4 decades. 135 original works. Artistic research, social conscience, and an expertise in creating site-specific and museum work.
Innovation in dance arises from constantly investigating and experimenting with what’s possible with human bodies in motion.
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"The work of Core Dance is always in process. That kind of artistic process is high-level faith and expertise in action. It is about digging in, work that is exhausting to the soul and body. And brain shaping…consuming…requiring realness.
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The work that results from this kind of intense process is deep and still technical. The Dance Artists in Core Dance define its look and velocity. The resulting work is one that is ambitious but reaches its mark. It moves along and never loses focus because the whole ensemble has worked so deeply to be in that hour, completely in that hour.”
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-letter of love to Core Dance from Leslie Scates, Choreographer/Core Dance Collaborator & Guest Artist
Our Work
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Works by Sue Schroeder
Artist, Dance Maker, Arts Activist, Mentor, Facilitator
In over 40 years of work in the arts, Sue Schroeder has created more than 110 original dance works for theaters, museums, green spaces, architectural works, and water environments. Her work has appeared throughout the United States, as well as Mexico, Israel, France, Germany, Poland, Georgia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Iceland, United Kingdom, Sweden, Canada, Guatemala, and Hungary. Schroeder’s multidisciplinary vision has led to collaborations with major voices in dance, music, spoken word, visual arts and design.
Additionally, Schroeder is recognized as a leading Arts Activist and Mentor and the Founding Artistic Director of Core Dance. As a contemporary artist and Dance Maker, Schroeder focuses on the creative process, movement research exploration, and dance-making as a catalyst for social change.
Commissions Supporting Guest Artists
Human Landscapes
“Human Landscapes” was choreographed and conceptualized by Germana Civera, with Sound Design by Didier Aschour. It is an embodied reflection on history, memory, travel, encounters, the migration of beings, gestures and stories. Choreographer Germana Civera draws on her family’s own years in exile during the...
Core Dance Presents
Exposed
In an unprecedented partnership, Core Dance collaborated with 7 Stages Theatre, Emory University Dance Program/Candler Concert Series, Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University and Kennesaw State University’s Departments of Theatre and Performance Studies and Dance to present EXPOSED, a six-week festival of richly-layered...
Constructing Dance
In Core Dance’s current evolution, we choose to deepen our work as a leading center and laboratory for the creation, development, investigation and dissemination of dance and movement-based forms. In celebration, we offer Constructing Dance as a testament to our past and a lens on our future.
Convenings
Currents of Motion: Sound, Movement & Collective Response​
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For more than four decades, Core Dance has embraced the human form, the creative process and the artist working within it. Core Dance creates, performs, and produces compelling original art that empowers communities to see the self in others. Amplifying the context for art making that is relevant, Core Dance makes Art to illuminate, Art to educate, Art to question. In this spirit, Core Dance Artistic Director, Sue Schroeder, has convened the Dance Artists for this improvisational event at Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery.
roza in the rough​
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Taking place in and on the grounds of the manor house, “Dwór Popielów” outside Krakow, Poland, roza in the rough unfolds as a powerful trilogy of events—NTTL, Site Yizkor, and the haunting Sound Installation by Joanna Duda and Christian Meyer—each offering a distinct yet interconnected meditation on memory, presence, and the resonance of loss.
The Poland Project
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The seed idea for this project came into being through a conversation with fellow artists Simon Gentry and Joshua Poole. Our conversation brought forth the question: Is it possible to convene artists and thinkers to ignite healing of land, history and culture, from loss and silence, of unspoken violence and forgotten ghosts? With this question, the Poland Project began. What followed was a quick and expedited timeframe that brought together synchronistic events and people to realize our project 13 months after the question had been posed.
with Anna Halprin at Mountain Studio​
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In 2016, Sue Schroeder, Core Dance Artistic Director, organized a Special Edition of the Teacher Training Institute. 15 Core Dance Teaching Artists were invited to a week-long workshop to grow and deepen the knowledge and experience. At the invitation of dance pioneer, Anna Halprin, the workshop took place at Mountain Studio in Marin Country, the home studio of Anna and the Tamalpa Institute which she founded with her daughter, Daria Halprin. The workshops were taught by Anna Halprin, Dohee Lee and Daria Halprin.
