Nearly Nude
MegLouise Dance
Real, hot, tangled, fleshy goodness - what's not to love?
SHOW DESCRIPTION
It's not the naked truth, but it is nearly. Let's talk about you and me, the pop culture we share and the imprint it leaves. Come on, strip down and show it off. The female body presented, decorated, manipulated and revealed for what it is or for what we make it. It's a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves as women. I’m just trying to lose 10 pounds by Friday. What's the big deal about bodies and why do we buy into it? Oops. I guess someone doesn’t own a full length mirror. It's our response to the bombardment of body images from a cross section of the body politic, because we’re done letting them make the rules. Wait. Give me a minute to finish doing my make-up. Or, maybe, we make the rules.
ARTIST/COMPANY BIOGRAPHY
MegLouise Dance is defined by boldness, risk and imagination. Our mission is to encourage positive change through creative investigation, art making and open discourse. Our choreography includes a mix of postmodern dance, contact improv, world dance forms, theatrical staging and human social behaviors. Our dancers are curious humans, skilled technicians and artful interpreters. In 2007, MegLouise Dance premiered three new interactive performance events - iNput, Dance Choice, and Nothing Too Bad Ever Happened - and received excited feedback at the Junction Arts Festival (Toronto), DUMBO Dance Festival (NY), Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) Danceworks Series (OH) and the Cincinnati Fringe Festival (OH). In 2008, MegLouise presented Companions in CPT’s Big Box Series. The mixed genre production of art song, poetry and dance was praised for its originality, “the core idea of a ‘salon’ evening mixing dancers with live singers and piano was terrific; more dance companies should consider it.” (Eisenstein, Cool Cleveland)
PREVIOUS FRINGES
Columbus Fringe Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival Fringe 2005, 2006, and 2007.
'AND THE FRINGIEST PART IS ...'
Well, we promise to be hot, sweaty and - oh yes - Nearly Nude. But, forget the strip club image: 30 year age range, +/- 80 pound difference and we’re not in it for the money. Think pulsing balls of flesh, life size barbie, and other American past times.
reviews
+ CityBeat review (June 7, 2008)