Greenhouse Projects
Greenhouse Projects are a vehicle for Trillium to respond to opportunities outside its established residency programs. These projects are often multi-year and involve repeat visits to Trillium Arts and community engagement activities.
Our first Greenhouse Project with Red Clay Dance Company takes place April 2022 - August 2023:
Red Clay Dance Company in their dance film, under god & moonlight, October 2020. Photo by Jay Eli.
With funding from a prestigious National Dance Project Grant awarded to Chicago-based Red Clay Dance Company, Trillium Arts is a lead partner in the development of the company’s newest work, Rest.Rise.Move.Nourish.Heal. The live performance and accompanying film will examine traditions of farming and the historic exploitation of Black labor.
With choreography by RCDC Artistic Director, Vershawn Sanders- Ward, the work is being developed in collaboration with musicians Avery R. Young & De Deacons Board and filmmaker Jovan Landry. Created on the urban farms of Chicago-based Urban Growers Collective, the work is an outgrowth of the collaborators’ short film, “under god & moonlight” which was incubated at Trillium Arts during an ACE Fellowship in 2020. RCDC will be in residence at Trillium Arts to develop Rest.Rise.Move.Nourish.Heal: in April 2022 and then again in August 2023 after the work has premiered in Chicago so the artists can prepare for a national tour.
Learn more about the RCDC project HERE
Tickets on sale May 1st!
Trillium Arts is proud to present the premiere of Asheville-based choreographer and director Melvin AC Howell’s multidisciplinary performance, MOVE;MEANT A.R.T. EXPO – JUNETEENTH.
Performances June 16 & 17, 2023.