PAST CREATIONS

explores the complexities and divisive nature of the media. She writes, “We receive nonstop information from sources that continue to pander to our current positioning on any given topic while igniting aggression rather than offering any common ground.

In 1958 veteran broadcaster, Edward R. Murrow, delivered a speech to his colleagues warning that unless we ‘recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.’”

And television was only the beginning…

Whim W’Him created this program as a way to prioritize the health of its artists and the community, while supporting ways for dance artists, students, and audiences to come together while staying apart.

This film was created and filmed following strict adherence
to the CDC guidelines for physical distancing and safety protocols. 

MANIFOLD

Premiere

Agust 13, 2020
IN-WITH-WHIM

Choreography

Penny Saunders

Music

Original composition by Mike Wall

Costumes

Meleta Buckstaff

Filming & Direction

Quinn Wharton