City Waltz, Holy Waltz
DETAILS
Sat, June 20, 6pm–8pm
From 14th Street to 16th Street
By Lauri Stallings + glo
City Waltz, Holy Waltz is a magical experience rooted in the here and now that transforms public sidewalks into a stage and uses choreographed movements that have a poetic, romantic quality for creating a space where the public might feel the absence of others, turning the art into a reflective, emotional experience. Choreographer Lauri Stallings believes a dance can be a place without limits. This is the fertile ground from which City Waltz, Holy Waltz has grown, a 120-minute choreographed migration that uses waltz as a tool to explore global themes and metamorphosis. Where six glo moving artists—Beatriz Cortez, Zandia Covington, Noëlle Dave’, Ashley Ianna Daye, Marcelle Gressier, and Mary Jane Pennington—in long floral gowns commit to traverse, linger, and interact across our city to explore the “gravitational pull” of human interaction, and how people move through transitions and celebration, creating a sense of being suspended in a time somewhere in-between hope and despair.
Photo by Thom Baker Photography
About the Artist
Glo is an artist-led platform that uses choreography as a toolbox to build environments that bring people together where they are and make the world better.
Lauri Stallings is an artist who creates both inside and outside of art-world institutions through choreographed actions and landscapes that invoke particular places, collective voices, and communities of movement. Whether inhabiting a forest of 80 acres or confined to the surface of a beam of light, the origin of her art extends outward from the primary projections of the feet and hands.
Stallings is a Creative Time artist and a United States Artist Fellow nominee (2022, 2018). She is a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation SEED Grantee for her long-term work in the rural South, the first choreographer to serve as artist-in-residence at the High Museum of Art, an Artadia awardee, and the inaugural artist of Flux Projects. She is also a Bogliasco Fellow and MOCA GA Fellow and was awarded the Hudgens Prize.
Her work has been exhibited and presented nationally and internationally at Frac Meca, Atlanta Contemporary, Aspen Music Festival, Trinity Laban, Jule Museum, Marais de Bonnefont Marsh Reserves, and the Florence Biennale, where she received the Lorenzo Magnifico Prize.
Stallings has collaborated with artists across disciplines to create new work, including Maestro Robert Spano, Big Boi and The Dungeon Family, Pearl Cleage, and Gyun Hur. She was raised in the margins by a Georgia small-time activist and is the great-granddaughter of P.M. Barefoot, a descendant of the Lumbee Tribe.
