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Saturday, June 13, 12 PM - 2 PM, we invite you to join us for a work in process of "City Waltz, Holy Waltz" in Fig Tree Studio in - situ at the Goat Farm. An intimate or spectacular scene that uses a "waltz" as a tool global themes, and metamorphosis. The poetry of choreography in the heart of Historic Goat Farm spaces, in its raw architecture and interstices.

Join choreographer lauri stallings and moving artists Noëlle Dave', Ashley Ianna Daye, Marcelle Gressier, and Mary Jane Pennington this Saturday.

Entrance to glo's work in process this Saturday is at B - 6, under the Ring Yourself awake neon, through the gallery into the open space and dance floor. There is plenty of seating, and Kombucha will be served.

city waltz, holy waltz is a a new migratory public art work and magical experience rooted in the here and now that transforms public sidewalks into a stage and uses choreographed movements that have a poetic, romantic quality for creating a space where the public might feel the absence of others, turning the art into a reflective, emotional experience.

Opening June 19 - 26, 2026
📍PUBLIC PROCESSIONS
Friday, June 19 at 6 PM
89 Centennial Olympic Park Drive NW at REVERB
Sunday, June 21 at 6 PM
1083 Austin Ave to Little 5 Points Findley Plaza
Tuesday, June 23 at 6 PM
374 M.L.K. Jr Dr SE into Oakland Cemetery
Wednesday, June 24 at 6 PM
501 Toombs St to Palmetto Historic Train Depot
Friday, June 24 at 6 PM
950 Edgewood Ave to Whitespace Gallery

💫 Always, always free and public

OPENING Friday June 19 through Friday, June 26, daily at 6 PM - 8 PM | We’re pleased to invite you to join us at 5 landmark locations for a magical experience, and true desire as a radical, expansive urge for the “outside.” We look forward to being with you soon, and glo is deeply grateful to all of our hosts and creative partners, and their teams, and special folk, who are making this project possible.

city waltz, holy waltz: a new migratory public art work
PUBLIC PROCESSIONS
Friday, June 19 at 6 PM
89 Centennial Olympic Park Drive NW at REVERB
Sunday, June 21 at 6 PM
1083 Austin Ave to Little 5 Points Findley Plaza
Tuesday, June 23 at 6 PM
374 M.L.K. Jr Dr SE into Oakland Cemetery
Wednesday, June 24 at 6 PM
501 Toombs St to Palmetto Historic Train Depot
Friday, June 24 at 6 PM
950 Edgewood Ave to Whitespace Gallery

✨Always, always free and public

city waltz, holy waltz is a magical experience rooted in the here and now that transforms public sidewalks into a stage and uses choreographed movements that have a poetic, romantic quality for creating a space where the public might feel the absence of others, turning the art into a reflective, emotional experience. Choreographer lauri stallings believes a dance can be a place without limits. This is the fertile ground from which city waltz / holy waltz has grown, a 120 - minute choreographed migration that uses waltz as a tool to explore global themes, and metamorphosis. Where six glo moving artists: Beatriz Cortez, Zandia Covington, Noëlle Dave’, Ashley Ianna Daye, Marcelle Gressier, and Mary Jane Pennington - in long floral gowns commit to traverse, linger, and interact across our city to explore the "gravitational pull" of human interaction, and how people move through transitions and celebration, creating a sense of being suspended in a time somewhere in-between hope and despair.

WORK IN PROCESS
Saturday, June 13 at 12 PM
In situ Fig Tree studio, Goat Farm

📸 Thom Baker photography

Moments from yesterday morning’s photo shoot draped for the first time in Maggie Phillips new gowns with . thinking of us, on the sidewalks of Atlanta. city waltz, holy waltz opens Friday June 19 through June 26. We can’t wait to be together soon.

Beginning Friday, June 19 at dusk, we invite you to join for city waltz, holy waltz, a magical experience rooted in the here and now that transforms sidewalks of Atlanta into a stage through 7 free and public live art activations in iconic public spaces.

In this new episode of Talk Fulton, Public Art Futures Lab director sat down with choreographer to talk about her recent residency, and the early stages of research utilizing technology tools that “feel” and “think” with the body, connecting physical dots, and gravity.

Thank you very much Talk Fulton studio crew and for a wonderful conversation on creativity, collaboration, movement, and the impact of public art in Atlanta. The Futures Lab residency is in collaboration with Atlanta-based artist & MD Watch the full episode today on YouTube.com/FultonGovernmentTV.

The Traveling Show is our long-term project roaming extensively to engage rural Deep South communities, such as the beautiful folks of Georgia’s Spalding County, and a way to create an invitation through welcoming gestures that then encourages people to imagine more good could happen.

We can’t wait to be together soon.

Last week, we were honored to convene with Special Archives Director Grace Zayobi, and Library Technician Connor Warren for the first creative research phase of “Hush” at University of Pembroke, Livermore Library — the profound site of the Croatan Normal School, and ancient “letting” practices, that allows flow exchange between various ecosystems. While “letting” is an ancient tradition, choreographer lauri stallings calls upon deeply kinetic, emotional, and embodied insights to explore its lost history in profound ways that highlight relations between people. The project asks, what is your philosophy? Why are we here? Plans include exploring these core interests through several interconnected research questions, using the “sited body” to examine how performance is situated within a place and how the body, through meditative practices, and with a commitment to slowness, and deep listening, can enact transformative healing experiences in public spaces. Over the next 2 years, the research and site-based spatial exploration will weave into an evening length-work and community-engaging events that reimagines performance spaces in the round, and into a collaborative social space where people gather to create something better.

We hope you will join us on this creative journey! Hush previews in New Jersey this November, and opens in April 2027 in Atlanta.

Grateful for this week of re-examining traces first hand in the Lumber swamplands of North Carolina with my Barefoot ancestors. Hush is a new choreographed work that follows insights of an ancient practice known as “letting.” Many, many thanks to Grace Zayobi, Special Collections & Archives director, UNC Pembroke, and all the wonderful students pulling scrapbooks, newspapers, photographs and oral histories. Thank you to Robeson County Public Library Genealogy Room for our upcoming moments together.

Moments from City Waltz, Holy Waltz work in process. Thank you 🦏