UpRooted Dance- The Legacy Project- Our Lives of Consumption

About this campaign

UpRooted Dance is embarking upon a multi-year immersive creative research dance project about consumption and waste called "The Legacy Project." Director Keira Hart-Mendoza is working with a team of ten performers. Keira is collecting her trash for a year and will repurpose it to create an immersive installation performance space for the dance and original costumes. Together the dancers are reading "Cradle to Cradle" how things are made (and unmade) and keeping trash journals and inventories of their waste. The cast is working on creating an evening-length dance piece that metaphorically explores the topics of consumption, waste, permanency, and the three R's reducing, reusing, and recycling.

The cast will also create a series of educations workshops, outreach programs, and toolkits to take this learned information about "solid waste" and educate others. Lastly, there will be a "living/green" portion of the project where the cast will create and give away plants as reminders of the project. UpRooted Dance will unveil pieces of the project over the next few months- first at Joy of Motion's "Mixed Movement" show at Dance Place where we'll workshop a new section of the piece. Then UpRooted Dance will present a larger section at the Atlas Performing Arts Center on December 9th. Then, the cast will premiere the work in the spring on May 5th at Montgomery County MD's GREENFEST!