Dance lecturer Gina Laurenzi (BFA 2013, Dance; MFA 2024, Dance) and her newest concert dis/connect were featured in Shepherd Express following a premiere with Danceworks Performance MKE. dis/connect was Laurenzi’s third full-length piece with Danceworks and her first as co-artistic director with Christal Wagner (Lecturer, Dance; Outreach Coordinator, Dance).
Research from Laurenzi’s MFA thesis was incorporated into the concert, as the piece explores the modern obsession that people have with social media.
“When will we notice we tune into the phone more than each other, and the world around us?” Laurenzi wrote in the dis/connect program. “When occupied by happenings online, and entranced by apps and social media, we miss out on these awe-filled experiences that happen in real-time and we risk missing out on moments of connection. Are we able to experience awe with our heads in our phones?”
To read more about dis/connect and Laurenzi, read her feature in Shepherd Express.