Wildwood Dance Project 
a multi-media dance company

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

A southwestern heritage celebration.