Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner is an aesthetically-inclined, trans-pop-culture, dance-therapy performance group formed in Portland, OR in 2006. They have performed in venues ranging between burned-out buildings, black box theaters, Mexican bars, fields of llamas, cowboy dance halls, and downtown alleyways. Traversing between hilarious absurdity and a dark intensity, they bring audiences to the precipice of tantalizing confusion.
Praised in reviews for its “quirky athleticism”
and “fresh and smart” brand of humor and mania, Woolly creates
idiosyncratic, audience-friendly work that invites community
participation and includes frequent collaborations with local
designers, photographers, visual artists, and musicians.
Members of
the Woolly collective have also taught at the Performatica dance
festival in Cholula, Mexico, the Seattle Festival of Dance and
Improvisation (SFDI) and the Conduit Summer Dance Intensive in
Portland, along with founding and organizing the Food and Shelter
Festival of Improvised Dance and Music.
Woolly has been featured in
curated showcases ranging from Mike Barber’s Ten Tiny Dances to Linda
Austin’s Richard Foreman Mini-Festival and Hand2mouth Theater’s Risk or
Reward show for up-and-coming artists to Mizu Desierto’s Water in the
Desert festival. Members have also performed in Jennifer Monson’s
BirdBrain, Linda K. Johnson’s Promenade, Emily Stone’s Orange (featured
at Seattle’s Northwest New Works showcase), Daniel Addy’s Aviator, and
Linda Austin’s Circus Me Around and The City Dance of Lawrence and Anna
Halprin.
Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner is an aesthetically-inclined, trans-pop-culture, dance-therapy performance group formed in Portland, OR in 2006. They have performed in venues ranging between burned-out buildings, black box theaters, Mexican bars, fields of llamas, cowboy dance halls, and downtown alleyways. Traversing between hilarious absurdity and a dark intensity, they bring audiences to the precipice of tantalizing confusion
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