Passage - a traveling movement + sound experience through the prairie

A guided traveling movement + sound experience through the prairie with tbd. dance collective

Join tbd. dance collective for Passage; an outdoor, guided, traveling movement and sound experience at Glacier Creek Preserve. Attendees will walk the main trail within the Preserve where they will encounter movement and sound installations at five locations throughout the tall grass prairie. Each performance location was carefully selected in conversation with Preserve Operations Administrator, Tracy Coleman, for the purpose of highlighting the tall grass prairie conservation efforts of the preserve, and celebrating this unique Nebraska landscape through movement and sound.

Our intent is to create a thought provoking and intimate site specific performance experience that allows audience members to connect with nature, movement, sound, and surroundings. Audiences for each performance will be limited in size (20-30 people) Registration is required. If you register and are no longer able to attend, please let us know as soon as possible so we may open up a spot for someone else.

FEATURED MUSICIANS:

Scott Shinbara, Pearl Lovejoy Boyd, Susan Sanchez Olson, Gregory Elsasser, Elyse N. Jorgensen

FEATURED CHOREOGRAPHERS

Stephanie Huettner, Kenzie Sawyer, Gayle Rocz, Kyan Doubet, Kat Fackler

LENGTH AND STRUCTURE OF THE PERFORMANCE:

The guided experience will be 1 hour in length, with attendees remaining on the path. The audience will stop at multiple 5-7 minute performance locations. Travel time between performance locations is 5 minutes of walking for a total of 20-25 minutes of walking and 25-28 minutes of standing.

ACCESSIBILITY AND POINTS OF INTEREST:

• This is a traveling, moving performance, NOT a stationary sit down performance. Chairs will not be provided for audience members. Audience members are permitted to carry their own camping chair to sit in.
• Audience members will walk for upwards of 25 minutes (in 5 minute increments) and stand (for 5-7 minutes at a time) for the duration of the experience, which is approximately 0.6 miles
• Section 1 takes place directly behind the barn.
• Section 2 is 0.09 mi walk from the barn (about 2 min 30 sec)
• Section 3 is 0.16 mi walk from Section 2 (about 3 min 40 sec)
• Section 4 is 0.11 mi walk from Section 3 (about 2 min 50 sec)
• Section 5 is 0.22 mi walk from Section 4 (about 5 min 20 sec)
• The entire performance is outdoors, in a tallgrass prairie preserve, in the middle of June. There will be bugs, sun, wind, and heat. Please dress accordingly for walking/hiking and plan to have sun and bug protection if needed.

• The path is mowed grass, about 9 feet in width. There are tire treads from vehicles, therefore it is not completely flat in some areas. The smallest path is about 4 feet in width.
• The path has natural increases in elevation, hills, slopes, uneven spots, and bumps.

PARKING

You will turn into Glacier Creek Preserve off of State Street and travel down a gravel road. Head towards the large, white barn. There are 7 parking spots, including 1 accessible parking spaces with access lanes, available around the barn. If these are unavailable, you may park anywhere along the gravel road or along the edge of nearby lots/side roads as long as through traffic is not obstructed.

WHERE TO ENTER

The large, white barn will be unlocked. There is an entrance on the side of the barn closest to the parking lot. Volunteers will be available to answer any questions, and guide you to the beginning location for the performance.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION ABOUT THE BARN

• The barn is fully ADA Compliant.
• There is an elevator inside the barn.
• The barn utilizes geothermal cooling, and will be open for attendees.
• Restrooms are located on the 1st floor inside the barn, with additional restroom access from the exterior of the barn.

ABOUT GLACIER CREEK PRESERVE

UNO’s Glacier Creek Preserve is a restored Tallgrass Prairie nature preserve large enough to sustain a diversity of functioning plant and animal communities, incorporating an entire sub-watershed. This feature protects the preserve against effects of surrounding land use thus reinforcing its sustainability into the foreseeable future as a unique metropolitan area preserve available for research, education, and appreciation of our natural heritage. Glacier Creek Preserve is a place where all can come to enjoy the beauty and diversity of eastern Nebraska's historic natural prairie environment. Except when special events are scheduled, the Preserve is free and open to the public throughout the year from 30 minutes before sunrise to 30 minutes after sunset. Essential to Preserve activities is The Barn at Glacier Creek (aka the Barn), the preserve's environmental research and education facility that provides classroom space, a field lab, restrooms, and a multi-functional space in the hayloft of the second floor that can accommodate over 50 individuals. For inquiries regarding Glacier Creek or to reserve the Barn for approved activities, email unoglaciercreek@unomaha.edu or call the Preserve at 402.554.6300.

INCLEMENT WEATHER and RAIN DATE

tbd. and Glacier Creek Preserve will monitor the weather leading up to performances. Event cancellation decisions due to inclement weather will be communicated to registered attendees by noon, on the day of the performance. Registered attendees will receive a full refund of any donated amount and will be invited to attend an alternate performance.

Saturday June 13, 10:00am is our scheduled back up rain date performance. If a registered attendee from a previously canceled performance is unable to attend the back up rain date, they may be invited to attend another performance night if spots are still available.