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Friday, May 8, 2009 - 6:30pm

Miro Dance Theatre's party for the people is back with a whole lotta bachatta! Led by DJ Victor Colon, Miro supporters are teaming up with professional latin dancers from Fuzion Creativa and battling it out on the dance floor in the name of all that is Miro.

Mark your calendar and join the fun in support of your friendly neighborhood experimental dance theatre company. 

Amanda Miller  will perform "Self-Portrait" tonight, Feb 13th, at 7:30 and 8:30 at Bryn Mawr College as part of the Performing Arts Series. For ticket information call: 610-526-5210

A solo work combining dance, live animation, elaborate set design, and video, Self-Portrait is deeply inspired by Frida Kahlo's paintings and diaries, reflecting on both the artist's struggles with illness and her penchant for self-expression. A constant theme in the work of Kahlo, the idea of self-portraiture (or "the self-portrait") is timeless and universal. The notion of constantly looking at oneself and continuously exploring ones identity, and the ways in which we reinvent and integrate our experiences has become of great interest to Miro Dance Theatre as a company.

Self-Portrait was originally commissioned by Art After 5 in conjunction with the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Frida Kahlo retrospective - the World Premiere performance was held at the Museum of Art in May 2008. In November 2008, Miro traveled to Poland to present the European Premiere of Self-Portrait at the Lublin Dance Theatre Festival to a sold-out, standing room only crowd.

"We are finding that Self-Portrait really resonates with people, both here in Philadelphia and in Eastern Europe where we recently performed it," says Amanda Miller. "The idea of self, and also the importance of Frida as an artist to a generation young and old makes this piece very special and each time we perform it, the production grows richer and more developed."

Miro will present Self-Portrait in a shared program with BalletX. Yes you read correctly...together again...but seperate. Self-Portrait will be staged in Bryn Mawr's Erdman Hall, a modernist landmark by renowned architect Louis Kahn.  BalletX will present their respective performance simultaneously in Thomas Great Hall; at intermission, audiences will switch venues. A great opportunity to see the divergent paths taken by two very different companies with common Phrenic roots.

What?? Yes, you read right. We had a great show at the Lublin Dance Theatre Festival on Saturday night. We had heard rumours of the Eastern European Iron Clap, a unison pounding rythmic show of appreciation in which the entire crowd becomes one regimented clapping force until the performers return to the stage for another bow or two. The tales were true. Miro recieved the iron clap from an enthusiastic Lublin audience following the European premiere of the Frida Kahlo inspired Self-Portrait at the A.C.K. Theatre. The theater filled quickly, and start time was delayed as the crowd filled to overflowing, with extra chairs brought in, people sitting on the floor, crammed into stairs and aisles, and standing in back corners. There is a review on Critical Dance.com, although it is in Polish (we will hopefully have a translation soon). Amanda has been teaching here all week, and it is encouraging to all of us to see Lublin's thriving young audence base which is hungry to learn about and experience as much new dance work as possible.

 

 

For the upcoming show Spooky Action, Video Artist Tobin Rothlein is collecting your personal videos to include in the show. If you have video of your special connection to another person we would love to use it. Two people kissing, holding hands, laughing, etc.

For upload instructions and more info click here.

Raise a pint of Yards in support of your friendly neighborhood experimental dance theatre company and check out some of our favorite bands at Miro's Beer and Band Fall Jam at Ortlieb's Jazzhaus in Northern Liberties.

Toy Soldiers, Oak Oak Okay and The Bee Team will take the stage in celebration of Miro’s upcoming work Spooky Action. Spooky Action composer Pete M. Wyer will join the Venissa Santí Quintet to perform songs from his new album.

$10 cover, $5 pints of Yards
Ortlieb's full menu will be available
VIP tables available
Info: www.mirodancetheatre.org or (215) 962-4773

Ortlieb's Jazzhaus
847 N 3rd St
Philadelphia, PA 19123
www.ortliebsjazzhaus.com

 

The Beer and Band Fall Jam is supported by the good people at Yards Brewery and Ortlieb's Jazzhaus.

100% of Yards beer sales and ticket sales support Miro Dance Theatre.

Miro Dance Theatre is recognized as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization by the Federal government. All proceeds benefit Miro Dance Theatre’s creation and education programs.