GAINESVILLE - The closing of Brenau University's John Heliker: The Order of Things exhibit Wednesday will include a special performance choreographed by former Brenau Department of Dance Chair Vincas Greene, complemented by an original multimedia performance by senior dance major Britt Bacon.
Greene's Heliker-inspired work, Splintered Memories, features Brenau students Nia Byrd, Melinda Cassiday, Patrick Condon, Annie Fox, Paris Hawkins, Rachel Lange, Kelsey Lyle, Shanik Moore, Sara Sharples and Asia Welch. Bacon's Metric, which explores the themes of Heliker's work via Microsoft's motion sensing Kinect hardware, features students Sara Sharples, Teniqua Westry and alumnae Amanda Bonilla.
After the Dance Happenings: A Tribute to Technology in Dance performances, attendees will have an opportunity to experiment with the movement tracking technology themselves.
The event beings at 7:00. in the Sellars Gallery of the Simmons Visual Arts Center, 200 Boulevard. The event, which is standing room only, is free and open to the public.
