Mountain Empire Performance Collective: One Week Until The Capitol Fringe

Mountain Empire Performance Collective: One Week Until The Capitol Fringe: Everybody Knows This Is Now Here Capitol Fringe, July 10-17, 2014 Katie here: I am patiently awaiting the 4th of July weekend.  It&#3...

Laban Inspired Dance and Ophelia

This Thursday, Friday and Saturday (6/26 - 6/28) are the last days of show for Taffety Punk's run of Enter Ophelia: Distracted at CHAW.

"Enter Ophelia, distracted combines the striking intensity of actor Kimberly Gilbert with the refined and investigative choreography of Erin Mitchell, immersed in a sea of music and sound to expose the inner and outer workings of Ophelia's self."

As a bonus, on Saturday night (6/28) I am presenting a re-worked excerpt of my piece Space-Time:

"Event Horizon (solo) and Gravity (duet) are from a suite of dances called Space-Time that explores the relationship between astrophysical phenomena and human relationships. Energetic vacillations, spatial foci, and the images we create when we make decisions, form relationships, break ties, and move each other through life drive these pair of dances through space.  The creation of Space-Time is the creative arm of Katie’s heuristic research on Laban’s theories of the flow effort, his theories on its psychophysical manifestations and Sopoci Drake’s specific theories on their connection to 4-dimensional space that she’s been developing since 2009."

I'd like to invite all Labanites out to analyze the show.

TAFFETY PUNK SHOW INFO: http://www.taffetypunk.com/shows/shows.html

TICKETS: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/630106

Help! My Choreography Doesn't Fit The Dancers!

What do you do when you're hired to do a job, but when you show up, you realize what you're ready to do does not equal what they're ready to do?

I've got solutions and more in this new post for 4dancers.org.  Here's a little taste:

"...sometimes directors just need someone to fill the spot and sometimes you just need to get a choreography gig.  I know all of this too well because, baby, sometimes Momma just needs a new pair of shoes… or to pay the utility bill.   How do we turn this around?  Here are a couple of lessons I’ve learned from all sorts of gooey, hot, messes:"

Read the rest HERE