Core Dance

On Friday, September 11 from 7–10 PM, Burlington City Arts’ Community Room will transform for Interstitial Yoko Dreams, an immersive evening of sound, film, and visual art 🌀

Inspired by Andy Warhol’s multimedia happenings, the event pairs Craig Mitchell’s original Yoko Ono remixes with artist video projections curated from the Media Factory and John Killacky.

Among the featured films is body of water, created by longtime collaborators Sue Schroeder and Christian Meyer for Global Water Dances 2023. Filmed in the 50°F waters of Stößensee in Berlin, the work explores the many ways water connects with and informs our human nature while drawing attention to environmental concerns affecting Berlin’s waterways 🌊

Through movement and film, body of water reflects the larger mission of Global Water Dances, which brings artists together around the world to inspire awareness and action surrounding water preservation and conservation.

If you’re in Burlington for Art Hop, stop by, take in the projections and sound, and experience body of water alongside work from more than 20 participating artists!

As we begin our next season at Core Dance, we’re eagerly awaiting our first 18:30 EST! ⏰

Join us on Thursday, September 10, at 6:30 PM as Artistic Director, Sue Schroeder, talks with Jeff Arnal and Dietrich Eichmann.

Tune in live to hear an intimate exchange between these incredible artists about their work as musicians and their performance for the “residue…what remains” exhibition curated by Sue Schroeder for Leicester Gallery, De Montfort University in Leicester, UK.

The recorded conversation will be available on our website after September 10 for your listening and viewing pleasure! 👩🏽‍💻

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As enCore 2026 draws to an end, we’re spotlighting one final can’t-miss film! 🎥

“The Gift” from director Mikki Sindhunata is a slow, sensorial exploration of isolation, vulnerability, and the complicated human need for connection.

Alesya (34) lives alone in a remote house and has made a ritual of spending her birthday in complete solitude. But this year, the day takes an unexpected turn when a mysterious box appears at her doorstep.

Inside is something she cannot explain: a living, sentient hybrid being. Suspicious at first, Alesya allows it to stay. What begins as an uneasy coexistence slowly develops into an intimate and ambiguous relationship, blurring the boundaries between human and object, closeness and control.

As the being settles into her space, it begins to disrupt the routines that have long protected Alesya from the outside world. In its quiet presence, emotions she has carefully kept at a distance begin to surface.

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CREDITS 🙌🏻
Mikki Sindhunata - Director, Writer and Producer
Guido FG Jeurissen - Producer
Alesya Dobysh - Key Cast “Alesya”
Simon Bus - Key Cast “The Gift”
Myrthe Mosterman - Cinematographer
Mojan Alaiyeh - Music composer
Bertus Pelser - Sound Designer
Iris Schutgevaar - Production Designer
Qianwei Tong - Colorist
Erik de Wildt - Gaffer
Ting Fung Cheung - Production Sound
Fien Lute - Styling
Faïsa Sontodimedjo - Hair & Make-up

This September, REEL Art returns to the storefront windows of Core Dance with Access Point – Work In Progress, a film installation by Adam Larsen in collaboration with Sue Schroeder 🌱

Access Point (full-length premiere anticipated in 2028) is a one-hour immersive documentary exploring the relationship between disability, accessibility, and the natural world.

Following individuals with a range of disabilities through hiking trails, beaches, forests, rivers, and other outdoor spaces, the work brings attention to the barriers that can limit access to nature while highlighting experiences of connection, resilience, community, and empowerment 🙌🏻

Presented through REEL Art, the film installation series brings this conversation into the heart of Downtown Decatur from September 1st through 30th.

Learn more at the link in our bio 🔗

A new season, a new lineup of morning classes! ✨ Join us in the studio this fall at Core Dance.

📣 Tuesdays
Sept 8 & 15 — Musicians and Movers with Luciana Arias
Sept 22–Dec 8 — Collaging Movement: Guided Improvisation & Contemporary Technique with Jodie Jernigan

📣 Thursdays & Fridays
Contemporary & Traditional Modern Dance with Kristin O’Neal

Full schedule + registration at the link in bio 🗓️

Recall | Redial | Revisit | Revolve

Featuring dancer Erin O’Rourke, Revolve is an abstract narrative that explores the notions of cyclism, in which the perspective is that time, history, or events are cyclical rather than linear, emphasising the recurrence of patterns, cycles, or events that occur over time.

Available online and on our studio windows, catch this film and many others streaming until August 31! 🎬

CREDITS 🙌🏻
Cast: Erin O’Rourke
Cinematographer: Saroj Kumar Chauhan
Choreographer, Director, Editor, Costumier: Claire Marshall
Sound recording: Hannah Millar. Sound Mix: Rosco Audio

Caught, a film by director Joris August Verdonkschot, is a dance of opposites 🎬

Stream “Caught” and the rest of enCore: Dance on Film 2026 before the film festival ends on August 31.

Select films are available for viewing online, but join us in Downtown Decatur to watch the full festival screened on our studio windows 🪟

CREDITS ⬇️
Joris August Verdonkschot - Director, Writer, and Producer
Rebecca Lillich Krüger and Candela Murello- Key Cast

Introducing the next film of enCore 2026…Shadows of Time ⏳

Shadows of Time is a non-narrative art film by Aguascopio, an all-female collective merging artistic swimming, costume design, and drone photography to explore human existence from a macro perspective. Filmed on the Ibiza coast, the performers create patterns both on land and in the sea 🌊

Filmed on sandy beaches, rocky cliffs and other locations such as an ancient lookout tower at sunset and sunrise, their bodies nearly disappear, leaving only their elongated shadows to move like fleeting markers of time. Shadows slip through the cracks of time, and time lingers in the shadows. Spirals and sundial-like shapes are created by the performers in their endless search for living in the present moment.

From above, the swimmers resemble microorganisms drifting in a Petri dish, the circles they create evoking time as an infinite loop—unfolding, dissolving, and reforming. Blurring past and future, presence and absence, Shadows of Time transforms the landscape into a contemplative space where time does not move in a line but in endless cycles 🌀

CREDITS ⬇️
Tasya Menaker - Director, Producer, and Drone Operator
Liz Kueneke and Annabelle Widmann - Key Cast
Mikael Stegman - Music
Aude Barras and Markus Reicher - Narration
Annabelle Widmann - Costumes