BlackWaterStars
by Monique Duran
Projection
Lagonda Building Façade
Monique Duran is a Seattle-based multimedia artist born and raised in New Mexico. Originally taken with visual arts such as photography, she quickly became captivated by the motion and abstraction of experimental video and its ability to illustrate time and emotion in new ways. With increasing interest in immersive experiences, her work has come to include stage & event design, video installation, live visual mixing, sculpture and sound design. Shaped by a background in dance and cinematography, her aesthetic leans toward the lyrical, often using the human form and nature as an expression of our animality and connection to the rhythms around us. Common themes are centered on memory, language, longing, and liberation.
She has shown in support of international producers including Powel, Dance Spirit, Leo Leal, Afriqua and Melodie at festivals, events and alternative spaces throughout the US.
Mother Cloud
by Dayton regional STEM School Architecture + Design Class
Installation Art
City Building Plaza
Mother Cloud was designed with the idea of contrasting the soft organic form with the symmetry and geometry of the modernist architecture of the Springfield City Hall building and plaza. Mother Cloud is illuminated with colored lights that fade into each other and is accompanied by two baby clouds whose colors respond to sound.
Visions of the STATE
by Peter Hrinko, Shem Schutte, Bryan Borden and SUSH
Installation Art
State Theater Entry Way
A piece encompassing the past present and Future of the STATE theater. Bringing together Street, Fine and Video arts together.
Exhale (2021)
by Taylor Knapps and Lina Dib
Interactive Installation
North Face of State Theater (Main Street)
Knapps and Dib are a husband and wife team who have been collaborating for over four years. They create performative and playful installations that border on the documentary and fictitious. By juxtaposing nature and technology and by amplifying and altering natural textures, they create opportunities to reframe our relationships to our environments.
For Exhale, Knapps and Dib use images from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) satellite to create an interactive landscape of human activity.
Smokestack Lightning
by Derek Snowden
Installation Art
Metallic Casket Smokestack
“Catch the Clark County Spirit”
The Springfield Metallic Casket CO’s iconic smokestack is a longtime local landmark.
Lighting it up is a celebration of its long life and endurance. And its location marks the vicinity of Hatch Artist studios (once Metallic’s main offices) and Mother Stewart's brewery (Metallic’s storage, showroom and distribution center).
Heritage Remix no. 131
by The Now Device
Projection Mapping
Heritage Center East Façade
The Now Device brings a revised approach to their 2019 spectacle projection on the Heritage Center, celebrating its 130 + years of service to the community. The 'show' repeats every 30 minutes, on the hour and half hour, beginning at 6:00 pm.
Lighted, Theatrical Belly Dance
by Troupe Roja
Performance
Roving and pop-up performances
Troupe Roja is a cutting-edge, award winning Middle Eastern dance troupe. We perform many styles, ranging from folkloric to fusion, and we are very excited to don our illumination and be a part of this brilliant event! Visit https://www.facebook.com/TroupeRoja for information about classes in Dayton and Springfield and to book the troupe for your next event.
State Theater Holiday Celebration
by Brian Traylor
Projection
State Theater Façade
Local artist Brian Traylor is revisiting his work on the historic theater facade for the third year. This piece includes historic filmic references, and pays tribute to the history and the future of this important building.
LED Staff and Poi Dancing
by Astro Sparks
Performance
Various Locations
Astro Sparks is the stage persona of Cincinnati based aerialist, flow artist, and all around circus enthusiast Andrea Suto. Andrea's ever-growing love for performing has evolved through taking aerial acrobatics classes at various studios throughout Ohio, practicing flow arts such as hula hooping, poi spinning and staff spinning, as well as learning fire eating and fire dance! Andrea is always looking for opportunities to expand her skills and share her passion, and she believes these communities should be used to spread empowerment and self discovery.
LED Hula Hooping
by Janel Miller
Performance
Various Locations
All I Want For Christmas is HOOPS. Janel will be putting her own spin on holiday cheer with her very own circle of light. Wanna learn to hula? She’ll have hoops for sharing!
The Wall
by Greg Bowman and Scott Keva James
Interactive Installation
Northwest Corner of City Building
The Wall is an interactive, playable sculpture, alive with light and sound, powered by dynamic projection mapping. Visitors use hand gestures to create, move and control ‘waves’ of color and texture horizontally along the wall. ‘Waves’ travel along The Wall, reflect off of the edges and visually collide.
The Wall has been a popular exhibit at 4 light festivals. Bowman and James have created interative pieces featured at the Portland Winter Light Festival, the Lusio and Luminata Festivals in Seattle and Arts-A-Glow in Burien, Washington.
Live Liquid Lightshow
by Billy Gruber- SOS Lightshow
Performance
State Theater Entry Way
The Synæsthetic Oil Spill is a visual project formed by percussionist Billy Gruber. Most often enhancing concerts by bringing the sound to your eyes, SOS uses old school techniques to project wild psychedelic videos cooked up live in a kitchen of half vintaged technology. Available for live events, photo/video work, or interactive installations let SOS help you to turn on, drop in, and freak out! Check out more on social media @soslightshow
Winter Glow
by Anonymous
Installation Art
National Commons Park
Lighting up the winter in the center of this public space, Winter Glow will provide at least the look of some warmth in the growing heart of Springfield. This light installation will stay up for the duration of Holiday in the City.
Light Piano
by Derek Snowden
Interactive Installation
Southwest corner of City Building
The Light Piano is a re-imagined instrument, combining music with light.
Fluctuating Splendor
by Gary Geis Dance Company (GGDC) with The Now Device
Performance
S/W corner of City Hall -performances at 6:20 and 8:20
Fluctuating Splendor is a collaborating piece where movement and light are untilitazed to create a living work of art. Through the use of movement, the dancers act as the canvas in which light is projected onto the dancers as they move through the space and create a unique work of art that is in flux throughout the piece. The dancers are not only the canvas themselves, in all white costumes but also create the artwork through the shapes, lines, images and textures they create as they dance through the lighting as it is projected onto them. Just as light changes its shape as it is reflected so does this living piece of art that is continuously changing. This piece is unique for if one element, dancers or lighting, to be removed the piece becomes something completely different. Movement and lights are in flux creating a one of a kind work of art.
Founded in 1999 by Gary Geis, Mark Cummings and Lori Weaver-Common, the Gary Geis Dance Company, or GGDC,is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) performing company. Currently the company is under the leadership of Artistic Director Tiffany Lobertini, Associate Artistic Director Celina Schroer and Founding Director Mark Cummings. The Gary Geis Dance Company's mission is to advance the appreciation of the art of dance and to bring focus on excellent dance education and training in the Springfield, Ohio, community. With the wide range of experience that our artistic staff have to offer, our goal is to provide the members of this pre-professional dance company with a highly diverse curriculum, with master classes and performance experiences. By design, this preparation and training will act as a "springboard" into a professional career in a major dance or musical theatre company. The Gary Geis School of Dance is the official training facility for GGDC. For more information on the Gary Geis Dance Company please visit our website at garygeisdance.org/about-ggdc.