marInspired ; the storytellers is a NY born dance company that recently relocated west to LA. A group of artists dedicated to the art of storytelling through the medium of dance, we often get described as an "experience" rather than a company. Tackling real life, human stories, Marinda Davis' choreography attempts to bring dance to a more tangible level allowing audiences of all kinds to grasp, appreciate, and fully experience the world the artists create on stage. Neither definable as commercial or concert dance, marInspired desires to break barriers.
The company's repertory is heavily married to its use of music and choice of recording artists. Choreography is rooted in authenticity of the musician's lyrical and musical intention. Often collaborating with the musicians themselves, marInspired hopes to bring dance to the foreground of popular culture through the teaming of choreography performed simultaneously with the recording artist live in performance.
Our dancers are known as athletic, gravity defying, limitless, resilient, musical, fearless, human, and BOLD. We aim to attract an audience beyond the "typical" elite dance audience in hopes that dance can one day be as commonplace as a converstion at the dinner table.
Having such a large hand in training and shaping so many young dancers into professionals across the world, artistic director, Marinda Davis, uses the company as a tool to ease the difficult transition for talented pre-professionals by providing them a professional opportunity through the company's apprenticeship program. marInspired remains dedicated to educating young dancers, helping them through the difficult transition from student to professional, and mentors and molds them into ready to work young artists.
Currently, we have been asked to be the Guest Company at the 2016 Young Choreographer's Festival in NY in June as well as at the 2016 Capezio ACE Awards in LA in August. Last month, we began work on our second full length show, "UNbreakable" to be presented in LA in August at Dancerpalooza in Long Beach and at the El Portal in North Hollywood. Recording Artists, Joshua Ledet and Levi Kreis are joining us as well.
"UNbreakable" will be danced by a cast of 16 dancers who were chosen from auditions in both NY and LA. The full length show, based on our choreographer's own health struggle, "UNbreakable" is framed by the Kubler-Ross model of the five stages of loss.
Current storytellers include : Wyatt Cash Rocker, Charles Fournier, Addie Byers, Alyssa Guerrieri, Erica Bernardi, Tash Crudup, Chazz Cooks, Travis Preston, Mikaela Jagim, Bella Tenaglia, Patrick Wathen, Justin Deguglielmo, Lexi Tonniges, Lindsay Grymes, Liv Hourinouchi, Taylor Berry.
Artistic Associates : Ben Cameron and Eddie Gutierrez.
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