Upcoming Productions
Flight & Flow:
A Dance Mosaic
Co-produced by Amy Anderson & Maureen Breeze
Photo: Martha Wirth
In a highly anticipated artistic collaboration, Amy Anderson and Maureen Breeze will present an eclectic and complementary mix of contemporary dance and ballet. Their innovative movement showcases both humor and poignancy as they transform Denver Dance Center into an intimate black box performance venue.
Maureen Breeze Dance Theater is thrilled to premiere Shifting Ground: Tremors, Fault Line, and Rubble, a powerful exploration of division, disruption, destruction, and hope. The piece includes three vignettes accompanied by spoken text and live music performed by Chad Johnson and Julia Wilson. MBDT will also revisit the acclaimed works On Hold and Vow from Birds on a Wire (2019), along with two short dances from her film Little. Black. Dress. (2021).
Amy Anderson will present Ordinary Angels, an excerpt from an evening length work Guardian Angels, which explores everyday human and metaphysical serendipitous encounters. Anderson will also be reworking the delightful and humorous Panama Station about a group of people waiting for a bus in a foreign place.
For more information on Amy Anderson’s work, visit www.engagemovementarts.com.
June 27 & 28, 7:30pm
Denver Dance Center
Doors open at 7pm, with a wine reception and “Meet & Greet the Artists” to follow the performances.
Please note that because of the intimate nature of the performance venue, limited tickets are available.
Photo: Edward DeCroce
Denver Dance Center
2496 West 2nd Avenue, Unit #3
Denver, CO 80223
MBDT’s Most Recent Productions
Trois Epoques
Dance Across the Ages
A triple bill showcasing the classical & contemporary. Audiences experienced a journey from past to present, through the Romantic, Classical, and Modern eras of dance.
The evening began 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 performed Traveling the Labyrinth: A Contemporary Twist on an Ancient Journey (premiered 2023), a series of dances illuminating the soul-searching journey described by thinkers across time and space. Traveling the Labyrinth is an immersive journey featuring live musicians & music by Led Zeppelin, David Byrne, Eddie Vedder, Leonard Cohen and more.
Photo by Katherine Flanagan
Photo by Katherine Flanagan
Photo by Katherine Flanagan
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 powerful 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 2023
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