Mimi Garrard of Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre and Collaborators present Dark and Light on Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 2pm at The Rubin Museum, 150 W. 17th Street, NYC. Dark and Light is explored with 5 videos directed by Mimi Garrard.

Darkness is explored in “A Dark Time,” and “Gone.” Lightness is explored in “Transformations” and “Sam and Michael Cube.” “Through Ashes we Rise” ends the program with dark and light images.

“Mimi and her dancers captivate us with this new experimental dance work. Movements of great beauty and complexity that fill the screen together with perfect animated backgrounds. An absolute symphony that overflows with sensations in the spectator. Very striking and empathetic chromatic choice, reinforcing the experience. Authentic art!” – Super Short Film Festival (Through Ashes We Rise, Winner of Best Dance)

“The director of “THSR” Second Version, Mimi Garrard brings forth a film that is so exquisite and beautiful, revolutionizing dance and everything mainstream about it. Mimi Garrard’s film on digitized dance is revolutionary and experimental in nature. Taking on a new approach to dance, Mimi showcases her creativity and her openness to embrace striking, poignant solos with intense expression and artful, demonstrative movements. It speaks of an existence that can no longer be found in the real world.” – Provesha Pyne (Cult Critic/ Films of the Month)

A DARK TIME

dancers: Samuel Roberts and Evan Copeland

composer: Jonathan Melville Pratt

TRANSFORMATIONS

dancer: Kate Jewett

composer: Tom Hamilton

GONE

dancer: Samuel Roberts

composer: Jonathan Melville Pratt

SAM AND MICHAEL CUBE

dancers: Samuel Roberts and Michael Francis McBride

composer: Mimi Garrard

sculptor: James Seawright

THROUGH ASHES WE RISE

dancers: Tim Bendernagel and Cynthia Koppe

composer: Joao Castro Pinto.

About Mimi Garrard

Most recently Mimi Garrard has begun experimenting in new ways, creating dance for video using digital techniques to transform the dance material. As her experimental vision with digital techniques has grown, Mimi’s work has gained increased attention and multiple plaudits. Recently, her films have been presented internationally on television, in museums and galleries, and at 2,545 festivals worldwide.

Lately her work has been shown on the dome of the planetarium in Jackson, Mississippi, and on the BBC BIG screen throughout England. Over the course of the last three years, Mimi has participated in 1660 international festivals winning 1388 first place awards, many of them this year for 48 different videodances. Mimi Garrard has a half-hour monthly television program on Manhattan Neighborhood Network in Manhattan, New York that is streamed live at the time of broadcast (251 programs to date). For more information and to view her work on film, please visit https://mimigarrarddance.com/.

Additionally, Mimi Garrard’s videodances may be viewed or on YouTube: www.youtube.com/mimigarrarddance. Her videodances are featured on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) Channel 2 on cable in Manhattan twice a month on Sundays at 5 p.m. They are also simultaneously Webcast with streaming video at www.mnn.org.

Her video work has received first place awards at festivals in most major cities including Rome, Los Angeles, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, Praque, Kolkata, New York, Miami, Tokyo, Gangtok, Chennai, Gurgaon, Chicago, Hyderabad, London, Cannes, Makati, Darjeeling, Marsfield, Amsterdam, Toronto, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Singapore, Milan, Zurich, Florence, and Dubai. A complete list of first place awards in 2024 is available HERE.

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