Ephemera Artist Bows, Hydrangea Sky Movement Arts

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"Ephemera" by Hydrangea Sky Movement Arts premiered November 2022 at Old Town Center for the Arts, Cottonwood, Arizona.
‘Ephemera’ is a captivating, enthralling evening of aerial dance, acrobatics, modern dance, martial arts, and flow arts, unfolding on and high above the stage at Old Town Center for the Arts in Cottonwood, Arizona on Friday and Saturday evening, November 11th & 12th, at 7:00 PM. This multi-media event will be a stunning array of aerial arts, colorful lighting, evocative music and sound.
‘Ephemera’ is created by Hydrangea Sky Movement Arts, a company of diverse artists in Northern Arizona, performing high-flying stunts on aerial silks, corde lisse (rope), trapeze, lyra, aerial chains, sling, and straps; transitioning into the grounded movement arts of Kung Fu, Tai-Chi, modern dance, acrobatics, and Poi spinning.
Exploring the space from floor to air, through dynamic movement, each act is woven into a cohesive storyline that summons ethereal elements - the intangible and the profound - that connect us all. ‘Ephemera’ explores the dichotomy of time and memory being at once fleeting and eternal; juxtaposing the graceful and the primal, the groundedness on earth and the limitlessness of atmospheric space.
CAST
Heather Elliott - corde lisse
Grace Livermore - lyra, silks
Taylor Marie - modern dance, silks
Kristen Massey - silks
Sunn Mixon - aerial sling
Mazzy Rose - lyra, silks
Evan Thibodeau - Poi
Lilith Velarides - aerial chains, straps
Colleen Walls - modern dance, Tai Chi, Kung Fu
Jeffrey Williamson - trapeze
CREW
Taylor Marie - Director, Co-Producer, Head Choreographer
John G Compton - Stage Manager
Stephan Barber - Stage Technician
William Eaton - Co-Producer, Sound
James Ball - Head Lighting Designer
Elena Bullard - Lighting Designer
Logan Turner - Sound
James Ismert - Photographer, Videographer
Greg Fishell - Aerial Rigging Consultant
Special thanks to aerial rigging consultant Greg Fishell.
Thank you to our sponsor, Best Western Cottonwood Inn of Cottonwood, Arizona.
Thank you to Old Town Center for the Arts for hosting this event, and a huge thank you to all of our OTCA volunteers!
Thank you to Walker Eaton of Holistic Fitness Fusion for his injury prevention and athletic performance coaching.
Thank you to the cast and crew for their creativity, artistry, hard work, and enthusiasm - all those involved in the creation of the Ephemera show put their heart and soul into this production and it shows!
Thank you - We hope you enjoy the show!
A special and heartfelt thank you to Christine Eaton (known professionally as Christine Lamb of Alwin Nikolais Dance Theatre) for her modern dance props, handmade costumes, choreographic insight, and for the conceptualization and original choreography of “Pipe Dreams” and “Wings” that inspired the two pieces of the same names featured in Ephemera. Christine, co-founder of Old Town Center for the Arts alongside William Eaton, was the creative visionary and reason for OTCA’s involvement in aerial dance performance. Christine introduced her daughter Taylor to aerial dance in 2004 at the Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance Festival in Boulder, Colorado, and four years later Christine and William created and renovated a historic building into what is now Old Town Center for the Arts in Cottonwood, Arizona - a performing arts venue that features live music concerts, theater, and aerial dance, amongst various other performance art forms.