A D.C. dance company is using the music of Sufjan Stevens to reflect on the last two years in a new show at Joe’s Movement Emporium in Mount Rainier.

Set to a recent album by indie-rocker Sufjan Stevens, UpRooted Dance’s “The Ascension Project” offers audiences the chance to reflect on the events of the past two years and the world we now live in through the lens of dance, music, and art.

The hour-long show explores themes of isolation in small spaces, anxiety, disability, trauma and loss, finally ending with transcendence.

Keira Hart-Mendoza, founder and artistic director of UpRooted Dance, and multimedia artist Nitsan Scharf worked together to create a projection landscape of design, shape and color that works with the dance company’s choreography.

Other collaborators include theatrical designer Margie Jervis on costume design and Ben Levine on lighting design, and local community members also appear as guest performers.

The show will be performed at Joe’s Movement Emporium at 3309 Bunker Hill Rd. in Mount Rainier at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 1; 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 2; and 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 3.

Tickets are available online here.

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