Whirlgig for Dance Places' Arts Park

KanKouran West African Dance Company is a group very familiar to Dance Place and was probably one of the first dance company’s Carla invited to perform at Dance Place almost 30 years ago. The whirligig design depicts a KanKouran dancer performing a “Peaceful Fighter” dance that celebrates Martin Luther King’s Birthday.  The sculpture captures the traditional whirligig design—a figure with arms spinning-- that draws upon the American folk crafts tradition.

TITLE:                         Dance Place Whirlgig

DATE:                         August 2015

MEDIA:                       Painted cedar and cedar laminated to exterior grade plywood

DIMENSIONS:             32” H x 27” W x 5” D

LOCATION:                Dance Place, Brookland, Washington, DC

PARTNERS:                 Dance Place. Arts Park Design by Lee and Associates Inc.

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