ALL ONLINE PERFORMANCES ARE STILL AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING!
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Constructed Sight 2022 + Dance For Film Festival
March 11-20, 2022 Opening Night Celebration/Premiere Event Friday, March 11, 7:30pm Dance Film Festival available online March 11-March 20, 2022 Access anytime Online Location details TBD Film Workshop Details TBD, Saturday, March 20, afternoon Closing Night Online Event Saturday, March 20, 7pm |
LIVING LANDSCAPES... coming Spring 2022
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LIVING LANDSCAPES is Shana Simmons Dance's 2021 project working with environmental themes. Set in an art installation atmosphere, audiences can touch, smell, and sense the environment. Local interviews from nonprofit organizations Grounded and Allegheny Cleanways help dictate and guide you through the space, expressing the needs of the local environment. The journey of humankind from being a part of nature to being interdependent on one another weaves throughout the film's progression. The film connects specific issues that exist in Western Pa to what we can do to help protect our environment through voice, movement, and nature images.
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RECENT PAST EVENTS 2021:
THE VIRTUAL DANCE EXCHANGE PROJECT
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Shana Simmons Dance is proud to announce an award from the Arts Equity Reimagined fund for The Virtual Dance Exchange(VDEP), a collaboration between SSD, Chrisala Brown, Bianca Johnson + Dancers, and XRconnectED. VDEP was born from conversations about race and age diversity in dance, Covid-19’s impact on the dance world, and comparative dance community structures between New York City and Pittsburgh. The Virtual Dance Exchange Project is a forward-thinking collective, pushing the boundaries of dance into new mediums while addressing issues of equity and their impact on bodies and creative processes.
VDEP will develop original choreography filmed in 360-degree video format putting the viewer at the center of the performance, giving them agency to look around at the environment at will, creating a completely immersive dance experience. This virtual performance will premiere online in the Fall of 2021 along with a series of educational online group discussions addressing systemic racism and how it continues to sustain inequities in the arts community. ALL videos from the VDEP SYMPOSIUM are available on the Shana Simmons Dance YouTube Station: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZkviCOKhbh4BHTmRhByB_g |
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TAKE THE AIR- AT IUP
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Take the Air is a walking tour with site specific performances at FIVE locations on the IUP Campus. You can start at Station A or Station E and work your way through the tour OR you can happen upon the artwork at your own leisure. Either way works! Stay and watch the performances or wander off and find the next one... this tour happens on YOUR OWN TIME in YOUR OWN WAY!
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SPRING FOR SOLOS
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Constructed Sight: WINTER
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Art that Moves
LINE UP OF GUEST ARTISTS:
KISA (FLORIDA)
CALEB MATHURA (PITTSBURGH)
KUSANAGI SISTERS (JAPAN)
TERRELL ROGERS (TEXAS)
ALEXANDRA BODNARCHUK (MINNEAPOLIS)
SHANNON MURPHY (PHILADELPHIA)
ANNA MCDUNN (NYC)
SHAKESPEARE MOVES (GLOBAL COLLECTIVE)
Constructed Sight is a series of dance for films each created and inspired by a public work of art around Pittsburgh. Three choreographers (Shana Simmons, Jamie Erin Murphy, Brady Sanders) is working to construct meaningful pieces of choreography by physically incorporating and being inspired by a variety of public works of art. Constructed Sight: Winter takes a slightly different approach as the choreographers are aiming to collaborate an overall theme connecting each of the six films together through one piece of artwork. Within each film another piece of artwork or architecture will be highlighted and focused on.
This project was formulated in direct response to the Covid-19 pandemic in an effort to continue generating meaningful and interactive dance performance events.
LINE UP OF GUEST ARTISTS:
KISA (FLORIDA)
CALEB MATHURA (PITTSBURGH)
KUSANAGI SISTERS (JAPAN)
TERRELL ROGERS (TEXAS)
ALEXANDRA BODNARCHUK (MINNEAPOLIS)
SHANNON MURPHY (PHILADELPHIA)
ANNA MCDUNN (NYC)
SHAKESPEARE MOVES (GLOBAL COLLECTIVE)
Constructed Sight is a series of dance for films each created and inspired by a public work of art around Pittsburgh. Three choreographers (Shana Simmons, Jamie Erin Murphy, Brady Sanders) is working to construct meaningful pieces of choreography by physically incorporating and being inspired by a variety of public works of art. Constructed Sight: Winter takes a slightly different approach as the choreographers are aiming to collaborate an overall theme connecting each of the six films together through one piece of artwork. Within each film another piece of artwork or architecture will be highlighted and focused on.
This project was formulated in direct response to the Covid-19 pandemic in an effort to continue generating meaningful and interactive dance performance events.