MIMI GARRARD DANCE COMPANY
MIMI GARRARD DANCE THEATRE
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 ninety 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. “Mutual Muses,” a visual arts show featuring the collaborative Art of Mimi Garrard and James Seawright, was shown in Murray, Kentucky in March and April 2018, and in December 2018 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Most recently Mimi Garrard is 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. This work is shown internationally on television,
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Forging a New Career
in museums and galleries, and in festivals. It was also shown on the dome of the planetarium in Jackson, Mississippi, and on the BBC BIG screen throughout England. Over the last three years she participated in 53 international festivals. Her work with Marcus Jarell Willis, Gaslight, won a first place award for Best Choreography in a festival in Bristol and a first place award for Best Experimental Work in a festival in Toronto, an award from American Filmatic Arts in New York, and a first place award in West Bengal, India. Notes from Einstein won a first place award of distinction in West Bengal, India. Time won best video award the Five Continents Film Festival in Venezuela. Dai Jian Suite won best experimental short film award in the Five Continents International Film Festival. Dreaming of Broadway Cube won a first place award of distinction in West Bengal, India.
She has a half hour monthly television program on Manhattan Neighborhood Network in Manhattan, New York that is streamed live at the time of broadcast. (193 programs to date). She received a life time achievement award from the Institute of Arts and Letters in Mississippi for her outstanding achievement in dance both for video and for the stage. Mimi Garrard is grateful to her current supporters: The David Bermant Foundation, the Baumol Family Foundation and individual contributors.