New Gree :: of MGM :: 2008
New Gree is a dance on tour that not only happens anywhere, but is happening all the time. The fashions worn on the road are the costumes of the dance. The terrain of the performance is demarcated by props; flags, lights, mirrors and projections. MGM's rock band concept is transformed into a band of female cowboys !!not cowgirls!! and the New Gree group is always on guard, ready for long stillnesses, quick getaways, telepathy and remonstrance. An aim, but not goal of New Gree, is to dance in complete unison with eyes closed, navigating safely through densities of people and space. Ulteriorly, the choreography works with shifting formations of energy and hyper-reality in relation to the mobile audience, building additive layers of past and future performances, past and future influences, and linking everyone and everything in the accumulative journey of now.
Maynard of MGM (2005) was an experimental dance in a one-car garage turned into a theater, which went on tour (2006) to garages across the west coast. THIS DANCE IS CALED GREE. IT IS FROM BEDSTUY. (aka GREE) (2007) extended MGM from a dance that was made in Jmlly’s hallway in Brooklyn, NY to a tour where it could be performed anywhere, garages included, on any surface, with any music. The continuity of the dance was in the consist choreography, improvisation was used in relation to situation and landscape. GREE tried to be the copy of an underground rock band tour, with the start of the performances signified by a radical costume change, abruptly shifting every location into a proscenium. New Gree (2008) attempts to exploit the landscape by blending in and moving through it virtually unseen.
New Gree will follow the path of last year’s tour, performing over 35 times in 15 different U.S. cities, parks and locations through out California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, New York, North Carolina and Michigan.
New Gree is Theo Angell, Felicia Ballos, Biba Bell, Jmlly Leary and Robert McNeill.
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