JOIN US! BodyWise Dance and the MVLE Moves Performance Group presents our 2018 production, All About Dogs. It’s an immersive, participatory performance celebrating the way we love our dogs and the way they love us back, all through the lens of a super fun job-search.
When are YOU braver than your size? How does that Walking-the-Dog tap step go? What are the right signals to communicate with a dog? Come to the show to find out.
The cast includes professional actors and dancers alongside adults with intellectual and developmental disability, PLUS dog-therapy teams. What?!
Terry Patton and therapy dog Lulu inspired our song, “I’m a little dog, but I got a big bark!”
Our performance project began fall of 2017 with a period of creative research. We invited professionals from several dog-related fields to visit rehearsals and tell us about their work. We met pet therapy teams Terry Patton & Lulu and Kris Campesi & Nic, Dogtopia’s owner and groomer Amber Sutton & her dog Zeke, MPO Brad Weeks and his police dogs, Kodiak & Juneau, and veterinarian Caitlin Love. Additionally, a bunch of us were invited by our partners at the Key Center School to join them for a day of volunteering at the Alexandria Animal Welfare League.
All About Dogs cast
MVLE, Inc. is a nonprofit whose mission is focused on creating futures one person a at time for individuals with disabilities through community-based employment and support services. The MVLE Moves program provides weekly performing arts education and movement therapy for over 150 individuals. Questions about MVLE or the performance please contact Sarah Caldwell at 703-337-4846 or Sarah.Caldwell@mvle.org.
BRAVO FUNDERS! All About Dogs is made possible in part by funding from: National Endowment for the Arts, Virginia Commission for the Arts, Arts Council of Fairfax County, Wells Fargo Foundation, Rea Charitable Trust, Express Lanes Foundation.
Special Thanks to Nonja Tiller for her contribution to our production. She is an artist with Art Enables, an art gallery and vocational arts program dedicated to creating opportunities for artists with disabilities to make, market and earn income from their original and compelling artwork.