Thursday, June 18 | 7:30pm
Neighborhood Ballet

alternate endings: body double

Choreographer: Jacqui Hinkson

Music: Original composition by Parker Bradford

ImmerseATL Artists: Nia Adé, Bobbie Akin, Grace Dougherty, Ava Grau, Laura Anne Kay, Natalie Lutman, Khadijah Smith, Elizabeth Steele

Choreographer’s notes:

alternate endings originally premiered in February 2026 at Windmill Arts as an evening-length work. 

alternate endings taps into non-linear storytelling, kaleidoscopic characters, and explores themes of ascent, descent, and fate. Aligned with its namesake, this creation was originally performed in two distinct orders — encouraging the audience to consider how reorientation of the same material can impact what lingers. 

In reshaping this new iteration, which Jacqui considers its own container — a relative of the original, but entirely existing on its own — she enjoyed the added layer of working with a double cast (hence, body double) and examining how these characters in their duplication influence the dynamics within this non-linear story. When considering what pieces of the original to bring forward in a new way, Jacqui was interested in identifying core anchors and packing as many of these moments as possible into a shorter format to produce something that despite being a snapshot in length, carries the spirit and potency of the original.

THE EXAMINATION

Choreographer: Leo Briggs

Music: Original composition by Sean Hilton, with a nod to Betty Hill and George Michael

ImmerseATL Artists: Nia Adé, Grace Dougherty, Laura Anne Kay, Elizabeth Steele

Choreographer’s notes:

THE EXAMINATION refers to the most ubiquitous experience reported by people who claim to have been abducted by aliens—an extraterrestrial examination procedure. Abductees describe strange medical testing, psychological invasion, and sexual violation that teeters on the line between repulsive and fascinating, abjection and eroticism. This work explores that fine and porous membrane between violation and pleasure.

This work is an excerpt of a larger work that premiered in Austin, Texas, in February 2025. It was developed with many collaborators, including Katherine Vaughn, Celeste Camfield, Aida Hernandez-Reyes, Kanami Nakabayashi, Jairus Carr, Anna Bauer, and Eddie Hale.

A Cloud of Unknowing

Choreographer: Andie Knudson

Music: “Home Is” by Jacob Collier & VOCES8, “Monsoon” by Thrya, “Freddy not Happy” by Chris Benstead, and additional soundscores crafted by Andie Knudson

ImmerseATL Artists: Bobbie Akin, Ava Grau, Natalie Lutman, Khadijah Smith

Choreographer’s notes:

This work is a further exploration from my ongoing solo research that reflects the often hidden journeys of loss and liberation experienced when one departs from their spiritual or ideological heritage. Thematically, the work explores revival, doubt, and tradition through the embodiment of Renaissance imagery, abstract autobiographical text, and detailed improvisational scores. These elements are woven together to create movement vignettes offered as embodied parables.

What happens to our sense of reality when the ideals of our ideological fabric begin to unravel?

How do we reconcile our need to belong with our need to become?

a persistence of yearning EXCERPTS

Choreographers: ImmereseATL Educators Anna Bracewell, Sarah Hillmer & George Staib

Music: “Onos” by Travis Lake; “Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria” by Johann Sebastian Bach; Selections by Owen Belton, edited by Kendall Simpson; “Partita No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 826: II. Allemande” by Johann Sebastian Bach; “Walking” and “Birds” by Ran Bagno

Created in collaboration with and performed by the ImmerseATL Artists:
Nia Adé, Bobbie Akin, Grace Dougherty, Ava Grau, Laura Anne Kay, Natalie Lutman, Khadijah Smith, Elizabeth Steele

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