Atlanta’s glo prepares for various projects

In mid-March, glo, the Atlanta-based “nomadic medium” merging contemporary dance and performance art, announced a group of projects for 2016 that include social art, interdisciplinary experiments, local conversations and a new web platform.

Each of the seven works are artist led and community driven, and all of them—whether performative, social or restorative—respond to the unique features of the American south, as well as the multitude of ways in which public choreographies can amplify a city’s landscape, history and creative re-uses, for animating daily life.

With projects ranging from a choreographed journey down the Chattahoochee River, to a forgotten Rosenwald fund school culturally galvanized into a neighborhood creative locus, to a continuous performance exhibition and inventive weave of new music and dance in Westside Atlanta’s vanished places, glo’s 2016 works thoughtfully harness our everyday experiences in urban zones while unleashing our cravings for intimate, natural experiences.

Richard Carvlin, general manager of glo, stated, “The platform is entirely about social interaction. We are deeply motivated at this critical cultural intersection, to listen, rebuild and create with communities.”

The first 2016 project launches May 2-8 with the return of glo’s 2015 durational SEARCH ENGINE project, constructed as a man-made hillside garden with continuous choreographic situations, civic actions and contemplation. For its first iteration, the project ran for 24 hours a day for seven days in an in-between space at Atlanta Contemporary, sustained by glo moving artists, recorded nature sounds and community. The new SEARCH ENGINE site will be in Westside Atlanta at 10th and Howell Mill.

After SEARCH ENGINE, glo’s remaining 2016 projects include: Unity in 3 Parts: A Rosenwald Homecoming on May 9-16; Red Hill River (of brotherhood) performances on July 8-31 at five sites along the Chattahoochee River; The Traveling Show in Albany on May 6-12 and Pasaquan on October 24- November 2; cloth field: an art place of life exhibition on September 7-11; and Dance Planetary in the fall.

All glo projects are free and open to the public. (cloth field is pay-what-you can.) For more information, visit www.gloATL.org.

Photo: glo dancer. Photo by Alan Kimara Dixon.