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On Thursday September 18, award-winning choreographer and dancer Sarah Elgart performed “Follow” at the Santa Barbara Courthouse with her collective dance troupe Arrogant Elbow. It was their premiere performance hosted by the OnEdge Festival.

“Follow” explores how human beings are conditioned to follow gurus, leaders, and ideologies in the face of life’s mysteries, absurdities, and tragedies.

A moment from 'Follow' — A moment from ‘Follow’

The site-specific performance began within the interiors of Santa Barbara Courthouse, and then guided the audience on a visual and metaphysical journey through progressive stages. Elgart, who gives homage to her late mentor Pina Bausch and Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal, lead the audience through a modern dance language that showcased and celebrated her dancers, through their blended interactions with the surroundings and a subtle interplay of sounds, light, space, and a spectacle of movements.

As performed in the warm evening air, “Follow” engaged all the proprioceptive senses while allowing the audience to experience the monumental Courthouse architecture with a new meta-narrative employing an mélange aesthetic of movement, media, sound,and visual imagery as its alternative structure. The performance piece was inspired and dedicated to Elgart’s father, Elliot Elgart, who deeply influenced her work.

Photos by Phantom Street Artist.

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The Phantom Street Artist has been a longterm commentator and journalist for many editors, media outlets and publications. This internationally-recognized artist and album cover artist for Rage Against The Machine founded Art Saves Lives and its independent media channel, PYR8FREETV, which heroically critiques our culture through its cause-based campaigns of social inquiry. The Street Artist in the past has authored and created photo projections at the LA Cathedral in defense of the many children who were victimized and abused by the Roman Catholic clergy as youth. The Street Phantom was one of the select artists that protested Jeffrey Deitch's 2011 MOCA survey of graffiti art with its revised title, "CA$HING IN ON THE STREETS. The Street Phantom has been a longstanding force in the LA street art scene.

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‘Follow’ by Sarah Elgart and Arrogant Elbow

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