TICKETS
Reserved: $40, $25.
Student/Educator Rush: $10 – CASH ONLY. One hour prior to showtime; based on availability.
Flex Pass: $5 off full price tickets when purchasing 2 or more Creative Fellowship Festival shows. Does not apply to student ticket.
Doors open for seating one hour prior to showtime.
The Palladium Creative Fellowship Festival – Night Two
Discover the power of movement and memory as Palladium Creative Fellow and choreographer Sadie Lehmker presents The Forget-Me-Knots. Drawing from personal and familial experiences with Alzheimer’s and dementia diagnoses, this dance work portrays how memory is lost and found. How do we remember and what changes in the re-remembering?
The evening will open with a performance of Imperfect Joys by Palladium Creative Fellowship alumni, Helen Hansen French and John C. O’Leary, followed by The Forget-Me-Knots.
Join the artist and other Creative Fellows for a reception following the show in the Palladium Side Door.
About Palladium Creative Fellowships
The Palladium Creative Fellowships support and foster artistically and culturally diverse performing artists, provides a full-service theater as a space to develop their work, and showcases the range of talent that lives and works in our community. The goal of the Creative Fellowship program is to elevate artists in our community and give audiences an insight into their creative projects and performance goals. Learn More.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Sadie Lehmker, a multifaceted choreographer, holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in Dance Studies from the University of South Florida. Her creative journey has taken her from performances and exhibitions across Florida, New York City, Michigan, California, Paris, to Vietnam. Commissioned for choreographic work throughout central Florida, Lehmker currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Instruction at the University of South Florida while passionately continuing her creative endeavors and teachings in the region.
In her exploration of the intricate intersections of memory, perception, locale, and identity through dance, Sadie Lehmker’s Creative Fellowship project employs a practice-based research approach. She poses probing questions about human identity and spatial occupation, delving into the connections between memory, place, and female identity. Lehmker’s choreographic aesthetic focuses on physicality, repetition, retrograde, and stillness, allowing each dancer to interpret movement individually. Investigating perceived, constructed, and false self-narratives, she navigates the dialogue between self-described and externally imposed identities, probing moments of precedence and questioning the negation of perceived truths. Through dance, Lehmker aims to embody the contradictions and clashes inherent in identity, disseminating her research through choreographic performances, dance films, conference submissions, lectures, and artist talks to engage audiences with the evolving nature of identity.
Presented by The Palladium at SPC.
