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Choreography · ACDA Gala 2025
It Echoes Between
Grief, remembrance, and resilience through the white chrysanthemum.
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About the Work
Inspired by the white chrysanthemum, a symbol of sorrow, remembrance, and resilience, It Echoes Between traces denial, resentment, bargaining, despair, and acceptance. The choreography connects personal experiences of grief with cultural rituals and shared memories, extending Jee Ahn’s research into movement and cross-cultural connection. Created in collaboration with MTSU students, the work was selected for the 2025 ACDA Southeast Gala Concert, one of 11 works chosen from 49 submissions.
In fall 2025, Ahn restaged the work with University of Alabama students during an invited guest artist residency.
Featured recording: MTSU Fall Concert.
MTSU Production Credits
- Choreography
- Jee Ahn (in collaboration with dancers)
- Music
- “Partita for 8 Voices: III. Courante” by Caroline Shaw; “An Overwhelming Hope of Heartbreak” by Michael Wall; “The 3 Gs” by Kenji Bunch
- Lighting
- Logan Purcell
- Costumes
- Trish Clark, Jee Ahn
- Performers
- Xan Barrell, Maya Siciliano, Joy Echols, Laci Rose, Allyson Ruble, Emma Sutt, Cara Paty, Natalie McCutcheon, Julia Pearsall
Selected Presentations
- 2025 — Resonance, Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre, University of Alabama, October 14–17; restaged with student dancers during a guest artist residency.
- 2025 — ACDA Southeast Region Adjudicated Concert; selected for Gala Concert, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC.
- 2024 — MTSU Fall Dance Concert, Tucker Theatre, MTSU, TN.