Carnivalglass is a pop-up dance company founded by Christiana Wheeler in collaboration with co-director Tom Wingerd. We focus deeply on the effect of music within the body projecting outward. We play with different rhythm compositions through contemporary and hip hop styles of dance. Choreographically we love to play with the juxtaposition of movement and intention and how that can portray emotion and message, encompassing the power of dance as a language. 

Come see us perform October 27th! @7:30pm

“this is a protest”

Location:

The Spark theater

4847 Pearl Street Suite B4
Boulder, CO 80301

Tickets

The premiere show from CarnivalGlass “This is a Protest,” will use music from well known grunge, heavy metal and 90’s alt rock bands while using contemporary and hip hop dance vocato bring a dance experience not previously seen in Colorado. Be ready to bring the head banging, and to include our audience in the power and storytelling of bands like System of a Down, Primus, Alice in Chains, Black Mountain, Queens of the Stoneage, Hole, and Pearl Jam.

In this show we will use dance and music to deal with storylines surrounding injustice, pharmaceutical dependency, land protection, personal rights and the disillusionment of the current political and emotional trajectory as a society.  With our title, “This is a Protest,” we hope to communicate both our anger and passion towards change, and waking up society through dance. 

About Tom,

T Wingerd is a film producer and professional dancer working in the Boulder/Denver area for the last 12 years. Besides experience as a director and producer, he has over 15 yrs of experience in Ballroom, Hip Hop, Squares, and mixed contemporary styles.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT, Christiana Wheeler:

As a drummer and guitarist I am very interested in how music takes over the body and how that is interpreted through contemporary dance specifically. I crave complex rhythms which I translate into the form of dance with movements that replicate the feeling and drive of the music in my body. Choreographically, I believe it is incredibly powerful to embody music through dance in a way that portrays those instruments' emotions to translate those feelings to the witness. The language of dance fascinates me, so as a director and choreographer I love to bring out dancers’ individual voice through the language of dance to allow them to speak wholeheartedly with the music carrying and complementing the movement vocabulary.