For Art Hop, A Dancer Explores Liminality At The Edge Of Lake Champlain
By MARY WILLIAMS • SEP 8, 2016
Erika Senft Miller is a dancer and choreographer who draws inspiration from specific sites and incorporates them into to her performances.
As an arts educator and steward of the land and the lake, Senft Miller has chosen to stage her latest site-specific piece at the Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center on Burlington’s waterfront.
She’ll act as a conductor of sorts, orchestrating a multi-sensory performance with more than 40 artists and dozens of moving parts at this weekend’s 24th Annual SEABA South End ArtHOP.
The piece is meant to touch on a concept Senft Miller uses often; that of liminality, or that ambiguous place between the stages of a ritual. She describes it as, “The time or place where you are too far in to return, yet not far enough to see where you will arrive.”
