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Portal of the Autumnal Equinox - A Dance Film - Awake by Tycho

Portal of the Autumnal Equinox - A Dance Film - Awake by Tycho

Wildwood Dance Project
a multi-media dance company

We dance. We create. We inspire.

Wildwood exists as a mulit-media project-based dance company to create an artistic space for authentic and inspiring human connection.

Our goal is to bring dance to the next generations of digital natives, vulnerably exploring and seeking through dance storytelling through the body the beauty in humanity.

Catharsis

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Catharsis

Catharsis is a journey through the spectrum of human emotions through dance. This video is an expression of the experience of Wildwood member Kasey Hall in her struggle to make it through 7 years of graduate school. Choreography, Direction and Editing by Kasey Hall Cinematography by Julianna Zastrocky and Mary-Catherine McAlvany Dancers are Kasey Hall, Cassandra Owen, Mary-Catherine McAlvany, Julianna Zastrocky, and Durango community members

Portal of the Autumnal Equinox - A Dance Film - Awake by Tycho

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Portal of the Autumnal Equinox - A Dance Film - Awake by Tycho

It is said that, in this world, there are 8 seasons. 8 portals of particular frequency that reflect inner process. We dance the Portal of the Autumnal Equinox. Equal day, equal night Thus, a potent time for balance and intent What are you energizing? What are you disenergizing? After the fruiting and harvest, what are you allowing to grow in your garden? The sun's energy is drawn down In one more brilliant show So let us celebrate this moment On the medicine wheel of the year

Lonesome

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Lonesome

Lonesome is the story of so many pioneer women who traveled west. The dream of a better life out west was riddled with the reality of severe hardships, vulnerability, fear, loss, death, scarcity, and being left alone for months and years on the prairie while husbands went off to find work. This is the inheritance of the southwest, where the dancers of Wildwood reside. This film is dedicated to all those women who struggled alone.

Nutcracker Grand Pas de Deux

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Nutcracker Grand Pas de Deux

WDP creates a pas de deux for an online version of the Nutcracker, produced by Durango Dance.

Arcoiris: River Project

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Arcoiris: River Project

Improvisation with two bodies along two riverbanks to the same song. Shot on the Pajaro River mouth and the lower Animas River. Song is Arcoiris (translation: Rainbow) by Poranguí.

Prayer Dance: "And that really is heaven on earth"

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Prayer Dance: "And that really is heaven on earth"

A dance to a prayer, so that the dance amplifies the prayer, until the dance becomes the prayer, in the Grand Canyon. Spoken prayer: Nina Palmieri of A New Earth Movement Danced prayer: Cassandra Owen of Wildwood Dance Project Choreography: Cassandra Owen

To Establish Ties

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To Establish Ties

During Covid, we desperately desired to connect. To Establish Ties is Choreographer, Cinematographer and Director Julianna Zastrocky's creative and whimsical exploration of the joy of creating ties and connecting to others. Dancers Laurel Schaffer and Mary-Catherine McAlvany, filmed on location at Fall's Creek, outside of Durango, Colorado.

Nude by Radiohead: 2020 Mud Season

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Nude by Radiohead: 2020 Mud Season

This was spontaneous catharsis having walked some minutes above the Animas River Valley in a landscape that was neither under the blanket of snow nor leafed with new green, which to me was so laughably parallel to the absolute world dream dreariness of Spring 2020. It was sunny but it was also snowing. Filmed by Cassandra's obliging beloved. Song is Nude by Radiohead.

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ANNOUNCING OUR 2025-26 DANCE FILM SEASON

Help Wildwood Dance Project make our 2025-26 Season of dance films a reality. Give to the Venmo above, because every dollar counts.

We have four new dance films planned, and the release of three films that are currently in post-production.

Awake

Choreography by Mary-Catherine McAlvany

Score by Patrick McBrayer

Featuring WDP dancers and members of the Durango community

Awake will deal with art and how it saves us.

It will highlight an original score from a young GenZ composer from Colorado. It will speak to loneliness and isolation, and the power of art and community to pull us into belonging and life. When we create, we are fully awake, aware and alive.

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Once Upon a Time in the Southwest

Choreography by Mary-Catherine McAlvany

Original music by Southwest Composers and Musicians

Featuring WDP dancers and members of the Southwest Colorado theater, film and music communities.

Once Upon a Time in the Southwest will be an imaginative historical revisionism that asks the question: What would the Southwest have looked liked if women had been the equals of men? Through a parody of the sphaghetti western and western film genres, Wildwood will tell of story of women, minus the brothels and homemakers. This dance film will be shot in a historic saloon and on an infamous street in the beautiful Silverton, Colorado. It is the third and final installment in our Western Trilology.

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Summer Solstice

Choreography by Cassandra Owen

Featuring WDP dancers and members of the Durango community

Summer Solstice is part of a series created by choreographer and dance filmmaker Cassandra Owen--the first of which was Portal of the Autumnal Equinox--exploring the liminal times when the earth's rotation and tilt mirrors our internal movements. This piece will release in 2025 on the summer solstice.

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Divine Mother Prayer Dance

Choreography by Cassandra Owen

Spoken Prayer by Nina Palmieri

Featuring WDP dancers

Divine Mother is a prayer dance created in collaboration with A New Earth Movement.

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Something Better Than This

Choreography by Kasey Hall (inspired by Fosse)

Music by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields

Featuring WDP dancers

Something Better Than This is a cheeky re-invisioning of the Sweet Charity dance from "There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This". It's just a big ball of fun that will leave you smiling!

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...and two more pieces in the planning stages!!!

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