gloATL's 'This is a World' - February 4th and 5th at Goodson Hall in West Midtown Atlanta

ATLANTA, GA, February 03, 2011

On February 4th and 5th, gloATL premieres phase 1 of its newest creation, This is a World, in Goodson Hall, a 100-year-old warehouse located on the Goat Farm, the west midtown artists colony. For two unforgettable evenings, gloATL will present exceptional contemporary performances, reflecting on the outcome of migration, such as the arrival to a nest, refuge, or den. Tickets are $20 for general admission, $12 for students and artists, and are available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/148648.

The performance location, Goodson Yard, is a vast enclosed structure found on the Goat Farm, a 100-year-old cotton mill recently designated for artists' live and work space. Located just off of Howell Mill Road, between 14th and 17th Street, the Goat Farm symbolizes the efforts of Atlanta's Real estate development community to support not-for-profit artists with space.

This is a World is supported by a Kelly Strayhorn Choreographic Residency in Pittsburgh, Pa, January 24-30, 2011. The formal world premiere of this new creation will take place at the Duo Theatre, NYC, curator Michaelangelo Alsa', in May 2012.

Event Details
What: gloATL's This is a World
When: February 4th and 5th, 8 p.m.
Where: Goodson Yard at the Goat Farm 1200 Foster Street; Atlanta, GA 30318

This is a ticketed event. Due to the intimate nature of the work, the audience will be limited to 250 individuals each evening.
General Admission $20 Student/Artist $12

For more information, please visit http://www.gloATL.com.

About gloATL-
gloATL is a collaborative platform of outstanding contemporary physical experience. gloATL creates in a mode whose process is as important as the end result. The forum incubates fresh, original work through live performance, public intervention and a choreographic lab. The work often reflects a genuine approach toward negotiating with space, objects, and people, in order for a dynamic of roaming to occur. Part choreography and part interactive art installation, glo performances regularly bridge the gap between artists and audience, to explore the phenomena of reception, intention, and interpretation. The work increasingly displays a synergy with art forms, with dance being the center of gravity, with a human point of view. The choreographic language- a breadth of fresh movement extracting classical elements with the complexity and groove of today's rhythmic culture- creates emotional, physical, and entertaining bridges through the universality of gesture and essence of being.

Since its inaugural work 18 months ago, gloATL has created a series of free to the public and artistic experiences unlike any other on the Atlanta art scene. Creations include: "Rapt," architect Renzo Piano's Woodruff Arts Center campus; "pour," Atlanta's Castleberry Hill District; "The Plum Line," Brooklyn's Wave Rising Festival; "Crea," Richard Meier's atrium of the High Museum; "Bloom," Lenox Square, the inaugural work of Flux Projects; "Halo'", a full evening work, commission of NYC's Duo Theatre, "Roem," Woodruff campus, "Plum Line Revisited," Joyce Theatre AWARDS Show, and in November 2010, "Hinterland," in downtown Atlanta's historic Woodruff Park.

In gloATL's work is a vivid line that refers to the whereabouts of mankind's existence. glo Founder Lauri Stallings believes that the search for characteristics and values that belong to all races of all times is a journey worthy of the effort; for therein lies the genuine cultural identity of a city that can be passed down from one generation to the next.

In just 18 months, some 40,000 Atlantans of all ages, race and creed, experienced gloATL performances, an uncanny figure for an emerging organization.

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