March 5, 8:30 pm
Marrch 6, 7:00 pm
Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta
5342 Tilly Mill Road
Dunwoody GA 30338
For reservations and information, call 770-395-2654.
Tickets:
MJCCA Member: $13 - Adults / $9 - Children 12 and under
Non-Member: $15 - Adults / $12 - Children 12 and under
(18 months and younger free) All seats are reserved; seating is limited.
The Modern Atlanta Dance Festival offers performance opportunities to individual artists and dance companies in Metropolitan Atlanta. The MAD Festival, first presented in 1995, is Atlanta’s only professionally adjudicated modern/contemporary dance event. More than forty different metro-Atlanta individual artists and/or companies have been presented on the MAD Festival stage.
Participants in the 2005 Modern Atlanta Dance Festival are:
- Coriolis Dance Project performs "One," choreographed by Artistic Director Elizabeth McCune Dishman. "One” layers lush and deeply integrated movement upon the soaring lines of the voice and violin score.
- Good Moves Dance Consort will appear in a work by choreographer Pamala Jones Malave entitled "Shards." This piece is driven by the dynamics of interaction among the dancers and is infused with a sense of weight and breathe.
- Core Performance Company will present an excerpt from Artistic Director Sue Schroeder’s “Messiah”, which is built around the musical structures and motifs of Handel’s grand oratorio.
- Spelman Dance Theatre makes its first MAD Festival appearance in “Exodus and its Blues” choreographed by Nicole Wesley. “Exodus” explores the resiliency of evolution through images of birds and shards of blue.
- “there. . . in the sunlight” fuses traditional African dance with a Baroque sensibility in “A View From the Edge” by choreographer and Artistic Director Jhon Stronks.
- Zoetic Dance Ensemble will perform “Wet”, a journey through an internal source of struggle, leading to rebirth. Choreography is by Candess Giyan, Melanie Lynch-Blanchard and Ellen Tshudy.
- Festival host Full Radius Dance presents the premiere of “Crawl”, with choreography by Artistic Director Douglas Scott. “Crawl” utilizes bestial and beautiful movement to explore the heaviness of the soul.
Modern Atlanta Dance Festival