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Savannah Dunn’s The Look, an immersive multimedia dance performance at the Creative Space in Garden City, Idaho, May 6, 2022.
The Look: An Immersive Multimedia Dance Performance. In this performance, choreographer Savannah Dunn and her mother, visual artist Jennifer Dunn, reflect on themes of ego, femininity, and resilience and the impact of “The Look” on those personal experiences. In many academic disciplines, “The Look” or “The Gaze” often refers to our individual awareness and perception of other individuals’ viewership and judgment. “The Look” can be a device to maintain social norms and power, blocking the individual from fully expressing their authentic self. During this site-specific performance audience members will be led from room to room on location in small viewing groups and later invited to join the artists in a talkback and social hour.
Choreographer and dancer Savannah Dunn contextualizes her movement by integrating words, music, and cross-medium collaboration. Her process often involves the creation of a sound system to give the movement emotion or narrative context. Savannah often centers her process around topics that anger or confuse her. Her work has covered topics and themes such as prejudice toward the female body, inaction in the face of gun-violence, grief, anxiety, and change. She encourages audiences to look at repeated patterns of cruelty or suffering and questions how we can break from them.
Savannah grew up in Boise, Idaho, attended Bishop Kelly High School, and trained at Idaho Regional Ballet. After graduating from Butler University in 2016, Savannah danced professionally in Chicago and Columbus for several years while choreographing. She attended Hubbard Street’s Professional Development Program for their 2019/2020 season. In January of 2020, she co-founded Little Fire Artist Collective with eighteen other artists to create an alternative model to traditional dance companies. The collective focuses on mutua
The Look: An Immersive Multimedia Dance Performance. In this performance, choreographer Savannah Dunn and her mother, visual artist Jennifer Dunn, reflect on themes of ego, femininity, and resilience and the impact of “The Look” on those personal experiences. In many academic disciplines, “The Look” or “The Gaze” often refers to our individual awareness and perception of other individuals’ viewership and judgment. “The Look” can be a device to maintain social norms and power, blocking the individual from fully expressing their authentic self. During this site-specific performance audience members will be led from room to room on location in small viewing groups and later invited to join the artists in a talkback and social hour.
Choreographer and dancer Savannah Dunn contextualizes her movement by integrating words, music, and cross-medium collaboration. Her process often involves the creation of a sound system to give the movement emotion or narrative context. Savannah often centers her process around topics that anger or confuse her. Her work has covered topics and themes such as prejudice toward the female body, inaction in the face of gun-violence, grief, anxiety, and change. She encourages audiences to look at repeated patterns of cruelty or suffering and questions how we can break from them.
Savannah grew up in Boise, Idaho, attended Bishop Kelly High School, and trained at Idaho Regional Ballet. After graduating from Butler University in 2016, Savannah danced professionally in Chicago and Columbus for several years while choreographing. She attended Hubbard Street’s Professional Development Program for their 2019/2020 season. In January of 2020, she co-founded Little Fire Artist Collective with eighteen other artists to create an alternative model to traditional dance companies. The collective focuses on mutua
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