In collaboration with the NCSU Dance Program and facilitated by painter and founder of Mountain Lake Symposium Ray Kass, the NCSU Dance Company and dancer Justin Tornow performed John Cage’s “Steps”, a composition for a painting. The composition is a soundscape for the creation of a painting by individuals or groups, who use various materials to create a work of art – in this case, two 30-foot sheets of paper, trays of ink, and a specially-designed wash brush and trough. The paintings, as noted in The Mountain Lake Symposium and Workshop-Art in Locale, can resemble Zen paintings footprints in a riverbed. One such work is currently on display as part of the Gregg’s Rural Avant-Garde exhibit.