Take Root performances wrap up at Green Space with works by Kelley Donovan & Dancers | Susie McHugh + Dancers on DECEMBER 13 & DECEMBER 15 at 8PM.

Kelley Donovan & Dancer
Transfigured Ground explores the transformation experienced when life shifts in unexpected ways, making us vulnerable to sudden loss or illness, creating monumental shifts that alter our paths forever, forcing us to adapt.
Through voice-overs, gestures, projection of energy, breath and muscular effort, the work provides a gateway to observe the body in transformation, exploring the relationship between our bodies and our emotional, physical and spiritual lives, encouraging viewers to reflect on their physicality with body and mind in alignment as a process of healing from recent events during the Covid-19 pandemic. 
Dancers will source movement from their personal experiences, exploring how the body can feel when dealing with trauma, creating sharp angles and slicing limbs that segue into liquid curves with startlingly ephemeral shifts of weight with unison movement that provides collective power amidst individual phrases to convey unity.

Susie McHugh + Dancers
Where does everything come from? Are we all stardust? Pele Bauch in collaboration with Eva Burgess explores these questions with inspiration from the Big Bang as described in the Kumulipo, a Hawaiian genealogical chant from ca. 1690.