Celebrate Coriolis this Giving Tuesday!

This giving season we are in our final push to support the creation of our latest work Girl In Late August. With one month of rehearsals left and performances the first weekend of December we are looking to raise $5,980 to bring this work to fruition. What will your donations cover? 

1. $2,780 will cover hourly rehearsal pay for seven dancer artists plus our choreographer
2. $2,400 will cover the performance stipend of eight performers
3. $800 will cover the costs of our performance venue

One of our largest casts to date Girl in Late August features a cast of eight including remarkable artists such as Stacy Brenner, Christin Call, Sara Caplan, Nicole Cardona, Madeleine Gregor, Bridget Kirk, Tabitha Steger, and Shayley Timm. Read more about the work they have built together below;

Made in collaboration with the artists, Girl In Late August is a love letter written through dance, exploring topics on aging, womanhood, societal pressure, and self-love. The ensemble of eight journey together through an emotional collage, examining their fears and dispelling lies that have been placed inside their minds and on their bodies. The work features poetry written by Madeleine Gregor as the months leading up to her own turning of a decade dwindled away while anxiety and fear grew.

Surrounded by stained glass and long grasses, the work transports you to the prairies of North Dakota, home of choreographer Madeleine Gregor. A place of open fields, endless skies, and suffocating expectations. Girl in Late August challenges societies’ elevation of youth, innocence, purity and what it means to be a woman. With a cast that spans three decades the perspectives and relationships towards aging vary, however a common thread has linked them all; calling bullshit on society’s narrative. So why have we listened to the falsehood the world is feeding us, and how do we break free. Gregor’s purposeful collage of ranging movement styles aims to connect the audience more closely to the emotions and themes each vignette delves into. Through manipulative gesturework, wind-tossed movement phrases, pointed stillness, and heartbreaking poetry the cast tackles then renounces their fears to find strength in their own worth.