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The CCBdance Project, featuring choreography by UNC Asheville Assistant Professor of Dance Celia Weiss Bambara, will perform a site-specific work at the Hubert H. Hayes log cabin in the Botanical Gardens of Asheville adjoining campus. Student dancers Lane Wagner, Alexandra Griffin and Becca Spritz will perform along with Bambara, who directs UNC Asheville’s Dance Program.
The performances are free and open to the public, and will take place at noon on Wednesday, March 30, and at 2 p.m. on Thursday, March 31. Audience members should meet in front of UNC Asheville’s Highsmith Union at the performance times; a student guide will lead the way to the Hayes log cabin.
“This site-specific work asks about the textures of how we find home and healing,” said Bambara. “The botanical garden area is the site chosen due to its history of being a ‘safe space’ for student and community connections to nature. The choreography features sections of work and structured improvisations based upon the thematic material and the building’s structures.”
The CCBdance Project was formed in 2006 to promote intercultural understanding and peace through experimental African-based contemporary dance. The company includes the choreography and collaboration of Lacina Coulibaly, Christian Bambara and Celia Weiss Bambara and is directed by Celia Weiss Bambara. The company’s work has been performed in many locations in Chicago as well as in Connecticut, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Michigan, Iowa, North Carolina, Jamaica, Trinidad, Haiti, Burkina Faso and the Cote d’Ivoire.
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