Tiffany Mills Company | Home Project (excerpts-in-process)
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"The word “brilliant” has two definitions. The first is “radiant,” and the second is “intelligent.” Happily, “Home Project (excerpts-in-process)” is both." - Paulanne Simmons, TheaterLife
La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival presents
Tiffany Mills Company
Home Project (excerpts-in-process)
Tiffany Mills Company | Home Project (excerpts-in-process)
Thursday, May 20 and Saturday, May 22 at 7pm
Streamed live from the Ellen Stewart Theatre
TiffanyMills Company's Home Project weaves movement, text, and electronic music together to create an environment inspired by one word: home. Mills and her collaborators take a close look at their relationships with the places in which they live. They draw upon memories of their diverse childhood homes-some stableand constant, some mobile and unpredictable. They source material from their present homes impacted by the isolation of COVID-19 and inspired by the currentfight for equality. And they search for the true essence of home as they try toaccept who they are and imagine who they might collectively become. Conceived and choreographed by Tiffany Mills. The creative team includes Max Giteck Duykers (composer), Kay Cummings (dramaturge), and Chris Hudacs (lighting design). Home Project will be performed by Mills, Jordan Morley, Nikolas Owens,Emily Pope, and Mei Yamanaka. The evening-length work will premiere in 2022.
Part of the 2021 La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival
La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature with additional support from the Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Sequoia Foundation, and The Shubert Foundation.
Photos by Steven Pisano
Tiffany Mills is choreographer and artistic director of theNYC-based Tiffany Mills Company, which she founded in 2000. Recent New YorkCity seasons include The Flea Theater, La MaMa Moves!, and BAM Fisher. Otherhighlights include Guggenheim's Works & Process, Baryshnikov Arts Center,and Lincoln Center Out of Doors. The company's work has also been presentednationally at PICA's TBA Festival (OR), Wexner Center (OH), Contemporary DanceTheater (OH), Dance Place (Washington, DC), and internationally in Russia,Italy, Mexico, and Canada. Mills holds an annual Summer Intensive in New YorkCity (2006-present). Most recent awards and residencies include NYU's TischSummer Dance Festival, NCC Akron, CUNY Dance Initiative, The Joyce Theater'sMellon Anchor Tenant Program, and Baryshnikov Arts Center. Mills received a BAin dance from the University of Oregon and an MFA in choreography from OhioState University.
La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival
La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival continues to support La MaMa’s commitment to presenting diverse performance styles that challenge audience’s perception of dance by featuring performance/installations, experimental film screenings & public symposiums which address dance artists’ engagement with the current political climate, as well as honoring diasporic histories and legacy, ancestral inspirations and inter-generational dialogue.