By Jessica Warchal-King, JCWK Dance Lab
Glacier is JCWK Dance Lab’s latest research exploring interconnectedness through STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math). The Berks-based, contemporary dance company travels to Lancaster for the inaugural Lancaster Fringe Fest, which runs Thursday, May 21, to Sunday, May 24. Glacier will be performed at Tellus 360 on Friday, May 22, at 7:15 p.m., and Sunday, May 24, at 1 p.m. The 22-minute contemporary dance performance will be followed by a talkback with the artists.
In slow motion, dancers shift, slide, and glide over each other’s bodies, a morphing conglomerate of limbs, heads, and torsos. Staccato isolations pierce tableaus and break visual silence, embodying the fractures between science and our social climate. “We explored visual and aural experiences of glaciers and embodied calving, crashing, and melting,” director Jessica Warchal-King said in reflection of the process of research and collaboration with JCWK Dance Lab artists, composer Marty Bonk, and climate change scientists. The musical collaboration is supported by The Reading Musical Foundation.
Over 60 performances and exhibits are peppered throughout 20 venues in downtown Lancaster. Tickets for each show in the Lancaster Fringe Fest are pay-what-you-decide. Find an all-access pass and more information at lancasterfringefest.org.
For more information about JCWK Dance Lab and Glacier, visit jcwkdancelab.org/glacier.
