MAKING MOVES #2: NACHMO

Making Moves is BACK! For the second installment, we are highlighting work created by local choreographers during National Choreography Month, or NACHMO. NACHMO is a national event and 2019 marks the second year for the Kansas City hub! 2019 showing choreographers are: Courtney Collado, Maura Garcia, Jane Gotch, Kyle Mullins, AJ Pflumm, Tessa Priem, Becky Rooney, Ilana Silverstein and Jeramy Zimmerman.

Doors open at 6:30pm, showing begins at 7:00pm! Stay for conversation (and more!) after the performance.

A monthly gather, Making Moves aims to build community through a shared passion for dance and movement. Throughout 2019, Making Moves will host improvisation jams and provide performance opportunities for local and regional dance makers. Produced by Kyle Mullins and made possible by Charlotte Street Foundation.

Artist bio:
Kyle Mullins is a dance artist based in Kansas City, MO. He has has worked with Crystal Pite, Donald Byrd, Benoit-Swan Pouffer, Aszure Barton, Sean Curran, Camille A. Brown, Nathan Trice, Cherice Barton, Andrea Miller, Larry Keigwin, Shannon Gillen Nathan Trice, Zvi Gotheiner, and Gregory Dolbashian. Since relocating back to Kansas City, he has had the pleasure to perform works by Mary Pat Henry, Gary Abbott, Shapiro and Smith, and Kevin Iyega Jeff with Wylliams Henry Contemporary Dance Company. He earned his MFA in Dance from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts as a Dean’s Fellow.

As a choreographer, he has most notably choreographed the Off Broadway production of “Triassic Parq: The Musical”, for which he was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography. He has shown work at Steps on Broadway, BC Beat, Triskelion Arts, and the Jack Crystal Theater. He has choreographed on City in Motion Dance Theater, the Second Avenue Dance Company, and several musicals for the New York Fringe Festival, Capital Fringe Festival (DC) and Vital Theater Company (NYC) as well as Music Theatre Kansas City. His contemporary repertory company, Cerca Trova, was created in fall 2018.