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About the Company
Dixie Fun Dance Theatre creates innovative dances that are
reminiscent of pop art, political cartoons and expressionist
painting all combined and expressed physically. DFDT's choreographic
process begins in the library. Consequently, the movement
is never for movement's sake only. Instead, each step and
every line directly reflects the specific ideas and imagery
generated by the research.
DFDT's style is eclectic because any style or genre of movement
might be incorporated into a dance, whatever is most compelling
in terms of exploring the subject matter. For example, in
The Thinnest Woman with the Fewest Wrinkles Wins,
the movement styles range from campy, Broadway dancing to
erotic jazz to thrashing, jarring modern movement to pedestrian,
physical theatre. The overall structure of each dance is also
a reflection of the topic. For instance, The Thinnest
Woman... involves multi-generational community members
in order to broaden our idea of female beauty. Web is
highly interactive because that dance is about the interconnectedness
of all things. http://www.media-verse.com, a dance
concerned with mass media and technology, is packaged into
short bits that abruptly shift from one to the next, much
like watching television. And The Money Show will
begin with an auction to buy seats for the performance.
The company has created 14 dance/theatre works: The
Money Show, Web, http://www.media-verse.com, The Thinnest
Woman with the Fewest Wrinkles Wins, The Thinnest Woman Wins,
Nude Solo #73, Time-Warp Morality Dance, Twirl, Who's the
Fairest of Them All, Darryl, Cousin Dixie, Infinity, Seventeen,
At Your Disposal: Conveniently Packaged in Three Sections.
The company has performed from the east coast to the west
coast: Dance Theater Workshop; PS122, Joe's Pub, Symphony
Space, Joyce SoHo, HERE Arts Center, Dixon Place, BAX, WAX,
West End Theater, Sal Anthony's Movement Salon, University
Settlement, Manhattan Theater Source, Frederick Loewe Theatre,
BRIC Studio, and the Merce Cunningham Studio Theatre in NYC;
Philadelphia Fringe Festival; Studio 303 in Montreal; Atlanta's
First Glance Festival and Canopy Theater in Georgia; On The
Boards, Bumbershoot, Seattle Mime Theatre and East Hall Theatre
in Seattle; and many rural locations in the states of Washington,
Colorado, and Iowa.
Director Dixie FunLee Shulman has 10 years of experience with
project-based, pick-up work. Dixie Fun Dance Theatre marks
the transition of Shulman and her 6 dancers into a new company.
Dixie Fun Dance Theatre
100 W 57th Street, #4A, New York, NY 10019
917.693.7299
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