In Episode 2, Festival Director Anne Morris interviews Amanda Miller, Director of Programs and Marketing for Greensboro Downtown Parks, choreographer Alexandra Joye Warren, and visual artist Darlene J. McClinton about the collaborative mural installed in LeBauer Park during National Dance Day.
We discuss how true collaboration and partnership is not like ordering off a menu, how the process of creating the mural required translating between dance and visual arts languages and finding a shared language, and how the mural can welcome anyone and everyone to move in their own ways.
To see photos of the mural and video clips of some of the NC Dance Festival dancers' movement responses, visit our website. To see the incredible videos Paul Byun shot and edited for National Dance Day, they are all on the Greensboro Downtown Parks website.
We'd love to see how the mural makes YOU move! If you visit LeBauer Park, take a picture or a video of your journey through the mural and post it to social media. Tag us so we can see your movement response! @danceprojectinc @greensborodowntownparks @joyemovement @djm_visualartist
The National Dance Day mural project was supported by the Ecolab Foundation, the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro’s Public Art Endowment, Arts Greensboro, the Weaver Foundation.
The NC Dance Festival 30th anniversary is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, Lincoln Financial Foundation, and the Ecolab Foundation. We need the support of individual donors and business sponsors as well to make possible the innovative work that NC dancers are creating, bring students meaningful experiences with the arts, and strengthen the community through dance. To make a donation toward this season’s Festival Fund, please visit www.danceproject.org/givencdf
