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New Orleans Ballet Theatre and Schramel Conservatory of Dance
In residence at the CAC since 2006.
The VESTIGES Project
Formed in 1984, and in residence at the CAC since 2006, is an ongoing, loosely-knit collective of artists and writers who share a common sense of place, New Orleans, and a common sensibility nurtured by the New Orleans environment. The VESTIGES Project's series includes: VESTIGES: Think Tank, curated by founding member Jan Gilbert; The New Orleans Memory Project, curated by VESTIGES co-founder Debra Howell; and Home, New Orleans: Performing the Neighborhoods - Rebuilding Community, which is a "vast, deeply-rooted community arts network" that will locate and collaborate with pre-Katrina residents from selected neighborhoods and research and reconstruct life histories via performances and art installations in front of or inside homes.
HOME, New Orleans?
Using our creative power to strengthen, revitalize, and rebuild community
HOME, New Orleans? is a community-based, arts-focused network of organizations, universities, schools, artists, and neighbors that brings diverse constituencies together to create positive change in New Orleans. Our focus is home in its many manifestations: individual dwellings, neighborhoods, and the city itself. Our process emphasizes sustainable ways to contribute to ongoing neighborhood life. That is, HOME, New Orleans? responds to local priorities through neighborhood and community arts projects, memorials, youth theatre workshops, performance and installation art--any art-making that enhances life and creates new opportunities to rebuild community for New Orleans and its residents. Creative expression is a tool for shaping and strengthening all of our communities together. We believe merging art-making, education, and community involvement will produce more powerful opportunities for individuals, neighborhoods, and the city as a whole.
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