For the third year in a row I had a chance to photograph Shut Up and Dance for MANNA. This was their 15th anniversary! Every year it gets better and better. The dancers are always awesome and the choreography just moves forward by leaps and bounds. Some of the choreographers this year were Meredith Rainey, who retired last year from PA Ballet but still came to choreograph and perform, Courtney Cox, former PA Ballet Dancer and Ballet X Artistic Director, Brian Sanders from JUNK and several other dancers. MANNA raised over $120,000 and dedicated this performance to Anthony Sparacino.
The show opened with a Dream Girls sequence….
Meredith Rainey
Martha Graham Cracker….this was hilarious and well done by Dito van Reigersberg of Pig Iron Theatre
A piece by Brian Sanders and performed by Tara Keating
Performed every year, Dying Swan, by Arantxa Ochoa