THIS DANCE IS CALLED GREE. IT IS FROM BEDSTUY. kaleidoscopic blinks presented in portable proscenium July 19, 2007

Performance by Modern Garage Movement.
THIS DANCE IS CALLED GREE. IT IS FROM BEDSTUY.
kaleidoscopic blinks presented in portable proscenium

Performance by Modern Garage Movement
show runs 40 min - 1 hr, depending on space
$8 suggested donation

A quality Garage Movement, aka MGM. Started in San Francisco, based in Brooklyn, MGM is dancers Felicia Ballos, Biba Bell & JM Leary. Inspired by hardcore touring rock bands, JM conceptualized MGM into a five week US touring project summer 2006, dancing in garages, backyards, packing sheds, wine warehouses, galleries and community centers. The performance of GREE is an assignment to cultivate urban flowers in secret gardens by grafting the sounds of Stevie Wonder to Pash(ly), costumes of Neil Greenberg to soccer outfits and the dances of Youssouf Koumbassa to Sarah Michelson. The show opens with a dimly lit seating area entirely covered by foliage, which is then removed by the dancers as the audience members arrive and are integrated into the thicket. GREE dusts off dance pieces, sets and audiences, invisibly arousing all growing, moving things. knock-off you've never seen the original of, THIS DANCE IS CALLED GREE. IT IS FROM BEDSTUY. is the new dance piece of renegade touring project, Modern

TOUR SCHEDULE:
June 25 – 26 Durham, NC
June 27 Chapel Hill, NC
July 1 – 2 Sebastopol, CA
July 4 Arcata, CA
July 5 – 8 Portland, OR
July 9 McMinville, OR
July 11 Grass Valley, CA
July 12 Truckee, CA
July 13 Sacramento, CA
July 14 Santa Cruz, CA
July 16 – 22 Los Angeles, CA
July 23 – 25 Big Sur, CA
July 26 – 29 San Francisco, CA

PEOPLE:
Jmy/Jamm/Jbird/Jean-Marie Leary (b. 1979) was born and raised in San Francisco, California by a former CIA member turned Buddhist, turned interior designer and a Buddhist Monk. She continues to be influenced in all aspects of her life by the need to engineer earthquake
resistant infrastructures, buildings as well as water systems, models that are solid in their flexibility. UC Santa Cruz gave her a BA in
Modern Literature and Theater Arts. She has lived in Brooklyn, NY for the past six years, been assistant to Karole Armitage, assistant to
and performer with Sarah Michelson, apprenticed for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, costumed the work of RoseAnne Spradlin and Anna Sperber, danced for the late Mel Wong, and currently dances for Luciana Achugar, Biba Bell, Walter Dunderville, Nancy Garcia and Nancy Meehan. With Rebecca Brooks, she started producing dance performance parties as AUNTS. She tours Modern Garage Movement, which started off as a dance rehearsed, then performed, then toured, in garages, expanding to galleries, packing sheds, wine warehouses and community centers.

Felicia Ballos grew up as a ballerina in the suburbs of St. Louis, Mo. Now she is an artist making dances and lives in Brooklyn. Ballos' work has been presented at DTW, The Kitchen, The Swiss Institute, AUNTS, Dixon Place, Champion Fine Art, at Art Basel in Miami, as well as in Belgium, Morocco, France, and Japan. Some of her collaborations include working with Flora Wiegmann, Anna Craycroft, Montgomery Knott, and Amy Granat. Currently Ballos is dancing with Jamm Leary (preparing for the second tour as Modern Garage Movement), making a new group work, and practicing Kung Fu.

Biba Bell is a choreographer and performer based in SF and NYC. (With URISOV) she investigates the limits of consistency in regards to
movement, site, music, and attention. Sometimes she writes about this experience, seeking out single words that might ebb(lack) or
flow(exceed) depending upon time of day, degrees of sunlight, or neighborhood interaction. She likes to play in this incremental,
indeterminate space. Biba recently received a masters in performance studies from NYU. Biba practices and ponders yoga, committed to its
gentle framework and tradition... (breathing is certainly something to think about). She is happy to lead daily yoga throughout the duration
of the MGM tour. Biba grew up in Sebastopol. (http://www.urisov.com)(http://www.bibayoga.org)

Official Website: http://myspace.com/moderngaragemovement