Upcoming Productions
This triple bill showcases the classical & contemporary, taking audiences on a journey from past to present, through the Romantic, Classical, and Modern eras.
~ TROIS EPOQUES ~
DANCE ACROSS THE AGES
The evening begins with two ballet excerpts meticulously staged by Ballet Melange’s artistic Director, Elizabeth Shipiatsky:
Paquita (Petipa, 1881) & Les Sylphides (Fokine, 1909).
Bringing us to the current time, Maureen Breeze Dance Theater will perform Traveling the Labyrinth: A Contemporary Twist on an Ancient Journey (premiered 2023), a series of dances illuminating the soul-searching journey that has been described by thinkers across time and space. Traveling the Labyrinth is an immersive journey featuring live musicians and music by Led Zeppelin, David Byrne, Eddie Vedder, Leonard Cohen and more.
Tickets are available at Lakewood Cultural Center.
MBDT’s Most Recent Productions
Next: Hear Her Voice
MBDT was honored to be chosen as Davis Contemporary Dance Company’s ‘Share the Stage’ artist for their Winter 2024 performance!
MBDT presented two works, A Moment’s Glance (1995) and Spiritus Mundi (2022), alongside the line-up of amazing Denver-based female choreographers who set work on DCDC.
January 12-14, 2024 at the Elaine Wolf Theater
Traveling the Labyrinth:
A Contemporary Twist on an Ancient Journey
Featuring music by Led Zeppelin, Eddie Vedder, Leonard Cohen, David Byrne and others
Premiered June 2nd & 3rd, 2023
at
The Jones Theater - Denver Performing Arts Complex
Drawing inspiration from the universal pattern of the soul-searching journey described by thinkers across time and place, Traveling the Labyrinth is a evening-length series of dances. It can be viewed as a series of paintings depicting the experiences a soul might have while walking in a labyrinth as a meditative experience.
Spiritus Mundi - 2022
MBDT premiered Spiritus Mundi at the Presenting Denver Dance Festival featuring music by Pulitzer Prize composer, David Lang.
Photography: Martha Wirth
Little. Black. Dress. - 2021
Little. Black. Dress. features dances filmed throughout the city that chart the soul’s journey from innocence to knowing. Using the ‘little black dress’ as a metaphor, the film illuminates how we ‘wear’ experiences of playfulness, seduction, torment, grief, surrender, and ultimately, power. Breeze collaborated with the dancers from Ballet Melange, technical director and lighting designer, Keith Rice, and cinematographer and editor, Travis Powell, to create this original film that premiered in October, 2021.
Photo: Melissa Backer
Photo: Melissa Backer
Birds on a Wire - 2019
Birds on a Wire integrates dynamic dancing, poignant text, original music, and video projection to illuminate human disconnection in a highly connected world. This evening length production flows between two stages in a large open venue allowing the audience to interact with the space itself, much like a museum installation.
The performance explores how we are all migrants in our own lives, and the role connection and disconnection plays in the journey. Through both literal and abstract vignettes, the production addresses the questions:
· How do our belongings define us?
· What do we keep and what do we leave behind on our unique journeys?
· How do we gather pieces of ourselves that we’ve lost along the way?
Kalen Jesse Photography
Kalen Jesse Photography
"The performance showcases Breeze’s lyrical yet exacting movement, her varied use of structure and space, and the emotional depth of her choreography. Exuberant one moment and wryly dark the next, Breeze creates dynamic and accessible works that trust her audience’s intelligence."
- Deanne Gertner, Presenting Denver
Click here to read the full review
There & Back Again - 2017
MBDT collaborates with the Hannah Kahn Dance Company to present a series of performances that feature a premiere choreographed jointly by Kahn and Breeze. The series includes a performance at the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theatre, along with traveling shows presented at Denver International Airport, Union Station, and the Republic Plaza Building on Denver’s 16th Street Mall.
Click here to view Concourse A – one of the pieces from There and Back Again.
Photo: Sean Slavin
Photo: David Andrews