MAD Dance/Kitty Clark & Ray Shaw

Fees for performance, residency, education, and community engagements are variable depending on length and scope of engagement, distance from MAD's home base, and if MAD is sole performer or on a shared bill. The booking price listed above is a starting point.

CONTACT INFO:
Kitty Clark, kitclark.moves@gmail.com, 301-331-4398
Kitty Clark, an experienced arts administrator and event planner, manages all administrative aspects of MAD Dance performing, touring, and teaching engagements. She is the main point of contact and oversees communications, marketing, contracting, and travel.

Ray Shaw is involved with detailed conversations regarding technical theater considerations.

As a small company of two, MAD Dance’s engagements are typically easily arranged. Kitty speaks with presenters about what they are looking for, what their community is like, what goals they have in mind, and the scope of service (performance only, performance and workshop, extended residency, etc.). Kitty is ready and able to talk through a variety of scenarios with presenters, making suggestions, and helping to find solutions. For example, if a presenter wants a traditional, proscenium style performance, but doesn’t have access to an actual stage, Kitty will find out what kinds of spaces ARE available to figure out what can be created. Or, if a presenter is interested in an original work being created for a group of community members, Kitty will brainstorm with the presenter on what that might look like and the investment of time and resources required to make that idea come to life. MAD is nimble and flexible in its approach to meeting the needs and interests of a presenter or community and approaches touring and teaching engagements with the same kind of creative inquiry that it uses in the development of its performance works: brainstorming, conversation, problem-solving, and creating a structure/scope of service. MAD is more interested in collaborating with presenters than in being rigid in what it will offer.

CLASSES, WORKSHOPS, RESIDENCY and ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES
MAD Dance offers the following:
- Master classes in dance, yoga, improvisation, traditional Chinese medicine, and somatic practices
- Creation of original choreography (commissions) (proscenium, site-specific, indoors, outdoors)
- Set existing repertory on community dancers
- Community engagement experiences (working with specific populations, outdoor movement/creativity excursions, co-creations with community artists)
- Professional development workshops (how to teach, how to create, how to write about your work, goal setting)
- Corporate wellness (meditation, yoga, acupressure, recreational dance)

We are experienced working on traditional stages as well as multipurpose facilities (community centers, YMCAs, schools, studios, atriums). We have existing repertory that can be performed on a traditional proscenium stage, in-the-round, and in non-traditional spaces. We are also experienced improvisors working in a variety of settings and also enjoy crafting unique site-specific works.

Our technical requirements are as follows:

* Flooring: Clean, smooth, safe surface for bare feet and for movements such as rolling and sliding.
Marley floor surface or real wood floor surface preferred. We are unable to perform on concrete or tile
floors. We require that the surface be swept and/or mopped prior to dancing upon and to be specifically
cleared of any dangerous objects such as nails or screws. If the venue is an outdoor space, we request a
level surface and grass/earth clear of any debris.

* Stage Dimensions: Minimum performance space of 15'x20' for our existing repertory. However, we can
create new work for smaller spaces, modify existing repertory for different spaces, and accept site-specific
commissions.

- Amplification: Playback for recorded audio (digital files).

- Lighting: Basic stage lighting (additional sidelight preferable for dance).

- Technical Support: Personnel to run sound, lights, video (if piece has video) and to ensure that stage is
clean, clear of nails, dirt, etc. A stagehand is helpful if available, but we can accommodate moving our
minimal props.

- Other technical requirements: Video projector for pieces that include video projection; white wall, screen,
or cyc for projecting upon.

- Tech/Dress Rehearsal: We request adequate time and appropriate personnel in the performance venue
to do a tech and dress rehearsal.

- Dressing rooms: We request at least one dressing room and a bathroom near the performance area.

- Front of House: Personnel to manage audience arrival.

We are willing and able to travel statewide for performances, residencies, commissions, and educational bookings. Overnight accommodations are required for engagements further than a 3 hour drive from Frederick, MD. A modest meal is required for engagements longer than 5 hours.