Orange Grove Dance: Still Standing
For four evenings in November, MTPA’s StageOne @ Park Place will be transformed by Orange Grove Dance (“OGD”) into a live, site-specific, socially-distanced performance, Still Standing, featuring a vivid light installation that gently reflects the adjacent Annapolis National Cemetery. With the audience viewing from MTPA’s Veterans Overlook, OGD will bring their trademark virtuosic athleticism and the alluring music of Composer Dylan Glatthorn to this surreal luminescent landscape designed by acclaimed Lighting Designer Peter Leibold.
This event will introduce many to the Annapolis National Cemetery. This cemetery was established in 1862 by Abraham Lincoln to accommodate Civil War Union Soldiers who died at Camp Parole, outside Annapolis. After the Civil War, the cemetery was used from time to time for other brave soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the U.S., with the most recent interment in 2005. The dancers will utilize over 100 wireless lighting units, creating a grid of light, memory, and hope that mirrors the precise rows of the gravestones that sprawl across the horizon. Each dancer and light will serve as a reminder of the importance of casting our lights together during times of darkness.
*MTPA and Orange Grove Dance will offer a special Veteran’s Day performance on November 11th at 6:00pm. Admission will be free for veterans and AACPS students. Attendees must register prior to the event. Please contact MTPA’s Director of Programming, Jemma Lehner at JemmaLehner@mtpa-annapolis.org
**All performances will abide by CDC guidelines for both audience and performers. For more information visit whatsuptix.com
About Orange Grove Dance:
Orange Grove Dance is a multimedia dance company that creates visually athletic experiences through the lenses of dance, film, and design. Under the direction of founders/Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves, Orange Grove Dance is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography, which engages audiences in a world that is relevant, mysterious, and absorbing. Their work builds visually athletic experiences in which mythopoetic tropes and reality collide.
Krogol and Reeves are 2020 Helen Hayes Award winners. Their acclaimed works and commissions have been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages, museums, film festivals, underground tunnels, city streets, black box theatres, public parks, botanic gardens, and high-end hotel events, ranging in location from Rauma, Finland to Brooklyn, New York to Washington, DC to Wuhan, China.
