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were we birds? commissioned by the American Dance Festival, performed at the Nasher Museum on the campus of Duke University, 2023.
Left Back: Tammy Carrasco. Right Back: Laura Gutierrez
Front Center: Cara Hagan
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"Declaration," 2018.
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"Time in a Mind Gone Elsewhere," 2018.
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As a performer, Hagan explores the intersections of mindfulness, social justice, and the human capacity to reimagine reality through artistic pursuits. Preferring interdisciplinary, non-traditional, durational, and site-specific work instead of the proscenium, Cara's work invites audiences and collaborators to consider the politics of performance and access to artistic material through a liberatory lens. Her solo works have been performed across the world.
Cara also choreographs for professional groups, non-professional community groups, and universities.
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Mama Piranha, 2023.
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From "Ritual of 100 Tiny Circles," 2015.
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From "The Body in the Breath (in Color!)," 2016
From, "Read-in for 21st Century Literacies," at Appalachian State University, 2017.