ANNE-MARIE MULGREW & DANCERS COMPANY (AMM & DCO) - NOW! Three Years Later

AMM & DCO is known for its exuberant athleticism, extensive use of props, provocative imagery, “interesting ideas and stand out performance.” Broad Street Review

Anne-Marie Mulgrew and Dancers Company (AMM & DCO) celebrates its 37th Home Season, NOW! Three Years Later, with three premieres, two repertoire works and short films.

Artistic Director Anne-Marie Mulgrew’s latest creation for the Company NOW! Three Years Later reflects on the past three years and how the pandemic has informed and impacted us and nature. It features six sections, projections, an assorted sound score, and striking choreography performed by some of Philly’s finest dancers. NOW! explores themes of understanding, resilience, hope, joy, and unpredictability as we emerge from the pandemic to a new era.

Audiences will enjoy short new works such as Twofer, a playful duet to Divan Gattamorta’s rhythmic music and a visually stunning trio set to an aria (Quia Respexit) from Bach’s powerful Magnificat.

Rounding out the program will be a reimaging of Memories from Within, a solo performed by longtime Company dancer Leslie Ann Pike to Bach and Beautiful Chaos, the ending section. Beautiful Chaos explores the tumultuous world we live in today. It features six professionally trained Company dancers, inventive choreography by Anne-Marie Mulgrew, poems from Yukio Tsuji’s book Simple Chaos, music by Lucas King, and video art inspired by Isaiah Zagar’s iconic mosaic sculptures.

AMM & DCO is supported by The Philadelphia Cultural Fund.

AMM & DCO is supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

ANNE-MARIE MULGREW AND DANCERS CO (AMM & DCO) is an experimental modern dance troupe based in Philadelphia, PA. AMM & DCO was founded in 1986 by artistic director/founder Anne-Marie Mulgrew. Its first full-length multi-media production Hard Facts and Stuffed Gardenias wowed audiences at Group Motion Multi-Media Theater (4th & South St.) with its movement invention and verve. Ms. Mulgrew created 88 works for the company that have been seen nationally and in Canada. These productions have appeared on traditional and nontraditional stages, film/TV, and festivals. Venues include Mandell Theater, The Painted Bride, Movement Theater International, UARTS/Drake Theater, Chester Springs Studio, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Suzanne Roberts Theater, Ryerss Museum, Philadelphia Fringe/Live Arts Festivals, Conwell Dance Theater, Group Motion, CEC, The Philadelphia Cathedral, The PIFA Festival, The Barnes Museum, Christ Church Neighborhood House Theater, Chi Movement Arts Center, The Performance Garage, and Buddies in Bad Times Theater (Toronto, Canada), to name a few. In NYC, AMM & DCO has performed at DanceSpace, Movement Research, the DIA Center, University Settlement House, UBU Repertory Theatre and the Dumbo Festival (Brooklyn NY). In 2011, the company made its debut at Dance Place, Washington, DC. Highlights include a commission from WHYY TV to create the colorful collaborative work The Tales of the Buffoon which was aired nationally and a monthlong residency at The Yard, Chilmark, MA.

AMM & DCO holds the distinction of being the only Philadelphia troupe to appear twice at the fFIDA Festival in Toronto, Canada. The company consists of 5-7 core dancers, collaborating artists in mixed media, and additional community-based performers for large-scale works. Fusing modern dance, theater, music, technology, and art, AMM & DCO charms, provokes and informs audiences of all ages with its insightful and wacky views of the world. AMM & DCO also believes in dance education and offers classes, workshops, and residency activities tailored to the needs of the community. AMM & DCO is a nonprofit 501(c) 3 organization. AMM & DCO's mission is to educate and involve the public in the performance and creation of new interdisciplinary dance works through performances, workshops, residencies, and special projects.

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