Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Marylee Hardenbergh - Season 7, Episode 97

Marylee Hardenbergh has created over 50 outdoor
site-specific dances at such sites as Sarajevo, the city of Acre
on the Mediterranean, the Aerial High Lift Bridge in Duluth, the
Housatonic and Anacostia Rivers, and a 7-site simultaneous
performance the length of the Mississippi River. Her first
outdoor site dance, Solstice Falls on Friday, was on the
yellow mooring cells in the Mississippi River in downtown
Minneapolis in 1985, where nine mooring cells each held one
dancer, with the music played over the radio so that all dancers
and audience members could hear the same beat at the exact same
moment. The audience brought portable radios and became the sound
system.  Hardenbergh’s performances on the Mississippi River
became the springboard for the Global Water Dances, of which she
was the Artistic Director for many years. She was also an
Artist-in-Residence at the Center for Global Environmental
Education at Hamline University in Minnesota. Currently, she is
the Artistic Director of Global Site Performance and has received
numerous fellowships for dance including a Fulbright Fellowship,
a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and various other
awards and commissions.


 


Website: GlobalSitePerformance.org