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Not Your Average Avatar

Not Your Average Avatar is a contemporary dance choreographed by Mikayla McKee.

Photo by Rebecca Graney PhotographyDancers: Amber Gardner, Ashley McCullough, Madelyn Staley, Stacey Smith

This piece is about the four elements. It started from creating a costume that has an entirely different color on the back than from the front. Having a different element color on the back of each dancer (fire: orange, earth: green, water: blue and air: white) provides a deeper meaning in different facings the dancers have throughout the dance. The skin-tone on the front represents the dancers as human. Elements have a huge impact on people. Different elements represent different moods and behaviors.

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Relapse is a duet choreographed by Ashley McCullough with music by Sergey Cheremisinov.

Photo by Rebecca Graney PhotographyDancers: Ashley McCullough and Steven Sippert

"The woman is wanting to move forward, but keeps getting pulled back and struggles to move on. The male dancer is wanting to help her, but sometimes gets pulled back himself in the process. Ultimately, her fear, uncomfortableness of the unknown, of being outside her comfort zone, as well as her past and things out of her control, whip her back across the stage to where she started. But there’s still a sense of hope in the two dancers that she can return to the other side of the stage when she’s ready." -Audience Member

Ekam Dve

Photo by Rebecca Graney PhotographyDancer: Ashley McCullough

"Unity is plural and, at minimum, is two." -Buckminister Fuller

Ekam Dve is a solo created by Ashley McCullough and Amber Gardner, music by Valgeir Sigurosson.

Photo by Rebecca Graney PhotographyDancer: Ashley McCullough

"Ashley McCullough performs an adagio acrobatic dance with contortions that keep evolving from a supine position to torso inversions and precariously held strength moves. Then McCullough finishes the solo with equally muscled, and eloquent ballet moves." - Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal & PhiladelphiaDANCE.org - The Dance Journal: 6th Come Together Dance Festival Convenes https://philadelphiadance.org/dancejournal/2019/11/23/6th-come-together-dance-festival-convenes/

The Bunkbed Chronicles: Part 1

Richmond Dance Festival - Isolation to Creation

Check out the virtual performance here:

https://www.dogtowndancetheatre.com/rdf-2020-virtual

Photo by Chris Walt Photography/courtesy of Triangle Dance ProjectDancers: Jasmine Powell and Anthony Otto Nelson Jr.

Check out this Critique of Conscious Oblivion from Indy Weekly:

Byron Woods said, “McCullough demonstrated clear, unshakable command of both [technical prowess and artistic vision].”

Conscious Oblivion

“Children see magic because they look for it.” -Christopher Moore

Conscious Oblivion is a playful contemporary dance duet choreographed by Ashley McCullough. The accompaniment for the piece, an ethereal piano arrangement by the talented Kaitlin June, was composed especially for the concept and after the movement was created.

Photo by Chris Walt Photography/courtesy of Triangle Dance ProjectDancers: Jasmine Powell and Anthony Otto Nelson Jr.

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