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July 23 & 24, 8:00 pm - The Woodruff is pleased to welcome back gloATL, who will produce a unique, multi-disciplinary work on The Woodruff Arts Center campus. Roem will embrace an ensemble of forms, including dance, music, multi-media and rich theatrical design, for two unforgettable evenings of live performance in a 360 setting.
Created by gloATL’s award-winning creative team that includes Dancemaker Lauri Stallings, Videographer Adam Larsen, Costume Designer April McCoy, and Lighting by Ryan O’Gara, Roem is heavily influenced by the main phenomenon of our time, globalization. This immigration brings about new relations and cultural signs, and the fascination with movement, trajectory, and genuine experience. A marriage of choreography and interactive sculpting, this new creation will literally bridge the gap between artist and audience, reassessing what art is and where it occurs. The production will feature the musical creations of Tom Sherwood of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Sonic Generator, Georgia Tech’s contemporary music ensemble-in-residence.
Roem is the culminating performance of a five week gloATL Interactive Residency at The Woodruff. Part education, part public intervention, and part choreographed multi-disciplinary performance, this fresh, new approach to art and education offers a highly original immersion into the art forms, underscoring the future of art as literally co-existing, side by side, with its community. The gloATL & Woodruff Arts Center partnership highlights gloATL’s highly regarded and unique approach to arts and culture, and reflects the Woodruff’s strong commitment to education.
The Woodruff Arts Center has embraced and supported gloATL’s work in Atlanta as a way to bring awareness and access to great art. Roem will be the third site-specific piece to premiere on the Woodruff campus. The first, rapt, was described by the AJC as “A hipster ballet company fusing classically modern dance with the funky groove of Outkast…. rapt felt like a cultural watershed moment f or Atlanta.” About the second work, crea, the AJC wrote, “Like a vortex, crea swirled around the interior of the High Museum of Art’s Robinson Atrium blending live music and dance. The collaboration between choreographer Lauri Stallings' gloATL and Georgia Tech's contemporary music ensemble Sonic Generator, led by Thomas Sherwood, stirred up energies from the atrium's nooks and crannies.” The Woodruff sees its collaboration with gloATL as a way to fuse all the art forms it represents into one production – visual arts, music, and theatre.
Roem is free and open to the public.
For more information on gloATL, and to find out how you can support gloATL’s work, visit
www.gloATL.com
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