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Time for a House Party

Monday, 24 January 2005 12:36 PM

Melanie Miller, founder and choreographer of Pittsburgh's Junction Dance Theatre, is looking for stories set in rooms of houses, to use a raw material for a upcoming work. Here's her call for ideas:

I would like to invite you to help direct the creation of House Party, Junction Dance Theatre’s most resourcefully renegade, ultimately intimate, three-story, site-specific, breakfast-to-dinner dance performance yet.

On May 7, 2005, we'll premiere House Party, a site-specific dance event with seven performances in seven rooms of a Victorian house in Pittsburgh, PA. Each performance is limited to 35 people.

I will create the dance installations based on contributed stories, poems or anecdotes that somehow deal with or happen in your bathroom, kitchen, bedroom, living room, dining room, stairwell, guest room, home office or foyer. Rehearsals begin in March 2005. I will develop up to seven of the new works based on seven of the stories we receive.

Everyone who submits a story will receive credit in the program. If Junction Dance Theatre uses your story to inspire a new performance, you’ll receive a CD of original music composed for JDT’s evening-length work Mission by Karl Mullen, or a free 2005 Renegade Membership, which provides you with top-secret information on when and where the company will be for 30 surprise performances in June.

To participate, visit this web page for more information, or send your original stories from now through March 5, 2005, via e-mail to interact at junctiondancetheatre.org with House Party Inspiration in the subject line, or mail them to Junction Dance Theatre, 7634 Westmoreland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15218, ATTN: House Party Inspiration.

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