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The Invisible String 

June 6-8, 2025

The MeX TheatreKentucky Performing Arts

Performance Details

Our revised and restaged production of There Will Always be Strings is entitled "The Invisible String." While revising  this piece, we use a collaborative dancemaking process to integrate the individual backgrounds, experiences, and identities of the dancers to address the intersectionality of of identity and mental health in relation to attachment theory. The professional company will partner with mental health organizations and professionals to integrate research on attachment and healing into the choreographic process and product. The Ambo Dance Theatre School, Pre-Professional Company, and Community Ensemble will likewise engage with age-appropriate and developmentally-accessible mental health materials and literature centered on attachment as a driving place for movement creation.

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In total, there will be three performances of the revised and restaged production of There Will Always Be Strings: 2 performances of the fully-integrated evening-length work built collaboratively by the Professional Company dancers, and 2 matinee performances built collaboratively by the Ambo Dance Theatre School students, Pre-Professional Company, Community Ensemble dancers, JCPS Dance program partnership groups. Each of the performances will include a talkback with the collaborating dancers of that respective production. This will result in greater awareness, for dancers and audience members alike, of how mental health awareness ultimately contributes to overall wellbeing, as well as a destigmatization of mental health conversation.

The Invisible String has two versions of this performance. The first version is performed by the professional company and is catered toward a mature audience. The second version of this performance includes the youth dancers, and is catered toward a younger audience. 

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This performance will take place at The MeX Theatre located on 501 W Main Street Louisville, KY 40202 

The Invisible String

(Family Friendly/ Sensory Friendly)

June 7th 2:00 PM

June 8th 2:00 PM                 

The Invisible String          (Mature Audiences)           June 6th 7:00 PM                 

June 7th 7:00 PM                 

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About The Invisible String

As a company, we use choreography to touch on issues including (but not limited to) poverty, body image, trauma and attachment style, LGBTQ experiences, and colonialism. We recognize that our emphasis on activism must be handled sensitively to prevent retraumatization. This is part of why we work exclusively under a process-driven, collaborative model that allows for healthy and supportive expression of one’s experiences. Through our work, performers and viewers understand that dance holds power as a personal tool for emotional processing as well as an agent for connecting people in their shared humanity.

 

Our production of "The Invisible Sting" particularly centers on self-reflection and translating one's own experiences into movement. Movement is itself often used as a healing modality, so this production encourages dancers to go a step deeper, connecting brain and body by focusing their attention on their attachment style and the formative experiences that shaped it, to then translate that self-discovery to movement. We want to move the idea of attachment from being abstract and theory-oriented to being personal, connecting our attachment style and mental health to the intersections of our identity and identity-based experiences, so that each of our dancers can gain a better understanding of themselves through the creative process, while shedding light on universal truths in the process. For our dancers, the social change comes from the healing and self-awareness this process welcomes, while for audience members the social change comes from the invitation to see themselves in the work, and the destigmatization around topics such as identity, trauma, and mental health in general.

History of The Invisible String 

This choreographic work has been revised and reworked since its first performance. When this choreography was originally performed it was titled "There Will Always Be Strings" and was first performed in 2018. "There Will Always Be Strings" is an evening-length work that explores Attachment Theory, a psychological theory that identifies four attachment styles and explores their implications for how we build and sustain relationships in adulthood. This work addresses the role of childhood formative experiences and the ways in which our attachment style influence our mental health over our lifespan, while also emphasizing our capacity and power to heal from trauma. When re-staging this work, we are placing a more in-depth emphasis on the intersectionality of identity, attachment, and mental health.

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