Performance

Circle the World with Hugs
CUCALORUS 30 – International Film Festival - Filmmakers Lounge
November 24, 2024

Our conceptual printmaking and performance event is only the beginning as you and people like you spread a chain of hugs around the world. Our collective of people will share their experiences and/or stories to be published on our Facebook and Instagram social media accounts, building cultural humility and breaking down divisions. We hope that our performances will be a catalyst to involve persons/ animals/ ecosystems/ classrooms/etc. in promoting love everywhere. Please join us!

Tell us your stories of positive communications with people and hugging on our social media.

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The Performance Video at CUCALORUS:

"Circle the World with Hugs" by Janette Hopper

Led by creative collaborators Janette Hopper, Susan Kranyik and Laura McLean and her band: Jeff Hunnicutt and Joan Travis! This conceptual LIVE printmaking and performance art initiative aims to create a global chain of hugs. Film by Charles Kernan. Second Singer: Carrie Assata.
Watch at: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1034280786

"The Performance"

"Printing - Live Performance"

"Printing - Closeup of the Hands"

"The Hand Dyed Shirt"

 

Argentine Tango

A performance of Argentine Tango featuring: Janette Hopper and Charles Kernan with music by Danijela Zezelj-Gualdi (violin) and Kurt Abisch (violin). Performed during Flamenco Night featuring Eduardo de Rosamaria & Ed Stephenson, at The Eagle’s Dare Wilmington NC, June 2024

Performing with Charles Kernan

Performing

With Danijela Zezelj-Gualdi

 

La Cueva
Performed at the Simposio Internacional de Artistas (SIANOJA) XIX in Noja Spain – 2019

A performance at SIANOJ XIX by Janette K Hopper and Daniela Jauregui Servin based upon Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”. https://vimeo.com/360642736

Rolling at Wolf Rock - 2018
A Performance

 

REAL LIFE TEST, a performance collaboration piece With Motion Picture Show and Nick Kepley – Wilmington NC – 2017

An immersive, physical theatre work which plunges audiences into the center of a dystopian world where past and future collide with dizzying force. Exploring themes of governmental control, gender expression and the desire for self-identification, the work questions whether an inherent price must be paid in order to achieve a fully integrated and equal society. Over the course of two hours, audiences are free to explore the highly detailed, sprawling world - encountering performers in group, duet and one-on-one scenarios. Supported in part by the Cucalorus Film Foundation and developed by Motion Picture Show of NYC and Nick Kepley.

 
 

Shadows of the Past, SARUS Festival, dance collaboration with Karola Luttringhaus, Bellamy Mansion Museum, Wilmington NC – 2015 - https://vimeo.com/219938279

 

Writing in the Sand – Performance on the beach, Wrightsville Beach NC - 2015

 

“Dancing on the Last Stump” - Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan

 

“Litter (Kicking Garbage)” Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan