Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance is proud to premier its latest evening-length site-based experience, Because, in the gymnasium of the Clifton Forge Armory. Gymnasiums are emotional spaces of triumph, defeat, intensity, and mundanity. They are distinctly different, recognizably the same, and always timeless. Created specifically for gymnasiums, Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance’s latest work, Because, is an expansive, intimate, and existential exhibition of athleticism, humanity, and nostalgia. Because, like gyms, we are the same and different at every age; Because memory is just as much an act of 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’s one to remember. A reception and talk-back between artists and the audience follows the performance. For detailed info click here.

Choreography: Shannon Hummel in collaboration with the dancers

Performers: Nikki Assanti, Ross Honaker, Ammara Shafqat, and Keon Washington with additional collaboration by Katie Dean

Original Score: Hans Bilger including work by Fiona Apple, The Alan Parsons Project, Pink Floyd, and The College of Wooster Marching Band

Production Manager: Tyler Renfroe