at the Kennedy Center – Millenium Stage
An Evening for Humanity
Italian dancer and choreographer Mimmo Miccolis and Austrian dancer Gloria Benedikt develop contemporary dance on the edge of artistic innovation and human need and base their work around issues of public concern, for which they strive to create artistic responses that inspire, thought provoke and emotionally touch audiences.
RIGHTS(?) (American Premiere), is a multimedia contemporary dance performance that brings attention to human rights, which are particularly prone to violation.
Originally funded by the BBC performing arts fund, it premiered in London in 2012. Mimmo Miccolis approaches each human right from two sides: First, the interpretation of the right in modern society and second, the intrinsic meaning of that right. Every movement is created based on a strong emotional message in order for art and reality to unite as one.
Choreography and Concept: Mimmo Miccolis
Dancers: Daniel Roberge, Corey Landolt, Gavin Stewart, Rachael Jones, Vanessa Owen
Music Composition: Francesco Germini
Costumes: Lemington Ridley – Melville Michel
Videography: Matteo Carratoni – Morgan Marinoni- Richard Winearls
PREVIEW (via youtube)
GROWTH (World Premiere) is an artistic investigation into the meaning and function of ‘growth’ in our time.
While the notion of ‘growth’ is traditionally framed in a purely socio-economic context, Miccolis and Benedikt are seeking an answer through their bodies and through movement in order to offer audiences around the world a new, globally comprehensible way of looking at growth.
Choreography and Concept: Mimmo Miccolis & Gloria Benedikt
Dancers: Gloria Benedikt & Mimmo Miccolis
Music Composition: Francesco Germini
Violinist: Caterina Vannucci
Videography: Morgan Marinoni
PREVIEW (via vimeo)
IN COLLABORATION WITH
RSVP
FREE ADMISSION – MILLENIUM STAGE – THE KENNEDY CENTER
SEATING AVAILABLE ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS
LOCATION
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2700 F Street, NW Washington, DC 20566
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MIMMO MICCOLIS
Mimmo Miccolis is an Italian born dancer and choreographer. He graduated from the Italian dance academies Fondazione Niccolò Piccinni and Balletto di Toscana, Mimmo is one of the winners of the BBC Performing Arts Fund 2011. Works choreographed in London include RIGHTS(?) (on violation of human rights), LUST LOST LAST (on human trafficking), a flash mob for the OBR UK Art Festival (addressing the issue of violence against women), and the music video Creature by Aurora Lee. In Italy, Mimmo was a dancer with the RBR Dance Company and with the Evolution Dance Theatre as well as assistant choreographer to Anthony Heinl for the Maggio Danza of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and for the Evolution Dance Theatre. Further experience includes performances in operas such as La Traviata, Carmen and Satyricon (in Spain, Oman, France, Albania and Italy), in the Italian TV show Domenica In, and in the American movie Rome. Since January 2014, Mimmo joined the Bowen McCauley Dance Company as a dancer. With Bowen McCauley Dance, Mimmo performed at the Kennedy Center in February 2014, as well as in other theaters in Washington DC, Virginia and Maryland.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: HERE
GLORIA BENEDIKT
Gloria Benedikt was born in Graz (Austria) and obtained her dance education at the Vienna State Opera Ballet School and English National Ballet School, London. Since 2002 she has worked for dance companies in the United Kingdom, Germany, Cyprus, the United States and the Netherlands. She studied Government at Harvard University 13′ (School for Continuing Education) while dancing with Jose Mateo Ballet Theater for four years. During this time she also presented her first Choreographies. Most recently she embarked on an artistic collaboration with the Hungarian dancer Krisztián Gergye to create a new work on Egon Schiele, which was commissioned by the Austrian Cultural Forum Budapest. She also danced in two dance films, which were financed by the Dutch Government. Egon (choreographed by Thom Stuart), in which she portrayed Edith Schiele, premiered in March 2013 and Ik ben der Enige (choreographed by Toer van Schayk), which premiered in March 2014.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: HERE
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