July 11, 2012, Wednesday - Swimming with My Mother Opens at The Guthrie

Location: Guthrie Theater, Dowling Studio, 818 South 2nd Street

The Guthrie WorldStage Series presents a CoisCéim Dance Theatre production of Swimming with My Mother & Deep End Dance, an award-winning film produced by Wildfire Films.

Run time: approximately one hour with no intermission.
Seating in the Dowling Studio is general admission and begins 30 minutes before curtain.

A young boy takes a lesson from his mother, a swimming coach. Life passes in laps, things change and the boy teaches his mother to dance. As their own stories intertwine and swell like a rising tide, the bonds of familial love are revealed to the sultry tones of Nat King Cole. Performed by acclaimed Irish choreographer David Bolger (H.M.S. Pinafore) and his 78-year-old mother Madge, this award-winning production is told with affectionate humor, as a gentle and joyful celebration of the things we pass on and the things we inherit. 

The evening ends with the short dance film Deep End Dance. It features a fully dressed man as he is pushed into a swimming pool by his mother. He brushes himself off and begins dancing underwater, always aware that she’s watching. After a while she joins him in the turquoise dappled waters and they perform a duet of playful somersaults and pirouettes.