Sun Dance    image 19" by 14"  mixed-media collage

Moon Dance   image 19" by 14" mixed-media collage

Tree Dance   image 19" by 14"   mixed-media collage

Forest Dance I   image 19" by 14"  mixed-media collage

Forest Dance II   image 19" by 14"  mixed-media collage

The Dance Series

In her Dance series, Maro Lorimer celebrates the natural world through the imagery of dance. The repetition of the form of a dancer in each piece creates visual rhythm. The body positions of the dancers echo the natural subject, whether it's through arms extended as tree branches, the flame-like hair of the sun dancers, or the curved arms suggesting orbits around the heads of the dancers in Moon Dance. Some of these mixed-media collage paintings include copies of papers hand stamped 100 years ago by Maro's grandmother, and found in her attic trunk. Acrylic paints and mediums bind together other papers painted by Maro, as well as Japanese papers and torn photographs. These imaginative and joyful pieces have been recognized and honored in a variety of ways.

Tree Dance won "Best of Show" in the Anna Maria Island Art League's 2007 "Spring Open Exhibit." Juror Rosalind Jackson described it this way: "Fine technique, materials beautifully handled. A compositionally balanced piece with both color and line leading the eye up, down, and back to the center. Speaks of the intertwining of humans and nature. The trees, the people, the birds, the bees...and that we are all from the same roots from the earth. And we reach for the sky. Interconnectedness."

Forest Dance I received a "Merit" award in Art Center Sarasota's 2008 "Hidden Cultures" juried members' exhibition. In a public critique session, juror Greg Rumph said about it: "This piece evokes a ritual---it tells a story. It is beautifully composed. The use of negative space is good. It is about a Nature culture. The technique is consistent." Then, looking across the audience at the artist, he exclaimed, "Go, girl!"

Moon Dance is on permanent display at the dance department of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, in memory of Kristina Larson, a promising graduate student of dance and choreography, who died in a car accident in autumn, 2006.  

Each Dance collage has been framed in a simple frosted gold metal frame with a 3-inch mat.
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