inhabit. What might we notice, remember, and change through greater awareness?

This screendance was made possible by an Arts and Science Grant from the Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Arts NC State.

Amy Love Beasley (MFA Choreography, UNC Greensboro, BA Studio Art, College of Charleston) is a movement artist whose upbringing in the North Carolina mountains shaped her path toward embodied research, interdisciplinary practices, and practices in presence exploring interconnection. Beasley was fortunate to perform and study with artists and educators BJ Sullivan, Sean Sullivan, Gerri Houlihan, Niki Juralewicz, Jill Green, John Gamble, and Jan Van Dyke. Her formative training expanded in NYC with a dance home at Movement Research, which also influences the post-modern practices she teaches. Beasley’s work often explores intersections of movement, mindfulness, and visual art. She has presented at CAM Raleigh, the Gregg Museum, the North Carolina Dance Festival, the North Carolina Museum of Art, Art-o-Matic (DC), Triskellion’s Waxworks (Brooklyn), the Center for Performance Research (Brooklyn), and several universities. Beasley is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Performing Arts & Technology at NC State University where she teaches in both dance and somatics classrooms and co-directs Terrain Dance Project, a site-specific dance company. She has recently presented research at NDEO, ISMETA, NOFOD, and ACDA and co-authored the article Pedagogy of Care in Pilates, published in the Journal of Dance Education.

Allison Beaty is co-director of Terrain Dance Project and an Assistant Teaching Professor in Dance at North Carolina State University. She holds a MFA in Dance (Choreography) from the University of North Carolina Greensboro and a BA in Dance with Highest Honors from Texas Tech University. Her teaching and choreographic style is greatly informed by Safety Release technique, somatic practice, and her love for psychology, anatomy and interdisciplinary collaboration with science and technology. Allison’s choreography has been presented at the Wicklow ScreenDance Laboratory (Ireland), the Jacksonville Dance Film Festival (Florida), the Greensboro Dance Film Festival (North Carolina; Sweden), the Utah Dance Film Festival (Utah), the International ScreenDance Festival (Iowa; Mexico), the 16th Annual Modern Dance Festival at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Texas), the American College Dance Association Southcentral Conference (Texas), and BOOM Charlotte Festival (North Carolina), among numerous other concerts and festivals. In addition, her research on collaborative choreographic practices, improvisational methods, and arts-based translation of knowledge in dance has been presented at conferences such as the National Dance Education Organization, Dance Studies Association, Nordic Forum for Dance Research, American College Dance Association, Texas Dance Improvisation Festival, and the Southern Humanities Conference, and is published in Research in Dance Education. Alongside her creative and pedagogical practice, Allison is also engaged in quantitative research in psychology examining memory mechanisms for dance expertise.

Jill Guyton Nee (guest choreographer) is a North Carolina-based choreographer and dance teaching artist. Her work has been presented in Thailand and throughout the United States. Creatively, she has worked with several distinguished choreographers including Mark Dendy, David Dorfman, Bebe Miller, Susan Hadley, Gaspard Louis, Shane O’Hara, Erin Carlisle Norton, and Carol Finley. She earned her BA in dance and BS in business management from Meredith College. After graduating, she joined the full-time staff at American Dance Festival, was a collaborative member of the former company Even Exchange Dance Theatre and served on the Board of Directors for Code f.a.d. Company before attending The Ohio State University Department of Dance for her MFA. As a teaching artist, Jill served as the Head of Dance and an Associate Professor for the University of Memphis Department of Theatre & Dance for ten years, taught at several college dance festivals, and choreographed in the private studio sector for more than two decades.

Alyssa Adams is a third year student majoring in Human Biology, minoring in Dance Performance and Choreography, Microbiology, and Philosophy. She has been dancing for 17 years total, with about half of that time being competitively. Alyssa trained in a variety of styles at Monarch Movement Company, based in Hillsborough, NC, with her favorite styles being modern, jazz, and contemporary. This is her second year with Terrain Dance Project, and she is excited to dive into more site-specific work this year, as well as growing as a dancer throughout her experiences in university. 

Megan Cardille is a first year at NC State Majoring Statistics. She started dancing her first year of high school at Greensboro Performing Arts with training in ballet, jazz, modern, hiphop, and tap. Megan attended Weaver Academy for the performing arts. She comes from Musical Theatre, performing since the third grade and has since performed at the Carolina Theatre and Breakthrough T1D. She has taken yearly classes in New York City at Broadway Dance Center and Steps on Broadway for modern, jazz, tap, and hiphop. Megan is excited to begin working with Terrain Dance and keep dancing in college!

Camilla Carrington  is a first year at NC State, currently majoring in Political Science and aiming to take a minor in Dance Performance and Choreography. She has been dancing for 16 years with Triangle Youth Ballet in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and was a merit scholarship recipient for summer intensives at University of North Carolina School of the Arts and American Dance Festival. 

Grace Cowan is a first year at NC State, majoring in Human Biology and hoping to double minor in Dance Performance and Choreography as well as Nutrition. She has been dancing for fifteen years, with ten of those years at Jami Master’s School of Dance in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is trained in ballet, pointe, lyrical, modern, tap, and jazz. She has performed at Queen’s college, Central Piedmont Community College, UNCSA’s Winter Dance Festival, and Carolina Dance Master’s Performing Arts Scholarship Competitions. This is her first year dancing with Terrain Dance Project, and she is so excited for the opportunity to continue dancing in college.

Anastacy Golovidov is a fourth year in Graphic & Experience Design. 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 third year with Terrain Dance Project.

Bailey Krepps is a senior pre-law Political Science major with a minor in Dance Performance and Choreography. Bailey has been dancing for 11 years, first as a competition dancer at CC & Co Dance Complex here in Raleigh and then in Orchesis Dance Theatre, the resident modern dance company at Saint Mary’s High School. She has danced jazz, contemporary, ballet, hip-hop, and modern dance over the years, but her favorite styles to perform are modern and hip-hop! This is her second year with Terrain Dance Project, and she is so excited to keep dancing with this amazing group! 

Lily McCabe is a senior majoring in Psychology with minors in Art & Design and Dance Studies. Lily has been dancing primarily classical ballet for six years, the first three with Artistic Motion School of Arts, and the last three with the North Carolina Dance institute. At Artistic Motion, she took Vaganova ballet and technique classes. She also has four years of theatre and film acting experience, and had a lead role in two performances at the state level.

Talyn Vanmeter-Kirk is a freshman majoring in Human Biology with minors in Sports Sciences and Dance Performance and Choreography, working as a personal trainer in Carmichael Gym. They began dancing in 2011 with North Carolina Dance Institute, and did The Nutcracker with Carolina Ballet for three years, as well as the summer intensive. They attended The University of North Carolina School of the Arts as a contemporary dance major for their senior year of highschool, the summer intensive two years in a row, and the Festival of Dance three years in a row. They are classically trained in ballet, jazz, hip hop, and contemporary styles of Cunningham, Horton, and Limone. They have performed in works by Kevin Tate, Annalee Traylor, Kate Jewitt, and many more, as well as several self-choreographed solos.

Hayden Wilson is a first year student and this is her first year with Terrain.

Caitlyn Eagan is an alumni of NC State and graduated with a major in Human Biology with a minor in Dance Studies and Sports Science. She is now a part of the Doctor of Physical Therapy program at Campbell University. She was a founding member of Terrain Dance Program and has been dancing for 20 years starting with experience at Debbie Huffman Dance Academy and was trained in Ballet, Lyrical, Tap, Jazz and Modern. Her favorite roles she has performed was the Carabosse her senior year in high school and being a part of screendances within TDP. She is excited to come back and perform with TDP and hopes to continue to be a part of the group.