Lifted 2025
“Migrations”
Saturday, March 1st, 6pm
The Emerson Center Ballroom
Welcome!
Lifted is an annual event presented by Mountain Air Dance with the purpose of bringing together community art supporters to experience the professional quality of choreography and modern dance that Bozeman has to offer.
The concert is meant to be an inspirational and uplifting evening of dance. We strive to bring awareness to modern dance including aerial dance in Bozeman, MT.
This is our 3rd year organizing Lifted. The venue or stage set-up may change each year, but the overall tone will remain to help elevate modern dance in our community and display the talents of local professional choreographers and dancers.
In an effort to create a fun, unique and thought provoking evening; we have asked each choreographer to choose where they want the audience to stand/sit in the room to view their piece. Gain perspective into the choreographer’s vision and view the dancers up close!
The concept for Lifted 2025 is Migrations. Choreographers were free to interpret this individually and create a dance with this in mind. They have created a short explanation of their interpretation to help guide you. Enjoy the show!
Program Info
“Moving to Montana”
Choreography by Blair Bodie
Interpretation of the Theme: Blair’s interpretation of leaving the city life of San Francisco for Montana.
Dancers: Blair Bodie, Dorothy Burns, Sara Mannheimer, Mariah Palmer, Reggie Rawlings and Cathy Werner.
Music: “Moon over Montana” by Jimmy Wakely, “Montana” by Frank Zappa, “Two Rivers in Montana” by Glove Scrivenor.
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“Root”
Choreography by Suzann Kienast-Brown & Erin Levy (Choreographing and performing as Raison D’être Dance Project).
“Root” is the 2nd Work following “Entr-Acte” music by Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet. “Entr’Acte” was performed in RDE’s “WORKS: misc” in 2023. This will be the premier performance of “Root”.
Interpretation of the Theme: What does it mean to root to place, people, behavior, structure? As we move through life, we continuously root and uproot in various ways to find transformation. We migrate through the landscape of life by seeking, connecting, grounding, expanding, finding space, and repeating infinitely. By adapting to the changes of the foundation that designs our structure, our growth creates the shape of our being.
Dancers: Suzann Kienast-Brown, Erin Levy, Cecily Ryan and Ashley Wolfe.
Music: The Evergreen: IV Root by Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet
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Ensō | Mountain Divide
A film by Robert Uehlin with choreography by Faith Morrison.
This dance for film conveys a “kinesthetic experience of place” in the Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness.
In 2013, choreographer Faith Morrison developed a process using the languages of dance and film to create and convey a kinesthetic experience of place. In her process, dancers are led through site-specific, sensory explorations, listening and responding to the movement of the elements in the environment. The dancers are then given time to reflect on their experiences and identify the most prominent feeling states of the place. Finally, the choreographer and the filmmaker work together to convey those experiences through the medium of film.
The initial result of this research was the award-winning screendance, “Ensō,” created in collaboration with filmmaker Robert Uehlin, set in the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. Ensō | mountain divide builds on this research to convey an embodied experience of a diverse, mountain ecosystem.
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“Passages”
Choreography by Cathy Werner & Cecilia Whyel
Interpretation of the Theme: Following your own path means embracing the road less traveled. What you once thought was a clear direction often unfolds into something broader and more interconnected than you expected. Along the way, others shape your journey, paths merge, and plans evolve, leading you to unexpected destinations.
Dancers: Blair Bodie, Julia Anders, Robyn Lundin, Reggie Rawlings, Kat Stephens, Cathy Werner & Cecilia Whyel
Music: “You Woke Me Up!” by Andrew Bird
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“Coherence”
Choreography by Sara Mannheimer and Mariah Palmer
Interpretation of the Theme: This piece explores the cyclical process of navigating relationships with others. For every rift, a resolution. For every discord, a connection. The movement, music, and costumes embrace playfulness and experimentation in the pursuit of full self-expression, trusting ourselves and each other as we step into the unknown together. Through the choreography we have created visual patterns of coherence and discord that mimic patterns of migration. The movement also provides a physical expression of the internal cycles and migrations happening in relationships.
Dancers: Anna Allen, Dorothy Burns, Sara Mannheimer, Mariah Palmer, Jordan Reed, Dana Terzi.
Music: “Wolf” by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
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“Tempest”
Choreography by Cathy Werner & Cecilia Whyel
Interpretation of the Theme: Storms travel across the land, sweeping over the horizon with an unstoppable force. They paint the sky in shades of gray, purple, and blue. Storms build, take shape, spiral, slash, break- only to dissipate and migrate to distant places.
Dancers: Wren Gion, Kynnadi Hicks, Sadie Palmer, Trillian Roberts, Josie Sproles, Ava Wallis & Ruby Werner
Music: “Empty States” by Julia Kent