Summer 2023, Loom Ensemble brought together a racially diverse team of professional dancers, musicians and theatermakers, for an outdoors experience of Dance Theater for Collective Liberation. Loom’s newest piece “Tell Me How You Breathe,” brings us to a world where climate crisis has progressed slightly more than our present day, to play out the interrelationship of institutional power structures and ancestral healing practices. Playful humor, live music, and beautiful storytelling help us lean in to meet these pressing issues.
The story centers on the lungs, as the site of interconnectedness and the organ of grief. “Who gets to breathe freely, fully, with ease,” is a necessary question for our time, right at the intersection of eco-activism, social justice, and public health. With the nourishment of participatory ceremony and song, Loom grounds this political conversation in the physical body, to incite the radical act of collectively imagining a more just and beautiful world.
The show traveled to a dozen cities in July and August 2023, across VT, MA and NY, and all performances were in Public Parks or Outdoor Venues.
ANIMAL Dance produced the Burlington and Montpelier legs of this tour, in addition to choreographing and directing the Vermont Dance Ensemble. Hanna Satterlee performed in the Vermont Dance Ensemble as well.
More info on Loom Ensemble.
Photos by Kay McCabe for Loom Ensemble.
