You Are Happy: In Only 2 Weeks!

You Are Happy, "a multi-media solo performance rooted in the physical with an imaginative eye towards the mythical", is kicking off Mountain Empire's summer line-up and is only 2 weeks away.  

Get a little snapshot of You Are Happy on the PortFringe blog! 
"the movement in this piece brings in a lot of different inspirations - a little butoh, a lot of gesture work, some post-modern improvisation and some classical contemporary technique."
Read more HERE









Meet Eliza Larson in Portland, Maine on June 26 & 28th for a host of PortFringe shows and beautiful landscapes. Then be sure to talk to Eliza about what Siren inspirations she mined from the world of Homer.  


Mountain Empire Performance Collective presents
You Are Happy
at the PortFringe in Portland, ME
June 26, 10pm
June 28, 4:30pm
SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St
TICKETS HERE

You Are Happy At The Port Fringe

You Are Happy is a sensual, surreal, and sensorial solo performance.  Rooted in the physical with an imaginative eye towards the mythical, dancer Eliza Larson draws the world of Homer’s Sirens anew in this interdisciplinary solo.  Imbued with memories, physical residue, and the essence of emotion, the performance moves between dance and performance art, abstract and literal film imagery, and includes movement, image, text, sound, and costume.  Featuring an original sound score by Benjamin Chakoian Jones and Stephen Turney.

Port Fringe  

Thursday, June 26, 2014 at 10:00pm

Saturday, June 28, 2014 at 4:30pm

SPACE Gallery (map)

538 Congress St

Portland, ME, 04101

United States

Tickets: HERE

Eliza Larson is an independent artist based in Northampton, MA (USA).  In addition to performing as a soloist, Eliza currently dances with the Mountain Empire Performance Collective.  She holds an MFA in Dance from Smith College where she was a Gretchen Moran Teaching Fellow in the Five College Dance Department.   As a choreographer, Eliza strives to create work that is both entertaining and thought provoking, quirky and beautiful, and accessible to the general public and dance enthusiasts alike.  

2014 Mountain Empire Summer Line-Up

It's Summertime, which means Fringe Festivals! Mountain Empire is doing it's fair share of traveling and soaking up the art, and we're happy to share some our latest shows.  

Without further ado, here is Mountain Empire Performance Collective's 2014 Summer Line-Up.

Port Fringe

Presenting: You Are Happy

Eliza Larson reinterprets the world of Homer’s Sirens in this interdisciplinary solo

When:  
Thursday, June 26, 2014 at 10:00pm

Saturday, June 28, 2014 at 4:30pm

Where:
SPACE Gallery (map)

538 Congress St

Portland, ME, 04101

United States

Tickets: HERE

Capitol Fringe

Presenting: Everybody Knows This Is Now Here

The Great American Road Trip goes virtual through contemporary dance

When:
Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 7:45pm

Saturday, July 12, 2014 at 6:00pm

Sunday, July 13, 2014 at 1:45pm

Tuesday, July 15, 2014 at 9:45pm

Thursday, July 17, 2014 at 6:00pm

Friday, July 18, 2014 at 4:00pm

Where:
Goethe Institut (map)

812 7th St NW

Washington, DC, 20001

United States

Tickets: HERE

Southern Vermont Dance Festival

Presenting: You Are Happy

Eliza Larson reinterprets the world of Homer’s Sirens in this interdisciplinary solo

When:
Sunday, July 20, 2014 at 11:00am

Where:
Southern Vermont Dance Festival (map)

Brattleboro, VT

USA

Tickets: HERE