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Red Road Study, 2019

from Praise Dances

Working for the past few years in the Blue Ridge mountains while processing our moment of human strife, I’ve created a series of dances intended as offerings for Old Gods: small acts of praise, plea and appeasement, forbearance and valor; dances to argue with our lack of control; and to beg for forgiveness for our destruction.

This early study represents my first try at filming a dance in nature. It also represents a moment of awe I was experiencing, my senses awakened to the beauty and iron-soaked power of the ancient Appalachian mountains.


Credits

Choreography and Direction: Kate Weare
Collaborating Dancer: Nicole Vaughan-Diaz
Filmed by: Kurt Perschke
Music: “Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales: 1) Olympos' Pentatonic 2) Archytas' Enharmonic” by Harry Partch
Performed by The Kronos Quartet, “Early Music (Lachrymae Antiquae)”

Acknowledgements

Special Thanks to Kurt Perschke, New York State Council on the Arts, and Dance/NYC



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