6/30/2021 8:00:00 -11:45:00 PM
Dances at MuCCC Goes Virtual!
Streaming Wednesday June 30 through Saturday July 10
MuCCC’s annual contemporary dance festival returns in 2021 as an online event. Three different virtual performances featuring 18 choreographers and companies will be available for streaming Wednesday, June 30 through Saturday July 10. Tickets start at $5 and are available at https://www.showtix4u.com/events/dancesatmuccc
Program 1 premieres on Wednesday June 30th at 8:00 pm and includes a preview of Numbered Days by Missy Pfohl Smith’s BIODANCE, set to music by Dave Rivello. Frazee Feet Dance offers Cautionary, filmed from within the dance’s nebulous and dizzying world of movement and energy. Sullivan Dance Company performs a new collaboration by choreographer Amy Slocum and musician and storyteller Didrik Soderstrom. Works by Donna Davenport, Natalie Marino, Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp, and MaryLee Miller complete the program.
On Thursday July 1, Program 2 streams at 8:00 pm, including work by Buffalo-based artists Nancy Hughes and Anthony Alterio. Working with composer Matias Homar, Hughes offers an informal and intimate work built from the online practices of dancers in remote locations. Alterio’s high-energy Full Blown showcases outrageous performers fusing styles of voguing, waacking, Hip Hop, and Jazz, to tell a story of limitless representations of gender. Laurie MacFarlane presents Whodoyouwanttobe, a triptych of solos made in collaboration with the performers as well as three composers and three visual artists. Other choreographers include Ethan Beckwith-Cohen, Solange Rodrigues, Ruben T. Ornelas, Bethany Good, and Sophie Nash and Lucy Mundschau in Stupid Little Mouse: Hibernation/Second Movement.
Program 3 on Friday July 2 at 8:00 pm includes dances from Mariah Steele/Quicksilver Dance, Gina Bonati, and BIODANCE’s 2020 Pilgrimage. In O/E, a duet by Ruben T. Ornelas with Angela Lopez, the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is explored. Chicago-based artists Ayako Kato and Jason Roebke present Eclipse, where the constant attunement of dance and music invites viewers to experience synchronic moments along with the magic of shadows and light.
All three programs are also available on demand July 3 through July 10. For further information and ticketing, please visit https://www.showtix4u.com/events/dancesatmuccc Follow Dances at MuCCC on Facebook for updates and details.
All programs are subject to change.
The MuCCC Theater, located in Rochester’s Neighborhood of the Arts, was founded in 2009 by arts entrepreneur Doug Rice. Its mission is to provide a theater to performers who do not have a permanent space, to attract new audiences to theater, and to provide theater at a low cost to the public. Visit www.muccc.org to learn more.
This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts, a member supported organization.
