Since the beginning of time, in community, clan, congregation and club, we have created unison systems of movement; since the beginning of the world, we have moved in large group choreographies. The creation of The Oath began as a chronological exploration of humanity’s common record of this vernacular and poetic unison movement, movement that is practiced for purpose and for pleasure, both utopian and dystopian. This is The Oath, an assembly of dancers practicing our human impulse to embody a larger physical statement in order to bond, to bind, to intimidate, to gather, to believe, to envision, to promise– to dance.
PERFORMANCES:
Carolina Performing Arts
February 14 – 15, 2025
Perelman Performing Arts Center (Inaugural Season)
December 10-17, 2023
ARTISTIC TEAM
Choreographer: Annie-B Parson
Artistic Associate: Elizabeth DeMent
In collaboration with dancers: Mawu Ama Ma’at Gora, Brooke Ashley Rucker, Stacy Dawson Stearns (Dance Captain), Natalie Green, Meg Harper, Hsiao-Jou Tang, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Kashia Kancey, Joanna Kotze, Jenn Nugent, Devin Oshiro, Pamela Pietro, Kendra Portier, Chanel Stone, Paz Tanjuaquio Isabel Umali, devika wickremesinghe (Dance Captain)
Music and Sound Design: Tei Blow
Lighting Design: Jeanette Yew
Costumes: Samantha McElrath
Costume fabrication: Liv Rigdon Stage Management by Ilana Khanin
Sound Design Engineering: Ryan Gamblin
Production Management: Daria Walcott
Producer: Sara Pereira da Silva
