Culture Mill Season Launch

Join us for our season launch on September 21 at Haw River Ballroom!

The evening will include:

• An Intro to Argentine Tango Workshop with Culture Mill's Co-Directors
• A screening of the full 10 years, 10 stories documentary
• A screen printing party -- Bring your own T-Shirt to transform into Culture Mill swag!
• Rodrigo's Burritos for sale + cash bar
• Light bites, friends, and learn about the 2024-25 season

See the Agenda for details. Come for what you wish and stay as long as you like!

About tickets:

We invite an expansive community, friends new and old, to join us for this event! Tickets are Pay What You Wish with a suggested sliding scale of $10-$30.

Your entry includes access to the Intro to Tango Workshop, documentary screening, free Culture Mill screen printing (bring your own T-shirt!), and light refreshments. Rodrigo’s Burritos for sale and a cash bar will be available on-site.

About Culture Mill

Founded in 2014 by dancers/choreographers Murielle Elizéon and Tommy Noonan, Culture Mill’s mission is to foster a creative and inclusive ecosystem through artist residencies, community-centered initiatives, and groundbreaking immersive artworks from local, national, and international artists. Stationed in Saxapahaw, NC, Culture Mill advances embodied interdisciplinary arts, cultivates community, and expands access to arts experiences. Reaching beyond rural Alamance County, the organization's work is shared across the greater Triangle/Triad region of NC. Culture Mill also engages in national and international collaborations through commissions, residencies, workshops, hosting artists from abroad, and touring Culture Mill works. At the intersection of a range of projects is sustained communal practices that center the body and claim the transformational power of art and storytelling. www.culturemill.org

About the Artists

Murielle Elizéon, Culture Mill Co-Founder/Director (she/her) is a French dancer, performer, choreographer and teacher. She grew up in Southern France and studied Italian Literature and Dance Aesthetics while completing her dance training. She began her professional dance career in Paris in 1995. As a dancer/performer/choreographer, she has toured her own work and with various dance companies across Europe. As a movement artist, she is interested in the ever-evolving condition of the body and the complexity of human experience, as well as in the creation of diverse temporary communities. She is a skilled, experienced and enthusiastic teacher, having taught for 20 years in across Europe and the US for a diverse public. Murielle has also danced, taught, and performed Argentine Tango for more than 10 years, using the form as a tool to access clarity of intention, body awareness, communication and connection to others.

Tommy Noonan, Culture Mill Co-Founder/Director (he/him) is a director, choreographer, writer, performer, and organizer based in Saxapahaw, NC. His trans-disciplinary performances have been presented extensively throughout the US, Germany, France, Portugal, Poland, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Norway, and Mexico. His work engages rich and complex dynamics of power, belonging, and ambivalence that arise in the situation of performance itself. Drawing on a range of practices such as contemporary dance, theater, sound installation, somatics, and community facilitation, Tommy’s work circles around the felt sense of an embodied encounter in a specific place and the questions about commonality and difference that result. Tommy has toured smaller creations, his research and work in public space performance have appeared in the Guidebook of Alternative Nows, and his writings on collectivity and organizing have appeared in Fries Theater Journal (Austria), Revisita Obscena (Portugal), and The Performance Journal (NYC).

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Haw River Ballroom, 1711 Saxapahaw-Bethlehem Church Rd., Saxapahaw, United States