Mimi Garrard Dance Company September 2024 News

The Mimi Garrard Dance Company had another wonderful season in 2023-2024. The highlight of the season was the performance at the Rubin Museum on Saturday, September 21 at 2pm. The film showing was well attended and well received. The audience stayed for questions and answers for almost an hour afterwards.

Stage Whisper Podcast also interviewed Mimi Gerrard. “This was a fascinating conversation about four wonderful works that you can see on her company’s Youtube channel.” The four works were “Dark Mountain,” “Etrange Global,” “The Breaking of the Scream,” and “Causa Sui.” You can listen to the full episode at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whisper-in-the-wings-episode-647/id1573470927?i=1000670351148

Mimi Garrard created many new works this season, including “The Breaking of the Scream,” “Causa Sui,” “Transformations,” “In Suspension,” and “Within Without,” which can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/user/mimigarrarddance/videos.

After this year’s season, Mimi has now won 1,401 first place awards in international festivals.

She continues her programs on Manhattan Neighborhood Network that are shown twice a month and are streamed live at the time of broadcast. The Mimi Garrard Dance Company also hopes to do one more program at the Rubin Museum, which will be closing in October; however, the stage area will be open for a while longer.

Mimi Garrard is very grateful to her amazing collaborators, the dancers, and the composers.

About Mimi Garrard

Mimi Garrard was a dancer with Alwin Nikolais. He produced her concerts at the Henry Street Playhouse for ten years, and then she toured under the National Endowment Touring Program for many years. In collaboration with James Seawright, her work was commissioned for CBS Camera Three and WGBH Boston television. She created more than 90 works for the stage that were performed throughout the United States and in South America. She received two grants for choreography from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Most recently Mimi Garrard has begun experimenting in new ways, creating dance for video using digital techniques to transform the dance material. Her work in this area is unique and is gaining increasing attention, being shown internationally on television, in museums and galleries and in international film festivals. She has won 1,401 first place awards in international festivals and won the Distinguished Alumnae Award from Sweet Briar College in 2019.

Mimi is the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Institute of Arts and Letters in Mississippi for her outstanding achievement in dance both for video and for the stage.

FEATURED 2024 AWARDS

DARK MOUNTAIN

Dancers: Tim Bendernagel and Cynthia Koppe

Music: Alice Shields

Choreography: Mimi Garrard with Tim Bendenagel and Cynthia Koppe

Direction, Camera Editing: Mimi Garrard

Costume: Mindy Nelson

February 4, 2024 BARCELONA INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL Barcelona, Spain award winner

February 21, 8 & HALFILM AWARDS Rome, Italy award winner

February 26, 2024 SWITZERLAND FILM FEST Zurich, Switzerland award winner

ETRANGE GLOBAL

Dancers: Michael Francis McBride, Samuel Roberts

Music: Tom Hamilton

Choreography: Mimi Garrard with Samuel Roberts and Michael Francis McBride

Direction, Camera, Editing: Mimi Garrard

Costumes: Mindy Nelson

April 12, 2024 BARCELONA INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL Barcelona, Spain award winner

April 15, 2024 INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY ARTHOUSE FEST Spain award winner

April 17, 2024 MIAMI FILM CRITIC AWARD Miami, Florida award winner

April 23, 2024 HOLLYWOOD ON THE TIBER FILM AWARDS Rome, Italy award winner

April 23, 2024 CINE SEPIA REELS CARNIVAL Kolkata, West Bengal award winner

April 26, 2024 FRIDA FILM FESTIVAL Paris, France award winner

May 5, 2024 MILAN GOLD AWARDS Milan, Italy award winner

May 5, 2024 HOLLYWOOD GOLD AWARDS Los Angeles award winner

May 31, 2024 REAL IMAGE FILM FESTIVAL Barcelona, Spain award winner

​​June 14, 2024 SAN FRANCISCO INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS’ CONTEST San Francisco, California award winner

June 29, 2024 SWITZERLAND FILM FEST Switzerland award winner

June 30, 2024 14 DAYS TO ETERNITY online festival award winner

Best Choreography-Best Editor “Very complex editing resolved with brilliance, creating a film of enormous artistic and technical quality.” REAL IMAGE FESTIVAL Barcelona