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Shawn Womack

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Shawn Womack’s recent choreography investigates ways in which dancing bodies assimilate with and/or are alienated within difficult environments. In 2016, she collaborated with the Colorado Springs dance company Ormao to create “Press,” a site-specific performance in the former press room of the Springs daily newspaper The Gazette. “Drift,” created for the Russian dance company Pantera, was performed in 2015 in the central Russian cities of Kazan and Saransk as part of Kazan’s international dance festival, Telovidenie. This dance theatre work employed gesture and spoken word, dynamic and contemplative action, as well as Arctic imagery to evoke harrowing accounts of polar explorers adrift amongst polar ice floes. Shawn’s first project with Pantera, “Terrain,” was completed in 2014. Through video and live action, “Terrain” investigated the memories and promise of various landscapes within Kazan. In May 2016, Shawn’s essay “In/Visible City: Transporting Histories and Intersecting Identities in Post-war Serbia” was published in “Dah Theatre: A Sourcebook.”

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