The Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta’s (MJCCA)’s “Live at the J”, in partnership with Full Radius Dance, presents the fourteenth annual Modern Atlanta Dance (MAD) Festival. Held at the MJCCA’s Morris & Rae Frank Theatre at Zaban Park (5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody), this exciting festival offers a wonderful opportunity to view work by some of Metro-Atlanta’s finest dance artists and companies. Performances are on Saturday, March 1 at 8:30 pm and Sunday, March 2 at 7:30 pm.

Participants in the 2008 Modern Atlanta Dance Festival are:

• Zoetic Dance Ensemble presents choreographer Candess Giyan’s “I Bought”, which examines disconnect between technology and emotion.
• Kathleen Wessel’s “Glacial Ornaments” is inspired by research in the experiences of women in the Victorian Age – corseted dainty socialites on the outside, but seething firecrackers inside.
• In “Lost and Found”, SIDEWAYS Contemporary Dance Company explores journeys through isolation and loneliness, and finding connections and peace. Choreography is by Charlotte Foster.
• Good Moves Consort presents choreographer Michelle Mora’s “Fish Out of Water”, inspired by the people, places and experiences of a journey to Peru, where Ms. Mora felt “totally like a fish out of water.”
• Gregory Catellier’s “Of Kiltering” concerns balance, both static and dynamic and concentrates on the concepts of the stability and instability of the individual and the group.
• Brooks Emanuel Dance Company makes is festival debut with “Vine”, a duet reflecting how relationships develop and change.
• Festival host Full Radius Dance will premiere “Giants In The Sky”, an allegorical dance about the fear, and reward, of the unknown.

Ticket prices are: For MJCCA Members - $13 adults / $9 children; General Admission - $15 adults/$12 children (18 months and younger free.) Seating is limited.

The Modern Atlanta Dance Festival offers performance opportunities to individual artists and dance companies in Metropolitan Atlanta. The MAD Festival, first presented in 1995, is Atlanta’s only professionally adjudicated modern/contemporary dance event. More than fifty different metro-Atlanta individual artists and/or companies have been presented on the MAD Festival stage.

For more information or to purchase tickets for the Modern Atlanta Dance Festival, call (770)395-2654.