Core Dance’s 2024-25 season will be a celebration of its 45th anniversary. The season is diverse and includes screen dance, live performances, tours in the U.S. and abroad, community events and classes.

Braiding Time, Memory and Water is a site-specific, environmental (earth) art creation commissioned by Flux Projects. It was created by Sue Schroeder with conceptual artist Jonathon Keats and Mexican composer Felipe Pérez Santiago. The performance, which involves an ensemble of dance artists and percussionists, responds to the geography, history, and environmental concerns of two sites along the Chattahoochee River: October 19 and 20, 2024 on Powers Island, one of the most tranquil stretches of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, and April 26 and 27, 2025 in Zonalite Park, a 13-acre conservation area along the Southfork of Peachtree Creek. https://www.coredance.org/braiding-time-memory-and-water

We will also launch LIFT, a new artist-led artist-in-residence program. LIFT is the next step in our work as a leading center and laboratory for the creation, development, investigation, and dissemination of dance and movement-based art forms. Designed to support artists through validation, promotion, uninterrupted studio time, project support, and public discourse, LIFT welcomes Barbora Látalová (Czech Republic), Fly on a Wall, and Joshua Gilyard. https://www.coredance.org/core-artists-in-residence

Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center will premiere the cinematic journey of Sue Schroeder’s creative process on breath as part of its Faith In Art Series. “Breath in Process” showcases Schroeder’s artistic research and practice, exploring variations of the earth’s “breath” in different locations, particularly in nature, with an eye toward the contrasting embodied breath realized in our modern world. “Breath” will premiere online in Asheville, NC on November 6, 2024.

Constructing Dance: a playful celebration of the art of dance will take place January 22 – February 28, 2025. Curated theme nights from an open, all-encompassing call to Atlanta’s dance community will take place at the Actor’s Express Theater on the West Side. Initiated by Core Dance, this project is a partnership with DanceATL and Actor’s Express Theater.

Other offerings for the 2024-25 season include:

Core Dance’s morning class begins September 3, 2024. Instructors include Amelia Reiser, Kristin O’Neal, Professor Dandley, Ashlee Ramsey, and Fly on a Wall artists. The morning class is offered at Core Dance Studios Monday through Friday and the first Saturday of each month. https://www.coredance.org/core-classes

inside:out – The 2024-25 season will open with inside:out, Core Dance’s project that presents Core Dance programs and productions as video installations. inside:out will feature:

• “a brief moment of alignment”, the film commissioned by Christian Mayer to accompany Sue Schroeder’s creation for the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2023, screening from September 1 to October 12, 2024;

• HOME Live performance at l’Abbaye de Beaulieu, Ginals, FRANCE, 13.10. 30.11.2024

• The premiere of “I am a word and also its echo” by Nuno Veiga and Sue Schroeder will take place from December 1st to January 31st, 2025.

The REEL Art Series 2024–25 https://www.coredance.org/reel-art features video installations in the windows of Core Dance Studios at Decatur Square, including:

• Nuno Veigas (Portugal) Mugre – February 1-28, 2025

• Sweet Labor Collective (Canada) Becoming Walnut Tree, Becoming Forest – 3/1-3/31, 2025, and

• wakh^tahslu:nihe of the Sweet Labour Collective: Beautifying the Garden – 1.4.-1.5.2025

Our 11th edition of enCore: Dance on Film Festival premieres on Friday, May 2, as part of the Decatur Arts Festival and runs through August 31. enCore Dance on Film features short films by dance filmmakers from around the world. With a focus on the interplay between dance and the techniques of filmmaking, enCore Dance on Film explores the possibilities and limitations of film dance as an art form. Films will run from May 2, 2024 to August 31, 2024, nightly from dusk to midnight https://www.coredance.org/encore

1830EST: Artist Talks – streamed monthly 09/2024-05/2025 – 1830EST invites viewers to explore artistic practices from the perspective of working artists and their creativity. Each episode brings together multiple viewpoints and includes interviews, field recordings, soundscapes and stories representing the diverse, creative practitioners within the global core dance landscape. https://www.coredance.org/1830estartiststalk

About Core Dance

For more than four decades, Core Dance has been dedicated to the human form, the creative process, and the artist working within it. An award-winning contemporary dance organization with a global impact, Core Dance creates, performs, and produces compelling original art that empowers communities to see the self in others. Core Dance was co-founded in 1980 in Houston, Texas, by dancer and choreographer Sue Schroeder and her sister Kathy Russell. Five years later, Atlanta, Georgia, was added as a second location. Core Dance expands the context for relevant art making and

Dance makes art to illuminate, art to educate, art to ask questions and it is internationally recognized for its artist-driven research practice, the authenticity of its art, its socially relevant creations and its work as an artistic incubator and organizer. https://www.coredance.org/

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