Friday August 24, 2007
SARUS DANCE FESTIVAL
Friday, August 24 / 11:30 am - 1pm / The reflection pool at the center of UNCW's campus
Free and open to the public. More information available at the Sarus Festival Website.
Co-sponsored by the UNCW Office of Cultural Arts
On Friday, August 24, New York based Human Kinetics Movement Arts & Alban Elved Dance Company perform site specific work at UNCW's reflection pool as part of the 2007 Sarus Dance Festival, a city-wide event taking place Aug. 23-26, 2007.
FEATURED DANCE COMPANIES
Led by artistic director Karola Lüttringhaus, Alban Elved Dance Company/Karola Luttringhaus is an interdisciplinary contemporary dance company originally from Berlin, Germany. Ms. Lüttringhaus creates athletic and theatrical contemporary dance works, which seek to shape meaning from the rich array of emotional experience. Her work is fiercely physical, tracing the changeable electricity of thought and sensation that underlies human interaction and interpersonal relationships. The interdisciplinary nature of their works , which frequently incorporate live music, visual art, digital media, aerial work, and technologies, expands the boundaries of dance performance, creating startling and evocative psychological landscapes. Read more at albanelved.com.
Human Kinetics Movement Arts creates site-specific movement installations. The New York City based company blends dance and the visual arts to transform the environment in such a way that the audience becomes sensitized to new possibilities of perception and meaning. Artistic Director Yana Schnitzler states: "I'm fascinated by fabric. My primary working principle is to explore the different aspects of this material in relation to the human body."
THE 2007 SARUS DANCE FESTIVAL
The Sarus Dance Festival brings together a diverse range of national and international performance artists for a four-day, city-wide collaboration. The festival includes site-specific performances throughout the greater Wilmington area, lectures, demonstrations, amster classes and outreach initiatives.
Performances take place in a number of non-traditional and unusual performance spaces, ranging from the reflection pool at UNCW and the Downtown Riverwalk to the Johnnie Mercer Pier at Writghsville Beach and Cameron Art Museum. Site-specific performances turn elements of "found spaces", including architecture and nature into playgrounds for artistic expression and community meeting. This years' performing companies offer a wide variety of artistic voices combining fierce physiality with meditative and sculptural movement.
For more information about the festival, a complete scheudle of events and featured dance companies visit the Sarus Festival Website.
Photo of Human Kinetics Movement Arts by Harry Schnitzler
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