The American Dance Festival and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University co-present This Land Is Your Land, a work in the minimalist tradition by Seattle choreographer and distinguished ADF faculty member Mark Haim for 14 performers. Set to a dynamic country music score, this poignant and comical work is based on a simple, continuously-mutating walking pattern and uses culturally identifiable props, from Starbucks cups to cell phones, to explore contemporary hot button issues such as consumerism, environmental abuse, and body image. There will be limited chair seating available on a first come, first served basis. Additional seating will be available on the floor, and audience members will also have the option of standing. Performances are 50 minutes.

This performance contains nudity.

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About Mark Haim

During his career that spans over three decades, Mark Haim has composed more than 100 dances and has been commissioned to create new works for numerous dance companies through the US, Europe, and Asia including Nederlands Dans Theater, Ballet Frankfurt, the Limon Dance Company, the Joffrey II Dancers, and Ballet Pacifica, among many others.  From 1984-1987 he served as artistic director of Mark Haim & Dancers and from 1987-1990 served as the artistic director of Companhia de Danca de Lisboa. He has presented work at numerous venues including the American Dance Festival, Danspace Project in St. Mark’s Church in New York, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Munye Theater in Seoul, S. Korea, and the Theater for the Young Spectator in Ekaterinburg, Russia. Haim continues to serve on the American Dance Festival faculty annually. Haim is a recipient of a NYFA Fellowship, two NEA Fellowships, and was awarded the Scripps/ADF Humphrey-Weidman-Limon Fellowship for Choreography.

Articles

Mark Haim
by Sandra Kurtz, Dance Magazine

The stop-start career of Seattle choreographer Mark Haim
by Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times