PERFORMANCES, PUBLICATIONS, LECTURES, AND PANELSPERFORMANCES
Choreographed and Performed Works: Chronology of Premieres (post-BFA)
1982-1989
• Exiles From Earth; June 5, 1982: Performance Space 122, New York, NY; Dancers For Disarmament; Music: Miguel Coelho (Brazil); Dancers: Gina Bonati and Mark DeGarmo.
• Get on with It; Finale first performed: July 24, 1982: Woodbridge Center, Woodbridge, NJ; Music: Leo Kottke; Dancers: Gina Bonati and Mark DeGarmo. Revised to include two solos: February 25, 1983: White Dog Studio, New York, NY; Mark DeGarmo and Dina McDermott present DANCES; Dancers: Mark DeGarmo and Debra Weiss.
• Perpetual Motion; July 24, 1982: Woodbridge Center, Woodbridge, NJ; Music: Virgil Moorefield; Dancer: Mark DeGarmo.
• Rambling; July 24, 1982: Woodbridge Center, Woodbridge, NJ; Music: Keith Jarrett; Dancer: Mark DeGarmo.
• Circle Dance/Perpetual Motion (Circle Dance 1; Jig; Circle Dance 2; Perpetual Motion); First performed as solo (Perpetual Motion only) on July 24, 1982: Woodbridge Center, Woodbridge, NJ (see above); Restaged to include the first three sections and as a trio: February 25, 1983: White Dog Studio, New York, NY; Mark DeGarmo and Dina McDermott present DANCES; Music: Dorothy Carter; Virgil Moorefield; Costumes: Penny Howell; Dancers: Jan Hanvik, Juliet Neidish, and Debra Weiss.
• On the Edge; Adapted from the work Goonery, first performed in 1977; Carol Conway Dance Studio Theater, New York, NY; Music: John Lennon and Yoko Ono; Dancers: Caren Acker, Mark DeGarmo, and Deborah Miller. Redeveloped: February 25, 1983: White Dog Studio, New York, NY; Mark DeGarmo and Dina McDermott present DANCES; Dancers: Susan Bartlett, Linda Lehovic, and Tina Mantel.
• Steady Streams; First performance: 1982: The Juilliard School's Drama Studio Theater, New York, NY. First professional performance: February 25, 1983: White Dog Studio, New York, NY; Mark DeGarmo and Dina McDermott present DANCES; Music: Jan Hagiwara; Costume: Kathleen Malloy (a/k/a Kathleen Laziza); Dancer: Mark DeGarmo.
• Blue Skies; December 3, 1983: Stissing Mountain Jr.-Sr. High School Auditorium, Pine Plains, NY; Benefit for The Fine Arts Departments; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Music and pianist: Allan Greene; Costumes: Penny Howell; Dancers: Susan Bartlett, Mark DeGarmo, Jan Hanvik, and Dina McDermott. New York City Premiere: January 13, 1984: Vital Arts Center; Dancers: ibid.
• The Brahms Waltzes: Rhythms and Forms; (16 sections); December 3, 1983: Stissing Mountain Jr.-Sr. High School Auditorium, Pine Plains, NY; Benefit for The Fine Arts Departments; Music: Johannes Brahms; Pianist: Allan Greene; Costumes: Penny Howell; Dancers: Mark DeGarmo, Jan Hanvik, and Dina McDermott. New York City Premiere: January 13, 1984: Vital Arts Center; Dancers: ibid; Revised as Some Brahms in 1986 (see below).
• The Spider and the Fly; December 3, 1983: Stissing Mountain Jr.-Sr. High School Auditorium, Pine Plains, NY; Benefit for The Fine Arts Departments; Music: Craig Gordon; Costumes: Penny Howell; Dancers: Susan Bartlett and Jan Hanvik. New York City Premiere: January 13, 1984: Vital Arts Center; Dancers:
ibid.
• Little Red Riding Hood; First performed as video January 1985: Music: David Bowie; Costumes: Penny Howell; Set design: Bob Russ; Video: David Shore; Dancers (Video): Marie Baker-Lee, Christa Coogan, Mark DeGarmo, and Ed Henry. Premiere: April 13, 1985: Inroads Multimedia Art Center, New York; Dancers (Premiere): Marie Baker-Lee, Christa Coogan, Mark DeGarmo, and Errol Grimes.
• Untitled Commission for opening of a Private Health Center fashion show/ demonstration of work out equipment being used: July 30, 1985: Yutsil Center, Toluca, Mexico; Music and Dancers: no credit given.
• Drive With 8's; April 12, 1986: El Camino Community College Campus Theater, Torrance, California; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Music: performed in silence; Costume: Cathy Hazeltine; Dancer: Mark DeGarmo.
• Pulse; April 12, 1986: El Camino Community College Campus Theater, Torrance, California; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Music: Virgil Moorefield; Dancer: Marie Baker-Lee.
• Some Brahms; (8 sections) April 12, 1986: El Camino Community College Campus Theater, Torrance, California; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Music: Johannes Brahms; Costumes: no credit; Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee and Mark DeGarmo. (Trio, 16 section version performed as The Brahms Waltzes: Rhythms and Forms December 3, 1983).
• The Street Dance; September 20, 1986: on Second Avenue (between 6th and 7th Streets) in front of Middle Collegiate Church as pre-performance before Mark DeGarmo & Dancers' duet program, New York; Music: performed to street sounds out of doors; Dancers: Umberto Del Olmo, Terri Diaz, & Tamie Rietenbach.
• Glory; December 21, 1986: Poughkeepsie High School Auditorium, Poughkeepsie, NY; Benefit for Camp Epworth, Summer Camp for Developmentally Disabled Adults; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Music: Georges Frederik Handel; Costumes: Osamu Uehara; Dancers: Marie Alonzo, Marie Baker-Lee, Tamie Rietenbach, Lizabeth Skalski, and Osamu Uehara.
• Santa; December 21, 1986: Poughkeepsie High School Auditorium, Poughkeepsie, NY; Benefit for Camp Epworth, Summer Camp for Developmentally Disabled Adults; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Music: Traditional by Burl Ives; Dancers: Marie Alonzo, Marie Baker-Lee, Lizabeth Skalski, and Osamu Uehara.
• The Light; December 21, 1986: Poughkeepsie High School Auditorium, Poughkeepsie, NY; Benefit for Camp Epworth, Summer Camp for Developmentally Disabled Adults; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Music: Traditional; Costume: Osamu Uehara; Dancer: Lizabeth Skalski.
• Dance of Death; (Created in fall 1985 after two month teaching residency in Mexico; Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee, Karen Graham, and Tamie Rietenbach); June 4, 1987: Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church Gymnasium, New York, NY; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers as Dance Company in Residence; Music: Music of the Huave people of Mexico; Costumes; Osamu Uehara; Dancers: Jim Bonner, Osamu Uehara, and Josh Walden.
• Quadratic Ballet (Rectangular Space; In the Spell of the Stars; Red Globe Dance; and Big Top); (based on conversations with and an homage to Andor Weininger, a member of Germany's Bauhaus, Bauhaus Clown, designer, visual artist, composer, musican, and dancer with Oskar Schlemmer and other research of the Bauhaus); June 4, 1987: Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church Gymnasium, New York, NY; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers as Dance Company-In-Residence; Music/musician: Craig Gordon; Costumes: Osamu Uehara; Dancers: Marie Alonzo, Maria Augustine, Marie Baker-Lee, Ellen Drexel, Margaret Elsner, Linda Loftis, Judy Marriott, Tamie Rietenbach, Lynn Shapiro, Sonia Wichmann, and Lauree Wise. Soloist in Red Globe Dance: Marie Baker-Lee; Soloists in Big Top: Ballerina: Margaret Elsner; Creature: Lynn Shapiro; Clown: Marie Alonzo; Body-Builder: Judy Marriott.
• Concerto; (showed as a work-in-progress); October 1987: Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church Gymnasium, New York, NY; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers as Dance Company in Residence; Music: Antonin Vivaldi; Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee, Matthew Brookoff, Mark DeGarmo, and Tamie Rietenbach.
• Ballplays; April 30, 1988: Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church Gymnasium, New York, NY; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers as Dance Company in Residence; Music: Virgil Moorefield; Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee, Mark DeGarmo, and Tamie Rietenbach.
• Ragtime Nightmare; April 30, 1988: Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church Gymnasium, New York, NY; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers as Dance Company in Residence; Music: no credit; Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee, Mark DeGarmo, and Tamie Rietenbach.
• Danceplay of the Red Skirts; June 17, 1988: Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church Gymnasium, New York, NY; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers as Dance Company in Residence; Music: Frances Poulenc; Costumes: Osamu Uehara; Masks: no credit; Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee, Matthew Brookoff, Mark DeGarmo, Rita Jenkins, Patti
Kooyman, and Tamie Rietenbach.
• Quadratic Ballet II; June 17, 1988: Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church Gymnasium, New York, NY; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers as Dance Company in Residence; Music/musician: Craig Gordon; Costumes: Osamu Uehara; Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee, Matthew Brookoff, Mark DeGarmo, and Tamie Rietenbach.
• Sad Dog; February 1989: Eastchester High School Auditorium, Eastchester, NY; Dance Club; Music: no credit; Dancers: no credit.
• Romp and Roll; March 1989: Sussex County Vocational Technical High School Auditorium, Sparta, NJ; Dance Club; Music: Performed in silence; Dancers: no credit.
• Estribillo; April 11, 1989: Saint Peter's Church at CitiCorp, New York, NY; Joint concert with Manhattan Vocal Ensemble Concert and Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Music: Grau; Director: Nelly Vuksic (Argentina); Pianist: César Vuksic (Argentina); Singers: Elaine Goodman, Susan Hegelmeyer, Michelle Peterson,
Carolyn Snell, Maurizio Corbino, Dean Meyers, Stanley Dorn, and Frank Kain;
Costume: No credit given; Dancer: Mark DeGarmo.
• Songstream; April 11, 1989: Saint Peter's Church at CitiCorp, New York, NY; Joint concert with Manhattan Vocal Ensemble Concert and Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Music: Alice Parker; Director, Pianist, Singers: ibid; Dancer: Mark DeGarmo.
• On the March; August 1989: Usdan Center for the Performing Arts, Hempstead, NY; Summer camp dance students; Music: no credit; Dancers: no credit.
• The Colors of Wisdom; September 9, 1989: A site specific work designed for the site of Evan Stoller's half acre sculpture Maya Station, an outdoor exhibition of and sponsored by The Neuberger Museum at the State University of New York at Purchase, NY; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers with invited intergenerational guest dancers and nondancers; Music: Composed and performed by Tigger Benford with Bagpipe player Adam Gilbert performing in the dance's opening procession; Costumes: No credit given; Dancers: Mark DeGarmo & Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee, Mark DeGarmo, Sue Hogan, and Tamie Rietenbach with Shana Adelman, Tanja Anticevic, Misachi Aoki, Katie Avery, Keely Ayres, Susan Bartlett, Judith Bendewald, Emanuel Bosgang, Sarah Ellenore Carl, Mary Dalton, Lila Dlaboha, Paul Engel, Tom Fletcher, Karen Gstadler, Jan Michael Hanvik, Susannah Hewson, Carol Klein, Loanne Luongo, Rachel McNish, Jordan Peugh, Rachel Pinczower, Dale Riley, Elaine Ryan, Tana Seabrook, Ramona Toussaint, Lori Ann Triolo, Brian Waite, Ellen Wallach, Garfield White, and So-so Wong.
• Promotional Video; September 1989: Dance excerpts: Ballplay; Dance of Death; Danceplay of the Red Skirts; Drive With 8's; Get On With It; Red Globe Dance from Quadratic Ballet; and Some Brahms; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Video: Dennis Diamond; Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee, Mark DeGarmo, Sue Hogan, Ted McKnight, Tamie
Rientenbach, and Osamu Uehara.
• Dances of Light; December 24, 1989: The Jewish Museum; Family Programs; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Music: Traditional and The Klezmatics; Costumes (originally designed for Glory): Osamu Uehara; Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee, Mark DeGarmo, Alice Kaltman, and Clara Maxwell.
1990-1999
• Viancicos Rebeldes; May 18, 1990: Saint Peter's Church at CitiCorp, New York, NY; Manhattan Vocal Ensemble Concert; Music: Max Lifchitz (Mexico); Conductor: Nelly Vuksic (Argentina); Pianist: César Vuksic (Argentina); Singers: Elaine Goodman, Susan Hegelmeyer, Michelle Peterson, Carolyn Snell, Maurizio Corbino, Dean Meyers, Stanley Dorn, and Frank Kain; Costumes: Osamu Uehara; Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee, Mark DeGarmo; Sue Hogan, and Osamu Uehara.
• Urashima Taro; June 9, 1990: Metropolitan School for the Arts Main Theatre, Syracuse, NY; Joint concert with Mark DeGarmo & Dancers and Merián Soto produced by PAMAR: Pan American Musical Arts Research, Inc.; Music: Henri Dutilleux; Costumes: Osamu Uehara; Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee, Sue Hogan, and Osamu Uehara.
• Untitled intercultural industrial performance for French sales force of Glaxo Pharmaceuticals; August 28, 1990: Hilton Hotel Grand Ballroom, New York, NY; Music: Adaptation after West Side Story and other musical themes/no credit given; Costumes: no credit given; Dancers: no credit.
• 100 Persons Dancing (also titled Many Persons Dancing); September 6, 1990: Eagle Monument, Battery Park, New York, NY; Music: Jan Hagiwara; Musicians: Jan Hagiwara, Randy Crafton, and Scott Robinson; Costumes: no credit given; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers with intergenerational and non-dancer guests dancing; Dancers: Veronica Ajakie, Marie Baker-Lee, John Barhite, Kelly Borden, Bob Bragman, Jean Brassard, Juliet Bromer, Jane Carlin, Robbie Capp, Allison Castillo, Norman Colon, Lawrence Conley, Pierre Coudert, Pamella Dash, Annica Davis, Mark DeGarmo, Catherine Doty, Paul Engel, Madela Ezcurra, Heather Fenby, Tom Fletcher, Telma Gama, Susannah Hewson, Bill Horton, Elizabeth Kenney, Jean Kim, Stephanie Klapper, Carol Klein, Brett Lewis, Sharon McDermott, Constance Miller, Corinne Monnard, Stephen Nadel, Regina Nejman, Donna Niedzwiecki, Sam Parde, Claire Parisot, Margarlit Perry, Rachel Pinczower, Robin Richenaker, Naomi Schrag, Miri Shaaltiel, Taffy Schaeffer-Merkert, Kim Siansky, Nicole Sierra, Mark Stevenson, Kayt Sukel, William Tyler, Osamu Uehara, Hunter Walker, Martha Walker, Ellen Wallach, Philippa Wehle, and Meli Zinberg.
• Dances of Spring and Freedom; March 24, 1991: The Jewish Museum, Family Programs at the New-York Historical Society; New York, NY; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Music: Igor Stravinsky, George Frederik Handel, The Klezmatics, and traditional; costumes: no credit given; Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee, Mark DeGarmo, and Taffy Schaeffer-Merkert (a/k/a Catherine Schaeffer).
• Attachments; (created Fall 1990 for: Marie Baker-Lee, Rachel Pinczower,
Taffy Schaeffer-Merkert (a/k/a Catherine Schaeffer), and Osamu Uehara; dedicated to Jan Michael Hanvik); World Premiere: June 14, 1991: The National Theater of El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador; Tour to El Salvador produced by Jan Michael Hanvik as part of his 1990-1991 Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship Project in El Salvador; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Music: George Frederik Handel; Costumes: no credit given; Dancers: Homer Avila, Marie Baker-Lee, Rachel Pinczower, and Nancy Sakamoto. New York Premiere: March 5, 1992: Events at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowerie, New York, NY; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Lighting Design: Susannah Hewson; Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee, Lewis Bossing, Rachel Pinczower, and Patty Rayburg Martz.
• Travellers; March 5, 1992: Events at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowerie, New York, NY; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Music/musician: Jan Hagiwara; Costumes and Make-up: Igor Rusanov; Lighting Design: Susannah Hewson; Dancer: Mark DeGarmo.
• River Spirit; March 5, 1992: Events at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowerie, New York, NY; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Music: Rick Baitz; Musicians: Brian Lewis,
violin; Kristina Cooper, cello; Deborah Strauss, flute, alto flute, piccolo; Tim Blake, percussion; and Henry Aronson, Yamaha DX7 synthesizer; Costumes: Joan Durand; Lighting Design: Susannah Hewson; Dancers: Miki Giffune, Patty Rayburg Martz, Rachel Pinczower, Salla Saarikangas, and Victoria Tobia.
• My Father Is A Tree (First Movement: Falling; Second Movement: Tree Trance; Third Movement: Grounding; Fourth Movement: Earth; Fifth Movement: Flying); June 3, 1993: Events at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowerie, New York, NY; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Composer and musical adaptations: Valerie Naranjo; Musical group: MANDARA; Musicians: Bryan Carrott, Vince Cherico, Valerie Naranjo, and Barry Olsen; Costumes: Igor Rusanov and Marina Kievsky; Lighting Design: Susannah Hewson; Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee, Mark DeGarmo, Patrick Leader, Brian
Levy, Rachel Pinczower, Tara Susman, and Adrianna Thompson.
• La Noche de las Noches; November 14, 1994: Tribeca Performing Arts Center, New York, NY; Southern Exposures International Festival co-produced by PAMAR (Pan American Musical Art Research, Inc.); Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Music:
Ezequiel Viñao (Argentina); Musical Group (this performance made possible with
support from the Argentine Consulate in New York): The Brentano String Quartet; Musicians: Mark Steinberg, violin, Serena Canin, violin, Misha Amory, viola, Michael Kannen, cello; Costumes: Shirley Fennessey; Lighting Design: Susannah Hewson; Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee, Calla Jo, Tara Susman, and Adrianna Thompson.
• Flying (Revised Fifth Movement of My Father is a Tree); November 14, 1994: Tribeca Performing Arts Center, New York, NY; Southern Exposures International
Festival co-produced by PAMAR (Pan American Musical Art Research, Inc.); Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Music: Traditional men's power song of the Lobi people from Ghana adapted by: Valerie Naranjo; Musicians: MANDARA (Valerie Naranjo and Barry Olsen); Costumes: Joan Durand; Lighting Design: Susannah Hewson; Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee, Calla Jo, Wayne Roddy, Tara Susman, and Adrianna Thompson.
• Raindance; May 11, 1995: ICPNA/ Miraflores: Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano/ Binational Peruvian US Cultural Center Miraflores, Lima, Peru; The 1995 Seventh International Festival of New Dance of Lima; Mark DeGarmo &
Dancers; Music: Catriona Macdonald and Ian Lowthain (The Shetland Islands and
England); Costumes: Shirley Fennessey; Lighting Design: Sue Poulin; Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee and Mark DeGarmo.
• Bird/Eye; August 14, 1995: Arts Center Old Forge, Old Forge, NY; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Music: Toby Twining; Costume and props: conception by Mark DeGarmo; Dancer: Mark DeGarmo.
• Dylan's Feel Good Dance; August 14, 1995: Arts Center Old Forge, Old Forge, NY; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Music: Penguin Cafe Orchestra; Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee, Mark DeGarmo, and Tara Susman.
• Opening Dance; August 14, 1995: Arts Center Old Forge, Old Forge, NY; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Music: Penguin Cafe Orchestra; Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee and Tara Susman.
• Pachamama (Snake Song); August 14, 1995: Arts Center Old Forge, Old Forge, NY; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Costume and prop: conception by Mark DeGarmo; Music: Glen Velez; Dancer: Marie Baker-Lee.
• Scorecard; August 14, 1995: Arts Center Old Forge, Old Forge, NY; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Music: arranged by Elgar Howarth; Costumes: conception by Mark DeGarmo; Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee, Mark DeGarmo, and Tara Susman.
• Unspoken Words; August 14, 1995: Arts Center Old Forge, Old Forge, NY; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Costume: Shirley Fennessey; Music: Alfonso X; Dancer: Tara Susman.
• Longing Lost; August 10, 1996: BronxFest on the Harlem River, Pete Seeger, Co-Producer, Roberto Clemente State Park, Bronx, NY; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Music: Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys; Dancers: Tony Morales and Adrianna Thompson.
• Longing Found; August 10, 1996: BronxFest on the Harlem River, Pete Seeger, Co-Producer, Roberto Clemente State Park, Bronx, NY; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Music: Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys; Dancers: Jacques Burgering, Marie Baker-Lee, Mark DeGarmo, Tony Morales, Brenda Neville, and Adrianna Thompson.
• Dancing Path (Sendero Danzante); February 7, 1997: Los Talleres Cultural Center, Temporada Internacional 97: Soliloquio y Diálogo Bailado: La Ritualidad; Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico; Music: Traditional music of the Huichol People of Mexico; Costumes and props: conception by Mark DeGarmo; Dancer: Mark DeGarmo.
• Honor the Elders; July 25, 1997: Ghost Ranch Conference Center, Abiquiu, New Mexico, Lower Pavilion; The Essential Howard Thurman seminar; Music: Traditional and original; Vocalist and Poet: Jewell Shelton; Dancer: Mark DeGarmo.
• Meditation of Flight; July 26, 1997: Ghost Ranch Conference Center, Abiquiu, New Mexico; Lower Pavilion; The Essential Howard Thurman seminar; Composer: Antonin Dvorák; Musician: Unknown conference participant and professional violinist; Dancer: Mark DeGarmo.
• Let us Break Bread Together on our Knees; July 27, 1997: Ghost Ranch Conference Center, Abiquiu, New Mexico; Lower Pavilion; Sunday Worship Service;
Music: Traditional; Vocalist: Jewell Shelton; Dancer: Mark DeGarmo.
• Dancing in the Street; August 2, 1997: BronxFest on the Harlem River, Pete Seeger Co-Organizer, Roberto Clemente State Park, Bronx, NY; Mark DeGarmo &
Dancers; Music: Martha Reeves and The Vandellas and Laura Nyro; Dancers: Marie
Baker-Lee, Jessica Lozinski, Edmund Melville, Brenda Neville, and Adrianna Thompson.
• America's Beautiful; (Happy and Sad; Hunger; The Show Must Go On) September 13, 1997; Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NY; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Composer: Raymond Scott; Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee, Mark DeGarmo, and Brenda Neville.
• Continuum; September 13, 1997; Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NY; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Composer: Georges Frederik Handel; Dancer: Brenda Neville.
• Be An Animal, Don't Be An Animal; October 16, 1997: John Toth presents In A Circle: The Art and Technology Circus, Audart Gallery, New York; Clown work developed and performed by Jean Taylor (Donna Chicajote) and Mark DeGarmo (Popo).
• Tornadoes and Other Airborne Events; November 18, 1997: Cankarjev Dom Cultural and Congress Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers;
Music: Performed in silence; Costumes and prop: Conceived by Mark DeGarmo;
Dancers: Mark DeGarmo, Tony Guglietti, and Noel MacDuffie.
• Sri, Marie, and Me; December 16, 1997: A Gallery, New York, Opening Reception for Women Artists of India: A Celebration of Independence organized by Mills College Art Gallery, with work by Srimati Lal; Costumes: Marie Baker-Lee; Make-up: Srimati Lal; Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee and Mark DeGarmo.
• Excavations (part 1: duet); June 26, 1998: Religious Society of Friends
(Quakers) Meeting House, Hudson, NY; Mark DeGarmo & Dancers; Music: Alejandro
Velasco (Mexico); Costumes: Marie Baker-Lee; Backdrop: Sara Abalan: (first used at July 17, 1998 premiere at Centro Cultural Los Talleres, Coyoacan, Mexico: Mark DeGarmo & Dancers: Una velada de danza: de lo (un tanto) natural a lo (post) naïve (Season Title for Mark DeGarmo & Dancers performances at University of Veracruz/Jalapa and Los Talleres, Mexico City); Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee and Mark DeGarmo.
• Excavaciones (part 2: quartet); November 30, 1998: Principal Auditorium of Museo de la Nación, San Borja, Lima, Peru; Escuela Nacional Superior de Ballet del Instituto Nacional de Cultural; Music: Alejandro Velasco (Mexico); Costumes: no credit; Dancers: Mónica de Osma, Ursula Lu, Giselle Muelle, and Lili Zeni.
• Bitter Grounds: A Portrait of El Salvador (La Diosa/ Goddess; El Mercado/ Market; La Corta/ Coffee Harvest; El Petate/ Mat; El Rio/ River); February 5, 1999: Hunter College Dance Department Studio Theater, New York; Music: Xolotl (El Salvador), Leo y su ensamble Malam (Mexico); Costumes: (adapted) Shirley Fennessey; Props: Traditional Salvadoran baskets, brooms, and petate (straw mat); Concept for use of masks and props: Mark DeGarmo; Performers: Marie Baker-Lee and Eunice Payés.
• Huellas en el Camino (Footprints along the Way); June 16, 1999: IPNA/Miraflores: Instituto Peruano Norteamericano/ Peru US Binacional Center, Miraflores, Lima, Peru; Music/musicians: Agrupación Musical "Pachacamac": Hernán Caro Leopoldo, voice, strings, winds; Giovanna Ramos Aguilar, percussion; Paúl Sanchez Galdos, piano, winds; Daniel Errea Pintado, strings, winds; Costumes, Hair, Stage Design Elements, and Lighting Design: Dino Soto; Dancers: Jesús Alegría, Cecilia Borasino, Mark DeGarmo, Mónica de Osma, Cecilia Gonzales (Ballet Nacional), Andrea Jauslin, Ursula Lu, Gladys Moscoso, Giselle Muelle, Brenda Manrique, Milagros Olivero, Katterin Ortiz, Gisela Scheuch, Verónica Uranga, Lili Zeni.
• You Take My Breath Away; August 1, 1999: Ghost Ranch Conference Center, Abiquiu, NM; Sunday Morning Worship Service; Music: no credit; Vocalist: Phyllis Wade; Dancer: Mark DeGarmo.
2000-2007
• Relativa Tranquilidad (Relative Tranquility); World Premiere: July 20, 2000: Theater of The National Dance Company of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador; Music: Inlakesh; Costumes: no credit; Produced in collaboration with the US Embassy Quito, US Department of State's American Cultural Specialist Award 2000 to Mark DeGarmo, and La Compañía Nacional de Danza del Ecuador, María Luisa González, Director; Dancers: Nina Villanueva, Edith Chiriboga, Carlos Huera, Carlos Villareal, Lucía Cisneros, Silvia Maldonado, Alberto Lima, Isaac Yépez, Fernanda García, Viviana Sánchez, David Guasga, Bladimir Terán. New York City Premiere: December 6, 2000: Tribeca Performing Arts Center at BMCC Theater 2, New York, NY; Tribeca Dance presents Mark DeGarmo & Dancers in Mark DeGarmo Eyes the World (MDD season title) as Dance Company in Residence 2000-2003; Costumes: no credit; Lighting Design: Suzanne Lavender; Dancers: Yonati Joni Amar, Marie Baker-Lee, Olga Barrios, Tina Chia Chi Chang, Jill Emerson, Jill Spiewak Eng, Corinna Hiller, Jill Locke, Tresa Randall, and Dana Scarano.
• Mesa, Owl Woman, Rock (Viewing Kitchen Mesa); August 5, 2000: Ghost Ranch Conference Center, Abiquiu, NM; Music: Silence and Mark DeGarmo, vocals and percussion; Dancers: Michael Barron; Mark DeGarmo, Elsie DeGarmo-Smith, Jane Parker, and Jane Redmont.
• Dear Children: Awake and Rise; December 6, 2000: Tribeca Performing Arts Center at BMCC Theater 2, New York, NY; Tribeca Dance presents Mark DeGarmo & Dancers in Mark DeGarmo Eyes the World (MDD season title) as Dance Company in Residence 2000-2003; Music: Wagogo; Costumes: Igor and Svi Russanoff; Lighting
Design: Suzanne Lavender; Dancers: Yonati Joni Amar, Olga Barrios, Tina Chia Chi Chang, Jill Emerson, Jill Spiewak Eng, Jill Locke, Tresa Randall, and Dana Scarano.
• Improvisation on Spirals, Peace. 2003. Performer: Mark DeGarmo.
Municipal Theater, Chichicastenango, Guatemala. Dec. 2003. Quiché Mayan Traditional Dance and Music Festival and International Dance Festival of Chichicastenango, Guatemala sponsored by Grupo Cultural Uk-Ux Pop Wuj.
• Ode to John Cage; September 15, 2004. Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center, New York. Performer: Mark DeGarmo.
PUBLICATIONS
Videorecorded Works
• Ode to John Cage. 2004.
• DeGarmo, Mark B., prod. and ed. Mark DeGarmo and Dancers/Dynamic Forms Inc. Partnerships in Literacy through Dance and Creativity© at P.S. 142 The Amalia Castro School, Lower East Side, New York City 2002-2005. Videotape. Videography by Mark B. DeGarmo and Penny Ward. Video editing by Mark B. DeGarmo and Kay Hines. MDD/DFI Staff Teaching Artist in Dance and Creativity: Maria Mitchell. New York: Mark DeGarmo and Dancers/Dynamic Forms Inc., 2005.
Written Publications
• DeGarmo, Mark B. Accessing Embodied Imagination: An Approach to Experiential Learning through Movement Improvisation. Diss. Union Inst. & U, 2006. Ann Arbor: UMI, 2007.
• ---. Accessing Embodied Imagination: A Movement-Learning Theory and the Lincoln Center Institute Approach to Aesthetic Education. Paper presentation, research strand. Aesthetic Education: Expanding Notions of Excellence in K-18 Learning Communities conference, Equity Studies Research Center, Queens College, Queens, NY, March 24, 2007.
• ---. "Innovations and Alternatives in Dance Choreography, Performance, and Pedagogy", ts. Proposal for Fulbright Sr. Scholar Fellowship in Theater and Dance to Peru 1998-1999. Mark DeGarmo and Dancers/Dynamic Forms Inc., 107 Suffolk Street, Suite 310, New York, NY 10002.
• DeGarmo, Mark B., ed. Curricula in Dance, Creativity, and Interdisciplinary Arts Integration for Students, Teachers, Administrators, Staff, Parents, and Teaching Artists for Mark DeGarmo & Dancers/Dynamic Forms Inc.'s Schools Partnership Programs developed for the NYC Dept. of Educ. Public Schools including a) Partnerships in Literacy through Dance and Creativity© b)Partnerships in Literacy through Dance, Creative Movement, and Creative Process c) Creatively Moving toward Literacy Readiness d) Schools Partnership Program: A Comprehensive Arts Educ., ts. Mark DeGarmo and Dancers/Dynamic Forms Inc., 107 Suffolk Street, Suite 310, New York, NY 10002. Mark B. DeGarmo, Artistic and Executive Dir. 1995-07.
• New York City Department of Education. Consultant. Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts. N.p. 2005.
• Window on the Work: Flamenco Vivo (choreographed by Juan Andrés Maya, performed by the Carlota Santana Spanish Dance Company); Mark DeGarmo, Window Narrator, Researcher and Interviewer (interview with Carlota Santana); Heckscher Foundation Resource Center, Lincoln Center Institute, New York, NY, 1997.
• Window on the Work: Cunningham (choreographed by Merce Cunningham, performed by the Cunningham Repertory Group); Mark DeGarmo, Window Researcher and Interviewer (interview with Merce Cunnigham); Heckscher Foundation Resource Center, Lincoln Center Institute, New York, NY, 1997.
• Window on the Work: Facing North (created by Meredith Monk); Mark DeGarmo, Window Researcher; Heckscher Foundation Resource Center, Lincoln Center Institute, New York, NY, 1997.
• Window on the Work: Limón Dance Company, Carla Maxwell, Artistic Director, Choreographed by José Limón and Donald McKayle, performed by The Limón Dance Company. Mark DeGarmo, Window narrator. Lynn Marie Ruse and Mark DeGarmo, dance researchers. Mark DeGarmo, interviewer. Carla Maxwell and Donald McKayle, interviewees. New York: Heckscher Foundation Resource Center, Lincoln Center Inst., 1998.
• Window on the Work: Danny Grossman Dance Company; Mark DeGarmo, Window Researcher; Heckscher Foundation Resource Center, Lincoln Center Institute, New York, NY, 1998.
• Window on the Work: American Repertory Ballet; Mark DeGarmo, Window Researcher; Heckscher Foundation Resource Center, Lincoln Center Institute, New York, NY, 1998.
LECTURES
• Responsibilidades del artista. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Lima, November 10, 1998, 5:30-7:30 PM.
• El uso de la danza en el teatro. Escuela Nacional Superior de Arte Dramático, Lima, November 19, 1998, 3:30-5:30 PM.
• Danza en el Peru: ¿profesión o hobby? Asociación Terpsicore-Taller de Danza, Lima, November 20, 1998. 7:00-10:30 PM.
• Elementos de la danza. Ballet Municipal, Trujillo, December 11, 1998, 7:30-9:30 PM.
PANELS
• Using the Arts to Energize Core Curriculum: An Education Conference in the Hudson Valley. Presented by the New York State Alliance for Arts Education in partnership with the Columbia County Council on the Arts and the Richard B. Fisher Center. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. 10 Jan. 2008.
• Arts in Education: Dancers Teaching in K-12 Classrooms. Career Conversations with The Joyce Theater Foundation. Career Transitions for Dancers. Joyce Soho, New York. 22 Sept. 1997.
• Through a Glass Darkly: Creative Intention and Responsibility. World Dance Alliance Third General Assembly of the Americas Center. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. Jun. 1997
ARTICLES ABOUT & SCHOLARS' CITATIONS OF OUR WORK
•The Center for Arts Education. A Decade of Progress. [N.p.]: The Center for Arts Education, 2007.
• Dulicai, Dianne, and Ellen Schelly Hill. "Expressive Movement." Low-Cost Approaches to Promote Physical and Mental Health: Theory, Research, and Practice. Ed. Luciano L'Abate. New York: Springer Science Business Media, 2007. 177-200.
• Marrapodi, Maryann. Promising Practices: The Arts and School Improvement. New York: The Center for Arts Education, 2000. 43.
• Snyder, Kate. "Dance of Life: Mark DeGarmo '73." Northfield Mount Hermon Magazine. Ed. Mary Seymour. 10.1 (2007): 20-21. http://www.nmhschool.org/magazine/2007_fall/dance_of_life.php.
• Union Institute & University. "Meet Mark Degarmo: Educator, Choreographer, Dancer, and UI&U Graduate (sic)." @ Our Best. @UI&U: A Newsletter for Union Institute & University Learners, Alumni, Staff, and Faculty. (Apr.) 2008. http://www.tui.edu/communique/uiu/April2008/degarmo.asp.
• Vellucci, Michelle. "Speaking the Same Language: How Three Artistic Directors Are Using Dance to Help Students Learn English." DanceTeacher. (Oct.) 2007. 126-29. www.dance-teacher.com.
• Wang, Yungyu. "A Grand Feast for Performing Arts." Special Feature: Looking Out. Journal of Aesthetic Education. National Taiwan Arts Education Institute. 114 (2000): 39-48.
Photographs on this page by Beatriz Schiller