SYCAMORE
Schedule
Fri May 29 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC-06:00Location
212 E 33rd St, Garden City, ID, United States, Idaho 83714 | Garden City, ID
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"Sycamore" is a choreographic work in-progress that Kara Wilkes (dancer/dance maker) began creating in 2022. Featuring four solos, the piece continues her MFA in Dance research on embodied generational trauma with a focus on addiction and healing. Sycamore is an interdisciplinary work offering live vocals, recorded soundscapes/music, props/sets that interact with gesture-based dance movement and contemporary dance vocabulary. The four solos highlight distinct characters: The Addict, The Lost Child, The Hero Child, The Co-dependent; their journeys illuminate the complex experiences of addicts and/or those who have been exposed to addiction (alcoholism in particular). While at Surel’s Place, Kara has developed two of the four sections; each will be eight to ten minutes in length when complete."I have always envisioned Sycamore as having a small modular set with the audience sitting close to the action; the four sections take place ‘in a house’ where pieces of furniture, props and projections support the dancers’ storytelling," Kara explains.
Biography:
Kara Wilkes (North Carolina) is a choreographer, educator, visual artist and filmmaker. Her expertise in classical and contemporary ballet is supported by her twenty-year career performing works by Alvin Ailey, Twyla Tharp, Alonzo King, Nacho Duato, Jacqulyn Buglisi, Dwight Rhoden, George Balanchine, Darrell Grand Moultrie, and others. In 2019, Kara earned her MFA in Dance from Hollins University where she began researching embodied generational trauma and healing techniques that employ dance. Her choreographic works also reflect various effects of the Intelligence Age on human relationships and our planet.
Kara was a 2022-23 Toulmin Choreography Fellow through NYU’s Center for Ballet and the Arts and National Sawdust. She is the resident choreographer for Chautauqua Dance and recently created for Ballet Idaho Training Program, The Tallahassee Ballet, Traverse City Dance Project, Texas Christian University, and the USC Kaufman School of Dance. Kara has also been on dance faculties at Florida State University, Wake Forest University, Santa Clara University, and Mills College.
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This programming is supported in part by Creative West and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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