In celebration of the program’s tenth anniversary, Threads Dance Project presents Tapestries 10.0 – Anniversary 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 also 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 U.S. 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 alum, 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 figure’s romantic history.
Friday, May 1 at 7:30pm
Saturday, May 2 at 2:00pm and 7:30pm
Tickets: $22 students or groups of 10 or more, $25 seniors, and $30 general admission