30TH ANNUAL CUCALORUS FILM FESTIVAL
presents
Dance-a-lorus
Thalian Main
THU · NOVEMBER 21 · 2024 · 7:30 PM
An experimental dance and cinema experience.
Racket
Sue Meier
There are specific repetitive rhythms that are heard in a print shop. It could be presses running, paper being jogged or stock being cut. With a soundtrack of these sounds as the basis of the piece, the mechanical side of the work mimics the movement of the dancers on stage, in an exploration of sound.
Seabreeze
Kevin Green
Seabreeze was once a vibrant Black cultural mecca, which grew in response to segregation, only to be destroyed by Hurricane Hazel in 1954. The surrounding white communities were rebuilt, but Seebreeze was not.
Avatar Rising
Shea-Ra Nichi / Janneke Wade-de Jong / Wil Fell
With great evil, greater good will appear. An avatar is the incarnation of a deity in human form who counteracts some particular evil in the world. With live drummers, three dancers representing Oya (a powerful deity associated with transformation in West African traditions) initiate the changes we see on the screen.
Witness
Rachael Scott Crawford, Mirla Criste, Karola Lüttringhaus
The mover witnesses an altered sight. The caretaker witnesses and cares for the mover. The painter witnesses the landscape and creates an image. You witness all.
Sleeping Dreams of Blazing Snow
Tracey Varga / Patrick Ogelvie / Cole Marquis
An impressionistic collaboration exploring the increasing heat of summer; melding the extremes of seasons with a continuous flow of movement.
F.A.B.L.E.
Linda Ann Webb / Patrick Ogelvie
One of nature’s codes, the Fibonacci sequence, morphs into a digital matrix infiltrated with “virus-like” dancers, culminating in an algorithmic shift to an existence inundated with artificial realities.
ASPHYXIA
Wells Jackson / Jackson & Co.
A man finds himself suffocating, crushed under the difficulty of his own life’s journey. He can’t stop or turn back; but he won’t survive alone.
Escapism
Madeleine Pautier
A lone dancer finds solace by stepping into her alternate reality. Sweeping waltzes in nature unite her past, present and future self.
I Saw You Trying
Star Coltrin /Jackson & Co.
An examination of love, life, and loss. “You’re allowed to take on someone’s pain, you just have to know how to give it back.”
The Mimosa Tree
Lauren Cranidiotis Ariana Stefanut, Lulu Molina, Sorsha Masters, Audra Schaffer
Music: The Stolen Child by Clann
Look out the window and see, connect, feel what may be ripples of the haunting of human pain, and what might be transformed beyond it.
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Dance-a-lorus is a premier collaboration between Cucalorus and the Dance Cooperative.
