Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre
And if War and if without War
November 28, 2024
Directed by Mimi Garrard
Choreography: Mimi Garrard with Michael Francis McBride and Samuel Roberts
Dancers: Michael Francis McBride and Samuel Roberts
Camera and Editing: Mimi Garrard
Music: José Halac
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.
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Play a short documentary
of the Cortli lighting system.
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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
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.
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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.
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- James Seawright’s early work and Collaborations — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elirp9ZRgY4
The early work of James Seawright, including his collaborations with Mimi Garrard.
- Bearnstow Journal — bearnstowjournal.org
Articles on the Nikolais esthetic and the arts, edited by Ruth E. Grauert
- Patras International Festival of Cinema & Culture – Greece — www.independent.gr/identity (in Greek)
13th International Panorama of Independent Film and Video Makers
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THE MIMI GARRARD DANCE COMPANY, INC.
521 Fifth Avenue Suite 1700
New York, New York 10175
PHONE 212 674-6868 • FAX 845-386-4883
E-MAIL mimigarrard@gmail.com
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