To Offer a Withheld Embrace

From the beginning of our conversations this piece always wanted to be one of joy and happiness. As the title suggests the idea was to finally offer the love, affection, and care, or to summarize, an embrace, that people had desired. There has been so much chaos and turmoil in the world and that is where we start in the story. Isolating the forms of the dancers to begin with and then starting to let them join together. This journey continued as they would connect with each other more and more throughout the piece.

Credits:

Choreographer: Presley Gouge & Cameron Suckle

Stage Manager: Rebecca Couch

Lighting Design: Zach Young

Sound Design: Ava Gassen

Costume Design: Lindsey Rae Thurston

Projection Designer: Amber Huchton

Photographer: Gavin Strawnato