MacArthur Dance Project was formed in January 2007 and made its debut in May of that year at ACES Arts Hall in New Haven. MacArthur Dance Project has been presented in New Haven at the Shubert Theater, the International Festival of Arts and Ideas and the Rebound Festival. In the summer of 2007, MacArthur completed a residency with Olga Pona's Chelyabinsk Theater of Contemporary Dance, from Chelyabinsk, Russia that took place in Hebron, NY. MacArthur was also a participating artist in the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project Regional Dance Development Initiative, an intensive dance lab hosted by Connecticut College.
Urbane New Haven, LLC hosted MacArthur Dance Project for a holiday fundraiser, December 2007, in their newly renovated building in New Haven where MDP performed excerpts from a new work. Winter and spring of 2008, MDP took part in the LIT Festival at 100 Grand St. in New York City and traveled to Bates College for the FAB Festival and to Summer Stages Dance at Concord Academy, MA, to perform and take part in exchanges between area dance artists. In April, MacArthur co-produced a multimedia performance event with choreographer/director Adele Myers. This production was made possible in part by a generous grant from the LEF Foundation's Contemporary Work Fund. The 2009 co-production has received funding from the New Haven Mayor's Community Arts Grant.
MDP is featured in a documentary titled "Coming to Grips" produced and directed by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Lori Petchers. Petchers' film has been selected for the Hartford International Film Festival and the Bergenfield Film Festival, NJ.
Currently, MacArthur is collaborating a second time with composer Bryan Senti on a work, "From the Margins, This, Unmentioned" that will premiere at the Brooklyn Lyceum, NY October 15-17, 2009. In addition, she is collaborating with Boston-based artists Alissa Cardone, Lorraine Chapman and Nell Breyer on a movement and media piece titled Disappearing Woman which will premiere at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, July 11, 2009. The four artists have been in residence at the Summer Stages Dance/Baryshnikov Arts Center Residency in Concord, MA and NYC, and at Vermont Performance Lab/Marlboro College near Brattleboro, VT.
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