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GardenHouse Dance Company to Perform
"Textures" at Oglethorpe University on March 1
Atlanta – The four-member, high-energy GardenHouse Dance
Company will perform "Textures" on March 1, 2001, at Oglethorpe
University in Atlanta, Georgia. Critically acclaimed Artistic
Director Nicole Livieratos created "Textures," which is a
performance piece.
During the 37-minute performance, which will take place at the
Conant Performing Arts Center on the campus of Oglethorpe University
in Atlanta, Georgia, the dancers will take the audience through an
assortment of vignettes that juxtapose the absurd with the
beautiful, the serious with the zany, and the odd with the familiar.
Characteristic of other productions by Ms. Livieratos, "Textures"
employs a blend of modern dance elements and performance art that
incorporates a variety of elements including four outstanding
dancers, music, oranges, and an armchair to reproduce the emotional
and visual ride that individuals, and particularly women, take each
day.
"It goes from the personal and meditative to the loony, out of
control things that happen," Ms. Livieratos says.
Ms. Livieratos founded GardenHouse Dance Company with a
commitment to the belief that art at its best challenges,
stimulates, and allows for a deeper understanding of ourselves. The
mission of the dance company is to create excellent modern dance
that is unique as well as accessible by using the familiar in
unfamiliar ways. Her signature use of a wide range of props adds to
the uniqueness of her work.
Since its inception in 1992, GardenHouse Dance Company has broken
new ground. That same year it became the first dance company to have
work commissioned by the High Museum of Art. The following year, it
was the first dance company to be accepted to the Hambridge Center,
a nationally recognized artists' residency center. GardenHouse Dance
Company was also the first modern dance company to be invited to
collaborate with the Georgia Institute of Technology's Interactive
Media Technology Center.
Ms. Livieratos has been honored with the prestigious Mayor's
Fellowship for the Arts Award for Dance from the City of Atlanta.
Her performance piece "light" was chosen as best dance piece of the
year by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper. The performance
piece was also commissioned by the Arts Festival of Atlanta to be
made into a film and presented as a site-specific installation as
part of Art in Odd Places. Ms. Livieratos was recently selected by
Creative Loafing newspaper as "Critics' Choice Best Choreographer"
for the year 2000.
Admission is $10 for "Textures," which the dance company will
perform at 8 p.m. on March 1 at the Conant Performing Arts Center on
the campus of Oglethorpe University, which is located 4484 Peachtree
Road, N.E., in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, contact W.
Christopher Cason, Director of Public Relations, at (404) 364-8329.
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