The Historic Masonic Theatre hosts the 3rd Annual Alleghany Highlands StoryFest, an enchanting weekend of storytelling performances, classes, and workshops in the heart of Clifton Forge, Virginia bringing together celebrated storytellers and regional tellers. Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance will present informal excerpts of Hummel’s critically acclaimed duet, down here, at 6:30pm as a pre-show performance to a night of storytelling.

Shannon Hummel’s 2015 work, called “a rare gem” by The New York Times, down here is a dance of fierce attachments existing because of, despite, and within the compromises we make to survive remaining together. down here makes visible, with the help of hundreds of tiny silver dolls, the little scars we leave on one another in our pursuit of control. Originally performed in 2015 by Calia Marshall and Katie Dean at New York City's Brooklyn Academy of Music, portions of this work will be performed by Cora Dance company members Ross Honaker and Ammara Shafqat with reflections on the process by choreographer Shannon Hummel.