an outdoor, traveling movement and sound experience at Glacier Creek Preserve
Premiere Date: June 11 - 14, 2026
Run Time: 55 minutes
Directed by: Kat Fackler + Stephanie Huettner
Choreography by: Kyan Doubet, Kat Fackler, Stephanie Huettner, Gayle Rocz, Kenzie Sawyer
Dancers: Grace Caskey, Kyan Doubet, Stephanie Huettner, Jenn Nicholson, Alexis Ochsner, Gayle Rocz, Kenzie Sawyer, Annie Schenzel, Lauren Wichert
Collaborators: Scott Shinbara, Pearl Lovejoy Boyd, Susan Sanchez Olson, Gregory Elsasser, Elyse N. Jorgensen
Photographs by Ben Semisch
Passage was an outdoor, guided, traveling movement and sound experience at Glacier Creek Preserve. Attendees walked the main trail within the Preserve where they encountered movement and sound installations at five locations throughout the tall grass prairie. Each performance location was carefully selected in conversation with Preserve Operations Administrator, Tracy Coleman, for the purpose of highlighting the tall grass prairie conservation efforts of the preserve, and celebrating this unique Nebraska landscape through movement and sound.
Our intent was to create a thought provoking and intimate site specific performance experience that allowed audience members to connect with nature, movement, sound, and surroundings. Audiences for each performance were limited in size (20-30 people)
ABOUT GLACIER CREEK PRESERVE
UNO’s Glacier Creek Preserve is a restored Tallgrass Prairie nature preserve large enough to sustain a diversity of functioning plant and animal communities, incorporating an entire sub-watershed. This feature protects the preserve against effects of surrounding land use thus reinforcing its sustainability into the foreseeable future as a unique metropolitan area preserve available for research, education, and appreciation of our natural heritage. Glacier Creek Preserve is a place where all can come to enjoy the beauty and diversity of eastern Nebraska's historic natural prairie environment. Except when special events are scheduled, the Preserve is free and open to the public throughout the year from 30 minutes before sunrise to 30 minutes after sunset. Essential to Preserve activities is The Barn at Glacier Creek (aka the Barn), the preserve's environmental research and education facility that provides classroom space, a field lab, restrooms, and a multi-functional space in the hayloft of the second floor that can accommodate over 50 individuals. For inquiries regarding Glacier Creek or to reserve the Barn for approved activities, email unoglaciercreek@unomaha.edu or call the Preserve at 402.554.6300.
The Nebraska Arts Council, a state agency, has supported this program through its matching grants program funded by the Nebraska Legislature, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. Visit www.artscouncil.nebraska.gov for information on how the Nebraska Arts Council can assist your organization, or how you can support the Nebraska CulturalEndowment.
We’d like to thank Douglas County, Nebraska for sponsoring this event through the Douglas County Visitor Improvement Fund Grant Award
