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Spira – Movement Arts Collective at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art

January 8, 2022 @ 11:15 am - 12:15 pm

Spira – a special performance and workshop by the Movement Arts Collective at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art

Friday, January 7 – performances at 5:30, 6pm and 6:30pm

Saturday, January 8 – performance at 11:15am and 12:15pm, each followed by a participatory movement workshop

Maartje Herman’s Spira is a dance shaped and inspired by Mark di Suvero’s sculpture Mamma Mobius, its swirling shape and positive and negative space, but also it’s rough cuts and material heaviness. Herman’s says, “I see it as a merging of two forms, the elemental and the human.  Spirals can go both up and down, just like our lives can go up and down.  I also was fascinated by the fact that Mamma Mobius is cut from one piece of steel, that its cuts go in many directions but in the end form a whole, much like how we as people can go in many directions but in the end form one whole interconnected being, independent of time, or birth, or death.”

The dance features 4 dancers from the Movement Arts Collective and is set to music from various artists and genres.

On Saturday, Ryan Lawrence will provide guided movement workshops for people of all ages and abilities.  In the workshop we will focus on how we can appreciate the sculpture through movement and perspective.  Ms. Herman’s work Spira will provide a jumping off point for exploration as well as a structure for choreography and improvisation with participants having the opportunity to be both observer and mover.

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  • Date: January 8, 2022
  • Time:
    11:15 am - 12:15 pm
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Spira – a special performance and workshop by the Movement Arts Collective at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art

Friday, January 7 – performances at 5:30, 6pm and 6:30pm

Saturday, January 8 – performance at 11:15am and 12:15pm, each followed by a participatory movement workshop

Maartje Herman’s Spira is a dance shaped and inspired by Mark di Suvero’s sculpture Mamma Mobius, its swirling shape and positive and negative space, but also it’s rough cuts and material heaviness. Herman’s says, “I see it as a merging of two forms, the elemental and the human.  Spirals can go both up and down, just like our lives can go up and down.  I also was fascinated by the fact that Mamma Mobius is cut from one piece of steel, that its cuts go in many directions but in the end form a whole, much like how we as people can go in many directions but in the end form one whole interconnected being, independent of time, or birth, or death.”

The dance features 4 dancers from the Movement Arts Collective and is set to music from various artists and genres.

On Saturday, Ryan Lawrence will provide guided movement workshops for people of all ages and abilities.  In the workshop we will focus on how we can appreciate the sculpture through movement and perspective.  Ms. Herman’s work Spira will provide a jumping off point for exploration as well as a structure for choreography and improvisation with participants having the opportunity to be both observer and mover.