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WORKS BY
SUE SCHROEDER
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Earthworks
breath
breath explores variations in the "breath" of the earth in diverse locations, particularly in nature, while contrasting with the embodied breath realized in our modern world. This exploration seeks an understanding and alignment with the rhythm of nature/the earth, both individually and collectively.
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Braiding Time, Memory and Water
is a site-specific, environmental (earth) artistic creation by Sue Schroeder alongside and in collaboration with Conceptual Artist, Jonathon Keats and Composer, Felipe Pérez Santiago. The performance, including an ensemble of Dance Artists and Percussion, responds to the geography, history and environmental concerns of two...
Global Water Dances
Global Water Dances (GWD) uses the art of dance to illuminate water issues on a global scale. Their work incites collaboration to address water issues through the universal language of dance, and encourages participants to take direct action aiding in the fight. Core Dance last participated in Global Water Dances in 2021 on the Big Island of Hawaii.
National Water Dance
National Water Dance is an artist-driven collective of dancers and educators confronting critical water issues facing the United States. Stretching from New York to Hawaii and from Alaska to Puerto Rico, simultaneous, site-specific dance performances are created and performed with movers of all ages and experience.
Planetary Dance
Core Dance in recognition of Anna & Daria Halprin and the Tamalpa Institute offer Planetary Dance to our communities. Planetary Dance is an annual dance of healing and community renewal. It brings people of all ages and abilities together in a beautiful setting to dance for a purpose.
walk
walk contemplates the changing nature of the individual within our briskly changing world. Under the artistic direction of Sue Schroeder, this performance work, created, in tandem with the community in and around an existing labyrinth or one built by/for the community. The labyrinth offers the sacred space for this community experience. ​​
Museum Environments
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Galleries Without Borders
Under the Artistic Direction of Sue Schroeder (Core Dance/USA), Czech and American Dance Makers will complete a two-part creative residency in October 2021. Inspired by the artistic intention of artists and works exhibited in the permanent exhibition,1796–1918: ART OF THE LONG CENTURY, the Dance Makers will offer...
above and below
The Menil Collection
A site-specific dance inspired by Dan Flavin’s radiant light installation at The Menil Collection. “above and below” invites viewers into a dialogue between movement, light, and space The piece was later reimagined for Flux Nights, where dancers performed beneath the glow of audience car headlights.
Nevertheless She Persists
Nevertheless, She Persists was a new performance from Core Dance advocating for the dignity, intelligence, and potential of women everywhere. Six artworks from the Crystal Bridges Museum of Art’s collection prompted the approach, asking viewers to look again at the depictions of women from the nineteenth through...
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Diego Rivera, Living Mural
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Core Dance’s early collaborations with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, reimagined the gallery as a canvas for movement. From the company’s 1997 debut to a 1999 living mural inspired by Diego Rivera, these works celebrated the fusion of visual art and dance in museum spaces.
residue…what remains
Drawing on the Zurbrugg Collection, the Fluxus legacy at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, residue…what remains, is an exhibition exploring the constellational scope of influence and artistic innovation of the interdisciplinary and experimental approach to art of Fluxus on contemporary art, dance, theater, music and performance.
Theatrical Works
a brief moment of alignment
a brief moment of alignment is a new multidisciplinary work commissioned by the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Central Arkansas. Created by artist and choreographer Sue Schroeder, the work features a multi-generational cast and a film installation with original sound score by Berlin-based artist Christian Meyer.
if... a memoir
Engaging questions of human freedom alongside human limitations and its direct link to the current crisis on our planet, if… a memoir is a love song written for humanity. if… a memoir is an evening-length, physical theater/choreo-poem, revealing a performance literature that is bold, straightforward, expressive and timeless.
Life Interrupted
Life Interrupted, which was previously titled Gaman, is a richly-layered, full-length work of contemporary dance, art, and music that draws from the experiences of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent who were interned on American soil during World War II. While rooted in this specific story, the work ultimately creates a universal experience from historical events.
Site-Responsive
Braiding Time, Memory and Water
is a site-specific, environmental (earth) artistic creation by Sue Schroeder alongside and in collaboration with Conceptual Artist, Jonathon Keats and Composer, Felipe Pérez Santiago. The performance, including an ensemble of Dance Artists and Percussion, responds to the geography, history and environmental concerns of two...
if... a memoir
Engaging questions of human freedom alongside human limitations and its direct link to the current crisis on our planet, if… a memoir is a love song written for humanity. if… a memoir is an evening-length, physical theater/choreo-poem, revealing a performance literature that is bold, straightforward, expressive and timeless.
above and below
The Menil Collection
A site-specific dance inspired by Dan Flavin’s radiant light installation at The Menil Collection. “above and below” invites viewers into a dialogue between movement, light, and space The piece was later reimagined for Flux Nights, where dancers performed beneath the glow of audience car headlights.
Films
inside:out
inside: out reconstructs the dancing body via screen techniques - at times a construction of an impossible body, one unencumbered by gravity, temporal restraints. inside:out invites investigation of movement and its permutations on a very intimate level via the very nature of the camera, with its capacity to zoom in and out and to focus tightly in a very small area. A site-specific practice, inside:out is a hybrid form in which the camera may be thought of as the site, constantly shifting and creating an ever fluid definition of place and time. The moving body is the architecture against and through which the audience perceives the work.
Unanswered Question
The Unanswered Question, with a score of the same name written by Charles Ives in 1908, explores through opposites the ways in which we as humans attempt to find ourselves. Similar to the two distinct energies in the music, beautifully seductive strings, and discordant “questioning” horns, the film contrasts raw, explosive, self-absorbed movement with outward, tender, stillness; a white nebulous manufactured space with a lush natural environment; extreme closeups with wide shots.
Together
Together is a collaboration between composer Judd Greenstein, Music ensemble, filmmaker Adam Larsen, and choreographer Sue Schroeder. Crafted during the pandemic with a majority of the components recorded in isolation, both the score andvisuals explore the ideas of togetherness/separateness and what connection means without touch.
body of water
Sue Schroeder and Christian Meyer as longtime collaborators have created body of water. Filmed in 50℉ water in Stößensee, Berlin, the lake provided the location to explore the myriad ways that water can connect with and inform our human nature.
In Berlin, the main water quality problems are eutrophication, the associated growth of algae, and damage to the oxygen balance caused by eight major sewage plants.
Schroeder, along with Meyer, wish to raise awareness for this issue in Berlin through this creation.
I am a word and also its echo
Set in Atlanta, "I am a word and also its echo" is a screen dance film directed by Nuno Veiga in collaboration with and featuring Sue Schroeder. Inspired by the writings of Clarice Lispector, the film explores the fleeting nature of the present moment. Schroeder's performance, accompanied by Veiga and Filipe Sousa evocative score from their project a r | r a with voice recording by Adrien Kay, captures the delicate balance and transient beauty of the now, reflecting the essence of life's impermanence.
Access Point
Access Point is a one-hour immersive documentary that follows individuals with disabilities as they navigate vast and varied natural landscapes. Through intimate interviews and vivid on-the-ground footage, the film explores often-overlooked barriers to outdoor accessibility—alongside powerful stories of resilience, community, and empowerment that emerge along the way.
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