Earth/Work: Artists & Sustainable Living

March 11, March 25, April 8, and April 22, 2023
2:00-3:00 p.m. at Charlotte Street Foundation, 3333 Wyoming St, KCMO

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Earth/Work is a conversation series featuring individuals creating sustainable lives—radically reimagining our connection to and use of our planet. Audiences will hear short, informal presentations about what led each speaker to embark on their creative paths and what keeps them moving forward. Participation, discussion, and questions encouraged.

EARTH/WORK SPEAKERS
March 11 – Matthew and Tia Regier of Matfield Green, Kansas
March 25 – Carl Stafford of My Region Wins!
April 8 – Brooke Salvaggio of Urbavore Farm and Compost Collective
April 22 – Ryan Tenney of Sankara Farm

Earth/Work: Artists & Sustainable Living is organized by Elizabeth Stehling Snell in partnership with the Charlotte Street Foundation.

Elizabeth Stehling Snell lives in Kansas City, Missouri, with her husband and young son. Her work as an artist often uses symbolic movements and communal dances as the basis to explore emotional landscapes. A recent video project, Pause, created early in the COVID-19 pandemic, had dancers moving outside among native plants and trees. Since then, her personal interests have focused more on plants, sustainability, and connections to the ground beneath our feet.

August 19, 2021

SCOPE: Film Series #1

Featuring Pause

Charlotte Street’s Stern Theater, Kansas City

July 23 – October 14, 2021

KANSAS CITY FLATFILE + DIGITALFILE

Featuring Pause & The View

H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute

June 21-27, 2021

Free State Film Festival

Experimental Film Showcase

Featuring The View

Free State Festival, Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, KS

April 24, 2021

View recent press for my work as Episode Digital Producer and Editor on KC Ballet’s New Moves: the broadcast series.

The weekly series of 13 original episodes features guest choreographers and filmmakers creating new work in a site-specific location with KC Ballet dancers. Each episode features a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process.

Elizabeth Stehling edited and produced each of the episodes. I appreciated the use of captioning on the video throughout the interview portions, the behind-the-scenes views demonstrating the many people involved, the incredible task of creating these works in challenging situations, filmed in a limited timeframe, and tastefully woven with the choreographer interview to reduce that stare-at-a-face Zoom fatigue we are all feeling these days.

-Libby Hanssen in KC Studio

On the Move: Kansas City Ballet’s New Moves: The Broadcast Series

Several local groups are producing fine videos, but so far none has explored the intersection of cinematography, visual art, lighting, dance, and location to the extent that the Ballet has. “Choreographer and camera are intertwined and interactive,” said Elizabeth Stehling, the Ballet’s digital marketing manager. “Both are active creators in the making of the art, along with the space that they are in.”

-Paul Horsley in the KC Independent

LIGHTS, CAMERA, JETÉ: FILM IS OFFERING LOCAL PERFORMERS NEW MEANS OF EXPRESSION

Jan. 15, 2021

Click here to watch Making Moves with Charlotte Street Foundation on Facebook featuring Pause.

Jan. 13, 2021

Pause

Digital premiere will be Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 6:30 p.m. CST

Register here on Eventbrite to join on Zoom for the Q&A or follow along on Facebook LIVE at Charlotte Street Foundation.

Oct. 23, 2020

Across Again
Virtual Premiere

An Owen/Cox Dance Group production 2020

Watch the film below!