Elizabeth Billings, Christal Brown, Ashley Hensel-Browning, Evie Lovett, Erin Maile O’Keefe

Ask the River is an interdisciplinary movement and visual art collaboration that intertwines people and place through building, reflecting and deepening our relationships with our watersheds. Three choreographers and two visual artists will collaborate with five Vermont communities to create 25’ long silk cyanotypes* and choreograph their unfurling into two performances. The performances are inspired by the stories and movement of water and its interconnectedness with environmental, racial, social and spatial justice.

*Cyanotypes—a 180-year-old non-toxic photographic process in which fabric is exposed to the sun and developed in water, yielding vibrant gradations of blue—form animated rivers of silk.

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