VIDEO: Homeless Company XIV's Stylish and Erotic Donation Plea

In the ten years since the brilliant and provocative director/choreographer Austin Mccormick began recruiting an assemblage of classical dancers, actors, operatic vocalists, circus and burlesque performers into Company XIV, named for the intimate and decadent private performances at France's Louis XIV's court, the troupe has become one of the most inventive and thrilling theatre companies in New York.

They've also been one of the unluckiest, have lost their first long-term home to damage caused by Hurricane Sandy and then losing their plush jewel box Astor Place venue due to the realities of Manhattan real estate.

Though they've recently been mounting productions at Greenwich Village's Minetta Lane Theatre, Company XIV is holding a fundraising campaign in order to secure a new permanent home. The video makes their plea with the same style and eroticism with which they've presented sold-out runs of NUTCRACKER ROUGE, SNOW WHITE and CINDERELLA.

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Company XIV's work is a unique mash up of classical texts, Baroque choreography, eclectic music, pop culture, opera, burlesque, ballet, gender bending, high fashion, theatrical staging and sumptuous design that has wowed both audiences and critics. Company XIV shows are cutting-edge, yet extravagantly classical. Taking his cue from theatre/dance/opera under the reign of Louis XIV, director/choreographer Austin Mccormick creates a compelling 360-degree experience for audiences. The Players of Company XIV are theatrical libertines, who tempt, delight and fully immerse their audiences in the experience of their performances, inviting them to be seduced and liberated!

Austin Mccormick holds a BFA from the Juilliard School and is a graduate of The Conservatory of Baroque Dance. He is an alumnus of the Harid Conservatory and North Carolina School of the Arts. In 2006 he founded Company XIV, hailed by Black Book Magazine as an 'Icon Of The Future.' The company works in the mediums of live dance/theater and film. The work is contemporary, yet Baroque inspired. McCormick was nominated for a 2015 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography for Rococo Rouge and he won a 2009 NY Innovative Theater Award for Best Choreography for The Judgment of Paris. His work has been performed at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center's Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Alice Tully Hall, Clark Studio Theater, Symphony Space, The Flea, Alvin Ailey Theater, Walter Reade Theater, Mark Morris Dance Center, and internationally at the Biblioteca Palafoxiana in Mexico, the Roxy Art House in Edinburgh, and Usine C in Montreal.