Mitchum Todd
“Love Somebody, Anybody, I Don’t Care” Choreographed by Mitchum Todd
“Love Somebody, Anybody, I Don’t Care” Choreographed by Mitchum Todd
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Mitchum Todd’s career is vast and rich. As an artist-in-residence with the California Center
for the Arts, Escondido California, he joined CCAE, following a ten-year association with the New York based Lincoln Center Institute of Arts Education. He has provided educational and motivational workshops to such divergent businesses and art agencies such as SONY, San Diego’s LEAD, Arts for Abused Children in Los Angeles, Performing Tree, California State University Leadership Institute and the McCallum Theater Institute in Palm Springs among others. |
“Love Somebody, Anybody, I Don’t Care” is an exploration of social dances from the 1930’s and 40’s. These dances, sometimes known as “War Time” dances were created when women were about to send American men off to war. While focusing on archetypes executed in these dances, we see on film that the dance partners of this time were mostly white males and females. After learning various styles, the jitter bug, fox trot, swing, rumba, samba, and the Jazz age waltz we apply a contemporary postmodern layer onto these styles. Applying a new artistic perception, we reexamine these masculine and feminine archetypes, changing partners from male to female to male to male, female to female, intergenerational and diverse. The most common misconception however is our tendency to assume that everyone, regardless of age, social status, ethnicity or geography was dancing the latest fad youth dance of the moment: be it the Charleston, the Black Bottom, Collegiate Shag or Lindy Hop. Given the complexity and physical demands of these dances, this defies simple logic and any review of the films of the time will show that these youth dances had a definite place, but they were danced by a minority of the total dancing population - and even those who danced them did not limit themselves to those dances.
Dancers: Adromena Breeze, Alex Ebalo, Hannah Cook, Jordan Daley, Leslie Jakes, Luci Patrick, Mario Jaimes, Roberto Mendez, Stephanie Britton
