Borderlandia Explores Denver Gentrification Through Dance

Denver’s gentrification and racial divides weigh heavily on dancer Kate Speer, the current artist-in-residence at the youth arts nonprofit Platte Forum. She is working with students from Ruby Hill Strive Prep to create a dance exploring segregation. Borderlandia, the production, will “make visible the borders we create, the property we claim and the imagination we inhabit, which frequently impacts and limits the movement – and freedom – of other people,” Speer says in a statement about her production, which opens May 11 at PlatteForum.