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from Milwaukee show: part 1 http://vimeo.com/27035008 and part 2... http://vimeo.com/27037466 Experpts from Earthdance: Images:
         | What people are saying: “This has to be one of the most passionate, committed, fluid, theatrically danced evenings I have seen/felt in a long time! Amii and Carey, along with their diverse cast of performers strung together the most entertaining, artistic, humorous and emotional ride for me as an audience member.”
“I would like to remind you how much you have reached people with these performances...I particularly applaud how you approached your/our own vulnerabilities in the concert. When I left the theatre I felt humbled by how dance could still be experienced in a very deep and emotional level, where the performer was breathing the same air as me, where the viewer became the object of performance.” “a magical evening…this show resonated in ways that brought so much inner peace and happiness to my very tired body…. your generous theft of the key and whispered directions created a world that brought me back to my days as a young woman and the feeling that every corner of art held a gift for me and me alone.” “Beautiful, stunning show. (We) are still buzzing.” “Carey Foster, Amii LeGendre and friends transformed just about every space except the actual theater in a UWM arts building into a theatrical wonderland…..It’s very funny.” (Third Coast Digest) Note from Directors:
The Museum of Narrow Places is a three-act site-specific performance piece that digs into the question of how limitation in life breeds possibility. The work is developed through conversations with the collaborating artists informed by a set of principles that invite working with the overlooked materials and spaces right in front of us. Little wonders emerge out of every corner. We also looked away from the material right in front of us; in this case, we sourced outside of the field of dance and in interviews with individuals inside and outside our communities who have strong stories of limitation and being limited, as well as the ghosts of our own lives, dilemmas and mortality. |
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| Director Bios:
Amii LeGendre is a faculty member in Dance and coordinates the Wellness Program at Bard College in upstate NY. For five years, she has taught dance to incarcerated men through Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) and Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA). She founded LeGendre Performance Group, with whom she made contemporary dance work in Seattle WA for 15 years, located in collaborations with musicians, composers, and designers. Among work created was the award-winning Bully in 2000 that premiered at On the Boards in Seattle with sculptor Anat Pollack and band/composer Violent Green. She has developed modern, improvisation and contact teaching material that she has taught in residencies at Weslyan, Connecticut College, Texas Women’s University, Cornish College of the Arts, Dance New England, independent institutes and in Ecuador, Peru, Canada, and Hong Kong. She continues work on a series of site-based custom-made solos for one performer and one spectator, called Evidence. She creates duet work with her dancing partner Anne Bloom (NY) and tours with Pat Graney Dance Co. (Seattle). She has a six-year-old daughter, Stellah. Carey McKinley Foster is a dance artist based in Boston, MA. Director / Producer of Fresh Killed Theater, a multi-media performance project that melds dance, visual art, theatre and experience. Work presented at UWM, Harvard University, Walnut Hill School, Trinity College, Mobius Artspace, DisneyWorld, and other New England venues. Guest performed with Sara Rudner, David Parker, Bobby McFerrin, on WGBH’s Art Close Up, and with American Repertory Theater. Toured nationally and internationally with Snappy Dance Theater, and regionally with Prometheus Dance, Nicola Hawkins, and others. Taught at Walnut Hill, Boston University, Boston Ballet, at American College Dance Festival and schools around Boston. Currently on the dance faculty at Cambridge School of Weston, serving part of each year as Department Head, and guest teacher / choreographer for the Harvard-Radcliffe Modern Dance Company. Completed M.F.A. in Performance Art - Dance at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in August 2011. |
Special Thanks to all past collaborators and performers who helped to create this work:
Christian Nassar Allen, Bryant Andrews, Anne Bloom, Harrison Blum, Daniel Burkholder, Jackie Lou Brock, Jabbar Collins, Kori Epps, Lindsay Gilmore, Jana Jevtovic, Sun Ho Kim, Laura Kolar, Jack Magai, Paul Marienthal, Memo, Marisa Michelson, Maya Murphy, Marquita Redd, Rachel Schragis, Jill Anne Schwartz, Ariana Siegel, Ali Skalli, Stan Stroh, Alexander Thompson, Andrew Turner, Carlos Valdez, Christal Wagner, Bess Whitesel, Steve Willis, Miriam Wolodarski, Angie Yetzke, Liz Zaztrow Lighting, Technical, Photographic & Video expertise from: Kellie Bronikowski, Iain Court, Kristophe Diaz, Jan Egleston, Karl Fisher, Colin Gawronski, Support from Earthdance's E/Merge Artist Residency, Harvard Graduate School of Design, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Bard College. |
