Threads Dance Project
Tapestries 10.0 - Anniversary Edition
Performance Dates
Friday, May 1 at 7:30PM (doors 6:30PM, house 7:00PM)
Saturday, May 2 at 2:00PM (doors 1:00PM, house 1:30PM)
Saturday, May 2 at 7:30PM (doors 6:30PM, house 7:00PM)
Performance Length
90 minutes with one 10 minute intermission
In celebration of the program's tenth anniversary, Threads Dance Project presents Tapestries 10.0 - Special Edition. The Tapestries program has become an annual tradition--amplifying new choreographic voices, with a special emphasis on female-identifying and BIPOC creators. To honor this milestone, Tapestries 10.0 not only elevates two new emerging choreographers but welcomes back two previous creators from the program’s ten year run.
Emerging choreographers Lily Conforti and Brianna Johnson each create new works for the company. Lily Conforti’s piece - Big MILK is an exploration into and criticism of the US government's inability to make systemic changes and the ineffective ways that they have thrown cheese at a problem. Brianna Johnson’s Deliberate Hold is a contemporary modern dance work exploring the profound resilience found in the intentional choice to be present and actively practice connection and care. It suggests that genuine presence and investing in others are the most resilient human purposes in the face of volatile surroundings.
Returning choreographer, Gabby Abrams, participated in Tapestries 6.0, but was interrupted by the pandemic. She will remount her piece Release; revisiting the work with new eyes and new bodies…uninterrupted. Rae Fox-Charles, a multi-year Tapestries alumni, will share a new work, entitled, Tracings of Traces. This first iteration of the work will consider the lingering patterns of attachment and dysfunction throughout an imagined figures’ romantic history.
Join us at Tapestries 10.0 - to commemorate all of the voices that have shared with us over the years and celebrate the newest voices in our community.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Threads Dance Project is supported through the Comprehensive Organizational Health Initiative (COHI) | Managing Organizational Vitality and Endurance (MOVE), a program of The International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation