Kevin Thomas Mitchell

Our final show of the year saw us begin with a solo on a white canvas before covering ourselves and each other in paint while we danced as an ensemble. A highlight on Muhlenberg's campus, an audience gathered on three sides to watch us play and dance with vibrant colors. This group has been very special to me, and I will miss them intensely as I begin my professional life in LA next month. #painting #bodies #dance #improv #performance #audience #art #participation #love #colo

For our second on-campus performance, Six Meters took inspiration from jugs of water brought onstage halfway through the show. Flicking droplets, pouring streams, and dunking each other reminded me of baptisms and cleansing as well as fear at the sudden shock of cold. We played to our strengths, creating a beautiful soundscape with voices and impromptu instruments. Eventually I made my way to the piano, where I improvised an accompaniment to the performers onstage, once again

(Photos by: (L) Demi Demetriades, (R) David Budnick, (Bottom) Melinda Graber) #dance #chapel #magic #performance #improv #sixmeters #physicaltheatre #candlelight #beauty #expression #solos #duos #trios

On Friday, February 27, we performed at Hillside, an elementary and middle school for children with ADD and related learning disabilities. The audience of about 100 was attentive and engaged, and our performance of a little over an hour flew by. I danced using a bundle of long sticks as sound, tapping them on the ground, letting them fall, swishing them through the air, scraping them against each other. These sounds inspired a fellow dancer’s movements in a duet. We then used

For our first on-campus performance of the year, Six Meters amassed a gigantic pile of clothes in the Brown Dance Studio. Pulling clothes from the pile, wearing them in unconventional ways, burying ourselves, using it as an obstacle, imagining it as a hill under the stars, we explored the possibilities of movement and costuming. I also improvised on the piano to accompany my fellow dancers during a sequence. Dancing in "DRESS WARM" on Valentine's Day turned a difficult holida

On Wednesday, I performed with Six Meters at Allentown's Phoebe Retirement Home. We began by demonstrating some improvisational dance techniques: 8s, opening spaces, all stopping and starting at the same time, before doing an exercise called "filling in spaces." With a partner, you fill in the spaces of their body, which can be under their arms, between their fingers, between their head and back, anywhere. Then one partner moves away, leaving the other in a dynamic shape. We

For our first performance of the year, we visited Lincoln Elementary in Emmaus, PA. Performing before hundreds of children age 5-11, we taught the universal impulse of improvised dance. The kids loved it - we found out later through a gym teacher that unbeknownst to us, the student volunteers we chose tended to be the quiet "oddballs" of their classes. I was so happy to hear that we had created a space comfortable enough for them to create and dance in front of their peers. #

-Improvised physical theatre and dance- Using sound, space, texture, and movement, Six Meters brings improvised dance to the Allentown community. Performance locations include Muhlenberg College, local public schools, prisons, the Brooklyn Bridge, and more. -Click here for Six Meters on Facebook- #sixmeters #dance #physicaltheatre #improv

Directed by Matthew Moore Movement Specialist: Susan Creitz Original Music: Sean Skahill A Muhlenberg Mainstage, this production made unique use of physical theatre and a live original music score to create an arresting and devastating experience. Agamemnon's process required close collaboration, as the director derived much of the final staging from open Viewpoints responses performed by the cast. Additionally, the modern poetry of Ted Hughes' translation rewarded strong cl