Heike Salzer

TerraMontes is a meditative site-specific screendance which explores an embodied sense of healing with the environment. As with the two previous works from the WECreate Productions’ Terra series, (HinterTerra, and UrbáTerra), the dancers and camera explore the poetics of place through improvisation.
In a matter of hours, The Lower North Fork Fire blazed through more than four thousand acres of pristine forest. Thousands were displaced, the fire destroyed almost thirty homes and resulted in three fatalities. The fire began on March 26, 2012 when firefighters lost control of a planned burn in Foxton, Colorado. Some of the fire was classified as high intensity, making the recovery of the land a very long process or impossible in some cases.

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Filmed in the Colorado Foothills, United States, 2024

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Direction: Ana Baer & Heike Salzer

Choreography and Dance:  Michelle Nance, Kim Olson, Heike Salzer

Original composition: ​Joaquin Lopez Chas

Music Design and Music Mixing: Richard D. Hall

Costume design: Shay Isshi

Cinematography: Ana Baer 

Editing: Ana Baer 

Production: WECreate Productions

Length: 5.55 min

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