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WONDERFUL (excerpt of "All the World is Green")
Project Type
Performance
Full Length Premiere
2022
Dancers
6-12
Choreography
Garet Wierdsma in collaboration with the dancers
Music
"Wonderful World" by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss, sung/interpreted by Garet Wierdsma, and
"Vessel," "Insides," and "The Wider Sun" by Jon Hopkins.
Live Presentations
"Dance Bloc NYC," Dixon Place, NYC, 2022
"5X5 Dance Festival," University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford CT, 2022
Garet&Co Presents "ECLIPSE," The Warner Theatre, Torrington CT, 2023
Garet&Co Presents "and sometimes i wish & other works," Battell Chapel, Norfolk CT, 2023
"Fast Forward," Dixon Place (Selected for the theatre's split bill series), NYC, 2025
"Cultural Chaos," Easthampton City Arts, Easthampton MA, 2025
Commissions
Sacred Heart University, Fairfield CT, 2022
Miss Porters School, Farmington CT, 2023
Awards
Recipient of New England Foundation for the Arts' "New England Dance Fund" as a part of "All the World is Green," Garet&Co's 2026 production at Battell Chapel in Norfolk CT.
It’s a hard world out there! And it's also very, very beautiful. WONDERFUL is an attempt to process the complexities and hypocrisies of the world around us- both the natural and the social; the earth and the humans that shape the earth. WONDERFUL deals with the sense of being all alone despite the abundance of life around us; of feeling trapped despite earth’s endless potential for freedom. WONDERFUL is both a dream and a prayer, a nightmare and a plea, and everything that is felt in between.
WONDERFUL began as a dance film created in the Spring of 2020 that was an official selection for Rogue Dance Film Fest. The work was transitioned into a live ensemble piece during Garet’s choreographic fellowship at Sacred Heart University in Spring of 2022. WONDERFUL was later commissioned for Miss Porters School. Garet&Co has performed WONDERFUL at Dixon Place for Dance Bloc NYC, at University of Saint Joseph for 5X5 Dance Festival, Garet&Co’s ECLIPSE at the Warner Theatre, and at Battell Chapel in Norfolk CT.
