Fayetteville Movement Festival presents
An Evening of Performance
SATURDAY, JuLY 6, 6:30 pm
Mount Sequoyah Center
Maree Remalia
with ourselves, with each other (excerpt from work-in-progress)
Created & Performed by: Maree ReMalia/Co-director: Adil Mansoor
Dramaturge: Jenny Johnson
with ourselves, with each other explores solo performance as a gathering, a chorus, and a communal remembrance. Using a karaoke mic and idiosyncratic movement, choreographer and performer Maree ReMalia delves into varied aspects of self in a work that serves as a balm for the heart and a container for grief. The development of with ourselves, with each other has been supported by Hatch Arts Collective NEST Residency & Casey Droege Cultural Productions, Lawrence University, and University of Vermont; the evening-length performance is projected to premiere at Kelly Strayhorn Theater in 2026.
Born in South Korea and raised in Ohio, Maree ReMalia is a collaborative choreographer and performer, teaching artist, and certified Gaga instructor. Through her artistic practice, she aims to cultivate care and connection, while inviting movers into experiences that not only train bodies for performance, but open possibilities for self-discovery and collective transformation. She welcomes seasoned dancers and newcomers alike into movement in professional, academic, and community settings. Her performance projects have been presented at venues such as Cleveland Public Theatre, Gibney DoublePlus Festival, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Movement Research at the Judson Church, and Daegu International Dance Festival. She has performed in the work of Gabriel Forestieri, Bebe Miller, Christopher Williams, and Lida Winfield and was previously a member of MegLouise Dance, MorrisonDance, and STAYCEE PEARL dance project. Since earning her MFA at The Ohio State University, she was selected as the Andrew W. Mellon Interdisciplinary Choreographer for Middlebury College Movement Matters Residency and has been a guest artist and faculty member with institutions and organizations such as Bates Dance Festival, Brown University, Dreams of Hope Queer Youth Arts, Point Park University, and University of Oklahoma. She is thrilled to be invited back to FMF! www.mareeremalia.com | @ma_ma_lia
Heidee Lyn Alsdorf
Not for Sale
Dance is not an industry. There is no product to sell, nothing to mass produce
Heidee Lyn Alsdorf (she/they) is a collaborative performance artist with a background in dance, physical theater, and somatics. She has performed originally devised works with Broken Jump Theatre (Italy), Spazio Seme (Italy), and Divadlo Continuo (Czech Republic) along with several independent choreographers such as Giorgio Rossi and Isabel Lewis. Heidee returned to Northwest Arkansas in 2022 enjoying collaborations with RumWolf Productions, Novel Creative Movement, Flyover Contemporary Dance, the University of Arkansas, and TheaterSquared. Her work has been presented at Inverse Performance Art Festival, COLLIDE, DanceChanceNWA, Rockin’ for the Ribbon, and the Fayetteville Movement Festival. She regularly hosts artist incubators for building collaborative strategies with multimedia artist and film-maker, Jessica Hale, and she teaches in the Department of Theatre at the University of Arkansas. Heidee is a recipient of the Community Activator Award through Mid-America Arts Alliance to bring performance art to the Razorback Greenway Trail in the Summer of 2024.
Organi city
a void of mournings
a void of mournings is a 20-minute intermedia dance-theatre performance exploring the human condition through relationships on the brink of change. It is a collective meditation on isolation, addiction, codependency, the yearning for love and their repercussions on the human condition.
Director's note: this performance utilizes ground cork to represent sand, and in the beginning, the dust may get kicked up in the air but will soon settle as it continues. The material is brand new (never been used) so it is safe and clean.
Organi City was born to create visual sociopolitical, cultural, emotional and ancestral discourse that subverts hierarchies from our own lived experiences in the world. Through the human body as our primary artistic medium, we create, play, explore, nurture and challenge each other. Organi City consists of ten body-based (dance-theatre-voice) performers and a music composer. Our current roster of artists include Irving Maldonado, Hailey Britton, Jonathan Pattiwael, Andrea Kienlen, Jasmine Seegmiller, Albert Corbett, Rishon Harvey, Athena Wilson, Sam Mandelbaum, Bobby Gotsch, and Raven Yu.
Dance. Yoga. Art.
The Mission of Fayetteville Movement Festival is to bring together community members making positive changes in the world of dance, yoga, therapy, art, performance art, and improvisation. We hope to bridge communities to share resiliency strategies and to nurture our creativity within. Co-creating the positive changes we wish to see in this world takes curiosity, courage, and connections from all angles. Fayetteville Movement Festival hopes to inspire movements that catalyze these changes.
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