Braiding Time, Memory and Water is a collaboration between choreographer Sue Schroeder, conceptual artist Jonathon Keats, and composer Felipe Pérez Santiago.  Responding to the geography, history, and environmental concerns of rivers, the inaugural performance will take place on Powers Island, one of the most serene sections of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area.  Performances by dancers and musicians will be prompted by the river’s natural flow, enlisting the river as a participant. Audience members will be invited to join by playing instruments made from natural materials. The project seeks to reconnect us to nature and to encourage us to find solutions to safeguard and nurture our environment.

Performances will take place on Sat. Oct. 19 and Sun, Oct. 20 at 2:30pm and 5pm.  At 1pm and 3:30pm (before each performance) community activities will, among other things, offer audience members an opportunity to make musical instruments from natural materials.

ACCESSIBILITY
This performance takes place in a riverside forest that is part of the National Park Service (NPS), and the site can have varying terrain.  NPS has made every effort to make the location ADA Accessible, including parking, primary paths, and restrooms. 

The performance takes place in three movements at different sites around the island, and the audience follows the musicians from one to the next.  Of the three sites, the first location is the most challenging as it is not on a primary path, and changes to the terrain during Hurricane Helene have impacted the viewing areas.

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About the Artists

 Artist Sue Schroeder has choreographed the movements of Braiding Time, Memory and Water through the site at Powers Island.  Schroeder is a choreographer and founding artistic director of Core Dance in Decatur.  In over 40 years of work in the arts, Schroeder has created more than 110 original dance works for theaters, museums, green spaces, architectural works, and water environments.  Her work has appeared throughout the United States, as well as Mexico, Israel, France, Germany, Poland, Georgia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Iceland, United Kingdom, Sweden, Canada, Guatemala, and Hungary.

Artist and experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats employs multidisciplinary art projects to explore some of the most pressing issues of our time.  Braiding Time, Memory and Water is one of a series of global projects through which Keats seeks to reconnect us to nature as the ultimate timekeeper.  Keats has exhibited art and lectured at dozens of institutions worldwide, from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to Stanford University to the Triennale di Milano, and from SXSW to CERN to UNESCO.

Composure Felipe Pérez Santiago has written an original score that will be performed by professors and graduate students of Georgia State University.  From Mexico City, Santiago is one of the most active and recognized composers on the international music scene.  His music has been commissioned and performed in more than 40 countries in some of the most important theaters, concert halls, venues, and festivals.

More information can be found on the project page.

Photo by Simon Gentry