2021 NC Dance Festival
Virtual Field Trip
Virtual Field Trip
Each year, the NC Dance Festival (NCDF), a program coordinated by Greensboro-based Dance Project, brings professional modern and contemporary dance choreography from NC artists to audiences across the state. We began our 30th Anniversary Season celebration in September 2020, but due to necessary shifts in the past year in response to the ongoing pandemic, we are continuing this celebration through 2021.
Since we cannot share this performance live with students, we hope you enjoy this virtual field trip, consisting of selected dances featured in our October 2 live performance and an artist talk-back.
Once you have shared this with your students, please let us know by filling out this quick form, so we can track our reach into the community. Thank you for introducing your students to dance in North Carolina!
Run-time: 37 min
Cygnus
dance film by Cara Hagan
~
Re-Forming
Choreography: Anne Morris and Lauren Joyner, with contributions by the dancers
Rehearsal direction: Virginia Freeman Dupont
Original Five Short Forms choreography and chance score creation: Jan Van Dyke
Performance: Jacob Barker, Emily Daughtridge, Virginia Freeman Dupont, Sophie Kohlphenson, Carrie Plew, Clare Scott, Kelly Swindell, Sierra Taylor, Annie Young
Music: “D2”, “Salt Lake Swerve,” and “Just Wondering,” by Maarten Schellekens (CC license: CC BY-NC 4.0)
“Re-Forming” was created in honor of Jan Van Dyke and her choreographic methods. Drawing original material from Van Dyke’s Five Short Forms and a chance score she used in another dance, the work features three generations of dancers influenced by Jan, and carries her work forward in new ways.
~
Lucina
directed/filmed/choreographed/edited: Jeehyun Joung
dancer: Jeehyun Joung
music: “Motion” by Eunyong Sim
“Lucina” is a media-based experimental dance film that conveys an autobiographical story of a woman's experience on the brink of bearing a child. Given the classical myths in Asian culture, this story is about the temporary experience of being an embodiment of and mirroring the supernatural power of the moon in human’s soul and body. This film was created through the NC Dance Festival’s 2021 Artist in Residence program.
~
Creative Exchange
Creation/Performance: Aparna Keshaviah and Atiba Rorie
This exchange is the result of a short-term collaboration between Keshaviah and Rorie as a conversation between their two art forms.
Nymphosis-LIVE! is a continuously evolving piece that imagines the maturation process of a mantis from nymph stage to a more mature form. Contained pulsing of a cocoon-like form opens into the full extensions and realized postures of an adult. The music, created by Aparna Keshaviah, is built on a Hindu chant seeking release from fear. The lyrics ("Lead me from ignorance to knowledge \ From darkness to light \ From death to immortality") are embellished using Western harmonization, scat-like Bharatanatyam dance syllables, and south Indian percussion loops.
Kinkini-Kan is a dialogue between West African drumming and improvised classical Indian dance that seeks to celebrate the connectedness of world rhythmic traditions.
Learn more about the Artists on the NC Dance Festival website: danceproject.org/ncdf
Run time: 54 min
On October 23rd, the NC Dance Festival hosted a virtual Artist Talk-back with choreographers and performers in our Oct 2 performance. This version has been edited to focus primarily on the responses by the artists featured in the Virtual Field Trip:
Cara Hagan, Aparna Keshaviah, Jeehyun Joung, and Virginia Freeman Dupont.
Other artists present are Gavin Stewart and Vanessa Owen of Stewart/Owen Dance and Tiffany Fish Santeiro, who performed in "Flight Distance I" by Helen Simoneau.
Want to hear more from some of these artists? Check out our NCDF Podcast, "In Process":