Beginning Friday, June 19 at dusk, we invite you to join @glo_platform for city waltz, holy waltz, a magical experience rooted in the here and now that transforms sidewalks of Atlanta into a stage through 7 free and public live art activations in iconic public spaces.
city waltz, holy waltz (summer cycle)
June 19 - 26, 2026
always free and public
In this new episode of Talk Fulton, Public Art Futures Lab director @spectralbuffalo sat down with choreographer @lauristallings to talk about her recent residency, and the early stages of research utilizing technology tools that “feel” and “think” with the body, connecting physical dots, and gravity.
Thank you very much Talk Fulton studio crew @fultongovernmenttv and @fultonpublicart for a wonderful conversation on creativity, collaboration, movement, and the impact of public art in Atlanta. The Futures Lab residency is in collaboration with Atlanta-based artist & MD @bojanaginnstudio Watch the full episode today on YouTube.com/FultonGovernmentTV.
The Traveling Show is our long-term project roaming extensively to engage rural Deep South communities, such as the beautiful folks of Georgia’s Spalding County, and a way to create an invitation through welcoming gestures that then encourages people to imagine more good could happen.
We can’t wait to be together soon.
Last week, we were honored to convene with Special Archives Director Grace Zayobi, and Library Technician Connor Warren for the first creative research phase of “Hush” at University of Pembroke, Livermore Library — the profound site of the Croatan Normal School, and ancient “letting” practices that allows flow exchange between various ecosystems. While “letting” is an ancient tradition, choreographer lauri stallings calls upon deeply kinetic, emotional, and embodied insights to explore its lost history in profound ways that highlight relations between people. The project asks, what is your philosophy? Why are we here? Plans include exploring these core interests through several interconnected research questions, using the “sited body” to examine how performance is situated within a place and how the body, through meditative practices, and with a commitment to slowness, and deep listening, can enact transformative healing experiences in public spaces. Over the next 2 years, the research and site-based spatial exploration will weave into an evening length-work and community-engaging events that reimagine performance spaces in the round, and into a collaborative social space where people gather to create something better.
We hope you will join us on this creative journey! Hush previews in New Jersey this November, and opens in April 2027 in Atlanta.
Grateful for this week of re-examining traces first hand in the Lumber swamplands of North Carolina with my Barefoot ancestors. Hush is a new choreographed work that follows insights of an ancient practice known as “letting.” Many, many thanks to Grace Zayobi, Special Collections & Archives director, UNC Pembroke, and all the wonderful students pulling scrapbooks, newspapers, photographs and oral histories. Thank you to Robeson County Public Library Genealogy Room for our upcoming moments together.
So grateful for the opportunity to share influences behind themes of relations and to spend time in extremely close proximity in art spaces as a social environment where the artwork is the interaction. “Inescapable involvement” refers to a zoologists term for the “closest zone,” when two bodies are nearer than 18” and can hear the small sounds they mutter. There has been so much focus, presence, and intention being cultivated in these spaces, they are really deeply moving experiences, as I’ve found in all of the interactions I have been able to choreograph through glo. I feel it’s a Southern-woman approach to use choreography as a tool box to radically contribute to freeing ourselves from expectations and constraints in public space while promoting a better world.
We can’t wait to be together soon.
💫 Supple Means of Connection (2019)
📍Florence Biennial
@lauristallings choreographer
@mechelletunstall moving artist
@glo_platform
Warmth, viscera and Southern women bodies in the sky at Andrew Young International Boulevard! Gratitude @fultonpublicart@spectralbuffalo@nina.dolgin and Downtown Atlanta, and my @glo_platform flock! This is the first of three billboards lauri and @bojanaginnstudio are activating this spring, and we are looking forward to getting to know them all.
OPENING Friday, June 19 at dusk | We invite you to join us for City Waltz, Holy Waltz (cycle one) a magical, durational, conscious, often joyful, and restless experience rooted in the here and now that transforms Atlanta sidewalks into a stage and uses choreographic movements that have a poetic, romantic quality for creating a space where the public feels the absence of others while constantly moving in a waltz state that resists definition.
Choreographer @lauristallings believes a dance can be a place without limits. This is the fertile ground from which City Waltz, Holy Waltz has grown, a 140-minute nomadic work that uses waltz as a tool to explore themes of rebirth and metamorphosis. Where is it going? It’s how many times? This work is your invitation to refind - or for the first time - Atlanta the city. Where six glo moving artists- Mary Jane Pennington , Ashley Ianna Daye, @marcellegressier@noelledave@zee.ultra@beacastrom - in long floral gowns commit to traverse, linger, and interact down the street to explore the “gravitational pull” of human interaction in a suspended environment created by an artist referencing the idea that there is no true beginning or end to these situations.
💫 City Waltz, Holy Waltz ( cycle one)
🗓️ Friday June 19 through Saturday, June 27, 2026
daily at dusk.
💐 Free and public to all 💐
📍Atlanta | public sites to be announced next week.
📸 @thombakerphoto@glo_platform
