There is no beginning or end, no clear goal or a distinct way to win this game. The director describes the video as a dance about the world- wide obsession with money. This world is limited to and only revolves around… money.Īnd so, its no surprise that the dancer seems to be wearing a prisoner uniform as we are all prisoners in the endless chase of making more, earning more, having more.Īt the beginning the dancer reaches for a suitcase and secretly makes his way out of the frame, but alas, he goes back to the start because no matter how may suitcases you have, the hunt for more is never over. In the video, The Money Game, the director Mimi Garrard, asked just that, but made one clear choice. What if the world truly was a stage but the performers could only express themselves via dance? What kind of a world will that be? And what styles would we find? They are also simultaneously Webcast with streaming video at Dates of next showings on MNN, all at 5 p.m., are listed right.ĭirected by Mimi Garrard / Reviewed by Adva Reichman Mimi Garrards videodances are featured on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) Channel 2 on cable in Manhattan only on Sundays at 5 p.m.
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Videodances on Cable TV and Streaming Video Garrard's finesse in film making and choreography, paired with a masterful performance by Austin Selden, provided a delightful and different evening.
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Mimi Garrard Shows Us the Money at New York Live Artsīy Gabriella Lopez, New York Theatre Wire, November 3, 2021Īt New York Live Arts (NYLA) on October 17, Mimi Garrard Dance Company premiered "Money" and "Junk Journey" and completed the program with her 2019 "Cosmic Man." Ms. She received a life time achievement award from the Institute of Arts and Letters in Mississippi for her outstanding achievement in dance both for video and for the stage. She has a half hour monthly television program on Manhattan Neighborhood Network in Manhattan, New York that is streamed live at the time of broadcast (208 programs to date). She won the Distinguished Alumnae Award from Sweet Briar College in 2019. Over the last three years she participated in 582 international festivals and won 347 first place awards. It was also shown on the dome of the planetarium in Jackson, Mississippi, and on the BBC BIG screen throughout England. This work is shown internationally on television, in museums and galleries, and in festivals. Her work in this area is unique and is gaining increasing attention. Most recently Mimi Garrard is experimenting in new ways, creating dance for video using digital techniques to transform the dance material. James Seawright was shown in Murray, Kentucky in March and April 2018, and in December 2018 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Mutual Muses a visual arts show featuring the collaborative Art of Mimi Garrard and She received two grants for choreography from the National Endowment for the Arts. She created more than ninety works for the stage that were performed throughout the United States and in South America.
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In collaboration with James Seawright, her work was commissioned for CBS Camera Three and WGBH Boston television. He produced her concerts at the Henry Street Playhouse for ten years and then she toured under the National Endowment Touring Program for many years. Mimi Garrard was a dancer with Alwin Nikolais. More videodances may be viewed at /mimigarrard. See Videodances to play previous full-length videodances. Looking Back Part 5 is a compilation of live dance with video in performances at New York live Arts. Samuel Lee Roberts, Austin Selden, and Marcus Jerell WillisĬomposers: Jonathan Melville Pratt and Mimi Garrard Choreography: Mimi Garrard in collaboration with the dancersĭancers: Demetia Hopkins, Michael Francis McBride, Sarah Daley,