Nantahala (Land of the Noonday Sun)
Performed by: Lindsay Winthrop
Choreography by: Lindsay Winthrop
Music by: Gavin Luke
Lindsay Winthrop is a local dancer, choreographer, and teacher based in Raleigh, North Carolina. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, she holds an MFA in choreography and a BFA in dance education from East Carolina University. Lindsay teaches movement at Raleigh Oak Charter School and is co-owner of Tobacco Road Dance Productions. She has presented dance works in local festivals, including Emergence, the North Carolina Dance Festival, the Wake Forest Dance Festival, and Sites in the City. Currently excited about experiential and experimental performances, she enjoys exploring sensory movement through the use of elements. In continual search of choreographic findings, she is invested in studying the transformation of space by utilizing sensory experiences, natural materials, and energies incited by human bodies.