In Episode 3, Festival Director Anne Morris interviews Sarah Council and Kate Shugar, two of the twenty choreographers selected to make microdances (30-60 second dance films) for the NC Dance Festival's virtual season. For this project, each choreographer was paired with a “choreography buddy,” and Kate and Sarah were "buddies" in this process. The intention here was not to create their dances together, but to provide some creative support, and also to get to know artists working in other ways or other parts of the state. We provided the choreographers with 30 images drawn from the 3 decades of the Festival’s history, and each pair of choreographers chose 5 images to act as a starting place for their microdances.
Kate Shugar and Sarah Council talk about the relationship they built, the challenges of making a 1 minute dance, and the hidden influences on their creative work.
To read more about Kate and Sarah's backgrounds, visit our website. You can see their work in our October 24th virtual premiere, and we'll be providing glimpses of all the choreographers' work on social media. You can find us on Instagram @danceprojectinc and on Facebook @NCDanceFestival.
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
