“Unsettled Domains,” an original work that explores the concept of space and people-place relationships via three two-person dance-theatre vignettes, will be presented by Dance Tramp and sloDance at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts at 6 p.m. Aug. 29 and 30. Admission is free.
The work was created by choreographer/director Paul Besaw. Besaw, professor of dance at the University of Vermont, leads the performance group Dance Tramp, and Susan Ourada, associate professor of dance at Nebraska, who is at the helm of sloDance, have been making work and dancing together for more than 25 years.
More recently Besaw has also been collaborating with Hye-Won Hwang. Besaw will be performing with Hwang and Ourada along with artist/educators Julian Barnett, Chong Ho Kim, and Jason Lambert. The project also includes design by Bert Crosby.
These distinct yet interconnected works investigate how humans imagine, search for and claim space and long for mutually occupied places where collective atmospheres of beauty and belonging can be reconstructed. Is this possible? Are we kidding ourselves? Can we get there?
This project is funded in part by a REACH Grant from the University of Vermont Office of the Vice President for Research and two Faculty Development Grants for the Arts from the University of Vermont College of Arts and Sciences. The work has also received support from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts.
