SPDW will perform Stripped, a dance that explores how personal technology can affect the lived (social) experience. These technologies have facilitated social and political participation from a distance, created mediated realities that become self-reflexive, and constantly test our abilities to be in the moment. Stripped creates haunting environments that remind us of what is at stake when the pervasive use of technological objects replace human connection. The absence of technology within the work cleverly illuminates its ubiquitous presence in our everyday lives.

The Cambrians

Choreographed by Melinda Jean Myers, the Cambrians bring Clover to the stage. Myers will direct the making of Clover by studying forms and structures found in nature, society and art composed of triads and trinities. The work will research and emphasize the power of the number three by exploring phases in nature such as the new, half, and full moon cycle, the spirit, mind, and body connection, and the past, present and future relationship to time, and many more.