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.
About the Companies
ImmerseATL Collective
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 www.immerseatl.com/collective.
Schedule
Tuesday, May 21 | 10 a.m.–12 noon
Thursday, May 23 | 10 a.m.–12 noon
Friday, May 24 | 10 a.m.–12 noon
Saturday, May 25 | 10 a.m.–12 noon
Sunday, May 26 | 10 a.m.–12 noon
glo
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.
People Movement Shops
Schedule
Tuesday, June 18 | 10 a.m.–1 p.m.
Thursday, June 20 | 10 a.m.–1 p.m.
Friday, June 21 | 10 a.m.–1 p.m.
Saturday, June 22 | 10 a.m.–2:30 p.m.
People Movement Shops provide a space of experimentation where we aim to feel together by moving together. We will delve into small and big acts that are readily available to us to explore textures and sounds in the environment of the space and, most importantly, deeper connections between us. What do you carry that carries you? How do we tap into our bodies’ ability to generate love and understanding? With these ephemeral actions, participants collectively build a new environment—an ideal community generated from movement.
The workshops will be held inside the museum at different times of the day. This will allow for varying qualities of light to filter into the environment as the workshop progresses. Workshops will be informed often by the light and the ways in which it interplays with the textures and atmospheres of the space.
These workshops are a sharing of systems that inform glo’s recent live artworks as well as research connected to the social practice of glo founder and choreographer lauri stallings amid offerings of reimagination. stallings tends to focus on “mapping,” referring to our constantly unfolding world that resists finality.
Come with pleasure and excitement to a space built for free experimentation and joyous movement research!
Shops are for everyone and are free to attend; no previous experience is required.
staibdance
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 http://www.staibdance.com/.
Full Radius Dance
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 https://fullradiusdance.org/.
Dance Canvas
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 https://www.dancecanvas.com/home.
