Moving Through: A Site-Specific Performance Presented by Brendan Fernandes
Schedule
Sun Apr 13 2025 at 02:30 pm to 04:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
100 St. André Way, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Indiana 46556 | Notre Dame, IN
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Brendan Fernandes’s Moving Through is a site-specific work that will be performed by six dancers at the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame. Fernandes intends the work to dissolve the boundaries among visual art, dancers, and audience members. The performance will take place in the Museum atrium and throughout the galleries; visitors can expect to see dancers in the galleries as they respond to a dynamic score composed collaboratively by students. Rather than stage a stationary performance, dancers will move through the Museum, allowing visitors to watch the fluid performance and come and go as they wish.The work unfolds as a meditative act, inviting an extended, slow process of looking, sensing, and interpreting. Audience members may stumble upon a dancer by chance or follow their movement as they respond to an artwork—transforming observation into an immersive experience.
By integrating movement, stillness, and sonic interplay, Fernandes reimagines the Museum as a living, breathing space where art and dance converge, challenging how we see, experience, and interpret both art forms. The performance will invite audiences into an active, meditative process of seeing, experiencing, and engaging with art in new and transformative ways.
Brendan Fernandes is the 2025 artist-in-residence in the Notre Dame Initiative on Race and Resilience. The site-specific commissioned piece Moving Through is made possible through collaboration among, and support from the Initiative on Race and Resilience, the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, and the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art.
Photograph by Kevin Penczak
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Where is it happening?
100 St. André Way, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Indiana 46556Event Location & Nearby Stays:
