Gestures that soon will disappear: Romantic Body

Gestures that soon will disappear is a new suite of physical installations heightening the importance of human interaction with objects and intensely focused on the ritual of relational actions, pushing it to the forefront of a physically driven experience of dance, sculpture and storytelling in four historic neighborhoods in Atlanta. Exploring our body as a possibility for everything, the grace and nuance of the humble material paper, and elements of public participation, gestures that soon will disappear grapples with the perceptions of art and objects in public space vs. museum institutions, what in an object survives and what is lost. The convergence of the choreographer’s life path with those of the glo performers, the artists of the collaborative Paper–Cut-Project and of the public will ultimately create a semi-uncontrollable foray of precarious  dance and sculpture.  Performers enter into contact with people by way of choreographed migrations, tableaux vivants and moving sculptures to investigate group identity in relation to individual subjectivity.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Concept and choreography:  Lauri Stallings

performed by: glo

Sculpture: Paper-Cut-Project

Music: Jun Miyake, Rene’ Aubry, Hindi Zahra, Lhasa de Sela, Charlie Winston, Dusty Springfield

Fashion:  Maggie Dinkins

SUPPORT

gestures that soon will disappear is supported in part, with major support from City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. Romantic Body is supported, in part, by the City of Roswell-ROAR.  Fourth Body is presented and produced by MOCA GA.

EVENT INFO

July 9-24, 2014
Historic West End, Midtown Atlanta, Historic Roswell Mill, Westside Atlanta