Tag: site-specific dance

If You Care About the Climate, You'll Want to See Jody Sperling's New Work

Tonight Jody Sperling, artistic director of Time Lapse Dance, advocate for the environment and expert on the work of Loie Fuller, brings a new performance installation, Book of Clouds, to Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York City. Collaborating with visual artist Amy-Claire Huestis and composer Omar Zubair, Sperling uses light technologies, movement and sound to […]

When Your Stage Is Not a Stage

To create a multimedia piece that premiered at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in 2014, choreographer Andrew Bartee filmed Pacific Northwest Ballet dancers performing in vastly different surroundings, all within Olympic National Park. While dancing in a rainforest, on a snow-covered mountaintop and along a pebbly beach—all during the making of one […]

A Colorado Company Tackles Gun Violence through Dance

The Boulder, Colorado–based company Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet premieres a new site-specific work on September 17. Choreographed by artistic director Robert Sher-Machherndl, White Fields is a 55-minute work that aims to generate dialogue about gun violence. It will be performed at Holiday Park in Boulder at 8 pm. The performance is free and open […]