River wakes [2021-2022]
Video trailer for River Wakes [2021-2022]
Filmed on location in the region of Virginia’s New River Valley, River Wakes is a screendance collaboration between Scotty Hardwig and Roanoke Ballet Theatre, with movement materials sourced from historical research created by Virginia Tech students and faculty as part of the Virginia Tech Sesquicentennial events. Featuring large ensemble-based partnering, the choreography investigates organic patterns that emerge from the complexity of touch-based relationships between bodies and landscape, and is structured as a series of kinetic poems celebrating the ecological histories of the New River Valley told through a hybridity of movement and cinema. River Wakes channels the earthly perceptions of time and passage through the lived experience of the body, as seventeen dancers search for joy and sensation in the darkness.
Choreography, Videography, Editing, Artistic Direction: Scotty Hardwig
Performance: LeeAnn Elder, Christa Ferguson, Sara Kosuth, Kirsten Linnen, Caitlin Smith, Will Smith, Jenni Richards, Elena Bozzone, Chloe Luneke, Noah Kargman, Cassie Williams, Christina Milne, Reagan Mihailoff, Hannah Burneka, Erin McMahon, Christina Duffy, Carrie VanOsten, and Scotty Hardwig
Music: “River Overrun” and “Septic Voices” by Scotty Hardwig ; “Hands of Earth” by Caleb Flood ; “Elegy upon the death of Thomas Farmer” and “O Solitude” by Henry Purcell, performed by Jody Pou ; “The Wife of Usher’s Well” and “Moonshiner” by Austin Moffa
Costume Design: Renee Aguilera
Videography & Creative Cartography: Mike Ryba
Creative Scholarship: Audrey Reeves
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River Wakes [2021-2022], complete work
