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Core Dance welcomes Georgians to enjoy a free artist's reception with Roie Avidan and Maya Gelfman as they work on their latest mural project, "Mantra"
Mantra is a site-specific mural commissioned by Core Dance for their exterior wall in Decatur Square. It focuses the idea of the power of perspective into a single sentence, by playfully questioning how you relate to a given physical law. Gravity grounds you. It gives you stability and the foundation for your highest reaching endeavors. Gravity can also feel like a weight, a burden that pulls you down, limiting your abilities. Mantra suggests a simple yet potent shift in perception: notice your footsteps and through them your relationship to the earth. Can you allow this force that pulls you down to teach you about
standing up? Can it anchor and elevate you at the same time?
Roie Avidan (ISRAEL) is a visual poet. His main mediums are photography, poetry and street-art. Avidan is also a former music manager. His works have been published in dozens of newspapers, magazines and websites.
Maya Gelfman (ISRAEL) is a visual artist. Her main mediums are installation, painting and street-art. A graduate of the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in 2006, she’s since had seven solo exhibitions. Gelfman’s works have received media attention in print and online.
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Location / Venue
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- Address:
- 139 Sycamore St
- Decatur 30030
- USA
- Time:
- Apr 27, 2023 7:00pm - 8:00pm
In Support of Core Dance
For four decades, Core Dance has supported innovation, collaboration, artistic risk-taking and sustainable art-making in dance. An award-winning contemporary dance organization with global reach, Core Dance creates, performs, and produces compelling original dance that ignites the creative spirit and actively encourages participation and conversation with the community. In 1980, Core Dance was co-founded in Houston, Texas by dancer and choreographer Sue Schroeder and her sister, Kathy Russell. Five years later, the organization added Atlanta, Georgia as a second home base, creating a platform for dance that is relevant in both cities and around the globe. Core Dance uses dance to educate, question and illuminate, and is internationally recognized for its artistically driven research practices, cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary collaborations, the humanity of the individual Dance Artists, and its rigorous physicality. (coredance.org)