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Alighting Summits (2021)
Video and Direction: Ellen Oliver
Choreography: Ellen Oliver in collaboration with the performers
Cast:  Hannah Bennett, Rachell Gamache, Lindsay Gibbons, Serenity Gorecki, Analisa Palla, Sylvan Williams, Samantha Witham
Music: Claude Debussy: Children's Corner, L 113 - The Little Shepherd by Ronan O’Hora
Poetry: by Lénaïg Cariou (2019), translated from French by Virgil Blanc, text performed and recorded by Alexandria Pierre-Etienne
Set design: Richard Oulette ‘12
Costume Design: Emily Woods Hogue

Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli
Technical Direction: Craig Lindsay
Technician for Lights, Sound, Video: Alex Trombly

Alighting Summits explores the history of forest fires and ecological succession on Mount Monadnock, NH. The work includes a film projection on hanging sculptures alongside 7 dancers shaping aluminum foil through movement and sound. Alighting Summits invites us to consider how the Monadnock landscape holds memories of its visitors. This work is a collaboration with Keene State College dance students.
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  • Home
  • Choreography
    • Alighting Summits
    • A Visitor Who Does Not Remain
    • Shiny Side Up
    • Near Awake
    • Still Life with Self Portraits
    • Pants Becoming Kites
    • Dying Loons and Parker Pond
    • Connect
    • Kaleide with Amorphous Dance Collective
    • Between Me and Blue
    • In the Thick of the Middle
    • An Evening of Enchanted Alliance
    • Como la luz
  • FIlm
    • Untrammeled by Man
    • Landings
    • Ascending Folds
    • Dear Brother
    • In the Thick of the Middle
    • Enchanted Alliance
  • Paintings
  • Vimeo