Acclaimed Choreographer Sue Schroeder Along With Prolific Artist Jonathon Keats and International Composer Felipe Pérez Santiago Create Site Specific Interactive Dance Performances at Powers Island
Saturday, October 19 and Sunday, October 20
ATLANTA (September 11, 2024) – Flux Projects continues FLOW, its multi-year exploration of water with Braiding Time, Memory and Water, a site-specific interactive dance performance created by the acclaimed choreographer Sue Schroeder in collaboration with conceptual artist Jonathon Keats and composer Felipe Pérez Santiago. Through dance and percussion, Braiding Time, Memory and Water responds to the geography, history, and environmental concerns of the locations where it is performed. Upcoming performances will take place on Saturday and Sunday,October 19 and 20, at 2:30 and 5 p.m. at Powers Island, one of the most serene sections of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area.
Between performances, community workshops will give audience members an opportunity to make musical instruments from natural materials.
Performances will feature dancers and musicians who will be prompted by the river’s natural flow, enlisting the river as a participant. Audience members will be invited to join by playing handmade instruments. The project seeks to reconnect us to nature and to encourage us to find solutions to safeguard and nurture our environment.
“Watching these three artists collaborate has been a magical experience,” said Executive Director Anne Archer Dennington. “It started when Jonathon participated in our Flux Exchange program, which invites visiting artists to engage with local artists and cultural contributors, and research the physical and cultural landscape of the city, as they explore Atlanta as the site for a future project. Research with Jonathon sparked the creation of our FLOW series. We introduced him to Sue during one of his early visits thinking their philosophies would align. What emerged from their creative conversations, with the addition of Felipe, is truly remarkable. Flux Projects is honored to present this trio’s first collaboration and the inaugural performances of Braiding Time, Memory and Water, a work that is destined to move from the Chattahoochee to other rivers in the U.S. and abroad.”
Braiding Time, Memory and Water is part of FLOW, Flux Projects’ multi-year series designed to explore Atlanta’s history with water, how it has shaped our city and the potential it holds for our future. Also including Atlanta to the Atlantic and Our mothers, our waters, our peace, among others, FLOW engages issues of conservation, equity, and urban design through installations and performances around the city.
About the Artists
Artist Sue Schroeder has choreographed the movements of Braiding Time, Memory and Water through the site at Powers Island. Schroeder is a choreographer and founding artistic director of Core Dance in Decatur. In over 40 years of work in the arts, Schroeder has created more than 110 original dance works for theaters, museums, green spaces, architectural works, and water environments. Her work has appeared throughout the United States, as well as Mexico, Israel, France, Germany, Poland, Georgia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Iceland, United Kingdom, Sweden, Canada, Guatemala, and Hungary.
Artist and experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats employs multidisciplinary art projects to explore some of the most pressing issues of our time. Braiding Time, Memory and Water is one of a series of global projects through which Keats seeks to reconnect us to nature as the ultimate timekeeper. Keats has exhibited art and lectured at dozens of institutions worldwide, from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to Stanford University to the Triennale di Milano, and from SXSW to CERN to UNESCO.
Felipe Pérez Santiago has written an original score that will be performed by professors and graduate students of Georgia State University. From Mexico City, Santiago is one of the most active and recognized composers on the international music scene. His music has been commissioned and performed in more than 40 countries in some of the most important theaters, concert halls, venues, and festivals.
