Mimi Garrard Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award, and more for Work with Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre

Mimi Garrard of Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre is proud to announce several awards for her recent work, including a lifetime achievement award from the Institute of Arts and Letters in Mississippi for her outstanding achievement in dance both for video and for the stage, and a Distinguished Alumnae Award from Sweet Briar College. As her experimental vision with digital techniques has grown, Mimi’s work has gained increased attention and multiple plaudits. Recently, her films have been presented internationally on television, in museums and galleries, and at 2,545 festivals worldwide.

Lately her work has been shown on the dome of the planetarium in Jackson, Mississippi, and on the BBC BIG screen throughout England. Over the course of the last three years, Mimi has participated in 1660 international festivals winning 1388 first place awards, many of them this year for 48 different videodances. Mimi Garrard has a half-hour monthly television program on Manhattan Neighborhood Network in Manhattan, New York that is streamed live at the time of broadcast (251 programs to date). For more information and to view her work on film, please visit https://mimigarrarddance.com/.

Additionally, Mimi Garrard’s videodances may be viewed or on YouTube: www.youtube.com/mimigarrarddance. Her videodances are featured on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) Channel 2 on cable in Manhattan twice a month on Sundays at 5 p.m. They are also simultaneously Webcast with streaming video at www.mnn.org.

Her video work has received first place awards at festivals in most major cities including Rome, Los Angeles, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, Praque, Kolkata, New York, Miami, Tokyo, Gangtok, Chennai, Gurgaon, Chicago, Hyderabad, London, Cannes, Makati, Darjeeling, Marsfield, Amsterdam, Toronto, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Singapore, Milan, Zurich, Florence, and Dubai. A complete list of first place awards in 2024 is available HERE.

THANKS TO THE COLLABORATORS

Dancers

Bendernagel, Tim

Copeland, Evan

Daley, Sara

McBride, Michael Francis

Jewett, Kate

Jian, Dai

Koppe, Cynthia

Pratt, Jonathan Melville

Roberts, Samuel

Selden, Austin

Willis, Marcus Jarell

Composers

Frasconi, Miguel

Garrard, Mimi

Halac, Jose

Hamilton, Tom

Niblock, Phill

Pinto, Joao Castro

Pratt, Jonathan Melville

Scoville, Jon

Shields, Alice