Gallery Hours: Friday – Sunday 12pm – 6pm

Collective Choreographies exhibits thirty-six labanotational ink drawings of line dances. Using a taxonomy of tiny and precise lines, each notation corresponds to a movement within standard line dance choreography. These movements are typically specified by “stepsheets,” written instructions popularly circulated through open-source websites to learn and teach line dances. Each drawing shows 121 “dancers” in a grid of 11 x 11 “dancing” simultaneously. Each hand-drawn depiction highlights the tension between coordinated, identical movements and each unique and idiosyncratic instance. The representation of repetitive, rhythmic sameness reveals itself to be, in fact, a representation of multiplicity and difference, in the drawing as it is on the dance floor. As a meditation on coordinated movement, the drawings seek to depict the muscle memory and propulsion of group movement that directs our physical bodies more than any coherent thought when moving together.

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Opening Reception

Thursday, May 14, 5-9pm

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Dance Lessons and Party

Sugar Honey IT and Fake ID

Sunday, May 17, 3-7pm (Lessons at 4pm and 5pm)

$15 suggested donation NOTAFLOF

Teachers: Corey & Abi of Bootleg Linedance 

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Dance Lessons and Party

Mucara Walk and Cherry Bottom Boom

Friday, May 22, 7-11pm (Lessons at 8pm and 9pm)

$15 suggested donation NOTAFLOF

Teachers: Kira & Sean of Stud Country

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Dance Lessons and Closing Party

Play That Sax and Easy Rider (Contra Dance!)

Sunday, May 24, 3-7pm (Lessons at 4pm and 5pm)

$15 suggested donation NOTAFLOF

Teachers: Summer & Paris of Do Si Dontcha