Performers, participants and visitors gather together in unison during a closing salutation to the setting sun as “A Dawn and Two Dusks” comes to a close. (Shmuel Thaler – Santa Cruz Sentinel)
Nowhere Lab puppeteers wander through the Arboretum during the event. (Shmuel Thaler - Santa Cruz Sentinel)
Cabrillo College dance student Ava Barrett dances atop a boulder at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum’s New Zealand Garden as performers and visitors gather to watch the sunset during the final day of "A Dawn and Two Dusks." (Shmuel Thaler - Sentinel)
Alex Wand and Balakrishnan Raghavan perform on a path at the UCSC Arboretum during “A Dawn and Two Dusks.” (Shmuel Thaler - Santa Cruz Sentinel)
Collette Tabone holds 21-month-old Austen as they witness dance and sound magic in the Arboretum’s Redwood Grove. (Shmuel Thaler – Santa Cruz Sentinel)
More than 30 dancers from UC Santa Cruz, Cabrillo College and the general community fill the forest at the UCSC Arboretum to perform a world-premiere collaboration between sound and media artist Anna Friz and choreographer Cid Pearlman. The piece was part of "A Dawn and Two Dusks," which took place over three days in May and included site-specific live performances and installations. (Shmuel Thaler - Santa Cruz Sentinel)
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Performers, participants and visitors gather together in unison during a closing salutation to the setting sun as “A Dawn and Two Dusks” comes to a close. (Shmuel Thaler – Santa Cruz Sentinel)
SANTA CRUZ — “A Dawn and Two Dusks,” a site-specific performance sound and art installation, took place on three days in May.
It was a collaboration between Anna Friz, a sound and media artist, and choreographer Cid Pearlman. The organizers said in a press release that the project, “proposes resilience and exuberant corporealities through interdisciplinary collaborations, engaging the arts in response to urgent and unstable times.”
It featured live performances and installations and culminated as the audience and performers joined together to watch the sky darken. Audience members were encouraged to choose their own path through the Arboretum grounds, where they found dance, music, theater, sound and visual art.
“A Dawn and Two Dusks” was made possible through support from the UCSC Arboretum, UCSC Executive Vice Chancellor’s Leading the Change Collaboration Series, Arts Research Institute for Collaborative Research Grant, Indexical and Community Foundation Santa Cruz County.