Orange Grove Dance — Site/Unseen

Join us for a special event with Site/Unseen, a production by Orange Grove Dance that brings ten performers into dynamic partnership with sidewalks, stairways, and the UMBC amphitheatre. Through shared weight, timing, and physical negotiation, bodies and architecture collide and collaborate, revealing the unseen choreography woven into the spaces we pass through every day.

This outdoor performance, directed and choreographed by OGD artistic directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves, travels a short distance across campus, beginning at UMBC’s Performing Arts and Humanities Building and concluding at the Fine Arts Building Amphitheatre. Audiences are invited to follow along via two route options — one including stairs, and one fully accessible through the Fine Arts Building.

“Choreographers Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves magically spun a visual tale of suspension, tension, and community within a multilayered moving painting.”
— Dance Metro DC

Orange Grove Dance (OGD) continually redefines creative ingenuity through its interdisciplinary approach to dance and art-making. Known for innovative performances that blend movement, design, film, and technology, the company consistently expands the boundaries of contemporary dance. The imagistic gravity of the work compels audiences beyond the confines of traditional stage venues and reflects the extraordinary influence of dance in everyday life. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves, OGD’s acclaimed canon of works is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography, which engages audiences in a world that is relevant, mysterious, and absorbing; a world constructed within time elusive performance landscapes in which mythopoetic tropes and reality collide.

Performances:

• Thursday, April 30, 5 p.m.
• Thursday, April 30, 7 p.m.
• Friday, May 1, 5 p.m.
• Friday, May 1, 7 p.m.

$5 general admission. Please visit here to reserve a space, and to view directions and parking information.

This event is supported in part by the Arts+ initiative.