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This project successfully raised its funding goal on July 13, 2010.
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Web and blog posts as we make our way through the rehearsal process, on the road, and during the festival.
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A kissed, signed, and neatly framed postcard from our Minnesota Fringe Festival Adventure.
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Invite and access to an open Milwaukee rehearsal as well as a kissed, signed and neatly framed postcard from the Minnesota Fringe Festival. If you are out of town, we'll put it on the web (maybe even live!).
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Access to rehearsal and a DVD copy of a Fringe Performance. Again, if you are out of town, we'll make our rehearsal web accessible.
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Access to rehearsal, a DVD copy of a Fringe Performance, and a framed YMD poster or photograph (and we can add a kiss--to the poster--if you like).
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Your Mother Dances features the work of choreographer and founder Elizabeth Johnson as well as other prominent and emerging choreographers (Heinz Poll, David Parker, Sara Hook, Molly Rabinowitz, Erika Randall, Anna Sapozhnikov, Kelly Anderson, Monica Rodero, and Dan Schuchart among others). We wink at and defy clichéd and hierarchical stereotypes, particularly of dancers and women in all professional, social, and cultural spheres. The company name says it all: ironic “your mama” humor is juxtaposed with the potent reality that women dance artists are in fact hard working professionals and parents creatively and successfully juggling sometimes conflicting roles. Our alternative, innovative and creative approaches to our jobs and life in general make us vital contributors to our communities.
With the awareness of our intrinsic value, Your Mother Dances is committed to presenting potent, vivid, theatrical, and virtuosic dance works reflective of our seemingly irreconcilable characters. Our mission is to amplify marginalized voices by making work that reflects our multifaceted experiences. The dilemmas presented by the many hats we wear are reflected in dances that are satisfyingly physical and cerebral, intricate yet accessible, frank without self-righteousness, tragically funny, and ultimately reflective of our common efforts to somehow transcend the impossible expectations of modern life. Your Mother Dances, is committed to artistic integrity and dance art that engages rigorous embodied physicality, depth of thought, and relevant social dialogue and community involvement.
