At the Spring Dance Concert, Montgomery will perform Sipapu, a solo exploring our ancestral connection to the earth. Mixing the red earth from sacred sites in the southwest with blue cornmeal, he will transform the stage into a landscape from which he emerges to express and re-establish a sense of the sacred.

"Butoh proposes a way in which the body speaks for itself. In the same way that a flower cannot help but express its flower-ness, our bodies are blooming with an innate, powerful and authentic nature,"says Montgomery.