Hillsborough Community College’s (HCC) Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) Series and Dance department will present Interspecies Journey by The Equus Projects on March 31 at 7:30 p.m. at the HCC Dance Studio.
Interspecies Journey is a dance and theater piece that seamlessly merges live dance with excerpts from the film “IMPRINTED.” The live events and film are woven into a fluid tapestry to draw the audience into a world of physical listening and interspecies communication.
General admission tickets are $10. Admission is free for HCC students, faculty and staff with valid ID. The box office opens one hour prior to the performance. Advanced tickets can be purchased at hccfl.edu/dance.
In connection to the performances, there will be Physical Listening workshops hosted by the HCC Dance program on March 31 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the HCC Dance Studio and on April 1 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with horses at liberty in pasture at Notquitea Farm in Dade City. Workshops are open to the public. For more information, Christina Acosta at
cacosta@hccfl.edu.
The HCC Dance Studio is located on the second floor of the Ybor City Campus Child Development Center at 1505 E. Palm Ave., Tampa, FL 33605.
About the Equus Projects
The Equus Projects has been creating performance works with dancers and horses throughout the United States and in Europe for over 20 years. Every Equus company member, in addition to be being an accomplished dancer, is also trained in Natural Horsemanship. In April of 2021, Toronto-based filmmaker Stefan Morel began filming Equus Projects dancers improvising with two pregnant mares, capturing the foals’ births and documenting the ensuing weeks of the dancers’ improvisational conversations with the mares and foals. https://www.equus-onsite.org/
About JoAnna Mendl Shaw
JoAnna Mendl Shaw, Artistic Director of The Eqquus Projects, is a Veteran choreographer and dance educator. JoAnna Mendl Shaw has been expanding the parameters and strategies for dance-making since 1998. Her company, The Equus Projects, tours throughout the States and Europe, creating site-specific works in immersive collaboration with local communities. An internationally recognized dance educator, Shaw has taught on faculty at NYU, The Juilliard School, Alvin Ailey, Princeton, Mount Holyoke and Montclair State. Shaw is the recipient of NEA Choreographic Fellowships and multiple NEA grants for Interdisciplinary Performance. She has brought her somatic practice of Physical Listening into elementary schools and academic think tanks, into the Strategic Studies group at the Naval War College and NYU Medical School. She is a certified Laban Movement Analyst. She is the author of the 2021 book, “Physical Listening, A Dancer’s Interspecies Journey.”
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