(MORRISTOWN, NJ) -- Live Arts at the Morris Museum will kick off with a Launch Party on Thursday, June 6 at 7:30pm at The Bickford Theatre featuring a performance by Kyle Marshall Choreography, the dynamic young dance company who will preview their new work, Horizon which will be part of the new season. Admission to the Launch Party is free.
Live Arts at the Morris Museum, a bold new performance series, introduces cultural climate change to Morris County’s Morris Museum in historic Morristown, New Jersey. Innovative artists from around the world and around the area will dominate the season with world and regional premieres of the most interesting new work being created in music, dance and theater.
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This stirring new season lifts off on September 20th at the Museum’s 312 seat Bickford Theatre with Mexican choreographer Javier Dzul’s The Last Mayan King. Some other highlights of the new season include Sylvia Milo’s The Other Mozart, the award-winning play about Nanneri Mozart, Amadeus’ forgotten sister with a score composed by Phyllis Chen whose work Lighting the Dark, and Automatoys will be part of the season. Yevgeny Kutik’s Music from a Suitcase is the violinist’s musical autobiography, touching on his family’s escape from the former Soviet Union. Hai-Ting Chinn’s Science Fair: An Opera With Experiments is an opera singer’s love song to science. Thaddeus Phillips inventive new work, Inflatable Space blows up preconceived notions of theatre while exploring the human side of the Voyager Space Mission. Bringing performance out of the Bickford Theatre and into the gallery; Jersey’s own all male dance company 10 Hairy Legs will perform the World Premiere of Doug Elkin’s Trouble Will Find Me: Remixed in the Museum’s Main Gallery as a site-specific dance installation, part of the upcoming fall exhibition Aerosol: Graffiti l Street Art l New Jersey l Now showcasing New Jersey street and graffiti artists.
The Bickford Theatre at The Morris Museum (6 Normandy Heights Road) in Morristown, New Jersey.
Named “New to Watch” by Dance Europe Magazine, Kyle Marshall Choreography (KMC) is a dance company that sees the dancing body as a container of history, an igniter of social reform and a site of celebration. Kyle Marshall Choreography has performed at venues including: Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, Roulette, Actors Fund Arts Center, NYC Summerstage, Wassaic Arts Project and Conduit Dance in Portland, OR. KMC has received residencies from Center of Performance Research, DanceNow at Silo, Jamaica Performing Arts Center and CoLab Arts. Commissions have included: "Dance on the Lawn" Montclair Dance Festival, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, and Harlem Stage. Artistic Director and dancer Kyle Marshall, is a 2018 New York Juried “Bessie” Award recipient and a 2017 NJ State Council of the Arts Fellow.
PHOTO BY Miguel Aviles
