SPRING INTO SEED WITH US!
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BACKGROUND: Adaptations Dance Theater's SEED choreographic residency and performance series supplies choreographers with the studio space and the cast of dancers necessary to jumpstart the creative process for building ADT repertoire. Each piece will have the freedom and time to explore initial ideas and let them take root, flower, spring offshoots, and evolve into their next life form. SEED aims to sow the love of dance across new audiences within the Maui community, particularly among those who are not able to experience a professional dance concert in the traditional theater setting. ADT will share excerpts of SEED pieces at different nonprofit organizations and community locations in an effort to increase access to concert dance for all and share the benefits of engaging with this enriching performance art.

IN-STUDIO SHOWING: Maui's contemporary dance company will perform the original work by Nathaniel Hunt to be crafted within the latest SEED residency that begins May 6. Additionally, the company will share a reprise performance of Ali McKeon Pineo's 'The Bits Left Behind', commissioned by Small Town * Big Art, County of Maui, that interprets the recorded Talk Story between Clifford Naeʻole and Hōkūao Pellegrino and is inspired by ʻŌlelo Noʻeau: I ka nānā no a ʻike (By observing, one learns).

The choreographers and dancers will be available for a brief question-and-answer session immediately following the performance to engage in conversation about their individual and collective experiences with these works.

COMMUNITY PERFORMANCES: In addition to the public SEED in-studio showing on Sunday, May 15, we will share the new SEED work at private performances for constituents of the Nisei Veterans Memorial Center and the upper grade levels at Haiku Elementary School. If you feel inspired to support our work so that we can continue sharing ADT works in different community locations, please consider making a donation.