Reverberations: A performance collage

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Multi-disciplinary collage of poetry, dance, and visual art in an informal, interactive performance event exploring history, legacy, and the endless reverberations of creative expression. Created through a residency at Reconsidered Goods, a creative reuse center, this performance is part of the NC Dance Festival 2025-26 season. Featuring poetry written and performed by Jay Ward, poet Laureate of Charlotte, movement, poetry, and visual art studies created during the Feburary "Maker's Space" workshops held at Reconsidered Goods, and dances created by Dance Project Artists in Residence.

Junious 'Jay' Ward is an Emmy nominated poet and teaching artist living in Charlotte, NC. He is a National Slam champion (2018), an Individual World Poetry Slam champion (2019), author of Sing Me A Lesser Wound (Bull City Press 2020) and Composition (Button Poetry 2023). Jay currently serves as Charlotte's inaugural Poet Laureate and is a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and current Writer in Residence for Charlotte Lit. Ward has attended Breadloaf Writers Conference, Callaloo, The Watering Hole and Tin House Winter Workshop. His work can be found in Columbia Journal, Four Way Review, DIAGRAM, Diode Poetry Journal and elsewhere.

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