General Mischief Dance Theatre
presents

UP AND AWAY

Technical Director of Mischief: Mark Baker
Head Troublemaker: Emily Smyth Vartanian
Creative Consultant: Amanda Friou
Administrative Assistant: Mia Dichiaro
Treasury Department of Good and Evil: Adam Vartanian
Stage Manager: Hollace Jeffords
Sound Engineer: Tony Lepore
Choreographers: Emily Smyth Vartanian, Madeline Hoak, Celine Rosenthal

Featuring: Jane Abbott, Ellen Henry, Andrea Steiner, Wendy Lechuga, Saki Masuda, Emily Smyth Vartanian, Madeline Hoak, Roy Scandela, Celine Rosenthal

Press Representative: Michelle Tabnick Communications

Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Auditorium, JCC
334 Amsterdman Avenue
October 11, 2015

This one hour program of dances is performed by several enthusiastic young women, accompanied on occasion by a young man. Lots of silliness, playfulness, aerial acrobatics and energy define their pieces.
The dancers engage the audience to make this an interactive event.

The show opens with the company dancing in the dark as they flash and use their smartphones that display a blank white screen. Dances include Hardball, The Love Trio, Suite Shel (inspired by the poems of Shel Silverstein) and the world premiere of Recreation, where they create a large mobile with numerous pieces as they dance.

The music includes Dueling Banjos (Bela Fleck and Boyd Tinsley), the theme from the Pink Panther; Dear Old Dad, Tedabadeda; Spider, Dirty Face, Shoes and Undertake (composed for Mischief by Lizzie Hagstedt); Puro Amor and Milo’s Ballet (Written by Donna Viscuso), Caballo Nuevo (by Jackeline Rago and Donna Viscuso).

The dances are aimed primarily at children and families.

Gloria Talamas