MADCO Celebrates 35th Anniversary Season
Touhill Performing Arts Center
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Touhill Performing Arts Center
MADCO will celebrate its 35th anniversary season with two performances Friday and Saturday, March 30 and 31, at 8 p.m. in the E. Desmond & Mary Ann Lee Theater.
The performance showcases eclectic works from MADCO’s co-founders, former dancers and other renowned choreographers. Stacy West, MADCO’s artistic director, started with the company as a dancer in the 1988-89 season. She characterizes this concert as “an important, landmark event in our history.”
MADCO was co-founded in 1976 by Ross Winter and Alcine Wiltz, and that history and foresight shines bright in “Crimson Momentum,” the piece Alcine Wiltz choreographed for MADCO when he visited the company in St. Louis last fall. The work is very driving and technically difficult. It’s the embodiment of MADCO’s technique and style.
“Other Realities” was a signature piece of the late Ross Winter. With a futuristic set and three pairs of dancers coupled through the whole piece, it is about design of bodies in space.
As a repertory company, MADCO performs work created especially for it by choreographers from across the country. Another number the company will be performing for the 35th Anniversary production is from one of its own, former MADCO dancer and choreographer Joseph Mills, who went on to dance with MOMIX. Now Professor of Dance at Queens College in New York, Mills will help MADCO celebrate by contributing the piece “Getting Lucky.”
Mills recently commented on MADCO’s significance in the dance world, saying there are few places left where contemporary dancers get such continuous training and work.
