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breath: Creative Process, Artistic Research & PracticeA filmic journey presented by Sue Schroeder
with collaborators Adam Larsen, Amador Artiga, Maya Ciarrocchi, Molly Davies, Christian Meyer, Nuno Veiga, and Kate Smith
Streaming November 6, 2024 on Vimeo + YouTube
Presented as part of Faith in Arts
Free and Open to All
Sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness.
— Galway Kinnell
breath, a filmic journey for a new performance work, explores variations in the “breath” of the earth in diverse locations, both in nature and with an eye to the contrasting embodied breath realized in our modern world.
Breathe-Breathtaking/Taking Breath-Breathless/Less Breath
Through breath, I seek an understanding and alignment with the rhythm, individually and collectively, of nature/the earth. As a maker of Art through the body, movement, and dance, I employ deep experiential listening – a form of listening with and through the body. Through site-specific activation, I chose to access and explore breath in geographies from lush to arid, forests & mountains, open and dense landscapes, in the light of dawn, brightness of day, the subtle light of dusk and the dark of night.
During the research/creation period, I recorded images and made field recordings (sound) to serve as memory of experiences and locations. Additionally, I invited 3 composers and 4 filmmakers to collaborate with me by creating responses as well. The editing process for the film utilizes“chance procedures”, a method often used by John Cage and Merce Cunningham to devise their creative work, integrating the contributions of the collaborators alongside my own.
On 11.11.11, I was involved in a near fatal car accident – a rough tumbling and flipping of my vehicle after being struck by a driver under the influence. Following this incident, my autonomic nervous system suffered from the brutal and sudden interruption. I lost the ability to breathe “automatically”. My research into breath and breathing began out of necessity and with intention in this moment.
It may seem obvious to point out that humans breathe and yet the Covid years have thrown our universal right to breathe into question. The Covid-19 crisis, pollution, the climate emergency, and Black Lives Matter have all forced us to think about breathing – and to notice the times when breathing can be difficult or even dangerous. Not all threats to breathing come in the form of toxins and viruses – there are times when humans threaten each other’s breathing through violence, or through the simple fact of forgetting how to breathe together.
From nature as source, I begin in earnest.
Sue Schroeder is an Artist, Dance Maker, Arts Activist, Mentor and Facilitator with over 40 years of work in the arts. She has created more than 110 original dance works for theaters, museums, green spaces, architectural structures and in nature. Schroeder’s work has appeared across the United States and internationally, and her multidisciplinary vision has led to collaborations with major voices in dance, music, spoken word, visual arts and design. Additionally, Schroeder is recognized as a leading Arts Activist and Mentor and the Founding Artistic Director of Core Dance. As a contemporary artist and Dance Maker, Schroeder focuses on the creative process, movement research, exploration, and dance-making as a catalyst for social change. Under the umbrella of Core Dance, Schroeder facilitated the creation of DanceATL, a dance service organization that nurtures and promotes dance as a vibrant part of Atlanta’s arts ecosystem. DanceATL connects artists to resources, grows and engages audiences in the city, and supports the full range of the industry by cultivating an awareness and appreciation of dance that is sustainable and expansive.
Schroeder holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Houston and earned her Master of Fine Arts in Theater Arts with a dance and anthropology concentration from the University of Arizona at Tucson. Educated under dance greats Bill Evans, Hanya Holm, Oliver Kostock, Anna Halprin, Isa Bergsohn and John M. Wilson, she holds certifications throughout the U.S. as a Teaching Artist and is a founding member of the Teacher Training Institute (TTI), a training program established to develop best practices to teach dance and kinetic learning in community-based settings.
LEARN MORE: https://www.blackmountaincollege.org/events/faith-in-arts-breath-screening/
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