Maureen Whiting Dance Company

MYTH OF ME AND YOU
Presented by ACT Theatre’s Central Heating Lab, Myth of Me and You heralds a new era of contemporary dance presentation at ACT. Created during a yearlong creative residency supported by the Central Heating Lab, this visceral new piece is the latest in a series of intensely visual contemporary dance wo...rks by Maureen Whiting Company. Myth of Me and You is being created in the round specifically for ACT’s stunning Allen Theatre.

Through a subterranean lair created by long–time collaborator and award–winning designer Etta Lilienthal, Myth of Me and You immerses the audience in a universe rich in symbolic meaning and surrealistic imagery. Affixed with antlers, coated in honey and caught in the wild geometry of Whiting’s choreography, the four dancers of Myth of Me and You use darkly playful movement to ask the viewer what role we play in creating—and acting out—our own personal mythologies.

Myth of Me and You is set to an original music score by internationally acclaimed Seattle luminary Eyvind Kang, with additional music by Dave Abramson and Evan Schiller. The piece features costume design by Seattle’s helga hizer and Paris-based Tilla Kuenzli, and light design by Chris Reay.

Over the last year, the community has both glimpsed and informed this powerful new work through a series of interactive work–in–progress showings that have become a signature of Maureen Whiting Company. The world premiere of this exciting new work is March 13, 2009 and runs through March 15th, 2009. Shows start at 8:00 pm.

ABOUT MAUREEN WHITING COMPANY
Maureen Whiting Company creates multi-media and site-specific dance work driven by intellectual research, movement invention and interdisciplinary collaboration. Inspired by life’s raw beauty, Maureen Whiting Company seeks to deepen audience experience of performing arts and aims to enrich the field of 21st century dance and performance.

Maureen Whiting Company dancers are a stylistically diverse corps of highly technical young dancers from backgrounds of ballet, contemporary dance, film/video and visual art. Myth of Me and You features Ezra Dickinson, Cassie Wulff, Marissa Niederhauser and Belle Wolf.

The Maureen Whiting Company receives support from 4 Culture, Mayors Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, Paul Allen Family Foundation, Microsoft Corporation, as well as generous private donations. The Company has been featured on KCTS Channel 9, The Seattle Times, The Seattle P.I., The Stranger, Seattle Weekly, and Seattle Magazine. Artistic director Maureen Whiting actively pursues collaborations with visual artists, composers, and performers to explore the creative structures between artistic mediums and expand the boundaries of live dance performance.

ABOUT MAUREEN WHITING
A Seattle-based choreographer, dancer and mathematician, Maureen Whiting graduated cum laude in 1989 with a degree in Mathematics from Smith College, where she studied math, visual art and dance. Since founding the Maureen Whiting Dance Company in 1997, Maureen’s work has been commissioned by On the Boards, Seattle University, New City Theatre, Annex Theatre, Cornish College of the Arts, Velocity Dance Center and ACT Theatre in Seattle. She has choreographed for artists and companies in New York, Philadelphia, Alaska, Amsterdam and Sweden and has performed her solo work in Seattle and in New York City. Maureen’s dance films have screened at New Dance Cinema, Dance on Camera in New York and Northwest Film Forum and Velocity’s Next Fest.

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Presented by ACT Theatre’s Central Heating Lab, Myth of Me and You heralds a new era of contemporary dance presentation at ACT. Created during a yearlong creative residency supported by the Central Heating Lab, this visceral new piece is the latest in a series of intensely visual contemporary dance works by Maureen Whi...ting Company. Myth of Me and You is being created in the round specifically for ACT’s stunning Allen Theatre.

Through a subterranean lair created by long–time collaborator and award–winning designer Etta Lilienthal, Myth of Me and You immerses the audience in a universe rich in symbolic meaning and surrealistic imagery. Affixed with antlers, coated in honey and caught in the wild geometry of Whiting’s choreography, the four dancers of Myth of Me and You use darkly playful movement to ask the viewer what role we play in creating—and acting out—our own personal mythologies.

Myth of Me and You is set to an original music score by internationally acclaimed Seattle luminary Eyvind Kang, with additional music by Dave Abramson and Evan Schiller. The piece features costume design by Seattle’s helga hizer and Paris-based Tilla Kuenzli, and light design by Chris Reay.

Over the last year, the community has both glimpsed and informed this powerful new work through a series of interactive work–in–progress showings that have become a signature of Maureen Whiting Company. The next opportunity to participate in the creation of this new work takes place January 16 and 17, 2009 in the company’s last work–in–progress showing before the premiere March 13, 2009.

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MYTH OF ME AND YOU
Presented by ACT Theatre’s Central Heating Lab, Myth of Me and You heralds a new era of contemporary dance presentation at ACT. Created during a yearlong creative residency supported by the Central Heating Lab, this visceral new piece is the latest in a series of intensely visual contemporary dance wo...rks by Maureen Whiting Company. Myth of Me and You is being created in the round specifically for ACT’s stunning Allen Theatre.

Through a subterranean lair created by long–time collaborator and award–winning designer Etta Lilienthal, Myth of Me and You immerses the audience in a universe rich in symbolic meaning and surrealistic imagery. Affixed with antlers, coated in honey and caught in the wild geometry of Whiting’s choreography, the four dancers of Myth of Me and You use darkly playful movement to ask the viewer what role we play in creating—and acting out—our own personal mythologies.

Myth of Me and You is set to an original music score by internationally acclaimed Seattle luminary Eyvind Kang, with additional music by Dave Abramson and Evan Schiller. The piece features costume design by Seattle’s helga hizer and Paris-based Tilla Kuenzli, and light design by Chris Reay.

Over the last year, the community has both glimpsed and informed this powerful new work through a series of interactive work–in–progress showings that have become a signature of Maureen Whiting Company. The next opportunity to participate in the creation of this new work takes place January 16 and 17, 2009 in the company’s last work–in–progress showing before the premiere March 13, 2009.

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