Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre



Within Without

September 16, 2024


Play Within Without

Directed by Mimi Garrard
Choreography: Mimi Garrard with Samuel Roberts
Dancer: Samuel Roberts
Camera and Editing: Mimi Garrard
Music: Jonathan Melville Pratt
Costumes: Mindy Nelson

See Videodances to play previous full-length videodances.

More videodances may be viewed on Vimeo: www.vimeo.com/mimigarrard.

See more videodances on YouTube: www.youtube.com/mimigarrarddance.

Watch Live Dance and Video Performances at New York Live Arts:

Money (October 17, 2022) Flux of Time excerpts (October 13, 2019) Dreaming of Broadway (Premiere October 13, 2019

Sam's Journey (October 13, 2019) Cosmic Man excerpt (May 26, 2019) A Little Madness excerpts (May 26, 2019)

I Celebrate Myself (November 11, 2018) A Single Hound excerpt (November 12, 2017) Untranslatable (November 12, 2017



Cortli

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of the Cortli lighting system.

Mimi Garrard was a dancer with Alwin Nikolais. He produced her concerts at the Henry Street Playhouse for ten years and then she toured under the National Endowment Touring Program for many years. In collaboration with James Seawright, her work was commis­sioned for CBS Camera Three and WGBH Boston television. She created more than ninety works for the stage that were performed throughout the United States and in South Amer­ica. She received two grants for choreography from the National Endowment for the Arts. “Mutual Muses” a visual arts show featuring the collaborative Art of Mimi Garrard and James Seawright was shown
Forging a New Career

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Forging a New Career

in Murray, Kentucky in March and April 2018, and in De­cember 2018 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

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. This work is shown internationally on television, in museums and galleries, and in festivals. It was also shown on the dome of the plane­tarium in Jackson, Mississippi, and on the BBC BIG screen throughout England. Over the last three years she participated in 2,536 international festivals and won 1,385 first place awards. She won the Distinguished Alumnae Award from Sweet Briar College in 2019.

She has a half hour monthly television program on Manhattan Neighborhood Network in Manhattan, New York that is streamed live at the time of broadcast (251 programs to date). Mimi is the recipient of a life time achievement award from the Institute of Arts and Letters in Mississippi for her outstanding achievement in dance both for video and for the stage.



Mimi Garrard Shows Us the Money at New York Live Arts

By Gabriella Lopez, New York Theatre Wire, November 3, 2021

At New York Live Arts (NYLA) on October 17, Mimi Garrard Dance Company premiered Money and Junk Journey and completed the program with her 2019 Cosmic Man. Ms. Garrard's finesse in film making and choreography, paired with a masterful performance by Austin Selden, provided a delightful and different evening. Continue reading complete review. Watch video of Money online.



Videodances on Cable TV and Streaming Video

Mimi Garrard’s “videodances” are featured on Manhattan Neigh­bor­hood Network (MNN) Channel 2 on cable in Manhattan only on Sun­days at 5 p.m. There are currently 251 programs on MNN. They are Webcast with stream­ing video at www.mnn.org. Dates of showings are listed through December 8, 2024 on the right.

July 7 at 5 p.m.
July 21 at 5 p.m.
August 4 at 5 p.m.
August 18 at 5 p.m.
September 1 at 5 p.m.
September 15 at 5 p.m.

September 29 at 5 p.m.
October 13 at 5 p.m.
October 27 at 5 p.m.
November 10 at 5 p.m.
November 24 at 5 p.m.
December 8 at 5 p.m.


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Links

  • James Seawright’s early work and Collaborationshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elirp9ZRgY4
    The early work of James Seawright, including his collaborations with Mimi Garrard.

  • Bearnstow Journalbearnstowjournal.org
    Articles on the Nikolais esthetic and the arts, edited by Ruth E. Grauert

  • Patras International Festival of Cinema & Culture – Greecewww.independent.gr/identity
    13th International Panorama of Independent Film and Video Makers



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