Final Event & Art Talk: Sycamore
May 29 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm MDT
FINAL EVENT & ART TALK
SYCAMORE
Friday, May 29th | 7:00pm – 8:30pm
free
Sycamore is choreographic work in-progress that Kara Wilkes (dancer/dance maker) began creating in 2022. Featuring four solos, the piece continues her MFA in Dance research on embodied generational trauma with a focus on addiction and healing. Sycamore is an interdisciplinary work offering live vocals, recorded soundscapes/music, props/sets that interact with gesture-based dance movement and contemporary dance vocabulary. The four solos highlight distinct characters: The Addict, The Lost Child, The Hero Child, The Co-dependent; their journeys illuminate the complex experiences of addicts and/or those who have been exposed to addiction (alcoholism in particular). While at Surel’s Place, Kara has developed two of the four sections; each will be eight to ten minutes in length when complete.
“I have always envisioned Sycamore as having a small modular set with the audience sitting close to the action; the four sections take place ‘in a house’ where pieces of furniture, props and projections support the dancers’ storytelling,” Kara explains.
Thank you to Kara Wilke’s Residency Sponsors:
