REPERTORY
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CONVERSATIONS
2012 Season
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A Dialog in Movement
Interactive, at times spontaneous, much of it personal and intimate: conversation comes between two or more people that affects something, someone, at some level. Dance allows us to express who we are within the context of the movement, and thus is the simplest form of communication. It is primal. It is a conversation in itself between body, breath and beat that can also be shared with others. Such conversations are indispensable; they are at our very core. These conversations take on a life of their own, a dynamic momentum, with the ebb and flow of our daily lives. With this new work by MM2, each of the company members, dancers and choreographers, has created their own dialog through movement, their own conversation.
ONE WORD
2011 Season
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9 Dancers, 9 Choreographers, 1 Word
From the very beginning when the first words were uttered, the ability to communicate has played an important role in our world. Whether within our own thoughts, spoken or written, words have the power to transform the world we live in. Love, laughter, heroism, friendship, and virtually every emotion we feel as human beings can be inspired by words. Unfortunately, fear, anger, and hatred, can also be invoked. Language is at its best when used to inspire others to find the best in themselves.
EMERGENCE
2010 Season
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Emergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise out
of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions. Emergent structures
are patterns not created by a single event or rule. Nothing commands the
system to form a pattern. Instead, the interaction of each part with its
immediate surroundings causes a complex chain of processes leading to some
order.There are numerous examples of emergence that can be found in nature. A
flock of birds moving effortlessly as one or a school of fish moving together
with such grace and coordination as though unified in a single thought.
In exploring the movement dancers create, emergence can readily be identified.
Each dancer seems innately aware of not only their own body as it moves
through space but that of all the others in the group as well. And while
most of the movement is orchestrated by underlying choreography and distinct
counts, there does develop an emergence where the movement itself transcends
this and takes on a life of its own.What
develops are then highly complex and intricate patterns or emergence!