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SARUS Festival 2014 presented:

SARUS CREATIVE RETREAT

The Creative Retreat took place from July 16th - 23rd, 2014.
Brea Cali/Deanna jackson from Savannah, GA and Atlanta, GA, Mary Joh Frank from NYC, Breanne Horne from Charlotte, NC and Courtney Owen Muir came to Wilmington to create new works, which will be performed at SARUS Festival August 21-24, 2014. Local residency artists were Mirla Criste, Ashley Black, Karola Luettringhaus, Rachael Goolsby, Erica M. Nunnally, Ryan Lewis and others.

Rehearsals were supported by generous space donations by the Dance Cooperative Wilmington, Cameron Art Museum, Bellamy Mansion and Jengo's Playhouse.

Thank you all! You were wonderful!

SARUS RETREAT PARTY

As a culminating event to a wonderful retreat, artists and community members were invited to get together and enjoy food and good company.

1ST ANNUAL SARUS FESTIVAL FUNDRAISER

The 1st Annual SARUS Festival Fundraiser took place July 23rd, 2014.
The mayor was there! Thanks to Rachael and Thom Gooslby, who hosted and sponsored the Fundraiser we had awesome food, and lovely people. Thank you William McNEill for lovely Tango music (live) and to several artists who donated items for the silent auction.

WORKSHOP WITH YANA SCHNITZLER/HUMAN KINETICS MOVEMENT ARTS

'Discover your Creativity' was a workshop with Yana Schnitzler from human kinetics movement arts in NC. Yana created, together with workshop participants, a performance for Carolina Beach, NC.
August 19th and 20th, 2014 sponsred by the Hannah S. Block Community Arts Center, 120 S 2nd St, Wilmington, NC 28401.

AUDITION AND WORKSHOPS WITH COURTNEY OWEN MUIR

Guest artist Courtney Owen Muir auditioned for dancers, an actor/actress and a musician for her new work 'The Amalgamation of Art' which was premiered at SARUS 2014. Sponsored by the Dance Cooperative Wilmington.

AUDITION FOR NEW WORK BY BREA CALI/DEANNA JACKSON

Guest artists Brea Cali and Deanna Jackson auditioned for dancers their her new work 'CUSP' which was premiered at SARUS 2014 at Cameron Art Museum. Sponsored by the Dance Cooperative Wilmington.
July 17th, 2014

COMMUNITY PROJECT FOR NEW WORK BY BREA CALI/DEANNA JACKSON

Guest artists Brea Cali and Deanna Jackson led a community workshop for people of all walks of life who were interested in being part of the creative process for their new work 'CUSP' which was premiered at SARUS 2014 at Cameron Art Museum. Supported and sponsored by the Dance Cooperative Wilmington.
July 19th, 2014

MASTER CLASS

Artistic Director Karola Luettringhaus taught a mindful movement class. Free to the community.
Supported and sponsored by the Dance Cooperative Wilmington.
July 20th, 2014

PERFORMANCE
Program title: 'spiritus #1'
Description: Works inspired by the ocean, wind and sand and our relationship to these entities.

Carolina Beach
Ocean Grill & Tiki Bar, Pier, beach strand
1211 S Lake Park Blvd, Carolina Beach, NC 28428

Admission: free/donations accepted

3:15-3:30pm
'VOLO'
Audiences are invited to walk with us along the beach. Come dressed in white if you pan on walking with us, but if you just happen to see us there or don't have anything white, just join us as you are!

3:30-4:00pm
'Lands of Sounds'
Richard Breuil
interactive sound experience
Look for the white tent. Go inside.
Photo of Richard breuil bu Kim Korzen.

4:00-5:00pm
'Caught Up'
Andi Steele/Andie Trombetta (NC/GA)
performance/sculpture
off to one side of the pier
Photo by Jason Frazzelle

5:00-5:45pm
"Structure #8"
Yana Schnitzler/human kinetic movement arts (NYC)
A site-specific kinetic sculpture by human kinetics movement arts/Yana Schnitzler
Performers: Nancy Podrasky Carson, Yana Schnitzler
Underneath the pier and with the pier structures.
Photo by Karola Luettringhaus.

6-6:15pm
'Amalgamation of Art'
Courtney Owen Muir (Canada)
performance with live music, visual art, spoken word and dance
near the pier/by the water
Photo of Courtney Owen Muir, Mirla Criste and Karola Luettringhaus by Kim Korzen.

6:15pm
'The Temple of My Familiar'
Rachael Goolsby
performance with live music/didgeridoo by Richard Breuil near/under the pier
Photo by Kim Korzen.

6:45-7pm
'VOLO'
Audiences are invited to walk with us along the beach. Come dressed in white if you pan on walking with us, but if you just happen to see us there or don't have anything white, just join us as you are!

Photo by Harry Schnitzler.

7-9pm
'The Old Ceremony'
the band plays at the Tiki Bar

flexible between 7 and 9pm - come see the band!
Erica M. Nunnally
aeriel improv on dance trapeze to the live band 'The Old Ceremony'
under the pier

flexible between 7 and 9pm - come see the band!
'A Light At Sea'
Ariel Schmidtke
aerial performance on aerial silks/tissue
under the pier

Photo by Karola Luettringhaus.

Photo of Pier performances of SARUS Festival August 21st, 2014 by Kim Korzen.

PERFORMANCES
program title: 'Downtown'

Works inspired by urban spaces/life downtown
locations: throughout downtown Wilmington, Riverfront Walk and Front Streets - all events are free

'In Wonderland' - Cape Fear Dance Theatre

6pm, 7pm and 8pm
Cape Fear Dance Theatre
'In Wonderland'
Location: Starting point: Fountain at the corner of Market and Water Streets, downtown Wilmington, NC. The performance leads audiences to several locatiosn downtown.

6:15pm 'Amalgamation of Art' Courtney Owen Muir
performance with live music, visual art, spoken word and dance

Location: Rivefront Walk
Photo of Karola Luettringhaus )l), Courtney Owen Muir, Mirla Criste, Preston Luce by Caroline Daniel

6:30pm
Richard Breuil
'Geisha 1974'
interactive performance art, downtown Wilmington, NC,
Location: Front Street and Water Street

Photo of Richard Breuil by Caroline Daniel

6:45pm , 7:30pm
Sarah Barnard/Wingspan Dance Company
downtown Wilmington, NC
Location: patio at 'Slice of Life' Pizza & Pub on Market Street

PERFORMANCE
program title: impromptu
FRIDAY, AUGUST 22nd, 2014
Jengo's Playhouse, Wilmington, NC

Performances of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream - Dissected' had to be postponed because the backyard at jengo's playhouse was under water, and the power went out right when we needed to start. A terrential downpour and storm went through. We huddled together in the theatre space at Jengo's and improvised. Rachael Goolsby sang and made the audience go totally quiet, dancers danced with cell phones and we played audience games. It was fun! But we could not perform 'Midsummer' that night. We postponed to the next night. Photo of Breanne Horne by Kazu Takeda.
However, we got a review anyway of that night:
http://wae.blogs.starnewsonline.com/45433/dancing-in-the-dark-sarus-festival-premier-rained-out-rescheduled-for-tonight/

PERFORMANCE

Program title: 'natura humana - skin''
SATURDAY, August 23rd, 2014
Cameron Art Museum, 3201 S 17th St, Wilmington, NC 28412
6:30pm

Description: Presentation of works/installations/performances created for indoor and outdoor locations at Cameron Art Museum, contemplating the human condition.
Coordinated and directed by Alban Elved Dance Company/Karola Luettringhaus, audiences are led on a path from one performance piece to the next, across the museum grounds, witnessing visceral works by a cast of international artists that create a mesmerizing variety contemplations on the topics of humanity, creativity, gain & conquest, destruction, sensuality, illness, humor and beauty. (Photo to the left is of a work by Valerie Potvin)
Admission: suggested donation $20/person

Supported and in partnership with Cameron Art Museum

'TimeScapes III'
aka 'A moment in Time'
by Human kinetics movement arts
Yana Schnitzler

A movement installation contemplating change, and our perception of it
Concept, choreography &
performance: Yana Schnitzler

'CUSP'
Brea Cali: Choreography
Deanna Jackson: soundscore/composition
Costume Rain Bidleman

’… 96% of the American population suffers from chronic medical conditions which display no outward symptoms …’

CUSP is an integrated performance featuring an abstracted, multi-layered auditory experience and the physical portrayal of the internal actuality. Extensively detailing the human existence of an invisible illness; a circular representation of the unseen tangibles of which so many are intimately aware.

'The Amalgamation of Art' (premiere)
by Courtney Owen Muir

Choreography/Concept: Courtney Owen Muir
Visual Art: Karola Lüttringhaus
Cello: Preston Burton Luce
Voice: Mirla CristePhoto by Caroline Daniel.

'1/5:Separation'
(premiere)

Choreography: Breanne Horne
Danced: Paige Lee, Breanne Horne

"1/5: Separation" is the first of a five part series exploring basic fears of people, focusing on isolation from others and our need to feel accepted from childhood development onward.
Photo by Caroline Daniel.

'I need'
Concept/choreography/costumes/masks/props: Valerie Potvin

Performed by Breanne Horne, Karola Luettringhaus
Photo by Caroline Daniel.

'Dancing on the Last Stump'

a visual art installation by Janette Hopper

Twisting, turning, leaping, lifting arms
Death, life, destruction, creation
Sky, earth, air, water
Humans, animals, stumps, brush
Response, avoidance, surface, depth
Silence, truth, dependency, conscious
Conscience, light, dark.

Performers: Karola Lüttringhaus, Kim Korzen, Caroline Daniel.

'In this series I choreograph nudes in a stark dramatic scene where they read as part of a myth with an urgent call to consciousness. Often as I drive through the countryside, I am struck by the particulars in the landscape that present themselves as a symbol for some greater truth that seems metaphorical or mystical or spiritual.' Janette Hopper

PERFORMANCE
'Midsummer Night's Dream - Dissected - stories of authority and autonomy'
Karola Luettringhaus, Alban Elved Dance Company & Guests

9pm

Program title:

Description: Site-specific post modern dance theatre, set on the backyard of Jengo's Playhouse
This contemporary and social critical staging of Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' does away with funny love entangelemnts and cute fairies. in oder to dissect the play and argue for its richly multi-facetted deeper meanings as insinuated by Shakespeare. 'Midsummer Night's Dream - dissected' is the hub for a still growing number of short stories, based on snippets, scenes, characters, questions and concepts from the play. Eight (8) short stories explore marriage, the purpose of theatre, true love, and the struggles of women (and men) for authority and autonomy in a patriarchal society. join us for an evening of visceral, full bodied physicality and spoken expression. Photo of Rachael Goolsby by Kim Korzen.

Concept/Directing/Choreography/Costume/Sound/Set/Projections: Karola Luettringhaus
Music/filming in 'true love': Donovan Quixote
Performers: Breanne Horne (Hermia), Rachael Goolsby (Helena), Karola Luettringhaus (Hippolyta), Mirla Criste (Titania), Ashley Black (sex object), Erica M. Nunnally (mechanical/fairy), Bob Workmon (Egeus), Bill Donovan a.k.a. Donovan Quixote (Lysander), Kim Korzen (sheep), Caroline Daniel (Sheep), and others...

Admission: Suggested donation $20/person
Tickets available at the door or through Jengo's Playhouse (info coming soon)

Supported by and in partnership with JENGO's PLAYHOUSE/Cucalorus Film Festival/Dan Brawley

PARTY

Program title: 'SARUS FESTIVAL PARTY''
Description: PARTY!!! @ Jengo's Playhouse
Delicious snacks provided by Little Pond Caterers

ca. 10pm - Admission: suggested donation of $5/person

PERFORMANCE
Program title: 'spiritus #2'
SUNDAY, August 24th, 2014
Wrightsville Beach, NC, beach strand @ access #4

'spiritus #2': Works inspired by the ocean, wind and sand and our relationship to these entities.
Admission: free

9am, 10:35am, 12:15pm
'VOLO' the SARUS Festival bird flies along the beach
by Karola Luettringhaus
Photo by Harry Schnitzler

'VOLO' @ SARUS Festival 2014 - Sarus bird flies at Carolina Beach, NC from Karola Lüttringhaus on Vimeo.

9:25-10:25am
'Caught Up'
Andi Steele/Andie Trombetta, sculpture/movement performance

Photo by Jason Frazzelle

10:25-10:35am Courtney Owen Muir, interdisciplinary dance, visual art, music, spoken word, performance

11-11:20am Valerie Potvin
'I need'
Choreography/costume/masks/props by Valerie Potvin
Performed by Breanne Horne (r), Karola Luettringhaus

Photo by Stephen Keider

PERFORMANCE
Program title: 'sonitus'

Coordinated and directed by Alban Elved Dance Company/Karola Luettringhaus, audiences are invited to discover several ongoing looped installations as well as several scheduled shorter performances indoors, on all floors, and in the gardens.

An evening of Site-specific sound art, installation and performance art, inspired by indoor and outdoor spaces at Bellamy Mansion, the building's textures and its history.
6pm ongoing/open house until 8pm

At, and in partnership with, Bellamy Mansion.
Tickets: Suggested donation $20/person

'whispers'
A sound installation by Tohm Judson
Location: loft at the top of Bellamy Mansion
6-8pm

This site specific work explores the voices of slavery. Audio recordings recorded between 1937 to 1941 are manipulated to express musical textures and themes.

'Hippolyta's'
video Installation in the coal cellar at Bellamy Mansion Museum

by karola Luettringhaus
Photo by Karola Luettringhaus

7-7:30pm

'Fissure in the Sky'
by Yana Schnitzler/human kinetics movement arts

Concept/choreography/production: Yana Schnitzler

Dance: Nancy Podrasky Carson (in picture), Yana Schnitzler

Photo by Karola Luettringhaus

6-8pm
Lorrie Wagner
installation

ongoing 6-8pm:

'HistoricalTextures: A Contemporary Interpretation of the Bellamy Mansion in Abstract Sound'

Carl Kruger (concept, musician)
Sean Hart (musician)
Phil Zampino (musician)
Jason Ward (musician)
Grant Stewart (musician)
Location: parlor and bedroom levels of mansion
Murphy Williams (technician)
Allison Parker (technician)

A live improvisational textual sound performance inspired by the history and acoustic qualities of the Bellamy Mansion.

7:40-8pm
'Geisha1974'
in the gardens, starting on the steps of the back entrance

an interactive sound experience/performance by
Richard Breuil

'Geisha1974' invites audiences to interact with the performer and walk with him through the gardens, for an opportunity to share meaningful and strange moments that bring up questions of identity, lifetime, peace and love.
Photo by karola Luettringhaus.

6-7pm
'Debutaunt'
a dance by Mary John Frank

Performed by Brittany Posas
Location: Porch and gardens of the Mansion

"Debutaunt" is a coming of age story that explores gender roles, what it means to be a "lady", and how we choose to incorporate the traditions and lessons passed down from previous generations into our modern lives. This excerpt of Debutaunt is a part of a larger work that is being presented in Brooklyn, NY in October. Thanks for watching, y'all!

DISCUSSION

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8-9:30pm
Program title: 'The Purpose of Art'
Description: An opportunity to discuss the performances presented at SARUS Festival, for artists and audiences to engage in meaningful conversation about the purpose of art.

Refreshments/cash bar.
Delicious snacks provided by Little Pond Caterers.
Supported by and in partnership with Bellamy Mansion Museum.
Tickets: Suggested donation $5