MANCC Welcomes AXIS Dance Company, Laboratory
- AXIS Dance Company’s Divide by Marc Brew (2014). Dancers: Sonsherée Giles, Joel Brown & Sebastian Grubb. Photo by Ren Dodge.
October 5 – 18, 2014
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Coinciding with the 10th Anniversary of MANCC programming, AXIS Dance Company, one of the world’s leading contemporary repertory companies featuring physically integrated dancers, returns to MANCC for their second residency. The project provides AXIS with a period of research and development with choreographers Nichole Canuso (PA), Beth Gill (NY) and Jill Sigman (NY) each of whom are former MANCC Fellows who will be working with AXIS for the first time.
Nichole Canuso will be the first artist-in-residence with AXIS. She came to MANCC with her work TAKES as part of the PLAF Partnership in 2009. Jill Sigman, who was a Choreographic Fellow in 2005 for her work,RUPTURE, follows Canuso. Beth Gill will be the final artist-in-residence and as a Hatchery Project Artist in 2013 developed New Work for the Desert. Choreographer Sonya Delwaide, who has set numerous works on AXIS, will join early in the residency to serve as artistic mentor for the project.
This project is being supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Entrypoints:
Entrypoints are unique opportunities for visiting artists to conduct research and collaborate with the FSU and Tallahassee communities as well as the national dance field.
10/15 AXIS Dance Company Residency Reflection
10:30 am – Nancy Smith Fichter Theatre, Montgomery Hall
A facilitated discussion by the participating artists reflecting on how their distinct choreographic practices are being explored with AXIS during the residency.
10/16 Legacy Conversation
5:30 pm – Black Box Theatre, Montgomery Hall
AXIS Artistic Director Judith Smith and MANCC Director Carla Peterson honor AXIS’s 27 year history with a conversation about the legacy of repertory companies.
Reservations are recommended for the showing. To reserve a seat, please visit mancc.org/artists/axis-dance-company. For additional information, please email info@mancc.org
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- Joel Brown and Marc Brew rehearsing Trio A Pressured #X by Yvonne Rainer Photo Credit: Ren Dodge
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- AXIS Dance Company 2012. Dancers: Emily Eifler & Sonsherée Giles. In choreography by Amy Seiwert. Photo by David DeSilva.
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- AXIS Dance Company 2012. Dancers: Emily Eifler, Sebastian Grubb, Joel Brown & Sonsherée Giles. In choreography by Amy Seiwert. Photo by David DeSilva.
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- AXIS Dance Company 2012. Dancers: Joel Brown & Sonsherée Giles. In choreography by Amy Seiwert. Photo by David DeSilva.
The Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC), at the FSU School of Dance, is a choreographic research and development center whose mission is to raise the value of the creative process in dance.