Beacon Dance goes site-specific at Decatur Cemetery
Free dance performances examine the third element: Fire
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- Dancer Juana Farfan of Beacon Dance warms up for the three free performances of “Fire” which will take place this weekend in the historic Decatur Cemetery.
If you’re driving past a cemetery this weekend and you see an unusual amount of twirling, leaping and port-de-bras among the tombstones, it’s possible that you’re witnessing the start of the zombie apocalypse, but it’s more likely you’re catching a glimpse of Atlanta’s recent trend in site-specific dance performance.
Beacon Dance will become the first organization ever to present a performance in the Decatur Cemetery this weekend on March 2, 3, and 4. The performances will be held at 6 p.m. each evening, and all of them are free and open to the public.
The performances are part of an on-going series of site-specific works by Beacon Dance based on the four primal elements: water, earth, fire and air. Water Study took place in October at the stream in the Baker Woodlands on Emory campus; Earth was performed in November on the Beltline not far from Piedmont Park; Fire will take place this weekend at the Decatur Cemetery; and the final installment, Air, will be performed at the arts facility B-Complex in southwest Atlanta in early May.