TerraMontes [Screendance]

Heike Salzer (Artist), Ana Baer (Artist)

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Abstract

TerraMontes is a meditative site-specific screendance which explores an embodied sense of healing with the environment. As with the two previous works from the WECreate Productions’ Terra series, (HinterTerra, and UrbáTerra), the dancers and camera explore the poetics of place through improvisation.
In a matter of hours, The Lower North Fork Fire blazed through more than four thousand acres of pristine forest. Thousands were displaced, the fire destroyed almost thirty homes and resulted in three fatalities. The fire began on March 26, 2012 when firefighters lost control of a planned burn in Foxton, Colorado. Some of the fire was classified as high intensity, making the recovery of the land a very long process or impossible in some cases.

Filmed in the Colorado Foothills, United States, 2024

Direction: Ana Baer & Heike Salzer
Choreography and Dance: Michelle Nance, Kim Olson, Heike Salzer
Original composition: ​Joaquin Lopez Chas
Music Design and Music Mixing: Richard D. Hall
Costume design: Shay Isshi
Cinematography: Ana Baer
Editing: Ana Baer
Production: WECreate Productions
Length: 5.55 min

US Premiere, at Opening Doors Dance Theatre,  "Leaving the light on" Celebrating 40 years [Oct 24-26, 2024] Patti Strickel Harrison Theatre, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, US.
Original languageEnglish
Media of outputFilm
Publication statusPublished - 24 Oct 2024

Keywords

  • TerraMontes, Site specific screendance, Site Specific Screendance performance, Somatic Camera, Landscape Screendance, Embodied research, Screendance, Nature

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