MILKFEVER DANCE was created to encompass projects relating to all kinds of art.
The main, starting project, MILKFEVER DANCE, is a web media magazine for a new era, serving as a general information center for performing arts, particularly ballet and dance.
We function as a hub connecting dancers with information and a variety of opportunities. We aim to make available information about issues that affect all people who live in the art world, such as wellness, the traditions worth preserving, renewal of values from a variety of angles, to be accessible from anywhere in the world, both as information and participation. We will also explore the ways in which artforms such as ballet and dance in general can contribute to society.
We will lovingly create and disseminate content that appeals to ballet and art fans, as well as young generations who are aiming to become wonderful artists themselves.
We will also strive proactively to provide support for efforts to offer opportunities for quality early education to all children with latent talent, regardless of nationality or financial background.
Our team
MARIA ROSE, Founder
MARIA ROSE is from Japan. She has French-/ German-American and Japanese roots. She first encountered Maurice Bejart in Paris when she was four years old, then began her ballet journey. She grew up with her black house mamas and family, studying ballet in the middle of Manhattan, New York, also falling in love with Ballroom culture and voguing along the way. (Later, she studied in France, earning her Diplôme d’Etat de professeur de danse.
She is also a licensed Progressing Ballet Technique instructor.) She continued her ballet career, going on audition tours and giving guest performances, but on her parents’ advice she enrolled in university, where she studied commercial design and advertising, eventually working with the Andy Warhol Museum. During the time she spent away from her ballet career she was in charge of exhibit planning, press, sales of commemorative goods, curation, and exhibition direction at an art museum affiliated with a company (PARCO) in the heart of the pop culture scene in Tokyo, Japan.
During this time she also appeared in movies and magazines as a model (notably in a film directed by Sophia Coppolla and ads for Dior, Lanvin, Adidas Y-3, etc.) With three friends, including graduates of Tokyo University, she founded the original MILKFEVER unit, where she organized projects to match young artists of a variety of genres with companies searching for new talent, and had many successes with party-exhibit hybrid events. She has been interested in politics and philosophy from a young age. She came to approach the social problems and unique ballet issues that plague the ballet world and ballet’s place in art as a whole from the standpoint of “Diversity, Sustainability, Artistry,” which is the motto of the integrated MILKFEVER DANCE PROJECT that has at its core ballet dance media for our time, founding MILKFEVER L.L.C. in New York, USA, in May 2021. From her unique view of artistic humanity, she includes support for creating opportunities for all people to receive a quality ballet education into the project. “Dancing is intimately connected to love. Ballet and dance in general are ways of sharing love and forgiveness, joy and sorrow, the beauty and challenges of life, excitement and disappointment and healing, with all people, so our mission is to deliver content to accomplish this, to aid and entertain as many people as we can reach.”
PEARL McCORMICK, Cofounder
