Acclaimed Choreographer Sue Schroeder Along With Prolific Artist Jonathon Keats and International Composer Felipe Pérez Santiago Create Site-Specific Interactive Dance Performances at Tanyard Creek Park
Saturday, April 26 and Sunday, April 27
ATLANTA (April 2, 2025) – Flux Projects announces its encore presentation of Braiding Time, Memory and Water, a site-specific interactive dance performance encouraging us to reconnect with our natural environment. Performances will take place on Saturday and Sunday, April 26 and 27, at 2 and 4 p.m. at Tanyard Creek Park in Buckhead.
Braiding Time, Memory and Water will unfold in three movements. With each movement a water clock (clepsydra) will measure the water’s flow rate. Its speed will determine the pace of the performance, enlisting the water as a natural timekeeper and a collaborator in the performance. Ambient sounds integrated into a larger sound composition will further nature’s collaboration in the work.
Created by the acclaimed choreographer Sue Schroeder in collaboration with conceptual artist Jonathon Keats and composer Felipe Pérez Santiago, Braiding Time, Memory and Water joins Core Dance’s local and international dancers with musicians from Bent Frequency and the Georgia State University Percussion Ensemble. They will conduct four days of open rehearsals followed by two days of performances. The hope is a deeper understanding of the natural cycles in nature will encourage us to seek and find solutions to safeguard and nurture our environment.
Braiding Time, Memory and Water responds to the geography, history, and environmental concerns of the locations where it is performed. It was first performed last fall on Powers Island where the work responded to those serene sections of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. This next performance will reflect an urban oasis along Tanyard Creek between Collier Road and the Atlanta BeltLine.
To further engagement with the natural environment, community activities for all ages will take place prior to each performance at 1 and 3 p.m. both days.
“We introduced Sue and Jonathon, positing that their creative philosophies would align but never imagining how impactful it would become,” explained Flux Projects Executive Director Anne Archer Dennington. “The final performance includes artists from three disciplines and four countries, yet it feels very much at home in Atlanta.”
Braiding Time, Memory and Water took root when Keats participated in the 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. Flux connected Keats with Schroeder. And what emerged from their creative conversations, with the addition of Felipe, is this two-part presentation 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.
What also transpired from Keats participation in the Flux Exchange was the emergence 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. Including Braiding Time, Memory and Water FLOW has included 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.
