The MAD Festival

The Modern Atlanta Dance Festival (MAD) was created by Douglas Scott and Full Radius Dance in 1999 to showcase the diversity and excellence of the local dance scene. The MAD Festival is Atlanta's only professionally adjudicated modern/contemporary dance event.

The MAD Festival provides audiences with the highest quality of dance and cultivates new audiences for contemporary dance, particularly those who are attracted by the festival format. The festival allows audiences to experience a variety of choreographers, techniques and artistic visions in a single evening and builds community between the many artists and their audiences.

Over sixty different companies and individual artists have appeared at the MAD Festival. Since 2004, the Marcus Jewish Community Center Atlanta has co-presented the Festival in conjunction with Full Radius Dance. Previous partnership in the presentation of the MAD Festival have included Agnes Scott College, Several Dancers Core, and ArtScape - a project of Central Atlanta Progress.