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A new week, Theatre People! This week I’d love to introduce you to Brittany Moss. In 2019 and part of 2020, just before COVID hit, Brittany and I were working on an exciting new show for her ballet company, Hansel and Gretel. This was one of my favorite projects, and even as the pandemic hit, we kept pounding away on the projection design with high hopes it would hit the stage. I’m sorry to say that the project withered, but I was so grateful for the time working on it.
So, that being said, I’m excited you get to know Brittany a little bit through this interview. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
Brittany Moss, ballet dancer, producer and teacher in Kansas City, KS.
There are many but being a ballerina, I’m going to pick The Nutcracker because it is the show that made me fall in love with ballet and I imagine many others as well.
As I look back my happiest memories of performing are being with the friends I love. But as I have gotten older I just love BEING in the theatre and watching things I create come to life.
I was performing the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker and the Cavalier lifts me in the air, flips me around and catches me in a “fish.” Well, I forgot to keep one leg down, leaving him nothing to catch. I ended up hands on the floor, both legs split behind him. The only thing that kept me from hitting my head was he grabbed the back of my tutu to stop me.
I love that theatre allows performers and the audience to experience something that will only happen once. No two nights are the same, even if it is the same show. There are little changes, performers absolutely know them, audience members may catch them.
ESCAPE
Even for the performers.
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Brittany Moss is a former principal artist with the Utah Metropolitan Ballet (formerly Utah Regional Ballet). After completing her dancing career she moved to Houston, TX where she continued to teach and choreograph for different studios in the area. In 2018, she had the opportunity to become the co-director of AMS Dance Studio located in Sugar Land, TX. In June 2020, her family moved to the Kansas City area for a job opportunity for her husband. She continues to teach and choreograph in Kansas. She is a mother of 2 wonderful children.
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Mitch is the Founding Creative Director of Theatre Avenue, where he designs digital projections for the performing arts. For the last 14 years, Mitch has produced digital content for theatre and ballet companies, universities, and schools internationally. His work ranges from original illustration, animation, and motion design for productions such as Willy Wonka, Swan Lake, Nutcracker, The Wizard of Oz, Annie, Lion King and beyond. Mitch travels the country teaching projection design workshops, conducts virtual learning sessions, publishes media content, and writes for theatre magazines and blogs. Before his dive into the theatrical world, Mitch was an art director and designer creating nationwide campaigns for corporate and non-profit organizations like NBC News, Global Down Syndrome Foundation, Habitat for Humanity, and the Alzheimer’s Association. He worked for 10 years with hundreds of clients as a graphic and web designer, illustrator, and motion graphics artist. Mitch earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at Ball State University, where he studied art and design, the humanities, and computer animation.
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