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Anne-Marie Mulgrew and Dancers Company's Home Season Concert
Known for its highly-imaginative dance theater and multi-disciplinary works, ANNE-MARIE MULGREW AND DANCERS COMPANY (AMM & DCO) presents its home season concert, Red, White and Blue featuring World of Dreams 2014 and Six Short Works for Dance and Film choreographed by artistic director Anne-Marie Mulgrew for her company. In addition, Ashley Searles (choreographer-dancer) will perform her newest solo, Elevation 2014.
Based on themes of identity, dreams, and desires, World of Dreams is a continuation of emotionally-charged Dig 2012 and The Keepers Project 2013 created in collaboration with video artist and longtime collaborator, Carmella Vassor-Johnson. In this new ensemble dance, choreographer/director Anne-Marie Mulgrew questions what is and what makes an American? Is the American dream alive, breathing, misplaced, or has it been immersed into a global consciousness informed by 21st century technology? Audiences will be taken on a non-linear adventure through a series of dance vignettes set to big band, classical, new age, and contemporary music, text, sounds, projected imagery and unexpected costumes.
Six Short Works span 22 years of the company's performances for stage, alternative sites and film. They include "The Busker" a tongue-in-cheek solo from Le Dada Va Gaga 2011, the whimsical duet from Paper Waitress 2000, "I Remember" a reflective solo from The Keepers Project 2013, "Cleanse" an intimate solo from Salt 2009, and dance films Pre-Dinner Cocktails Honey created during a 2001 Yard Residency, Chilmark MA and the colorful Tales of the Buffoon 1992 created for WHYY TV. In addition to Mulgrew, the concert features talented company dancers Joseph Cicala, Katie Horton, Leslie Ann Pike, Kate Rast, Barbara Tait and Megan Wilson Stern.
Critics applauded AMM & DCO's work "as ever-full of striking visual imagery and whimsy." (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Rounding out the program is a new solo work, Elevation 2014 created and performed by Ashley Searles. Searles spent 15 years as a dancer on the New York scene performing with companies such as Parsons Dance, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and Moving Theater.
There will be a meet and greet with light refreshments with the company following each performance.
Leadership support for the New Stages for Dance Initiative is provided by Metlife Foundation. New Stages for Dance is a program of Dance USA/Philadelphia.
AMM & DCO is supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency and The Philadelphia Cultural Fund.
Known for its "highly imaginative" and "visually arresting" dance theater works and unusual collaborations, ANNE-MARIE MULGREW AND DANCERS CO (AMM & DCO) is an experimental modern dance troupe based in Philadelphia, PA. AMM & DCO was founded in 1986 by artistic director/founder Anne-Marie Mulgrew. Ms. Mulgrew created 65 works for the company that have been seen nationally and in Canada. These productions have appeared on traditional and nontraditional stages, film/TV, and festivals. Venues include Mandell Theater, The Painted Bride, Movement Theater International, UARTS/DrakeTheater, Chester Springs Studio, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Fringe/LiveArts Festivals, Conwell Dance Theater, Group Motion, CEC, The Philadelphia Cathedral, The PIFA Festival, The Barnes Museum, Christ Church Neighborhood House and Buddies in Bad Times Theater (Toronto Canada), to name a few. In NYC, AMM & DCO has performed at DanceSpace, Movement Research, the DIA Center, University Settlement House, UBU Repertory Theatre and the Dumbo Festival (Brooklyn NY). In 2011, the company made its debut at DancePlace, Wash. DC.
AMM & DCO holds the distinction of being the only Philadelphia troupe to appear twice at the fFIDA Festival in Toronto, Canada. The company consists of 5-7 core dancers, collaborating artists in mixed media, and additional community-based performers for large-scale works. Fusing modern dance, theater, music, technology and art, AMM & DCO charms, provokes and informs audiences of all-ages with its insightful and wacky views of the world.
AMM & DCO is a nonprofit 501(c) 3 organization AMM & DCO's mission is to educate and involve the public in the performance and creation of new interdisciplinary dance works through performances, workshops, residencies and special projects.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
ANNE-MARIE MULGREW AND DANCERS CO
ammdco2000@att.net
www.annemariemulgrewdancersco.org
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LocationChrist Church Neighborhood House Theatre (View)
20 North American Street
Philadeplhia, PA 19106
United States
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