Dixie Fun Dance Theatre

Dixie Fun Dance Theatre creates innovative dances that are reminiscent of pop art, political cartoons and expressionist painting all combined and expressed physically. DFDT's choreographic process begins in the library. Consequently, the movement is never for movement's sake only. Instead, each step and every line directly reflects the specific ideas and imagery generated by the research. DFDT's style is eclectic because any style or genre of movement might be incorporated into a dance, whatever is most compelling in terms of exploring the subject matter. For example, in The Thinnest Woman with the Fewest Wrinkles Wins, the movement styles range from campy, Broadway dancing to erotic jazz to thrashing, jarring modern movement to pedestrian, physical theatre. The overall structure of each dance is also a reflection of the topic. For instance, The Thinnest Woman ... involves multi-generational community members in order to broaden our idea of female beauty. Web is highly interactive because that dance is about the interconnectedness of all things. http://www.media-verse.com, a dance concerned with mass media and technology, is packaged into short bits that abruptly shift from one to the next, much like watching television. And The Money Show will begin with an auction to buy seats for the performance. The company has created 14 dance/theatre works: The Money Show, Web, http://www.media-verse.com, The Thinnest Woman with the Fewest Wrinkles Wins, The Thinnest Woman Wins, Nude Solo #73, Time-Warp Morality Dance, Twirl, Who's the Fairest of Them All, Darryl, Cousin Dixie, Infinity, Seventeen, At Your Disposal: Conveniently Packaged in Three Sections. The company has performed from the east coast to the west coast: Dance Theater Workshop; PS122, Joe's Pub, Symphony Space, Joyce SoHo, HERE Arts Center, Dixon Place, BAX, WAX, West End Theater, Sal Anthony's Movement Salon, University Settlement, Manhattan Theater Source, Frederick Loewe Theatre, BRIC Studio, and the Merce Cunningham Studio Theatre in NYC; Philadelphia Fringe Festival; Studio 303 in Montreal; Atlanta's First Glance Festival and Canopy Theater in Georgia; On The Boards, Bumbershoot, Seattle Mime Theatre and East Hall Theatre in Seattle; and many rural locations in the states of Washington, Colorado, and Iowa. Director Dixie FunLee Shulman has 10 years of experience with project-based, pick-up work. Dixie Fun Dance Theatre marks the transition of Shulman and her 6 dancers into a new company.