UPCOMING EVENTS​
  • regular events in Wilmington, NC: Ecstatic Dance (Sundays 5-7pm at Spiritual Soul Center, 3403 Winston Blvd)
  • April 22nd, 2023: Earthday performance at Cameron Art Museum
  • Sarus Festival, August 25-28, 2023 at Cameron Art Museum
  • workshops and a complete listing of all upcoming events:  visit the calendar​​
"Traces of the Enmeshment: The River Home"  
April 22nd, 2023
Earth Day

​Reception hall
Cameron Art Museum
3201 S 17th St, Wilmington, NC 28412
(910) 395-5999

Duration: 2 hrs (open door: come and go as you please)
participatory performance

time tbd - stay tuned!
                                                Image credit: Carl Kruger (digital art, photography, editing) 
About The evENT
"Traces of the Enmeshment: The River Home"

KEY POINTS: Live performance of sound, dance, and projection/film. Audiences are invited to participate at their leisure. Live musicians and dancers perform in the reception hall at Cameron Art Museum for 90 minutes. Audiences can sit and observe/listen or actively move and create sound with the performers.
More details about "HOW TO PARTICIPATE" in the text below.
Performers: Members of Alban Elved Dance Company and Slow Ear Ensemble (in alphabetical order): Sean Hart, Carl Kruger, Karola Luettringhaus, Allison Parker, Grant Stewart, Phil Zampino.
Additional participants will be announced closer to the event here: https://www.karolaluettringhaus.com/upcoming.html


LOGISTICS: Audiences can come and go as they please anytime during the 90 minute time window.

TICKETS: Reservations are not necessary. Just show up.

DURATION: 90 minutes

DATE: April 22nd, 2023 (EARTH DAY)

TIME: exact time tbd

LOCATION: Cameron Art Museum, Reception Hall

AUDIENCES: Open to all ages, and abilities.
Family friendly event.
Children need to be accompanied by an adult.
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FEE: No admission is charged
Please consider supporting the artists with a donation (sliding scale depending on your financial means: $5-$25 per audience member is suggested and greatly appreciated. This income goes to the artists.)

CONTACT: Audiences and press can get more information by emailing us at sarusfestival@gmail.com

WEBSITE: https://www.karolaluettringhaus.com/upcoming.html

ABOUT: "SOLSTICE CYCLES" - is an experimental, collaborative Improv Project between Karola Luettringhaus with Alban Elved Dance Company and Carl Kruger with the Slow Ear Ensemble.
The focus of the project is the contemplation and celebration of earthly phenomena, cycles and seasons.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
Seating (chairs, floor cushions, floor space) will be provided in the room. Audiences can sit, lie down, or move around. Wheelchairs can be brought into the space and positioned anywhere or move around the space with the performers. A microphone will be ready to capture those who want to participate by contributing sounds of the space, their voice, etc. Children and adults are invited to move around freely. As soon as you enter the space, consider yourself part of the performance, even as a spectator. There will be staff to assist you or answer questions. Have fun! Come play! Meditate! Dance wildly! Be curious!
CONCEPT DESCRIPTION
PERFORMANCE CONCEPT DESCRIPTION:

For Earth Day we would like to bring attention to the ways in which we relate to our bodies. How our bodies move and perceive.

Our planet is commonly viewed as being separate from us. We go "into nature". We are "on earth". We lose connection "to nature". We invest in saving "our world". However, there are other ways of thinking about positioning ourselves. Indigenous thinkers such as Vanessa Watts and spiritual thinkers such as Sadhguru express that we "are" nature. We are ultimately and unchangeably interconnected with what we call "the environment". That which we exhale the trees inhale, and that which the trees exhale, we in turn inhale. Cycles of interdependence. The trees are the external parts of our lungs and vice versa. We are enmeshed. If it is on earth, it is somehow part of us, no matter what it looks like. The awareness of enmeshment begins within us. We are biomes, our gut alone, for example, is made up of several pounds of microbes that in part constitute our immune system.

Movement, sound, and image will begin from this concept of enmeshment. Our billions of living cells are micro analogous reflections of the macro natural world that ordered them over the millennia. This optionally participatory event is part audio, visual, and movement performance, part living spectacle encapsulating the biomes we live in, and that live in us. The audio component is mixed live with sounds of the space, and the people within it. They are sounds from the enmeshment: bodily physicality, the overhead lights, the curtains, the doors, floors, intestinal gurgles, water, voices, blood flow, breath, radio signals, heartbeat, moving skin, Earth tones, electrical currents, traffic, hair; all these meet the creativity of the musicians and their instruments: acoustic and electronic. The performers explore this enmeshment with everything and everyone non-human. We are part of the body of the Earth.

​ABOUT: "SOLSTICE CYCLES" - is an experimental, collaborative Improv Project between Karola Luettringhaus with Alban Elved Dance Company and Carl Kruger with the Slow Ear Ensemble.
The focus of the project is the contemplation and celebration of earthly phenomena, cycles and seasons.

SUPPORTED BY:
Cameron Art Museum supports the event through space and staff donation. Special Thanks go to September Kruger.




 
PARTICIPANT BIOS
BIOGRAPHIES

SLOW EAR ENSEMBLE
Wilmington, NC's Slow Ear Ensemble is an improvisational group of local experimental musicians comprised of Carl Kruger (https://www.discogs.com/artist/225915-Carl-Kruger), Phil Zampino (http://www.squidco.com), Sean Hart (https://youtu.be/t-PpryYE2EE), Grant Stewart (https://soundcloud.com/subterrene/) and Allison Parker (https://www.youtube.com@allison5 ).
An active part of Alban Elved Dance Company's the SARUS Festival and our common project "Solstice Cycles" in Wilmington since 2015, our visuals accompanied performances and reflect their name as their drone based soundscapes evolve, subtly pulse and expand using live instrumentation, modular synthesizers, and manipulated sample sources. Their appearances yield immersive aural experiences to the patient and sound curious. ​

​KAROLA LUETTRINGHAUS/ALBANELVED DANCE  I was born and grew up in Berlin, Germany. I received a BFA in Choreography and Modern Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and an MA in Scenic Design and Scenography from the Technische Universität Berlin. I completed an MA in Performance Studies at UC Davis where I am currently a PhD Candidate in the Performance Studies Program, writing my dissertation on "Tracing Gesture: Emergence and Signification in the Choreographic Process". I currently split my time between Germany, North Carolina, and Mexico.

I create interdisciplinary expressions in choreography, scene design, visual art, lighting, sound, and film. Generally speaking, I think of my performative and movement research as an interrogation into the WHY's and HOW's of life, about society, and our systems of organization and cooperation. I am driven to become aware of the mechanisms of violence that we continue to reinscrive through our ways of thinking, interacting, and moving. I seek to create performance experiences that allow for an expansion of our expressive potential and an investigation of societal and personal psychological constrictions.

For Earth Day: My starting point for this performance is a trust in the animacy and intelligence of all matter while regarding anthropocentrism as an unrealistic and problematic model for a healthy earth.