CHANT / IV / PROTESTS: NobleMotion Dance & Badie Khaleghian

CHANT / IV / PROTESTS CHANT exists in a speculative future, in a society that has become disconnected and begins reaching backward toward ritual, sound, and collective presence as a way of finding one another again. IV / PROTESTS is the fourth section of CHANT. Here, chanting shifts from ritual toward action. This section explores the chant as a collective voice: something that can gather people, carry urgency, demand attention, and transform individual voices into something larger than themselves. The sound world is built from a collage of transformed recordings from actual protests and speeches, interwoven with the live sound of whistles played by the dancers. Voices, noise, breath, and signal begin to blur together, creating a space that feels at once familiar and displaced. One of the things I love most about this section is the floor itself. Through projection, it stops feeling like a passive surface and becomes almost a moving character of its own. That visual world comes together with the powerful choreography of Andy and Dionne Noble and Bryan Ealey’s lighting, creating a section that, for me, feels restless, collective, and alive. CREDITS Andy & Dionne Noble — Choreography Badie Khaleghian — Music and Projection Kari Francis — Voice, Vocal Director Steven Bogard — Voice, Set Construction / Carpentry German Cardenas Alaminos — Set Design Bryan Ealey — Lighting Design Barry Doss — Costume Design Aiden Moody — Costume Construction Movement Artists Dillon Bell, Wesley Cordova, Deontay Gray, Lindsey McGill, Tyler Orcutt, Jacob Regan, Amy Symonds, Angelica Villa, Emily Wang, Noelani De La Garza, Campbell McMillin, and Reese Meredith Film Beautifully captured by the artists of Blueprint Film Co.