PAST EVENTS

DANCE STUDIES ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Vancouver, BC
Friday, Oct. 14, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Sadi will take part in a Gathering titled "With/For the People/Planet: A Screendance Dialogue Connecting Artivism and Social Justice." She will discuss her research surrounding dance and its role in the environmental movement, specifically in relationship to her recent work with film.
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FALL MOVEMENT 2021
CPR - Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn
December 3 & 4, Times TBA
Sadi was selected to be one of the six choreographers featured in CPR's Spring 2020 Movement Festival, which was postponed due to COVID-19. In this reprisal, she will present Tectonic, a dynamic trio that explores the concept of sustainability from multiple perspectives. What is sustainable environmentally but also physically? What can the human body endure? How do the cyclic relationships between the animate and inanimate features of the natural world allow nature to sustain itself?
THE FIELD
Filmfort, Treefort Music Fest
Saturday, March 26 @ 3:00 p.m.
The Field, a dance film, is set in the Boise foothills and explores humans’ relationship with environmental sustainability in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was funded by the Covid Cultural Commissioning Fund, organized by Treefort Music Fest, the Velma V. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, and the Boise City Department of Arts & History.
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THE FIELD
InShadow Festival, Lisbon (Installation)
November 24-December 14,
The Field, a dance film, is set in the Boise foothills and explores humans’ relationship with environmental sustainability in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was funded by the Covid Cultural Commissioning Fund, organized by Treefort Music Fest, the Velma V. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, and the Boise City Department of Arts & History. Tickets coming soon.
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RESTLESS
West 97th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, NYC
October 24 @ 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
An open-air dance performance created by Colleen Thomas, featuring a public art sculpture by Samantha Holmes. Presented by the New York City Department of Transportation’s Art program in partnership with the Columbus Amsterdam Business Improvement District and the DOT Public Space Unit’s Open Boulevards initiative.
LIGHT AND DESIRE
New York Live Arts
September 15-18 @ 7:30 p.m.
New York Live Arts presents Colleen Thomas’ light and desire from September 15-18! Opening Live Arts’ Fall 2021 season, Colleen Thomas’ latest work was created against the backdrop of increasing political radicalism worldwide, preceding the global pandemic. Now transformed, Thomas, alongside an international feminist cast of 5 collaborators and 11 chorus members, meets audiences with shifted priorities and deep embodiment and articulation of their light and desire.


THE FIELD
Sizzle! Dance & Film Festival, Online
Sept. 24-25, all day
The Field, a dance film, is set in the Boise foothills and explores humans’ relationship with environmental sustainability in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was funded by the Covid Cultural Commissioning Fund, organized by Treefort Music Fest, the Velma V. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, and the Boise City Department of Arts & History.
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ANTI-APAP
January 10-11, 2020
100 Grand, SoHo
Reprising Diane. Still. by Colleen Thomas alongside other works by Thomas and Bill Young.
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THE HAUNTING OF ST. VERONICA'S - A SPOOKY EVENING OF DANCE
October 20, 2019
Creative Cultural Center at St. Veronica's, West Village
SilverMoss Dance Project performed in this durational, gallery-style evening inspired by a haunted house. Through a structured improvisation for four dancers of movement and theatricality, SilverMoss utilized tropes of suspense and horror to create a spooky scene.
CURRENT SHOWCASE (TAKE.2)
March 9, 2019
Barnard College
Presented an in-progress version of Tectonic, a trio that explores the concept of sustainability from multiple perspectives. What is sustainable environmentally but also physically? What can the human body endure? How do the cyclic relationships between the animate and inanimate features of the natural world allow the environment to sustain itself?​
