Group Acorde, premieres ‘REpurpose’ at Houston Met Dance
Group Acorde presents REpurpose, an intimate evening featuring “A cave in the moon” in a first-time collaboration with interdisciplinary artist Jasmine Hearn. Created and presented at The Houston Met Dance, this new work has its entire set built with recyclable materials by Allison Miller and an original sound score by Thomas Helton.
A dance to remember and imagine, “A cave in the moon” is a duet that travels time with choreography by Jasmine Hearn that melds ballet, improvisation, and dances of the familiar to bridge personal herstories between sistering sirens.
REpurpose features performances by Roberta Paixao Cortes, Lindsey McGill, Thomas Helton, and Erin Wright. Set and costume support by Allison Miller, garments designed by Jasmine Hearn and Athena Kokoronis of DPA, and styling by Jasmine Hearn.
Group Acorde has produced many notable art collaborations through the years, including Origins in 2019 which received the Houston Chronicle recognition “10 Exciting Houston dance performances of 2019” as “best contemporary collaboration;” and Representation of Form in 2020, a multimedia event that was on the Houston Chronicle’s “Must List” to watch. In 2024, Group Acorde was one of the three awarded artists in Performing Arts Houston’s commissioning project New/Now. Jasmine Hearn is a native Houstonian that shares their work nationally and internationally, committed to performance as an expansive practice that includes a spectrum of dance traditions and techniques, care, sound design, garment design, and the archiving of matrilineal memories.
Group Acorde’s mission is to cultivate and educate diverse audiences through live, thought-provoking, original and affordable performance collaborations between contemporary dance and experimental music. The company broadens its reach through community partnerships that aim to include and engage people from all walks of life through education, dialogue and accessibility.
Repurpose is Group Acorde’s sixth production featuring a new and original collaboration between dance, music, and visual art. Repurpose will be at Houston Met Dance in the Phoenix Studio Dance Theatre August 29th and 30th at 8 pm, and August 31st at 5 pm. General admission is $20. Book now.
REpurpose, image credit Group Acorde