Dance Lab
Witness leading Atlanta-based dance companies create and develop movement live at the High.
Using the Anne Cox Chambers Wing Lobby as an incubator, dancers and choreographers will practice their art, offering viewers behind-the-scenes insights into the dance process.
Dance Lab is part of the High’s ongoing commitment to supporting artistic experimentation and creative practice across Atlanta.
Upcoming Rehearsals with Giwayen Mata
| Sunday, April 20 | 2:30–5 p.m. |
About the Companies
Atlanta Contemporary Dance Company (founded 2022) has a mission to celebrate and empower young artists in the community through energetic dance performances, classes, and workshops. They believe in the power of dance to drive creation, unite society, and promote change. For more information, visit atlantacontemporarydance.com.
Bautanzt Here is Atlanta’s only purely site-specific dance theater company. They merge dance and theater, creating a unique language to tell meaningful and visually engaging stories and provide valuable art experiences in unconventional spaces. Bautanzt Here’s goal is to make the art of dance more accessible and bring it to wider audiences, including those who usually don’t attend dance performances. For more information, visit bautanzt.art.
Dance Canvas (founded 2008) focuses on increasing awareness of professional dance in Atlanta. Dance Canvas’s vision is to diversify the artistic voices in professional dance, grow opportunities for artists in the region, and attract new audiences. During Dance Lab, Dance Canvas will feature their Choreography Career Development Initiative. For more information, visit dancecanvas.com.
Full Radius Dance (founded 1990) is a dance company with a mission to bring together disabled and non-disabled dancers through performance, education, and advocacy. Full Radius Dance has performed widely, from the hallway of a rustic villa in the Italian countryside to a meeting room at the Social Security Administration. Founder and artistic director Douglas Scott was honored with a Governor’s Award for the Arts and Humanities and the 2023 Dance/USA Champion Award. Rehearsals will feature new choreography. For more information, visit fullradiusdance.org/.
Giwayen Mata (founded 1993) is an all-sistah dance, percussion, and vocal ensemble. Its mission is to celebrate the lives of the group and uplift communities while perpetuating African and African diasporic cultures through the study, creation, teaching, and presentation of artistic media including dances, rhythms, songs, poetry, and prose around the world. Giwayen Mata has performed or been featured in Dance Africa celebrations across the country, the opening ceremony of the 1996 Olympics, and numerous television shows, films, and music videos. The ensemble has won many awards including the Magnificent Sisters of Dance Award and a Certificate of Appreciation at Georgia State University’s Intersections of Identity: Women of Color workshop, and it was named an Ambassador Award Honoree at the Celebration of Dance Awards. Dance Lab rehearsals will feature drumming and choreography. For more information, visit GiwayenMata.org.
glo is an Atlanta-based, Southern women, artist-led, intersectionality-centered platform founded by choreographer lauri stallings that uses movement and creative practices to raise consciousness, repair communities, create change, and bring forth social impact through ongoing actions. Through their choreography, they aim to break down barriers and lift society. They believe every body plays a central role in engaging deeply with notions of transformation and identity. Rooted in community mapping and a hybridity of forms, their collaboratively devised work emphasizes interconnectedness, solidarity networks, and place-based forms of knowledge for long-term healing of the great wounds in our bodies. For more information, visit gloplatform.org.
staibdance (founded 2007) is a contemporary dance company that focuses on the provocative power of movement. staibdance has originated works such as Attic, Moat, w I s h d u s t, and fence and has earned recognition from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, City of Atlanta, Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts, and many more. staibdance is developing and rehearsing ARARAT, their newest work. For more information, visit staibdance.com/.
ImmerseATL was founded in 2017 by Sarah Hillmer as a training and mentorship program for contemporary dancers. ImmerseATL Collective serves ImmerseATL Alumni in the next phase of their journey as working professionals, offering performance and teaching opportunities along with choreographic residencies to support the advancement of their unique voices. Seven hand-selected Alumni will bring their current choreographic projects to life at Dance Lab. For more info, visit immerseatl.com/collective.