This weekend, the Ormao Dance Company will explore human experience, connection and legacy.

The company will present “When Day Meets Night” with Colorado College, featuring works from four choreographers.

The show will open with a dance by guest artist Suzanne Costello called “Chapters to Come.” The cast of the dance will be made up of a mix of professional dancers and members of the studio’s elder classes, emphasizing intergenerational relationships while also using individual experiences to craft the dance.

“Her process was to really ask them a lot of questions about their lives and have them journal and answer questions,” said Janet Johnson, executive director of the Ormao Dance Company.

“What she’s done with the answers that they gave to those questions is she’s crafted a movement score, but also a script that weaves kind of in and out as a movement score. So they have speaking lines as well as movement and it’s quite personal for each of them, but also very universal.”

The next portion of the show will feature flamenco dancer and Colorado College alum Justice Miles in “Caña de Mami Wata.” This dance, which will follow traditional flamenco structure, is centered on water and Afro-Diasporic stories about a water mermaid spirit, Mami Wata.

“I think she does this beautiful collage of classical flamenco work with more of a contemporary or modern kind of expression to it. It’s really quite lovely,” Johnson said.

Patrizia Herminjard will present “Waking Sleep” next, diving into the transitional state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep.

“She’s one of those choreographers that really sees all aspects of what she’s doing, creating,” Johnson said. “She’s done a mixture of a series of solos and duets that show up in different parts of the stage, very much enhanced by lighting, of course, to direct your attention to these different places and these different experiences that these artists are having.”

The performance will conclude with a piece by Chuck Wilt, “Heart Suite,” which will showcase queer relationships alongside well-known classical scores.

“His score is really overheard classical music,” Johnson said. “I think in that way he’s … made it very like accessible to watch. So that is a large work. It’s over 20 minutes and there’s duets and solos, trios and large group work at the end that’s quite athletic and really beautiful to watch.”