Like Moths to a Flame: New Dances

Megan Flynn & Teresa VanDenend Sorge

Cincinnati, OH

Like moths to a flame – Do we blow out the match, or light a thousand?

What do 85 year old love letters, your deceased mother’s journals, and a box of matches have in common? Unearthing embers of generational wisdom that spark a new (flight) path forward. Curated by Cincy Fringe returning artists, Megan Flynn & Teresa VanDenend Sorge: Le Spectacle De Merde (‘24), Mothering & Mourning (‘23).

Category: Dance/Physical Theatre

Tags: Story-telling, Dance-Theatre, Experimental

Rating: PG-13

Venue: Gabriel’s Corner, 1425 Sycamore St at the corner of Sycamore & Liberty
This venue is wheelchair-accessible and offers step-free access from the street to the seating area.

Please note there is no late seating for this production.

Artist Bio

With their Cincy Fringe debut described as “Must-see storytelling with the body,” long-time collaborators, Megan Flynn & Teresa VanDenend Sorge, return for a third year. Professional dance artists, choreographers, and educators, Flynn & VanDenend Sorge create original dance performances that have been called “skillful, experimental, and purposeful.” They’ll be joined by Cincinnati and Columbus-based dance artists, and esteemed dance Professor Emeritus, Mary Linda Graham, formerly of DCDC (‘81-82), playing the role of “podcast host.”

Past Fringe Credits

(2025) BOOM Charlotte, “Mothering & Mourning” (Megan Flynn & Teresa VanDenend Sorge)
(2024) Cincy Fringe, “Le Spectacle de Merde (Welcome to our Sh*t Show)” (Megan Flynn & Teresa VanDenend Sorge).
(2023) Cincy Fringe, “Mothering & Mourning” (Megan Flynn & Teresa VanDenend Sorge)
(2019) Philadelphia Fringe Festival, “Knots & Ties” (Megan Flynn Dance Company)
(2016) Philadelphia Fringe Festival, “We’re all a little bit stubborn” (Megan Flynn Dance Company)
(2015) Philadelphia Fringe Festival, “Dances with Socks” (Megan Flynn Dance Company)
(2014) Philadelphia Fringe Festival, “Not Your Mother’s Moth” (Megan Flynn & Teresa VanDenend Sorge)

Megan Flynn is a guest artist for Northern Kentucky University’s DANCE ’25: HOMECOMING concert. She is creating a new contemporary ballet for four talented first year students.

DANCE ’25: HOMECOMING

NKU’s Department of Theatre & Dance

Corbett Theatre
Feb. 28 – Mar. 2, 2025

A moving evening of world-premiere choreography, this year’s concert, under the talented guidance of Professor Jeri Gatch, strikes a more familial tone with its theme: Homecoming. What could be more appropriate after a year-and-a-half of touring productions to off-site venues due to the renovation of NKU School of the Art’s theatres, than welcoming us back to campus and creating a stellar line-up of guest choreographers who include NKU dance alumni. With styles ranging from ballet to street dance, African dance to musical theatre, this concert has something for everyone to enjoy. 

Mothering & Mourning

Megan Flynn & Teresa VanDenend Sorge

https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/mothering-and-mourning

Saturday, February 8, 2025 at 4pm AND Sunday, February 9, 2025 at 4pm

An afternoon of experimental dance, music and art, dedicated to the absurdity of caregiving and the mother-like folks unfazed by the mess. Sandwiched between caring for aging parents and young children; harvesting eggs due to a cancer diagnosis; and birthing creative ideas without an epidural. Mothering and Mourning – aren’t we all?

Performers: Megan Flynn, Lindsay Helock, Teresa VanDenend Sorge, Rodney Veal, Nadia Ureña Live Music: Stephanie Myers-Cable; Visual Art: Emily Cable McKenna 

Oct 25-25th: Megan will be performing as an extra in Mutual Dance Theatre’s presents: Blue13 Dance Company in Cincinnati, OH at the Arnoff Center for the Arts.

COUNTING DOWN THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK IN

'100 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT'

BLUE13'S CINCINNATI PREMIERE

https://www.mutualdance.org/archive/2024-2025/blue13/

This is Blue 13 at the top of their game as the dancers handle all styles and transitions smoothly and without notice. The fusion has become so ingrained that there is no longer any reason to list the separate styles in their own right. This is simply Blue 13 doing what it does best and telling one hell of a story at the same time. — LA Dance Chronicle

For the first time ever, Mutual Dance Theatre brings guests Blue13 Dance Company (Artistic Director, Achinta S. McDaniel) from Los Angeles to Cincinnati. Blue13 is rhythmic, charged, and moody, like nothing you’ve ever seen before and drawing often from Indian art forms.

Blue13 will perform “100 Seconds to Midnight,” a new contemporary dance work by Achinta S. McDaniel. The three-part performance draws inspiration from the infamous Doomsday Clock. Made famous by J. Robert Oppenheimer, Albert Einstein, and other concerned scientists, the clock measures how close the planet is to global catastrophe, signified by midnight. McDaniel turns the metaphor inward to examine the notion of doom as it pertains to South Asian communities. Repeatedly erased, but resilient, these communities often grapple with cyclical trauma and the unrelenting anxiety of impending loss. Through a triptych of movements, “100 Seconds to Midnight” confronts misogyny, unpacks the generational effects of colonization, and scrutinizes the expectations placed upon women regarding duty, tradition, and assimilation.

Megan is thrilled to return to Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance/ EMIA 2024

to teach in Session #2 and create a new work!

Session #2 Matinee Performance 8/3

Session #2 Evening Performance 8/3

Cincinnati Fringe Festival 2024

Taghkanic, New York: On Friday April 26th, Saturday, April 27th at 8:00 pm, and Sunday April 28th at 3pm, Choreography on the Edge will present its 35th performance in an new area and a new venue. Since 1990, this innovative program has given professional choreographers and dancers a chance to experiment and push their boundaries, much to the benefit of Hudson Valley’s lovers of dance! This April the shows will be at the Hudson Valley Academy of Performing Arts (HVAPA) on Route 82 in Taghkanic, just off the Taconic State Parkway Exit 81.

This year we are celebrating our 35th year by reaching out to a new audience. The line up is comprised of choreographers and dancers spanning a wide range of styles and techniques; primarily modern dance, contemporary ballet and cultural motifs. A number of choreographers will be performing their work as solos, and others will work as duets and trios. Among this stellar group are: Neville Dance Theater from NYC bringing a new duet. Laura Teeter, Hannah Albin, Emily Gunter, Megan Flynn and Sara Senecal from Albany will be performing brand new works choreographed for this show. Fiona Scruggs’ Qualia Dance Collective and Olivia Idella Martin, both from the Berkshires, will appear as well as Debra Hughes, the Artistic Director of HVAPA and Laura Coe from Chatham. New to the show this year is Zoe Thomas from Beacon. Also, returning to the show after many years is Jennifer Yackel from Maryland. This show promises to be an excellent showcase for the best that the Hudson Valley has to offer.

WDC 24: Borders & Boundaries

February 28th-March 2nd - 7:30pm
March 2nd at 2:00PM
Yulman Theater

The Union College Dance Program presents Borders and Boundaries, a dance concert featuring 10 original works choreographed by students and faculty. Borders and Boundaries features 33 student performers, alongside original costume and lighting designs created in collaboration with the theater and dance department. Megan Flynn, Artistic Director

Press & Promo Video

MFDC creative residency at Union College in Schenectady, NY in December 2023. The company gathers to begin creating new work for 2024!

Megan Flynn’s newest work, Interwoven, premiered at the FallU Showcase held in the Henle Dance Studio Nov. 10-11, 2023. Interwoven, created in collaboration with students, was the culmination of the semester-long course, Staging Explorations in Dance Theatre: Borders & Boundaries at Union College where Flynn is the Director of Dance/Artist-in-Residence.

Megan Flynn and Laurie Zabele Cawley will accompany 13 students from the Union College Dance Program to perform at the International Collegiate Theatre Festival/ Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Edinburgh Scotland from Aug 1-13, 2023. Union’s “Edinburgh Ensemble” will be performing a touring version of the Winter Dance Concert: At the Intersection, including two works choreographed by Megan Flynn, in collaboration with the dancers: The Handshake and Lost Thoughts within Tidal Waves.

https://www.union.edu/theater-dance/edinburgh-fringe-2023

Megan is premiering a new solo, “Slow Dance with Adulting”

Choreography on the Edge

July 21-23, 2023

The Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston, NY.

It’s official! Longtime collaborators, Megan Flynn & Teresa VanDenend Sorge, have been selected to present their evening of dance, “Mothering & Mourning” in the @cincyfringe Primary Line-Up in June 2023!

The Lineup totals 31 productions (30 in-person and 1 online) and features new work from 15 local creators, 14 productions from across the country, and 2 international artists from Japan and Australia. With 16 world premieres, 15 regional premieres and 15 producing companies that have never-been-seen-before in Cincinnati, audiences are guaranteed to experience something extraordinary.

Gabriel's Corner: 1425 Sycamore St, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Friday, June 9 at 7pm
Sunday June 11 at 4:15 pm
Tuesday June 13 at 7:00 pm
Wednesday June 14 at 8:45pm
Thursday June 15 at 7:00 pm

As the Gustave L. Davis ‘59 & Sue Davis Director of Dance/Artist-in-Residence, Megan will premiere two new works for At the Intersection: Winter Dance Concert 2023:

The Handshake (2023) and Lost Thoughts within Tidal Waves (2023)