Premiered: Love Stories – 2014 Performed: Chris Coates Mitchell & Andrea Ekmark Last Thursday, Jeremy & I celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary! In honor of him & our relationship, I introduce Your Song – a piece I created in 2014 directly from the words of our vows. When writing our vows, we wanted to understand each other and agree to continue… View Post
Director’s Cut: KNOWbody
Picture this: You’re 22. You’ve been in a relationship with a partner for a while. You laugh, you love, you adventure . . . And then something changes. You can’t connect. It’s as if you are looking at each other through a 1 way mirror. You are both looking but can’t see each other. Something’s wrong. . . Then you realize,… View Post
Sam’s Room Builds a Much-Needed Bridge in our Community
“If the Sam’s Room project can not only enable people to “see” someone who is different from them, but see themselves in someone they see as different from them, then a most important bridge has been built.” Hillary Key Sam’s Room, a Broadway-Bound Musical, decided to stop production & take their story to the community. Why? They felt their story… View Post
A Look Back to Reverberations
This past August SIDEWAYS debuted Reverberations. This show explored how one decision or action continues to effect the future. The first act of the show was called “Great Expectations”. This piece took a look at the labels that are placed upon us and how these labels are associated with expectations that change the trajectory of our lives. The second act… View Post
Mary Mattmann celebrates 10 years of dancing with SIDEWAYS
SIDEWAYS has been my second home for ten years, and has become a part of me. I love SIDEWAYS because I am passionate about the stories we tell and challenged by the variety of movement we get to perform. From cha cha to modern and waltz to musical theater, I have gotten to perform my strengths and grow as a… View Post