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maciej_florek Maximum Dance to get more northern exposure in Bro 02.10.03, 16:33

Maximum Dance to get more northern exposure in Broward
By Lauren Heist
Staff Writer

September 30, 2003

Broward County may not have a professional dance company to call its own, but
starting this season, Maximum Dance Company will be calling Broward its part-
time home.

The eight-member company that focuses on original works is based in Miami, but
is increasingly seeing Broward County as an untapped market.

"In this day and age, it's very important to go where the audience is," said
David Palmer, Maximum Dance's co-artistic director, who founded the company in
1997 with choreographer Yanis Pikieris.

The company is known for its daring, contemporary style and beguiling grace at
full-throttle energy. Together Palmer and Pikieris have created four full-
evening works, including last year's reinterpretation of Stravinsky's Rite of
Spring, as well as seven shorter pieces.

This season, exactly half of Maximum Dance's performances are scheduled in
Broward County, most at Bailey Concert Hall in Davie, with the other half at
the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. The company has also
recently enlarged its board of directors with new members from Broward County,
a move Palmer calls "a shot in the arm for us."

By opening its arms to Broward, Maximum will qualify as a regional arts group,
which entitles it to different state funding and grants than a local group. The
move also helps by going where the competition isn't.

In Miami-Dade County, there are a number of professional companies, such as
Momentum Dance and the newly created Ballet Gamonet. Broward is bereft of
professional dance companies, although there are some troupes associated with
dance schools.

By becoming a regional company, Maximum only has to compete with Miami City
Ballet, which divides its time among the Jackie Gleason Theater in Miami Beach,
the Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale and the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach.
And no one will confuse Maximum with MCB, a more traditional company that
stages The Nutcracker and works by name-grabbers such as Balanchine and Twyla
Tharp.

Maximum began testing the waters in Broward two years ago with its first
performance at Bailey. Since then, they've also performed at the Coral Springs
Center for the Arts and the Broward Center. According to Palmer, the response
has been positive. "It appears that we're getting a very mixed audience up in
Broward with a large age range and socio-economic range," he said.

Barbara Ouvarov of Fort Lauderdale used to volunteer with MCB, but recently
became one of Maximum's newest board members. "I like the energy of Maximum
Dance," Ouvarov said. "They're all classically trained dancers, but they bring
the audience into what they're doing."

Ouvarov said Maximum is hoping to draw on Broward's ethnic diversity to create
new ballet lovers. "There are people who maybe didn't grow up with ballet...
but have dance as part of their culture, so we're trying to go with new groups
to try to generate some interest," she said.

Because so many South Floridians come from other parts of the country and the
world, Ouvarov said people don't have a built-in allegiance to cultural
groups. "Down here, people didn't grow up with the Museum of Art or the New
World Symphony or the ballet. They don't feel a part of it, they need to be
drawn in."

Maximum Dance will open its season Saturday at Bailey Concert Hall with a
program titled "International Exchange." It will feature the U.S. premiere of
Cutting Corners by Daniel Rosseel, the resident choreographer of the Royal
Ballet of Flanders; Mephisto, a new work by Pikieris; and a one-act revision of
Spectrum. Set to the music of Pink Floyd, the Palmer-Pikieris collaboration
premiered last year in an evening-length version.

"It's something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue,"
Palmer said.

Lauren Heist can be reached at lheist@sun-sentinel.com or 954-459-2280.

Copyright © 2003, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

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maciej_florek Maximum Dance to get more northern exposure in Bro 02.10.03, 16:33

Maximum Dance to get more northern exposure in Broward
By Lauren Heist
Staff Writer

September 30, 2003

Broward County may not have a professional dance company to call its own, but
starting this season, Maximum Dance Company will be calling Broward its part-
time home.

The eight-member company that focuses on original works is based in Miami, but
is increasingly seeing Broward County as an untapped market.

"In this day and age, it's very important to go where the audience is," said
David Palmer, Maximum Dance's co-artistic director, who founded the company in
1997 with choreographer Yanis Pikieris.

The company is known for its daring, contemporary style and beguiling grace at
full-throttle energy. Together Palmer and Pikieris have created four full-
evening works, including last year's reinterpretation of Stravinsky's Rite of
Spring, as well as seven shorter pieces.

This season, exactly half of Maximum Dance's performances are scheduled in
Broward County, most at Bailey Concert Hall in Davie, with the other half at
the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. The company has also
recently enlarged its board of directors with new members from Broward County,
a move Palmer calls "a shot in the arm for us."

By opening its arms to Broward, Maximum will qualify as a regional arts group,
which entitles it to different state funding and grants than a local group. The
move also helps by going where the competition isn't.

In Miami-Dade County, there are a number of professional companies, such as
Momentum Dance and the newly created Ballet Gamonet. Broward is bereft of
professional dance companies, although there are some troupes associated with
dance schools.

By becoming a regional company, Maximum only has to compete with Miami City
Ballet, which divides its time among the Jackie Gleason Theater in Miami Beach,
the Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale and the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach.
And no one will confuse Maximum with MCB, a more traditional company that
stages The Nutcracker and works by name-grabbers such as Balanchine and Twyla
Tharp.

Maximum began testing the waters in Broward two years ago with its first
performance at Bailey. Since then, they've also performed at the Coral Springs
Center for the Arts and the Broward Center. According to Palmer, the response
has been positive. "It appears that we're getting a very mixed audience up in
Broward with a large age range and socio-economic range," he said.

Barbara Ouvarov of Fort Lauderdale used to volunteer with MCB, but recently
became one of Maximum's newest board members. "I like the energy of Maximum
Dance," Ouvarov said. "They're all classically trained dancers, but they bring
the audience into what they're doing."

Ouvarov said Maximum is hoping to draw on Broward's ethnic diversity to create
new ballet lovers. "There are people who maybe didn't grow up with ballet...
but have dance as part of their culture, so we're trying to go with new groups
to try to generate some interest," she said.

Because so many South Floridians come from other parts of the country and the
world, Ouvarov said people don't have a built-in allegiance to cultural
groups. "Down here, people didn't grow up with the Museum of Art or the New
World Symphony or the ballet. They don't feel a part of it, they need to be
drawn in."

Maximum Dance will open its season Saturday at Bailey Concert Hall with a
program titled "International Exchange." It will feature the U.S. premiere of
Cutting Corners by Daniel Rosseel, the resident choreographer of the Royal
Ballet of Flanders; Mephisto, a new work by Pikieris; and a one-act revision of
Spectrum. Set to the music of Pink Floyd, the Palmer-Pikieris collaboration
premiered last year in an evening-length version.

"It's something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue,"
Palmer said.

Lauren Heist can be reached at lheist@sun-sentinel.com or 954-459-2280.

Copyright © 2003, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

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