MANDI TAYLOR
Dancer, Choreographer, Dance Educator
Performance
My performance experience has ranged from Musical Theatre, Jazz, and Contemporary styles. I have performed professionally with Contemporary dance companies Inspirata Dance Project, and Body Logic Dance Company.
Choreography
My choreographic work is situated in the postmodern/ contemporary genre with a focus on process, experimentation, chance, and interactions. My style is grounded utilizing floorwork, release techniques, and improvisational tools. I believe in collaboration and openness with those I work with to create something that is steeped with different perspectives.
Performance Reel
This video reel showcases my education and professional performance work from 2012-2021.
We Interrupt This Program (Excerpt)
This performance experience invited audiences to participate in the order and outcome of the choreography by calling out cues . Encouraging spontaneity, collaboration, investigation, and play, this work examines the roles of dancer, choreographer, and spectator. (2021)
Embodied Frequencies
This work explores responses to stimuli through varying frequencies and sounds that were then abstracted. The audience participated in the sound score by contributing their own audible stimuli for the dancers to respond to through movement. (2019)
Becoming [Dis]connected
This piece was choreographed for Body Logic Dance Company's Humanitarian Concert Series Without a Roof (2017) . I was inspired by our social norms of interacting and passing by of others on the street.