Public Domain looks at who get’s to be free, and in which spaces. Public Domain premiered on the KSU Dance Company in December 2018.

Choreography: Sean Nguyen-Hilton with Avery Gillham, Bailey Harbaugh, Chaes Hatfield, Darvensky Louis, Valerie Louis, Bailey Jo Padgett, and Christina Massad. 

Music: Quotes from musical works found in the public domain

-Ludwig van Beethoven:

Piano Sonata No. 14 in C# minor, Op. 27, No. 2” Moonlight" I. Adagio sostenuto

-Woody Guthrie:

This Land Is Your Land (arr. Stevens)

-Additional underscoring by Paul Stevens

Dancers: 

Labor solo: Christina Massad

The Multitude: Avery Gillham, Bailey Harbaugh, Chaes Hatfield, Darvensky Louis, Valerie Louis, Bailey Jo Padgett, and Christina Massad.

The Individual: Bailey Harbaugh 

Projection: Excerpt from Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon), Directed by Georges Méliès

Costumes: Jill Peterson

Lighting: David Tatu and Sean Nguyen-Hilton