The Company: Monica Bill Barnes & Company is a contemporary American dance company with the mission to celebrate individuality, humor and the innate theatricality of everyday life. Danspace Project presented the company’s first New York season, an evening-length work titled “When we were pretty”, in 2002. MBB & CO. has performed in over twenty venues in New York City, including three seasons at The Joyce Theater. The company has been presented in more than 30 cities throughout the United States and has been a part of festivals including The American Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. MBB & CO. has received support from The National Endowment for The Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts - National Dance Project, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, The Greenwall Foundation, Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Manhattan Community Arts Fund and The Fund for Creative Communities. Major support has also come in the form of creative residencies awarded by The Joyce Theater Residency Program (2010-2011), Jacob’s Pillow (2009 Creative Development Residency), the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University (2006-2007 Choreographic Fellowship), Joyce SoHo Artist Residency (2005-2006), Sushi Performance and Visual Art (2005), DanceNow/NYC Silo Residency (2004, 2008, 2009, 2012), Acadia Summer Arts Program (2003-2007) and The Yard (2002).

MBB & CO. will soon bring dance into the world of radio. The company will perform in "This American Life Live!" as a part of the NPR radio show's cinema event shown in more than 500 movie theatres around the US and Canada on May 10. In winter of 2012 MBB & CO. premiered a new evening-length work, "The Snow Globe Show," at Joe's Pub as a part of DanceNow, participated in the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival curated by Doug Varone and shared an evening with Joe Goode Performance Group at FOCUS Dance presented at The Joyce Theater. This summer the company will perform in Gotham Dance Festival at The Joyce Theater on June 5, premiere a new work at The American Dance Festival July 1-3 and perform at Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts on July 25. The company is looking forward to their debut performance at The Kennedy Center in May 2013.