Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre
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Choreography, Camera, Editing: Mimi Garrard
Dancer: Samuel Roberts
Music: Glen Velez
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The Mimi Garrard Dance Company has intrigued and delighted audiences across the country and abroad, and has, as the Los Angeles Times put it, “opened eyes, stretched ears, caused laughter, and provoked thoughts.” The company has toured extensively since 1973. It has performed at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, been commissioned for CBS Camera Three and WGBH Boston television productions, as well as presented annual concerts in New York and residency programs for colleges and community centers throughout the United States. On three occasions it has performed as part of an international dance festival, Danza Nueva, in Lima, Peru. The company’s repertory of over 90 works choreographed by Mimi Garrard is one of the largest in the modern dance field. The works have evolved and changed over the years, but they reflect Garrard’s interest in pure movement, theater, and multi-media.
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Most recently Mimi Garrard is experimenting in new ways, creating dance for video using digital techniques to transform the dance material. Her work in this area is unique and is gaining increasing attention. She has a monthly program on Manhattan Neighborhood Network, and has recently been sponsored by Channel 13 on its Metro Arts Channel. WAMtv (World, Art, and Music), based in Scotland, is currently featuring her videos worldwide.
In addition to the United States her video work has been shown in numerous festivals in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. In April 2008 Velez October Circles were shown on the BBC Big Screen throughout England five times a day for two weeks. Time Installation was placed in the permanent collection of the Mississipi Museum of Art. In June 2004 she received a lifetime achievement award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters for her outstanding achievement in dance, both for her work on stage and her work for video. She has created 65 programs for Manhattan Neighborhood Network.
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- 1/30/2010 — Dance on Camera Festival 2010, Walter Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, New York City: Doctrine of Signatures and Dream State in a program honoring Alwin Nikolais
- 5/14–15/2010 — Festival of Videodance Coreographo 2010 “Elettronico Il Coreografo,” Pan Museum, Naples, Italy: March Circles
- 8/19/2010 — Sao Carlos Videodance Festival, Sao Carlos, Brazil: Retrospective of Mimi Garrard’s Videodances in a special program
- 9/10–11/2010 — San Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, Boulder, Colorado: March Circles
- 10/9–10/2010 — International Film Festival of Patras City, Greece: Circles 2010
- 11/1/21010 — Program honoring Alvin Nikolais, Mimi Garrard, and three other video artists, Library of the Performing Arts , Lincoln Center, New York City
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Mimi Garrard’s “videodances” are featured in a monthly program on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN). DVDs of all 70 programs can be purchased for $39 for each program (includes shipping and handling). For more information, please contact the Mimi Garrard Dance Company. See Videodances.
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Videodances Showings on MNN Channels 56, 34, and 83 on cable in Manhattan only; also online at www.mnn.org (click on Channel 56) during the following dates and times:
Thursday, July 29, 9 p.m.
Sunday, August 8, 3 p.m.
Thursday, August 26, 9 p.m.
Sunday, September 12, 3 p.m. |
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- Journal of Art and Idea
bearnstowjournal.org
Articles on the Nikolais esthetic and the arts, edited by Ruth E. Grauert
- Media Net
www.media-net.bc.ca
To facilitate and support the creative use of video/film as a form of communication and personal expression
- All Dance Central
www.alldancecentral.com
Choreography, Moves, Technique and More. All online and on video
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- The David Bermant Foudation: Color Light Motion
- The Harkness Foundation for Dance
- The Baumol Family Foundation
- Claudia Gitelman
- Emmet and Edith Gowin
- Angela Holder
- Jim and Joy Howell
- Charlotte Lawson
- Murray Louis
- Clyde Lynds
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- Robert Ryman
- David M. Sharp
- Mary Lane and John Sullivan
- Merrill Wagner
- Karen Weiss
- Colette Whitney
- Anna Whittington
- Aven Whittington Jr.
- Billy and Aubrey Whittington
- Eddie Wong
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| A very special thanks to Hilda Baumol for writing our annual fundraising letters. |
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THE MIMI GARRARD DANCE COMPANY, INC.
TWO PENN PLAZA, SUITE 1500, NEW YORK, NY 10121
PHONE 212 674-6868 • FAX 845-386-4883
E-MAIL mimimgdc@aol.com
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