Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Patrick Scully Season 1 Episode 7

Patrick Scully is a Minneapolis based choreographer/dancer and
performance artist. He began dancing in 1972 as a college
freshman. In 1976 he co-founded Contactworks, a Minneapolis based
dance collective focused on contact improvisation. In 1980 he
left Contactworks in search of a way to bring his voice as a gay
man into the work he was creating. This eventually led him to
Remy Charlip’s Naropa East workshop in 1984, Meetings with
Remarkable Women. That led him to dance with Remy, beginning with
Remy’s Ten Men show in BAM’s Next Wave Festival in 1984. In his
heart, and daily life, Patrick is still dancing with Remy.
Patrick’s most current project is Leaves of Grass – Illuminated,
about Walt Whitman. In addition to his performing work, Patrick
is the founder and long time director of Patrick’s Cabaret, in
Minneapolis.