Dance Performance Process With Anya Saugstad

About this program

Dance Performance Process with Anya Saugstad Bowen-raised and award-winning choreographer Anya Saugstad is creating a dance show to be performed by Bowen Islanders. Over a 12-week process, dancers of all ages and abilities will attend a class where they rehearse and create a dance piece, intended to run approximately 30 minutes in length, called “The Moon” to be preformed at the Bowen Theatre on Sunday, 29 November. ‘ The Moon’ is a new dance work by Anya Saugstad that explores cycles, circles, loops, seasons, lifetimes, and existences. Built from cyclical and repetitive movement within duets, the piece brings together dancers across generations to ask what it means to be in relationship with one another through time and space. Merging projection design, lighting, dance, and music, the work is an ode to our fleeting existence and the cycles that surround and live within us. “With the darkness comes the sunset, and with the sunset comes the rain.” (Shiela Heti)