Memory Palace Project brings collaborative performance to the Cube

We're really excited about this concert, the entire program, which has mostly been curated by Dr. Annie Stevens, all of the pieces have to do with individual or collective memories. The Memory Palace is a project based on a piece by the composer Christopher Cerrone. It's just a solo percussion piece with electronics that I was really looking to bring to life in this space here, the cube, because of the ambisonic qualities, where we can have the specialized representation of the electronics that are involved with this piece. Then I'm collaborating with my colleague Rachel Rugh, who is on the dance faculty here at Virginia Tech. She is choreographing her own solo dance to go along with these movements. There have been with other ensembles in the past, these really great collaborations with dance ensembles. We're doing that again with this concert. There are several pieces. We have a percussion piece that's called "Derivative". it's a really fun, dynamic percussion ensemble. And we have two Radford University dance students that are going to be tap dancing. And then we also have a piece that's called "Shell". With 'Shell" specifically, we talked about the idea of like abandoned strip malls and like shopping malls that used to be really vibrant and full of life and now they don't have that so much anymore and kind of taking that in ourselves and embodying what we think of that idea. And that's a lot of what the composer of the music that we'll be dancing to also considered in her work. So it's really, the whole thing is really serendipitous with itself. And it's been really cool because I haven't really had an opportunity to perform since I graduated high school. So this is cool for me to kind of return to that. It's a unique experience both for us as performers and for audience members. We're really thrilled to can keep the momentum going and bring this Memory Palace Project to life.