Heike Salzer
dance artist
TerraMontes
Colorado Foothills
United States
2024
TerraMontes is a meditative site-specific screendance which explores an embodied sense of healing with the environment. As with the two previous works from the WECreate Productions’ Terra series, (HinterTerra, and UrbáTerra), the dancers and camera explore the poetics of place through improvisation.
In a matter of hours, The Lower North Fork Fire blazed through more than four thousand acres of pristine forest. Thousands were displaced, the fire destroyed almost thirty homes and resulted in three fatalities. The fire began on March 26, 2012 when firefighters lost control of a planned burn in Foxton, Colorado. Some of the fire was classified as high intensity, making the recovery of the land a very long process or impossible in some cases.
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Filmed in the Colorado Foothills, United States, 2024
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Direction: Ana Baer & Heike Salzer
Choreography and Dance: Michelle Nance, Kim Olson, Heike Salzer
Original composition: ​Joaquin Lopez Chas
Music Design and Music Mixing: Richard D. Hall
Costume design: Shay Isshi
Cinematography: Ana Baer
Editing: Ana Baer
Production: WECreate Productions
Length: 5.55 min
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