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Because (Preview Performance at ARGS)

  • Appomattox Regional Governor's School for the Arts & Technology Gym 512 West Washington Street Petersburg, VA, 23803 United States (map)

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Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance shares a full-length preview of the professional company’s latest work-in-progress, Because.

Gymnasiums are emotional spaces of triumph, defeat, intensity, and mundanity. They are both distinctly different, recognizably the same, and always timeless. Created specifically for gymnasiums, Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance’s latest work-in-development, Because, is an expansive, intimate, and existential exhibition of athleticism and humanity. Because, like gyms, we are always the same and different at every age; Because memory is just as much an act of imagination and fantasy as a recollection of fact; Because all that is certain is the end… there will be a party in a gym. And we believe it’ll be beautiful. 

Choreography by: Shannon Hummel in collaboration with the dancers

Dancers: Nikki Assanti, Ross Honaker, Ammara Shafqat, Keon Washington

Original Score by: Hans Bilger

Suggested Admission: $20 or pay what you can

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