Jamey launches the GarnerGroup website. GarnerGroup is Jamey’s solo dance project outside of Three Dances.

Choreographed and performed by Jamey Garner

Cliché and Bourgeoise is a solo developed from the idea of the words in the title. Combining elements drawn from a Western repertoire of ballet, modern and postmodern dance and spiced with impressions of voudou and spirit possession, the solo is created for marathon purposes. In the final version of the piece, the dance will repeat until the dancer cannot or will not continue. A form of performance art in the sense that the performer will test the limits of her physical abilities and mental focus to repeat the movements with an indefinite time limit.

Costume design by Joan Vorderbruggen of Lollycopter

Music composed by Steven Jobe

Photo courtesy of Scott Pakudaitis

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Dance Along The Line kicks off Sunday, April 10th at 2pm and 4pm at beautiful Railroad Park.

Shows: March 4th and 5th at 8pm and March 6 at 2pm, 2011

Tickets: $18 Adults and $15 Senior/Student/Northeast Minneapolis resident

Ritz Theater Box Office: 612-436-1129

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Photo credit Jim Smith

Today, Suzanne begins rehearsals at Jacksonville State University, where she has been hired to choreograph the musical Aida.
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Sunday, December 12, 2010, 7:30 pm, $10 tickets available at the door

Hennepin Center for the Arts, Studio 4A, 528 Hennepin Ave S, Minneapolis

Joan Vorderbruggen of Lollycopter has been kind enough to create a one-of-a-kind, found, wearable art piece for this dance.

And long-time Three Dances collaborator Steven Jobe recommended his composition “Clownfish Trioriz”.

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Photos courtesy of Scott Pakudaitis

The piece Jamey returned to Minneapolis to make (along with gaining a sprained ankle and broken teeth) will be seen in its most final form to date on Friday, November 19 and Saturday, November 20, 2010 at Patrick’s Cabaret. Show time is 8pm. Pre-sale tickets can be purchased for $8 from Jamey (email her) or at the door for $10.

And now introducing the members of the Garner Group:

Katy Becker, Three Dances alum and a healer for creating clear hearts, double master’s degrees and an incredible dancer…

Mica Cornell, Suzanne discovered Mica and Jamey kept her, she’s amazing…

Lightsey Darst, survived all of the Ballet Box compartments and keeps coming back for more…southern women and their dark streaks….

Don Mabley Allen, you all thought he was an actor…he’s also a damn fine dancer…

Arturo Miles, hip hop master, also survived a Ballet Box compartment and dreamy to boot…

Liz Shoenborn, has been through all the incarnations of Antique’s Daughter, in all of the various performances of said incarnation, and is a young firecracker talent…

and Jamey…you can read all about her under the About tab in this website…

Photo courtesy of Digital Crush Photography

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Jamey is re-working the piece onto her pickup company of professional dancers, the Garner Group, to be performed at Patrick’s Cabaret on November 19 and 20, 2010. Pre-sale tickets can be purchased by contacting Three Dances.

Photo courtesy of Digital Crush Photography

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Choreographed by Jamey Garner

Work in Progress

Employing gaze as an element for investigation, Antique’s Daughter  explores the concept of the perception of the feminine. Drawing from the scrutiny of the artist and performer, the piece returns the stare to the audience.

Utilizing the idea of seeing, being seen and sacred space, the dancers break through the fourth wall that separates performer from audience, traveling into and out of the domain of the viewer. With a performance history of a backyard, a bar and traditional theatre spaces, the performance region is defined beyond the stage, albeit set apart from the audience, creating a clear delineation between viewer sector and performer territory.

Photo courtesy of Digital Crush Photography

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Antique’s Daughter from Jamey Garner on Vimeo (March 2011)

Brinsley Davis, Jamey Garner and long-time Three Dances company member Haley Laché will be flaunting their stuff at the first annual Patrick’s Cabaret Costume Fashion Ball on Saturday, October 16, 2010.