Hot Mess is a collection of pieces exploring the meme choreography of tourism, Shakespeare’s portrayal of love and death, and polyrythms. Often satirical and always charming/tender/visually provocative, Mrozowski’s work exploits image and utilizes pedestrian movement while challenging gender norms and exploiting perceptual relativity. Underlying her choreography is an ongoing investigation of a character whose movement vocabulary and conceptual framework has been developed by Mrozowski over the past several years. Part model, part flight attendant, part Rockette and part sci-fi character/engineered woman, she embodies the media-image-consumption-regurgitation cycle, exploring attraction/repulsion to/of fashion. Girl as glitter; beautiful, shallow and strange, she exists always as a multiple.
<About the BAAD Collective>
The BAAD Kinetics Project centers around an eight-week bicycle tour of the Northeast that responds to the regional limits of dance communities, the increasing lack of low fi dance touring and the subsequent limited exposure of the public to contemporary dance. The Collective was formed to bring smart, engaging and funny dance to a range of professional and alternative venues and provide a fresh experience to new and seasoned audiences alike.
In an effort to travel with a minimal carbon footprint and advocate the benefits of cycling (fitness while locomoting, increased time outdoors, slower living and low cost, anti-fossil-fuel and enviro-pro transportation), the BAAD Collective will be traveling entirety on bicycles.
<About Layla Marcelle Mrozowski>
Mrozowski is a multidisciplinary artist, choreographer, designer, dancer and girl friday. Her choreography explores the idiosyncrasies of femininity as well as love, pop-culture and perceptual relativity. She is dedicated to ecologically-conscious living, food politics and world travel. Mrozowski received her BA and BFA from Alfred University in 2008 where she completed a philosophy thesis on gender identity in post modern dance. Mrozowski continued working as a choreographer and training at Penn State University where she was a Visiting Artist in the dance department for two semesters in 2009. In January she relocated to Washington, DC, where she’s danced with Bettman Dances, interned for an artistic director and continued to perform her own work in PA, Brooklyn, NY and Maryland as well as DC. Currently Mrozowski is collaborating with choreographer Keira Hart-Mendoza of Uprooted Dance on a series of dance sketches with neon sculptures.
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Demo Reel:www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIlb25XT-RQ
Website: www.heartlayla.com
Video Clip and Interview: http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2010/01/21/video_choreography_of_dance_ex.aspx
