Our mission is to create and perform innovative interdisciplinary performance works, including site-specific and portable performances, which integrate contemporary dance, theater, text, original and live music, mobile installation art, and film. Our concept-driven work is a multimedia narrative about real and imagined life interpreted by JDT artists and participants in our interactive programs. We are devoted to making art a vital medium of neighborhoods by involving community members in our interactive residency and performance programs.
Music
We usually work with contemporary composers. Our current and past musical collaborators include Timothy K. Adams, Jr., Bill Brovold, Doug Levine, and Lisa Miles.
Movies
Film collaborators Dennis Childers and Chris Ivey. The best videographer in Pennsylvania, Jim McClory. Check out our new internet video blog project Body Blog @ www.body-blog.blogspot.com.
Television
We don't watch it, but we do have a site-specific piece for a bedroom with live television as the soundscape.
Books
Our favorite poet collaboraters include Veronica Corpuz, Barbara Edelman, Vanessa German, Yona Harvey, Terrance Hayes, and Sharon McDermott, all of whom performed with us in bedrooms, bathrooms and living rooms during our 2005 site-specific House Party. Other writers that have influenced our performances and projects are Albert Camus, Pablo Neruda, David E. Cooper, Zygmunt Bauman, Michel Foucault, Daniel M. Wegner, Cecilia Vicuna and Sei Shonagon... to name a few.
multi-media dance theatre company; collaboration with visual and performing artists, scientists, etc.; new work commissions; stage; site-specific; public realm; residencies
About me: Junction Dance Theatre tests the limits of contemporary dance with its maverick multimedia fusion that weaves dance, theater, original live music, film and mobile installation art. Their intelligent and playful performances transform theaters, storefronts, supermarkets and more into arenas of innovation and surprise. Refreshingly original performances explore the complexity of human experiences with “delicious character studies” and a “bold sense of humor.” The Pittsburgh Post Gazette recognizes JDT for its “vivid choreographic setting initiated by the talented young Miller, memorable…for the authenticity and complexity of its movement.” JDT also offers residency programs that empower individuals and communities with a unique, interactive approach to creative exploration. Please check out our new interactive video project, Body Blog .
HISTORY
Junction Dance Theatre, founded in Pittsburgh, PA in 1998 by artistic director and choreographer Melanie Miller, is a non-profit multimedia dance company. In 2005, the company expanded to include operations in Philadelphia. The multi-generational company consists of dancers, actors and musicians, including frequent collaboration with guest artists, scientists, psychologists and social service workers. Interpreting contemporary themes, history and real-life stories through movement, text and music, their socially-relevant performances and residencies have conceptualized man’s search for meaning, memory and memory loss, and the cycle of violence with equal amounts of poignancy, irony and humor. JDT’s work has been commissioned and presented throughout the country from Pennsylvania’s Philadelphia Fringe Festival to First City Players in Ketchikan, Alaska. Their diverse repertoire for adult and youth audiences includes more than twenty-five original evening-length, shorter, and site-specific or portable works performed in a variety of settings, including theaters, storefront windows, supermarkets, sidewalks, cafeterias and houses. Some of the company’s repertoire, such as Between Minutes and Forget/Everything, has been inspired by their community residency projects and outreach work, including their work with scientists, social workers, victims and offenders of violent crimes, seniors, and reading and writing challenged youth. JDT is a Roster Artist with The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in the Arts in Education Division. In 2003, JDT’s Forget/Everything was chosen as one of the top 10 dance performances of the year. That year, the company also premiered its Renegade Performance Series, an annual portable public performance project, which has transformed the city with more than 115 free surprise performances in supermarkets, lobbies, nightclubs, restaurants, sidewalks, parks, 5K races and more. JDT also partners with the City of Pittsburgh and Tickets for Kids in creating free opportunities for underserved communities to participate in the arts.
Who I'd like to meet: Audiences who want to be challenged, confronted, contested, concerned, moved (physically and emotionally), motivated, swayed, stirred, stimulated, enthused questioned, provoked, rattled, rocked, unhinged.
Artists who want to collaborate, to grow a vision together—composers, writers, filmmakers, visual artists, installation artists, set designers.
Dancers and actors who want to move from the inside out.
1 Disco Beatz - Bryan Cox Remix Black Shadow Bryan Cox 2 Strut - Original Mix Jon Pegnato 3 Energizer - Original Mix Mario Ochoa 4 Foxy Body - Original Mix Da Skunk 5 Every Step Of The Way - Original Mix Jeff Daniels, Hirshee 6 Bel Amour 2007 - Jerry Ropero & Michael Simon Remix 7 BoomBox - Original Mix ZXX, Paul Anthony 8 Quarter - Original Mix Mason 9 SOS - Ortega & Gold Mix Stonebridge Ortega, Gold 10 Same Man - Original Mix DJ Delicious, Till West 11 No Strangers - Original Mix Chris Kaeser 12 Mini One - Destruction Mix Chris Kaeser 13 Fourplay feat. Vikki Vass - Original Mix Adam K 14 Tigerstyle - Original Mix Cirez D 15 Community Funk - Deadmau5 Remix Burufunk, Carbon Community Deadmau5
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Hey there, thought I’d drop you a line and say hello, and to let you know we’re in the process of hiring employees for our 2008 tour. If you have any interest, or know a friend that might have interest in running away and joining a touring circus now is your chance. Click on the photo or visit our website at www.nonprofitcircus.com
Hope to hear from you,
Lisa
HR ~ The Great American Royal Circus
Thanks so much for the add (I know this is late. Better late than never, right?) ;op Sorry. I'm still getting a handle on this MySpace thing. (Not to mention my tardiness problem. hahaha.)
Hope your New Year is going well. All the best to you in 2007!
Merde (that's my thing.) ;op
Jennifer GI
Artistic Director
GI Alliance
