Press

"Dream Analysis had audiences cheering and critics polishing superlatives...His achievement here seems something short of a miracle." Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times
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"If this exciting dance is a preliminary study, I can hardly wait to see the final version!"
Kara Dobbs Ariail, Classical Voice of North Carolina
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Dendy Dancetheater celebrates the miracle of the human body moving in space. Dendy draws on his background in theater to create a hybrid form of post modern dance theatre. From pure movement pieces such as Afternoon of the Faunes, Beat, and Working Class Suite to the full length works like Dream Analysis and I'm going to my room to be cool now and I don't want to be disturbed, to the grand scale site-specific works, Dendy challenges audiences to see dance and theater in a new light. His work is simultaneously serious, provocative and entertaining, as it pokes fun at dance, society and the world at large, and always features his trademark kinetic physicality and quick wit.

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Mark Dendy Biography

After leaving the dance stage in 2000 to pursue a career in musical theater, Obie and Bessie award winning Artistic Director and performer, Mark Dendy, is back with his new company, Dendy Dancetheater. In the summer of 2008, the company debuted on the concert stage with the world premiere of: Preliminary Study in Depth: The Upper Half of High and Low for the 75th anniversary of the American Dance Festival.

From 1983-2000, Dendy performed throughout the US with his company, Mark Dendy Dance and Theater at festivals and venues such as, The Joyce Theatre, Lincoln Center, PS 122, Dance Theater Workshop (DTW), Jacob’s Pillow, and the American Dance Festival (ADF). Internationally the company has performed throughout the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, England, France and Korea.

Dendy’s choreography and direction has garnered critical acclaim and success. He choreographed the Evolution Dances for an Emmy award winning Tales of the Human Dawn (1990) episode of the PBS series Smithsonian World, in 1999 the acclaimed Dream Analysis opened at the Joyce Theater and later that year reopened at DTW for a sold out 5 week run and in 2000, the year before his departure, he followed up with I’m Going to my Room to be Cool Now and I Don’t Want to be Disturbed at The Joyce, touring the work nationally.

In addition to choreographing, directing, performing, and writing, Dendy’s teaching and residency credits include the The American Dance Festival, North Carolina School for the Arts, CalArts, Juilliard, NYU, Harvard Summer Dance, Connecticut College, University of Washington, Oklahoma University, University of Nevada; Las Vegas, The Bates Summer Dance Festival, Texas Women’s University among others. Dendy has been commissioned by numerous dance companies including Art Bridgeman/Myrna Packard, Pacific Northwest Ballet, the Charleston Ballet, Ballet Dortmund, Washington Ballet, Concert Dance Company of Boston, Dance Kaleidoscope of Indianapolis, and Zenon Dance Company in Minneapolis.

Dendy danced in the companies of Pooh Kaye, Ruby Shang, Pearl Lang, and as a collaborating guest artist with Jane Comfort starring in Deportment and the off-Broadway production of Faith Healing, a deconstruction of William’s The Glass Menagerie and with The Martha Graham Ensemble.

Dendy’s artistic integrity has been recognized as the recipient of many awards and funding including, the prestigious Alpert Award in the Arts, an Obie for The Wild Party (2000), a NY Dance and Performance Award, "The Bessie" for sustained career achievement, and NEA, NYSCA and Jerome Foundation grants,. He is also the recipient of the American Society of Arts and Letters Award for outstanding sustained achievement and the American Dance Festival’s Scripps Humphrey Weideman Limon Award for the creation of new work.

Mr. Dendy received a BFA in modern dance from The North Carolina School of the Arts and studied for three summers at the American Dance Festival.

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Repertory

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