Terra Tractus : The Earth Moves
Photo Credit T. Charles Erickson
Stony Creek Quarry
Stony Creek, CT
2014
GENEROUS SUPPORT from The Connecticut Foundation for the Arts, Tilcon, The David Bermant Foundation, Ether & Abe Lapides Foundation, Housatonic Museum of Art, New Alliance Foundation, Artspace, Site Projects, Stony Creek Quarry Inc.
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Projects2k celebrates its 20th Anniversary of providing spectacular, thought provoking and educational programming with Terra Tractus: The Earth Moves.
Terra Tractus: The Earth Moves continues the Projects2k tradition of tremendous and multifaceted performance making. This year we looked at the geological history of the Earth, and the Stony Creek Quarry itself, as they evolve through ancient history to our projected future through elemental, tectonic, and man-made forces.
The Stony Creek Quarry is the ideal setting to create productions full of wonder, to inspire all who see them to embrace the beauty and fragility of our planet through understanding and participation. We can "nd truth and beauty all around us. We need only to open our eyes, minds and hearts to embrace this beauty.
!rough science, education and participation in the arts we can foster a culture of curiousity and awareness. Just as the state of the Earth’s climate is a balancing act based on external forces such as the size and distance from the sun, and internal forces like greenhouse gases and the amount of heat it absorbs and reflects--so must we balance our internal and external in order to live both happily and responsibly. By creating emotional and physical connections through visual, auditory and dance interpretations, we can broaden our platform of understanding and potentially strengthen our grasp on complex intellectulal subjects like geology and paleoclimatology. By taping into utter joy in the present, we can also more readly connect with those from our past. It is through researching history and learning of the adventures of those who came before us--who le$ their mark on this world as we continue to leave ours--that we can more readily understand and appreciate our own place in history.
From Gondwana to Pangaea to the upcoming super continent with its central shared ocean, nothing stands. Forms melt like mists, solid lands like clouds, shape themselves and go. !e history of Man is inconcevably small in these annals of time, and our understanding of the feats of nature at such scales can only be limited . However, as humans continue to strengthen as a force on this planet, we have become the defining impetus of an age. Hopefully, with full appreciation and at least the effort of awareness, humans will grow in wisdom to protect and preserve the health and diversity of the planet upon which we live.
- Joy Wulke, Founder, Projects for a New Millennium
Photo Credit Judy Sirota RosentalProgram
Creative Director : Joy Wulke (1948-2014)
Co-Producer/Lighting Designer/Technical Director : Jamie Burnett
Co-Producers/Managing Directors : Gioia Connell, David Connell
Director : Tom Burnett
Musical Director/Composer : Istvan Peter B’Racz
Media/Projection Design : Daniel Fine, Matthew Ragan
Choreographer : Nazorine Ulysse
Stage Manager : Margaret Carl
Lead Climber/Sculptor : Silas Finch
Volunteer Coordinators : Robin Comey, Victoria Armentrout
Quarry Gallery Curator : Tony Falcone
Media/Projection Consultant : Alex Oliszewski
Model and Fish Fabrication : Alison Walsh
Additional Artwork : Aaron Sherrill
Movement | Dance | Shadows : Krista Celentano, Asia Comin-Sporbert, Qingxian Comin-Sporbert, Owen Prum, Haley Williams
Climbers | Crew : Steve Anderson, Silas Finch, Daniel Jeanette, Chris Lascelle, Zachary McLaughlin, Josh Nilaya
Photo Credit Peter Otis————————
Production
Geoff Hotz, Access Audio-Visual Systems Inc.
Chris McMeen, Christie Lites
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Media
Faith Middleton Show An Epic, Multimedia Outdoor Spectacle: Terra Tractus 2014
WPKN Rod Richardson
Connecticut Public Radio Multi-Media Spectacle Inside Stony Creek Quarry
New Haven Independent The Earth Moves in Honor of Joy Wulke
I Love New Haven Terra Tractus : The Earth Moves
Network Connecticut A Spectacular in Stony Creek Quarry
PLSN LD Jamie Burnett on Terra Tractus: The Earth Moves
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With very special thanks to
Stony Creek Museum
Luck & Levity Brewshop
Robert Renolyds Gallery
Neighborhood Music School
Donita Aruny | Shoreline Arts Alliance
Marianne Pfund | Goodworks Insurance
Arts Council of Greater New Haven
Guilford Land Conservation Trust
ACES ECA
Dana Keeton
Maggi Burnett
Barbara Neagle
“Ivan” Ivanovich
Vita Nuova, LLC
Lydia Emperador
Gabel’s Wine Shop
Show Lighting Corp
Salvatore Morottoli
Greg Novak | OPIN
Susan & Steven Smith
Steve Hamelin | Supertech
Roger Guay | K&G Graphics
Doug Anderson, Stacy Mancini, Rick Atkinson, and Stony Creek Quarry Inc.
James Cosgrove | Town of Branford
Kevin Halloran | Branford Police
Jack Ahern | Branford Fire
Branford Land Trust
Senator Ed Meyer
Ben Haverkampf
Linda Wingerter
Leslie Weinberg
Kim Healey
Ian Dunn
Karl Gasteyer
Maryann Ott
Holly Mulcahey
Unk DaRos
Darrell Petit
Susan Faracelli
Mike Franzman
Michael Angelis
Billy Fischer
Judy Sirota Rosenthal
Photo Credit Chris Randall, I Love New HavenFood
Caseus Cheese Truck
High Tide Gourmet
Lunchbox 23
Munchies Food Truck
Food365 Ice Cream
The Ice Cream Guy
