A NEW WORK BY ANIMAL DANCE
I am grateful to have received a Micro-Grant from the Vermont Dance Alliance’s Seed Grant program to develop ANIMAL Dance’s next new work!
As director of ANIMAL Dance, I have been commissioned by Middlebury Dance Department Professor and dance artist Kari Wolfe Borni to choreograph a new section for a unique performance she is creating and producing inside her horse barn, in Shoreham Vt, set for October 15th and 17th 2026. This commission is a years-long conversation that is finally coming to fruition.
Joining me on this creative journey are Vermont dance artists Sarah Vogelsang-Card, Mia Makarski, Maggie Maury and Maura Gahan, each of whom bring a captivating and daring presence to the stage. Music will be a DJ mix by noltron, sourcing tracks that I have been dancing to for the last four months as new ideas have been percolating for this specific piece.
My title for this new work is “Future Nostalgia,” nodding to two ideas: that there will be a time when we viscerally miss what is happening now, and there will be a time when we wish we could tell our past selves of the good that will come out of their current hardship. “Future Nostalgia” will touch on the concept of being in a specific and tenuous moment, with five sides of one character in dialogue, each dancer representing one of five voices within the self.
The opportunity to perform the work on an indoor stage at the VDA Gala on September 26th, prior to the dirt floor stage of the Horse Barn October 15th & 17th, will give the work a unique chance to be celebrated by an audience at the tails of its completion, leaving the mystery of how the site-specific elements will enhance and change the work.
The section by ANIMAL Dance will not be danced with horses in the space, but will be a dance/theater story mixing story and character with the embodied nonverbal vocabulary that relates how physical language is shared between species.
Make a Tax Deductible Donation to Support
“Future Nostalgia”
ANIMAL Dance is honored to use the Loom Ensemble as our Fiscal Sponsor, making all donations larger than $200 tax deductible!
We are raising $3000 to complete the budget for this project, to pay for materials, costumes, renting studio space, and to pay the artists for their time and travel expense.
HOW TO MAKE YOUR TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION:
1) Make your check out to “Loom Ensemble Inc.”
2) Write ANIMAL Dance in the memo of your check
3) Send payment to Hanna Satterlee, 92 North Ave #7, Burlington VT 05401. Please write your return address clearly on the envelope for step #4.
4) Receive a receipt for your records of your tax-deductible donation!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
