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Work in progress dance sharing: This everyday hour

This everyday hour is a dance and sound performance calling to familial and terrestrial histories of place, specifically midwestern grassland. The choreography is built upon and references research into deep and resilient prairie root systems of the tallgrass prairie, tectonics that have formed place, and extraordinary and quotidian experience of absence, grief. The work is performed as a duet between a sound artist and a movement artist who met on the Tallgrass National Prairie Preserve in Kansas; the work was birthed from a moment of both artists standing on Midwest soil, orienting westward.

The performance moves from subtle action, quiet sound- a slow unfolding of moments like dawn becoming morning light. Once passed through, the work rushes forward with focus and momentum, bright percussive sound and highly physical endeavors abound. Throughout the performance, both performers catch and call to each other in visceral and sonic ways. Their actions are informed by land time, sky and memory of place, cycling through what feels like a full day. The work calls to a universal expansiveness that we are all experiencing, whether we are awake to it or not.


Made possible through fellowships at MacDowell, Volland, and Ucross Foundations, residency time at the Museum of Loss and Renewal/Orkney Islands and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Movement composition, performance: Mauriah Donegan Kraker

Esch and Hurvis Studios, Warch Campus Center, Level II
Free and open to the public
Runtime: 50 minutes

Location:	Warch Campus Center 225 - Esch Hurvis Room (Hurvis)
Sponsor:	Dance
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