this everyday hour
a dance and sound performance calling to familial and terrestrial histories of place, specifically midwestern grassland. The choreography is built upon and references research into deep and resilient prairie root systems of the tallgrass prairie, tectonics that have formed place, and extraordinary and quotidian experience of absence, grief. The work is performed as a duet between a sound artist and a movement artist who met on the Tallgrass National Prairie Preserve in Kansas; the work was birthed from a moment of both artists standing on Midwest soil, orienting westward.. The work calls to a universal expansiveness that we are all experiencing, whether we are awake to it or not.
Movement composition, performance: Mauriah Donegan Kraker
Sound composition, performance: Nat Evans
imagined at + made possible through fellowships at MacDowell, Volland and Ucross Foundations, residency time at the Museum of Loss and Renewal/Orkney Islands + the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Lawrence University.
excerpt performed at ARTSinTANK Dance Festival, Seoul, S Korea 2025
Premiere: Lawrence university October 2 2026 7pm, october 3 2026 2:30pm