Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Marylee Hardenbergh - Season 7, Episode 97

Marylee Hardenbergh has created over 50 outdoor site-specific dances at such sites as Sarajevo, the city of Acre on the Mediterranean, the Aerial High Lift Bridge in Duluth, the Housatonic and Anacostia Rivers, and a 7-site simultaneous performance the length of the Mississippi River. Her first outdoor site dance, Solstice Falls on Friday, was on the yellow mooring cells in the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis in 1985, where nine mooring cells each held one dancer, with the music played over the radio so that all dancers and audience members could hear the same beat at the exact same moment. The audience brought portable radios and became the sound system.  Hardenbergh’s performances on the Mississippi River became the springboard for the Global Water Dances, of which she was the Artistic Director for many years. She was also an Artist-in-Residence at the Center for Global Environmental Education at Hamline University in Minnesota. Currently, she is the Artistic Director of Global Site Performance and has received numerous fellowships for dance including a Fulbright Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and various other awards and commissions. Website: GlobalSitePerformance.org