SWEET STRANGE PARADISE

W&M2 DANCE CO.

CHOREOGRAPHY: NICOLE CHARLTON GOODGRAND

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OUTSIDE EYE/ MENTOR: Melissa Monteros and Wojciech Mochniej

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LIGHTING DESIGN/ LIGHT OPERATOR: Matt Levesque

AUDIO ENGINEER: Colin Barden

TECHNICAL ADVISOR SUPPORT: Steve Isom​

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Sweet Strange Paradise examines the insatiable drive to embrace life in all its vivid and painful forms. Set against the shifting rhythms of the seasons, it delves into ecological grief and the tangled, often uneasy bond between humans and the natural world, exploring our role as both observers and participants in cycles of destruction and renewal. The work unfolds in a space where beauty and harshness coexist, where rebirth grows from decay and awe rises through ruin. It reflects on nature’s relentless, transformative flow and the brutal indifference of the world we are inseparably part of.

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MUSIC: Soundchambers 1 by Ekkehard Ehlers, Franz Hautzinger & Joseph Suchy, Bikini by G.H., El Vuelo Desconocido by Edson Secco, Paysage Dépaysé by Oake, Lens by Richard Chartier, Hymn 87: Welcome Happy Morning by Hanan Townshend, Partita: IV. Passacaglia by Roomful of Teeth, Sinew/Bone by Ben Frost, Beauty by Alex Baranowski, Beneath by Roomful of Teeth

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