liturgy|order|bridge | SCDT Riff Talks | Friday, November 30

School for Contemporary Dance and Thought | 25 Main Street | Northampton, MA ~ This emerging work imagines dance as the organizing principle in a liturgy (a ritualized public ceremony) designed to stir societal stuck places. The work seeks to reconcile the relationship between the expressive body, imagination, faith, liberation, and aesthetic impulse. What does dance do (not in service to some other discipline, but in and of itself)? What if there was an religious order comprised of dance practitioners called to enact powerful rituals that dance alone can enact? Do such dances shift the space between realms and between people? Can contemporary… read more