The Pilot Dance Project Presents Ashley Horn’s The Sky Was Wild With Sunshine

Contact:
Executive/Artistic Director: Adam Castaneda
adamluis.castaneda@gmail.com
(281) 979-4982
www.pilotdanceproject.org

Adam Castaneda’s Pilot Dance Project continues its 2018 season with a new evening-length work by Ashley Horn. The Sky Was Wild with Sunshine will premiere as part of the 2018 Houston Fringe Festival September 14, 15 at 8 PM and, and 16 at 6 PM at Midtown Arts and Theater Center (MATCH).

Dates: September 14-16
Time: 8pm (September 14 and 15), 6pm (September 16)
Location: Morales MATCHBOX TWO, Midtown Arts and Theater Center (Houston)
Tickets: $15
For tickets and more information please visit www.pilotdanceproject.org

The Sky Was Wild with Sunshine scans the current horizon of diminishing compassion and humanity, explores what we want the world to be, and looks toward the divergent futures of whether we will or won’t stop the current cycle of gray-skied ambivalence. The inhabitants of Horn’s latest creation look upward and beyond their immediate reality to fervently plant and nurture seeds of kindness, love, and joy.

The Sky Was Wild with Sunshine is a prayer for peace shouted into the void.  It is a tiny piece of hope planted with intention of life-giving abundance.  It is a reaffirmation to love bravely and with abandon.

This project seeks to shake off the darkness and build a utopia out of curbside castoffs, little pieces of string, and whatever other beautiful things we see. In a world where fear and misinformation are weaponized, The Sky Was Wild With Sunshine offers an alternative reality where compassion and warmth reign supreme.

With dancers Shanon Adame, Adam Castaneda, Angela Cohen, Lindsay Cortner, Cloe Leppard, Holly Moran, Amy Phillips, Kristina Prats, and Emily Sayre.

About the Choreographer:

Ashley Horn is a dancer, choreographer, filmmaker, dance educator, costume designer, and artist from the Houston area.  She has shown choreography and films at ACDF, The University of Houston, Big Range Dance Festival, The Texas Weekend of Contemporary Dance, Third Coast Dance on Film Festival, The Houston Fringe Festival, and Dance Month at the ERJCC among other venues and events.  She has created costumes for FrenetiCore, Frame Dance Productions, Open Dance Project, Sara Draper, Teresa Chapman, the Pilot Dance Project, Hope Stone Dance, and her own works. Ashley is a two-time recipient of an individual artist grant from the Houston Arts Alliance for choreography.  She has been the artist in residence at Hope Stone, Rice University, and Dance Source Houston. Ashley is the Early Childhood Education Specialist at Hope Stone, Inc.

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The Pilot Dance Project is a 501(c)3 non-profit arts organization with the mission to empower and transform communities through innovative dance, theater, and visual art. The organization is based out of the Midtown Arts & Theater Complex Houston, and produces work at venues throughout Houston’s East End.