NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The dancers in Found Movement Group don't perform in traditional places. The Nashville-based performers opt for clubs and parks instead of theaters.
"Large theaters aren't what we like to perform in," Stacie Flood-Popp said.
Flood-Popp is the executive director of the group of 15 performers.
"We call ourselves a movement group because we come from all different backgrounds of dance. Some of us come from freestyle hip-hop, some of us come from ballet, some of us come from academic contemporary dance and some of us come from commercial dancing. We are kind of like a melting pot of all styles of movement. That's why we're called a movement group instead of a dance group," Flood-Popp said.
Like their backgrounds, the group performs at venues with unique styles.
"We like to give our audience members and spectators an experience. Instead of just performing for them we perform with them," she said.
When the group performs "Obsession," their monthly show at the Flamingo Cocktail Club and Coffee Bar, audience members can expect to get involved.
"If they are at the bar and we're doing something at the bar the bartenders have to navigate performing with us and serving cocktails," she said.
Every performance is what the audience makes it, according to the director.
"The books that you get to choose your own ending, that's what we describe it as," she said.
Found Movement Group is planning to open a studio in the Wedgewood Houston area later this year.
