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In this new episode of Talk Fulton, Public Art Futures Lab director sat down with choreographer to talk about her recent residency, and the early stages of research utilizing technology tools that “feel” and “think” with the body, connecting physical dots, and gravity.

Thank you very much Talk Fulton studio crew and for a wonderful conversation on creativity, collaboration, movement, and the impact of public art in Atlanta. The Futures Lab residency is in collaboration with Atlanta-based artist & MD Watch the full episode today on YouTube.com/FultonGovernmentTV.

The Traveling Show is our long-term project roaming extensively to engage rural Deep South communities, such as the beautiful folks of Georgia’s Spalding County, and a way to create an invitation through welcoming gestures that then encourages people to imagine more good could happen.

We can’t wait to be together soon.

Last week, we were honored to convene with Special Archives Director Grace Zayobi, and Library Technician Connor Warren for the first creative research phase of “Hush” at University of Pembroke, Livermore Library — the profound site of the Croatan Normal School, and ancient “letting” practices, that allows flow exchange between various ecosystems. While “letting” is an ancient tradition, choreographer lauri stallings calls upon deeply kinetic, emotional, and embodied insights to explore its lost history in profound ways that highlight relations between people. The project asks, what is your philosophy? Why are we here? Plans include exploring these core interests through several interconnected research questions, using the “sited body” to examine how performance is situated within a place and how the body, through meditative practices, and with a commitment to slowness, and deep listening, can enact transformative healing experiences in public spaces. Over the next 2 years, the research and site-based spatial exploration will weave into an evening length-work and community-engaging events that reimagines performance spaces in the round, and into a collaborative social space where people gather to create something better.

We hope you will join us on this creative journey! Hush previews in New Jersey this November, and opens in April 2027 in Atlanta.

Grateful for this week of re-examining traces first hand in the Lumber swamplands of North Carolina with my Barefoot ancestors. Hush is a new choreographed work that follows insights of an ancient practice known as “letting.” Many, many thanks to Grace Zayobi, Special Collections & Archives director, UNC Pembroke, and all the wonderful students pulling scrapbooks, newspapers, photographs and oral histories. Thank you to Robeson County Public Library Genealogy Room for our upcoming moments together.