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Our Decade of Dance Gala on Spetmeber 26th featured choreography from this year's Seed Grant Reciepnts. These are some photos of Caitlin Morgan's "Wind and Unwinding." The work explores humans’ interventionist relationship with our ecosystem: an internal war between the intellectual desire to control our surroundings and a fundamentally animal urge to surrender to the imperfect, sometimes violent, and nonetheless beautiful wildness that surrounds us. @caitlmm 📸 Joshua Miner Reel 🎼 Hearty, Bensound #vermontdance by @vermontdance
Our Decade of Dance Gala on Spetmeber 26th featured choreography from this year's Seed Grant Reciepnts. These are some photos of Jennifer Daniel's "Conversations 4, 5, & 6." The work investigates how communication, curiosity, and vulnerability unfold when artists engage with one another as “strangers,” allowing the creative process itself to become a form of dialogue. 📸 Joshua Miner 🎼 Sonata for Solo Cello: I. Dialogo: Adagio, rubato, cantabile #vermontdance by @vermontdance
Our Decade of Dance Gala on Spetmeber 26th featured choreography from this year's Seed Grant Reciepnts. These are some photos of Melisa Clark's "The Shimmers." This piece celebrates the creation of movement vocabulary, mask making, audio recording, and overall development. Shifting fields, underlying currents, and overlapping realities explore a dreamlike state with a glimpse of deep shadows. #vermontdance by @vermontdance
Our Decade of Dance Gala on Spetmeber 26th featured choreography from this year's Seed Grant Reciepnts. These are some photos of @katcoyne_'s "Zero Trust." This piece researches ideas of bodily autonomy and creative property ownership in the context of an AI age. How do we protect our bodies from artificial replication, our ideas from intellectual property theft? 📸 Joshua Miner #vermontdance by @vermontdance
Our Decade of Dance Gala on Spetmeber 26th featured choreography from this year's Seed Grant Reciepnts. These are some photos of @hannasatt 's "Future Nostaglia." This piece touches on the concept of being in a specific and tenuous moment, with five sides of one character in dialogue, each dancer representing one of five voices within the self. 📸 Joshua Miner Reel Music: Dark Heart by Walen #vermontdance by @vermontdance
Decade of Dance Gala is this Saturday, 6:00 and 8:00 PM! Do you have your tickets? Don't wait: https://www.vermontdance.org/gala by @vermontdance
A Decade of Dance Gala: CHOREOGRAPHER SPOTLIGHT 🌟 Melisa Putz Clark (PIMA Group) PIMA Group Artistic Director Melisa Putz Clark presents new sections of Shimmers, an evolving interdisciplinary performance created in collaboration with her three daughters, Vivienne (13), Edyn (10), and Mira (7). Working with her kids, this project combines movement, mask-making, storytelling, original audio recordings, and collaborative design to explore transformation, memory, and evolving identity. Multiple masks will be worn and changed throughout the dance performance, and In the changing of the mask, there is a transition and transformation taking place. Inspired by stories including The Queen in the Cave and The Witch in the Tower by Júlia Sardà, the work unfolds through shifting masks, dreamlike imagery, and layered realities. "I have danced and performed while pregnant with each of them, they have all been witness to my rehearsal process and performances while creating solo or group dances. They each perform regularly with their dance studio performances and have created many ‘living room’ performances with each other for years. So now we’re merging all of that together into our unique dance rehearsal process adding in set and costume design, masks and sound recordings in a truly collaborative way." Clark says. "We’re finding ways to listen to each other’s ideas and incorporate them into this performance. It has been incredible to share this focused creative time together, preparing for the VDA Gala Performance. Many thanks to the Micro Seed Grant for the impetus to make this happen now!" A Decade of Dance Gala: featuring performances from this year’s Choreographer’s Seed Micro-Grant recipients When: Saturday, September 26th. Two shows 6:00 and 8:00 PM Where: The Chapel in Montpelier Get your tickets now! www.vermontdance.org/gala by @vermontdance
A Decade of Dance Gala: CHOREOGRAPHER SPOTLIGHT 🌟 Caitlin Morgan @caitlmm presents an excerpt of Wind and Unwinding, an ambitious new ensemble work examining humanity's complex relationship with the natural world. “Wind and Unwinding,” set to an original score by Silence_Castor and choreographed by Caitlin Morgan in collaboration with the cast (Hannah Katz, Mia Makarski, Caitlin McCloskey-Meyer, Emma Rainville, and Gem Raff), explores humans’ interventionist relationship with our ecosystem: an internal war between the intellectual desire to control our surroundings and a fundamentally animal urge to surrender to the imperfect, sometimes violent, and nonetheless beautiful wildness that surrounds us. Drawing inspiration from mosh pits, sacred geometry, and architectural evolution, this entropic mirror of the human condition invites the audience to see where care accompanies chaos, the blurry edge between nature and Nature, and to feel their full spectrum of emotions, both individually and collectively. Caitlin had the opportunity to participate in and share excerpts of her piece at both @thesableproject and @the_junction_dance_fest_vt as part of our Micro-Grant Partnership opportunities. Her full piece premiered at Main Street Landing on Thursday, September 10th of this year with an additional abbreviated showing at the Vermont Dance Alliance Gala in Montpelier on September 26th. by @vermontdance
A Decade of Dance Gala: CHOREOGRAPHER SPOTLIGHT 🌟 Kat Coyne @katcoyne_ is a recent University of Vermont graduate and Lines Vermont instructor. Kat Coyne presents new choreographic research examining bodily autonomy and creative ownership in an era increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. The work asks urgent contemporary questions: How do we protect our bodies from artificial replication? How do artists safeguard creative ideas from intellectual property theft in the face of technological reproduction? Through movement, Coyne investigates systems of power, technology ethics, queer feminism, and the ways social structures shape our relationships with ourselves and one another. Performed by Andy Logan, Lily Horowitz, Dani Sewards. A Decade of Dance Gala: featuring performances from this year’s Choreographer’s Seed Micro-Grant recipients When: Saturday, September 26th. Two shows 6:00 and 8:00 PM Where: The Chapel in Montpelier Get your tickets now! www.vermontdance.org/gala by @vermontdance
A Decade of Dance Gala: CHOREOGRAPHER SPOTLIGHT 🌟 Jennifer Daniels Jennifer will continue developing new work for Talking with Strangers, an ongoing exploration of what occurs when individuals who begin as strangers move toward moments of connection. The project asks how intimacy, trust, and recognition can emerge between individuals. This project builds on Jennifer’s diverse pool of knowledge as facilitator, mediator, and designer. Through this residency, Jen aims to expand the Talking with Strangers series by developing Conversations 4, 5, and 6 by exploring new collaborative dynamics with objects, instrumentation and spontaneity. Jen is a lifelong dancer whose creative practice is informed by more than four decades of movement, community engagement, and interdisciplinary work. Alongside her artistic pursuits, she is a landscape architect, facilitator of dialogues in conflict transformation, leadership, and social justice, and co-founder of her family’s hemp farming and product manufacturing business. Her work has been shaped by experiences across the southwestern and northeastern United States and throughout Russia, where relationship-centered collaboration and productive landscapes informed her approach to creativity, leadership, and advocacy. As both an artist and practitioner, Jen brings a thoughtful, community-driven perspective to her dance, facilitation, and design practices. A Decade of Dance Gala: featuring performances from this year’s Choreographer’s Seed Micro-Grant recipients When: Saturday, September 26th. Two shows 6:00 and 8:00 PM Where: The Chapel in Montpelier Get your tickets now! www.vermontdance.org/gala by @vermontdance
A Decade of Dance Gala: CHOREOGRAPHER SPOTLIGHT 🌟 Hanna Satterlee @hannasatt /ANIMAL Dance will preview Future Nostalgia, featuring Vermont dance artists Sarah Vogelsang-Card, Mia Makarski, Maggie Maury, and Maura Gahan with a DJ mix by noltron. Future Nostalgia is being commissioned by interspecies dance artist Kari Wolfe Borni, to be included in an immersive dance performance inside Borni’s horse barn in Addison County, Vermont this October. Kari’s pieces in the October show will feature her dancing with horses. This section by ANIMAL Dance will be a dance/theater story mixing story and character with the embodied nonverbal vocabulary that relates how physical language is shared between species. Future Nostalgia is a nod to two ideas: that there will be a time when we viscerally miss what is happening now, and there will be a time when we wish we could tell our past selves of the good that will come out of their current hardship. Future Nostalgia will touch on the concept of being in a specific and tenuous moment, with five sides of one character in dialogue, each dancer representing one of five voices within the self. A Decade of Dance Gala: featuring performances from this year’s Choreographer’s Seed Micro-Grant recipients When: Saturday, September 26th. Two shows 6:00 and 8:00 PM Where: The Chapel in Montpelier Get your tickets now! www.vermontdance.org/gala by @vermontdance
A Decade of Dance Gala: Join the celebration at the Vermont Dance Alliance Gala Showcase on Saturday, September 26, an inspiring evening featuring performances by this year’s Choreographer’s Seed Micro-Grant recipients. Audiences will enjoy excerpts of five new works created by some of Vermont’s most innovative dance artists while celebrating a decade of impact and investing in the next generation of dance. The Gala will feature performances at 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. at The Chapel in Montpelier, bringing together artists, supporters, and dance lovers for an unforgettable night of creativity and community. At the Gala, VDA will be featuring new works from: @hannasatt , @caitlmm , @jdaniels21 , @katcoyne_ , and Melissa Clark. We have two ticket levels for each show, a standard price, and a supporter level for anyone who can give more. Get your tickets now! www.vermontdance.org/gala by @vermontdance

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