Mike Barber is MLC's high school Educational Resource Center teacher, and an extraordinary person. He has taught for thirty-three years, has recently completed a graduate degree in counseling psychology, and is a choreographer and dancer. He also produces a performance series called Ten Tiny Dances.
Ten Tiny Dances challenges its artists to be creative by confining them to a four-foot-by-four-foot stage. Each performance is composed of ten dances. TTD has been performed in a variety of venues since 2002, including PICA's TBA Festival (the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's annual Time-Based Art Festival). What began as an experiment has grown to be an extremely popular performance series. OPB's Oregon Art Beat produced an episode in 2011 highlighting the creation of a tiny dance for PICA's TBA Festival (watch below).
As always, MLC's staff are exceptional.
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