DanceCircus returns to Danceworks Studio Theatre Saturday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 19 at 3:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. to perform Water Measures, a DanceCircus Water Measures Project concert that “explores the scientific phenomena of en-ergo, the structural memory of water.” The performance is supported in part by a Danceworks DanceLAB Space Grant and strives to inspire hearts and challenge minds to resolve common water concerns.
Under the direction of Betty Salamun, Water Measures begins with “Hot H2O,” which features flutist Rick Aaron and drummer Scott Wendel who cover inter-species conversation from Genesis to the trouble “right here in river city” to the next worldwide issue of water becoming a “hot commodity.”
Next is the trilogy “Formations,” inspired by the scientific prose of Clifford Mortimer’s “Lake Michigan in Motion: Responses of an Inland Sea to Weather, Earth-Spin and Human Activities” and danced to Brad Dutz’s jazz score. The piece explores the Great Lakes’ glacial beginnings, the effect the divide had on land and people, and present-day evolutionary changes to the Lakes due to sediment.
Susan Borri and Salamun then premier their work Earful, a video on the impact of freshwater and Lake Michigan voiced by Milwaukeeans, which is followed by a reprise video of Splash Dance, a freshwater flash mob developed for the Wisconsin Science Festival. The audience is then invited to get involved with Splash Dance: Redux! Anyone interested is encouraged to learn the freshwater flash mob dance during intermission and, following intermission, DanceCircus and audience members will dance together to the Splash Dance video.
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Performances are held at Danceworks (1661 N. Water St.) and a talk-back on the art and science of dancing the Great Lakes will follow each show. Premium tickets are $20, general are $15 and students, seniors, veterans/military and artists can attend for $10. To purchase, call DanceCircus at 414-277-8151 or email dance@dancecircus.org.
DanceCircus previously performed Surface Tension at Danceworks in 2014, which explored the metaphor of what holds humans together (despite all our differences) as a community. Coming in 2016 is Confluence, the story of the rivers that bring us together.
