Sarah Marguier

“It's about bodies rejoicing within limits rather than despairing beyond them. It's about age and time moving in and out of phase, now concordant, now grinding. It's about how each person's reality is scaled to the spread of their arms, the length of their stride. It's about the beauty of the possible and the possibility of transcendence.” – IndyWeek on They Are All

They Are All is a performance created by Murielle Elizeon and Tommy Noonan, and commissioned by the American Dance Festival. It involved a mixture of professional contemporary dancers and dancers living with Parkinson’s Disease and other traumatic brain injuries, and comprised the first phase of the Moving Through project. The performance premiered on June 25th at the Rubenstein Center for the Arts, as a part of ADF’s 2019 summer festival following 12 weeks of research and development workshops.

Choreographers Murielle Elizéon and Tommy Noonan interweave the combined expertise of professional dancers, neuroscientists, people with Parkinson’s disease and data informaticists. The multi-generational work explores the relationship between cognitive engagement, interpersonal relationship and movement. At once an artistic and a research project, They Are All probes the ways in which artistic technologies and perspectives can be useful to medical research, as well as the ways in which medical, technological and experiential expertise in movement disorders can generate new artistic perspectives in dance. They Are All intertwines an artistic creation with innovative research workshops, culminating in both a new dance work at ADF’s summer festival, as well a scholarly report; it is a project by Culture Mill in Saxapahaw, NC, and is supported in part by RTI international and The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust.

They Are All is a production of Culture Mill

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