Inspired by the exhibition Floyd D. Tunson: Son of Pop, Ormao Dance Company has jumped into an exciting and complex collaboration with five different choreographers and composer Glen Whitehead. Travel through the galleries with dancers and live music to experience a very special series of site specific choreography that explore themes surrounding generations, freedom, cultural awareness, racism, and history.
Ormao Dance Company: Fall Gallery Performances
Sunday, Nov. 4 | 5:30p; 7p
Friday, Nov. 9 | 5:30p; 7p; 8:30p
BUY TICKETS $25 adults, $15 students and children

“Trace” Choreography
by Patrizia Herminjard
Trace is
an installation existing amongst Floyd Tunson's Haitian Dream Boats, which float above a trio for three women
scanning three generations. It explores how movement traces architectural
places of the body eliciting psychological implications. Trace seeks to reveal how the history of
tracings in one’s own body language triggers a response before and
beyond words.
“Bound Breath” Choreography by
Stephanie Kobes
Inspired by Visual Artist, Floyd Tunson’s
beautifully tragic and striking images, five women surrounded by glass, find
themselves struggling to overcome the overwhelming sensation of being bound by
every breath they take. Frenzied chaos, gives way to tranquil release as
bodies are tossed and turned in a noble battle to exhale.
“Sentience”
Choreography by Jan Johnson
Sentience explores finely sensitive perceptions of feelings, with
influences from visual artist Floyd Tunson's Hearts and Minds and Delta Queen.
Exploring awareness, attention, face to face, back to back, side to side, near
and far…with care…with superiority…with indifference, challenging the
culturally expected responses.
“unrecognized beauty” Choreography by Ila Conoley
The soundscape by Glen Whitehead fills the gallery with a sometimes
hauntingly sparse and sometimes suffocatingly dense sound cloud. Viewers
journey, with the music as a guide, through a variety of abstract movement
scenes inspired by and reminiscent of the emotional content and the human
experience represented in visual artist Floyd Tunson's works. "unrecognized beauty" acknowledges
the all too often unrecognized and unrealized beauty lost in the victims of
racism, sexism, and all things hateful.
“Interstices” Choreography by Emily Ford
This piece looks at the near and the far
and seeks to describe the intangible space that lies between. Our individual
and collective past and future realities define our present.
Floyd Tunson: Son of Pop
Oct. 27 - Jan. 20
Floyd Tunson: Son of Pop
Oct. 27 - Jan. 20
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