In 44 years of work in the arts, Sue Schroeder has created more than 110 original dance works for theaters, museums, green spaces, architectural works, and water environments. She holds an MFA in Theater Arts with a dance concentration from the University of Arizona at Tucson. Educated under dance greats Bill Evans, Anna Halprin, Hanya Holm, Oliver Kostock, and John M. Wilson, among others, Schroeder has additional experience in the extended studies of Body-Mind Centering, Contact Improvisation, Modern Dance, and Composition. Her work has appeared throughout the United States, as well as Canada, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Mexico, Poland, Slovenia, Sweden, and United Kingdom. Schroeder is known for her site-specific museum, and immersive creations for Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, Berlin’s Martin Gropius Bau Museum, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Houston’s Menil Collection and Diverseworks ArtSpace, Lawndale Art Annex – University of Houston, University of Central Arkansas’s Baum Gallery, and Varmlands Museum, Karlstad (Sweden). Schroeder’s long-standing relationship with Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts has led to 12 commissions to exhibitions featuring the work of Carlos Cruz-Diez, Diane and Bruce Halle Collection of Latin American Art, Diego Rivera, Isamu Noguchi, John Alexander, Jules Olitski, MoMA’s Heroic Century, Pablo Picasso, and Sol LeWitt. Schroeder has also received 20 site-specific commissions from the Bayou City Arts Festival. Additionally, Schroeder is recognized as a leading arts activist and mentor, and the founding artistic director of Core Dance, dual-based in Atlanta and Houston. As a contemporary artist and dance maker, Schroeder focuses on the creative process, movement research and exploration, and dance-making as a catalyst for social change. Schroeder’s work also leads her to share what she knows about bodies in movement with isolated populations including those dealing with abuse, homelessness, language barriers, eating disorders, refugee status, substance abuse, aging, and HIV/AIDS.
Christian Meyer is a Berlin-based, award winning composer, musician, fine art photographer, and filmmaker. His work and collaborations span a wide array of mediums and genres, including original scores for films, commercials, dance/theatre performances, and sound installations. Meyer has performed live both in interactive choreography and narrative pieces, as well as in more traditional music performances in venues around the world. In addition to his sound work, he explores visual creativity with his fine art photography and has had exhibits at Berlin’s Meinblau Projektraum and Noiselab at Berlin’s Teufelsberg, among others. Meyer has received awards from the Association of German Film Critics for his film music and from London’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
Part of the Eclipse Festival Series
1830EST: Artists Talk (Live Stream) a brief moment of alignment, a new dancework by Sue Schroeder in collaboration with filmmaker and composer Christian Meyer
Mar. 21, 2024 | 5:30 pm (CST) | available at https://www.coredance.org/livestream.
Open Dress Rehearsal: a brief moment of alignment, a new dancework by Sue Schroeder in collaboration with filmmaker and composer Christian Meyer, with Conway performers Wanda Eason, Hannah Hanshaw, Aida Quinterro Kuettle, and Nakeya Palmer
Mar. 27, 2024 |7 pm reception; 7:30 pm performance | Reynolds Performance Hall
Pre-Performance Reception and Public Performance: a brief moment of alignment, a new dancework by Sue Schroeder in collaboration with filmmaker and composer Christian Meyer, with Conway performers Wanda Eason, Hannah Hanshaw, Aida Quinterro Kuettle, and Nakeya Palmer
Mar. 28, 2024 | 7 pm reception; 7:30 pm performance | Reynolds Performance Hall