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.
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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!!!