ARTIST ENGAGEMENTS VIRTUAL PRESENTATIONS
ADF launched a ticketed event series that presented works, lectures, films, and other experimental ways of presenting dance in our new normal. To kick off the series, ADF partnered with Dixon Place, Portland Ovations, Maine Arts Commission, and SPACE in Portland, ME, to present the virtual premiere of Sara Juli’s Burnt-Out Wife. ADF presented Reggie Wilson’s Unpacking INTRODUCTION: Cultural Appropriation, Kinesthetic Anthropology, and Post-African Neo Hoodoo Modern Dance, an interactive lecture that used Wilson’s solo performance of INTRODUCTION (1996) to discuss borrowing, stealing, cultural appropriation, copyright, intellectual property, and innovation. ADF closed our year with Keep Moving by Monica Bill Barnes and Company, which collaborated with sixteen dancers from New York City’s Hunter College to compose an original online collection of video and audio experiences based on the company’s work The Running Show, created for the world we are all living in now. Sara Juli Burnt-Out Wife by Sara Juli was commissioned by ADF with support from the Doris Duke/SHS Foundations Award for New Works. The presentation of Burnt-Out Wife was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Reggie Wilson The presentation of Unpacking INTRODUCTION: Cultural Appropriation, Kinesthetic Anthropology, and Post-African Neo Hoodoo Modern Dance was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Additional support was provided by the City of Durham. Monica Bill Barnes & Company Keep Moving by Monica Bill Barnes & Company was co-commissioned and presented by ADF with support from Jody and John Arnhold/Arnhold Foundation. Additional support was provided by the City of Durham.
THE WORLD IS OUR STAGE
ADF selected 20 North Carolina choreographers to participate in a 60-second video challenge titled The World is Our Stage. Choreographers had two weeks to create oneminute dance films. Over 3,300 audience members voted to select first, second, and third-place awardees: Kristi Vincent Johnson, Cara Mossman, and ShaLeigh Comerford. The top three film makers were awarded cash prizes ranging from $250 to $1,000, studio time at ADF’s SHS Studios, and tickets to ADF’s 2021 performance season. The World is Our Stage artists: Renay Aumiller Anna Barker Jody Cassell Kristin Clotfelter ShaLeigh Comerford Kristin Taylor Duncan Taryn Griggs Kristi Vincent Johnson Killian Manning Cara Mossman Alyssa Noble Courtney OM Michelle Pearson Allie Pfeffer Justin Tornow Andrea E. Woods Valdés Alexandra Joye Warren Ron West Megan de roiz Yankee Chris Yon The presentation of The World is our Stage was sponsored by The Forest at Duke.
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