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I’d had this opportunity before all that happened,” he says. “When we did this, we were at the fore of the technologies we were using. At the time it felt like a really big leap.” Traverse premieres Friday, July 1 at 7 p.m. at the Rose Wagner Center (138 W. 300 South), accompanied by a live performance of new choreography by Blaylock that he describes as “an ode to the magic of the [Traverse] trip. Tickets are $10; visit arttix.org for more information. (Scott Renshaw)
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The pandemic impacted the timing for a lot of creative projects, and that’s certainly true for TWIG Media Lab’s dance-for-the-camera documentary/art film Traverse. Originally planned for an April 2020 premiere, the project is only just now getting its first public showing—six years after the project was initiated. Traverse marks a collaboration between TWIG’s Chris and Alex Lee and choreographer Nick Blaylock, who was a graduate student in dance at the University of Utah in 2016. The Lee brothers both grew up as dancers themselves, and according to Chris, who directed Traverse, the goal was to “capture that harmony between what the dancers and choreographer can do, and what you as a filmmaker can do.” The resulting film captures Blaylock’s site-specific work with several dancers at locations in Southern Utah, as well as behind-thescenes footage of the work’s development. Blaylock, now a faculty member at Southern Utah University, believes that the COVID-era increase in recording live performance has changed the perception of “dance for the camera” somewhat since Traverse was shot in 2016. “I was kind of grateful
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