Artist Laura Peterson explores the urgent topic of global climate emergency through a new multidisciplinary movement work inspired by minimalist geometric art and Land Art of the 1960’s and ‘70’s. In Interglacial, four dancers gradually transform precisely folded flat paper objects into 12- to 16-foot sculptures evoking an icy terrain inhabited and ultimately overwhelmed by cleaving glaciers.

VIDEO (Interglacial trailer)

VIDEO (44-min excerpt from work-in-progress presentation at HERE Arts Center Culturemart Festival on March 22, 2019)

FILM PROJECT

In 2022, Laura Peterson with Common Ground Arts will begin developing a film project based on this work in “Iceberg Alley” in Newfoundland, Canada.

LIVE PERFORMANCE

The performance design of Interglacial is flexible and adaptable to theater, atrium, gallery and other alternative event settings. The work can also be presented as an interactive art installation with video projection.

The world premiere of Interglacial will be presented by Dixon Place, New York City in 2021, and will be available for worldwide presentation starting in 2022.

Running Time | Approx. 80 minutes
Creator | Laura Peterson
Installation Design | Laura Peterson and Jon Pope
Music | Omar Zubair
Lighting Design | Ayamu Poe Saegusa
Performers | 4-6 dancers
Touring Party | 6-8

The development of Interglacial was supported by Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, HERE Arts Center Culturemart Festival, and WallPlay.

LAURA PETERSON is a NYC-based choreographer creating works that challenge the limits of physicality and reframe performance spaces. Influenced by the visual art of the 1960’s and ‘70’s, she simultaneously creates visually arresting installations and rigorous choreography. Her performances have included large-scale paintings, one thousand square feet of living lawn, 16’ paper sculptures, and other giant structures. Recently she performed her work SOLO as part of the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done. Peterson’s work has been presented throughout New York City and nationally including The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out, and internationally in Europe and South America. Recent residencies include HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP). Select commissions include Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens Museum of Art, Dance New Amsterdam, Dixon Place, and Reflection/Response Commission from Temple University. Laura holds an MFA in Dance from New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts and a BFA in Modern Dance from University of the Arts in Philadelphia.