For my fourth FlowILM collaboration with the Coaction Lab at the Cameron Art Museum, Gene Felice, Kimathi Moore, and I are pairing with environmental artist, Nicole Dextras, and the sketches and conversations are just ~ wow, wow, wow ~ emersion into alginate, post-petrochemical realms! I hope you can come to see our first dive together! Rain date: Sunday, October 20th, 2024

Happy to be teaching Contemporary Technique and making a new repertory piece with wonderful UNCSA summer program students. Come see what we’ve been up to on July 21 at 2pm.

ADF Movies by Movers Shorts Program 3: Historical Locations @ 11am – 12:30pm

Free! Myles Thatcher, Carly Topazio Fight The Fear Shyamala Moorty Murmurs Raquel Salvatella de Prada, Linda Belans, Shirin Maleki Womxn Tango in the time of Covid Luna Mazhira Beller-Tadiar What's Bred in the Blood and Bone Robin M Gee The Last Plant Janice Lancaster

Artists Jurne Smith, Jiwon Ha, Casey Avaunt, Janice Lancaster, and Alexandra Joye Warren will be sharing dance film and live performance from their residency year!

The Barriskill Studio Company will share the fruits of my three-day residency, in which we were at once humans, seals, and whales for a new explorative work, Habit/at.

Shelby Coon, Maddy Bailey, and I are happy to be closing the Winston-Salem Dance Medicine Conference with a new dance work that we’ve sketched for the lobby of the Bowman Gray Center for Medical Education to close the Winston-Salem Dance Medicine Conference.

Special thanks for support through the generous backing of ArtsGreensboro, Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the Dance Project 2022-23 Artists in Residence program.

Come one, come all! I’m teaching Shen Wei Dance Arts open class on 9/19/22 from 10-11:45 am at Gibney Dance Center , 53A Chambers Street [280 Broadway].

Choreographers Elizabeth Clendinning, Janice Lancaster, and Monet Beatty return to SECCA for an evening of dance and music. More info here.

I’m porously directing a structured improvisation titled, The heels have ears. With dancers Kira Blazek Ziaii, Shelby Coon, Bekah Downing, Faith Fidgeon, Taryn Griggs, and Kendell Ramirez and musicians Matt Kendrick on bass, Kassem Williams on drums, Michael Kinchen on saxophone.

This structured improvisation announces itself as dancers and musicians contribute to its performance. The exchange explores how a listening response between musicians and dancers can render a sense of place that both utilizes and ruptures conventions of a proscenium space. The improvisatory structure puts the interdisciplinary question on a real-time display. Both dancers and musicians offer propositions and worlds — actual and imagined — as replies, findings, and losses are already in motion.

Special thanks to Christina Soriano and the WFU Interdisciplinary Arts Center for supporting this event. Additional support through the generous backing of ArtsGreensboro, Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the Dance Project 2022-23 Artists in Residence program.

Happy to be teaching Contemporary Technique and making a new repertory piece with wonderful UNCSA summer program students. Come see what we’ve been up to on July 22nd at 2pm. Performance details here. Then come to the Professional Studies Program studio showing to see the emergent score we’ve been tuning.

I'm very pleased to have received an Artist Support Grant through the generous backing of ArtsGreensboro, Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County, and the North Carolina Arts Council. This grant enables me to compensate collaborating dancers as we develop a shared movement language and local community practice of pop-up performances and showings. Find us on August 11 with Carolina Music Fest at SECCA. Stay tuned for Fall pop-up performances and a December work-in-progress sharing.

The 2022 FlowILM event at the Cameron Art Museum will feature an array of artists, scientists, local non-profits, and UNCW labs/programs focused on local/global water issues, including educational and family-oriented activities and more. The arts portion of the event will feature live performance, dance, sculpture, installation, and light/sound work created by an array of artists listed below and produced by the Coaction Lab at The University of North Carolina Wilmington. This year’s 2nd event will expand on the first year's event themes, adding more art, science, and ecology groups from across our community. Participating organizations will share their research and creativity with an array of family-friendly activities, throughout the day starting at 4 pm until 7:30 pm, with the main art events running from 7:30 pm into the evening until 9 pm on Friday, April 22nd, 2022. FlowILM is produced by the Coaction Lab at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in collaboration with the Algae Society and is sponsored by the Cameron Art Museum, The UNCW Office of the Arts, and the UNCW Office of Community Engagement. This community art event is committed to articulating the un/stable relationships between organisms, environments, and technology.

Artists involved in the 4/22/22 live event:
Nancy Carson - https://www.facebook.com/dance.cooperative.5/
Madison Creech - https://madisoncreech.com/home.html
Matthew Creech - https://www.creechers.com/
Gene A. Felice II - www.genefelice.com
Janice Lancaster - www.janicelancaster.com
Kimathi Moore - www.kimathir.bandcamp.com
Jeremy Roberts - http://www.warpeduniverse.com/
Chelsea Ray Lea - http://www.ChelseaLeaMetals.com
Holden Joe Treadway

Non-Profits involved in the 4/22/22 live event:
Cape Fear Audubon - https://capefearaudubon.org/
Cape Fear River Watch - https://capefearriverwatch.org/
Plastic Ocean Project - https://www.plasticoceanproject.org/
Young Scientist Academy - https://www.youngscientistacademy.org/
Coastal Land Trust - https://coastallandtrust.org/
Surfrider Foundation Cape Fear - https://capefear.surfrider.org/

UNCW Labs / Programs / School Partners involved in the 4/22/22 live event:
The Coaction Lab in collaboration with the Wilmington School of the Arts - http://coactionlab.org/ & https://wilmingtonschoolofthearts.com/
The Art & Art History Dept: Digital Arts / Printmaking - https://uncw.edu/art/
The Algae Resources Collection - https://www.algalresourcescollection.com/
Forest and Fire Ecology Lab - https://sites.google.com/view/monicarother/home?authuser=0
UNCW Marine Quest - https://uncw.edu/marinequest/
UNCW Warner Lab: Embryology, Marine Biotech - http://warnerlab.org/

Looking forward to joining Gene Felice on March 3 for his Bioluminescent Thursdays that are happening as part of The Algae Society's Confluence Exhibition at the Cameron Art Museum. Movements will immerse in projected water samples from the museum's retention pond by Dr. Catherina Alves-de-Souza, director of the Algal Resources Collection at UNCW.

Happy to be visiting Elon Dance to share a Restorative Yoga practice with Dance Science and Performance students on one of their reading days… a moment to gather, release, and restore before finals.

This year you’ll find me in the studio with students at the University of the NC School of the Arts (Fall adjunct), Elon University (Restorative Yoga visit), and Hollins University (Visiting Assistant Professor spring semester), as well as working one-on-one with delightful neighbors in my spare living room.

I am pleased to share The Last Plant, filmed at the Reynolda Gardens in Winston-Salem, NC. The film makes connections between the plants in the circa 1913 Lord & Burnham Greenhouse and our responsibility to protect their native habitats. As a human-plant collaborative endeavor, dancers open their senses to patterns of plant intelligence, variegations, and communication. Much gratitude to collaborators Jordan Booker-Medley, Laura Gutierrez, and Adam Larsen, and to Reynolda and Art Bridges for their support and funding.

If you missed Music Carolina’s Evening of Dance, Music & Art at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art you can see it here (first 13 minutes). I had so much fun making/dancing/acting this parlor playlet with Anna Abhau Elliott and Matt Kendrick! Followed by choreography by Monet Beatty and Christina Soriano.

As we are beginning the planning for the 2022 FlowILM on April 22nd, 2022, it's a pleasure to present video documentation from our 2021 event. You can also view photos and more info on our FlowILM website.

We were really grateful for this thoughtful coverage by Shea Carver, Earth Day art installation deepens the human connection to water

The Shell Game ... a parlor playlet by Anna Abhau Elliott, Janice Lancaster, and Matt Kendrick

Variations on research done by Elliott at the 2021 MESDA Summer Institute
Variations of Sailing Down the Chesapeake Bay by George Botsford

An Evening of Dance, Music & Art at Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), part of Music Carolina's Summerfest 2021, Friday, August 20, 2021 6pm & 8pm

Emerging scholarship presentation, Bridging the virtual and the physical at speculative thresholds, for the World Dance Alliance Americas’s Virtual Conference: Ecologies of and Through the Body.

I am feeling absolutely bioluminescent to announce this live performance …

Pairing up with the CoactionLab and Algae Society for FlowILM at the Cameron Museum in celebration of Earth Day! Aquatic organisms unique to the Cape Fear River and coastal ecosystems will be projection-mapped onto the museum's exterior walls and landscapes, interfacing with silhouettes, shadows, and movements of a lone dancer, connected through the medium of sound. Water samples and data from the museum's pond and the surrounding community will make the invisible visible through projected digital light and scales of magnification. Visitors are encouraged to meander the museum grounds and interact with the art, experiencing symbiotic worlds of biological and ecological art, biomimicry, interactive systems, and multi-sensory data translation. The event will also be accessible in an online virtual reality environment where audiences can meet inside a world inspired by algae, accessible through their smartphones or laptops. This outdoor event is presented free of charge. Social distancing and masks required. Rain dates will be Friday April 23rd or Saturday April 24th.