Dancing Madly Asking features new and re-envisioned works from MDE. This year MDE will feature choreography by Stephanie Porwoll and Maragret Niamh Moore. Porwoll’s main contribution to the show will be a tango-esque duet performed by company member Kim Schultz and David DeBlieck that plays with shadow and light through the use of a movable scrim onstage, evoking a landscape of shifting realities between the darker and more illuminated aspects of human relationships. Moore will lead the MDE ensemble through the creation of a new modern dance work performed by Stephanie Porwoll, Teresa Stack, Amanda Chouinard, Kim Shultz, Gretchen Moos, Sabrina Kolleck and Jody Lechner to the traditional spiritual song “Down in the River to Pray” by Alison Krauss. This earthy dance responds to the ebb and flow of the music with an acute awareness of breath.

Dancing Madly Asking will also feature work from CMAB’s 2007 Individual Artists Award recipient David DeBlieck, Director of Wicked Sister Dance Theatre. DeBlieck will employ the talents of dancers from MDE and WSDT to perform a new work commissioned for the opening ceremony of the 2010 Noble Peace Prize Forum. This piece will examine the theme “Thriving for Peace: A Question of Will.” It will incorporate an aerial rope to accentuate the idea of human will through the physical effort of climbing.

This performance is partially made possible by a grant from the Central Mn Arts Board, through funding provided by the McKnight Foundation.
 
This activity is funded, in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through a grant from the CMAB as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008

Performers included:

Alyss Aune, Jerome Bowden, Amanda Chouinard, David DeBlieck, Catie Hill, Sabrina Kolleck, Kim Kraetzner, Jody Lechner, Kayla Locnikar, Margaret Niamh Moore, Gretchen Moos, Jared Nelson, Stephanie Porwoll, Teresa Stack, Adam Terry, and Karthi Veeramani