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(The Queens Fringe Festival @ The Secret Theater; Dance Conversations @ The Flea)
Staring at Stones takes a closer look at the culture, music, and poetry of the Appalachian Mountains, through the eyes of the hard working women who called these hills their home. The sound score is comprised of a collection of recorded thoughts told by Appalachian native, Lou Crites along with two traditional ballads sung and performed by Donna Ray Norton and Luke Abbott.
watch video (performance: Ellen Augusto, Melissa Brading, Sarah Pope)
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(Dance Conversations @ The Flea; Take Root @ Green Space NYC)
Shadowlands journeys into the world of human trafficking and modern-day slavery. Inspired by the stories of trafficking survivors, five dancers move in and out of confining set pieces to the haunting music of Greg Heffernan.
watch video (performance: Sarah Bodie, Jamie Dowd, Laura Kalanda, Sarah Pope, Jordan Risdon)
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(Dance Conversations @ The Flea; The Flea Theater, Fridays @ Noon; 92nd street Y, Queens Arts Express; Green Space NYC)
Nada Inspired by the musical stylings of Gogol Bordello and The Breeders, securely rooted in the belief that once we peek below the surface no one is “normal”, Nada is a celebration of idiosyncrasy. The piece grows out of the personalities of the dancers expressed through the creation of unique movement vocabularies. This quirky dance environment explores personal oddities and what we sometimes do to keep them under wraps.
watch video (performance: Sarah Bodie, Jamie Dowd, Laura Kalanda, Sarah Pope, Jordan Risdon,)
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(Dance New Amsterdam Works in Progress, Dance Conversations @ the Flea, Artery2007, Waxworks, Gowanus Wildlife Preserve Showcase, Local produce Festival, Dance theatre Workshop Raw Studio Series, Solar One: Solar Powered Dance Series, Under The Memory Tree @ Merce Cunningham Studio, The Riverside Theatre: NuDance Festival)
Holding Pattern is a collection of three dances that focus on the repeating behaviors we find in and around us.
Grasp, the opening section is a solo that explores the terrain of unrelenting thoughts and charts the unfolding of one woman’s mind as she braves her buried memories.
watch video (performance: Sarah Pope)
In Hold Fast, two dancers are bound by a constant connection, woven together by limbs and joints as they incessantly wind, unwind, propel and restrict.
watch video (performance: Jamie Dowd and Laura Kalanda)
Hold Sway, the closing duet maps a continual struggle for control through reoccurring images and interactions that range from tender to oppressive.
watch video (performance: Xan Burely and Sarah Pope)
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(Fertile Ground, Greenspace NYC, Artery showcase, Times Square Arts Center NYC)
Common to Man is a trio that explores the universality of suffering in the human experience and how it becomes a shared thread that unites us in spite of our differences. The piece begins with an introspective solo and concludes with an intertwining trio. The movement vocabulary is of both intimate gesture and broad stokes of movement as individuals look within and without for answers and understanding.
watch video (performance: Kathryn Bringle, Sarah Pope and Shannon Smith)
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(Dance Place, Jack Giudone, DC, Artery 2008, NYC, Take Root @ Green Space NYC 2010)
Finding Eve is a solo that deals with the experience of entering womanhood. It explores the awkwardness and confusion that may be felt at this time, finding humor in this “coming of age” situation.
watch video (performance: Kathryn Bringle)
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(Collected Works, Jack Giudone Theater, DC)
Vessel is a trio that explores the possibility that we are used by God in the life of others, as a conduit of his love and as an advocate for the defenseless. The trio opens with meditative walking reflecting our personal journeys with paths crossing and shared moments. These paths and interactions grow in momentum and swell to overflowing.
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(Jack Giudone Theater, DC)
Why am I here and where am I going? The group work Chrysalis captures the essence of these inner struggles. Through a movement vocabulary of sitting, standing and repetition a dynamic tension is developed between those who are seeking and searching and those content to live an unexamined life.
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(Jack Giudone, DC; Riverside Church TheaterNYC)
Unconditional is a solo that exposes the journey from bondage to freedom.
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(University of Oklahoma, ACDF Gala Performance)
Blessed is a reaction our increasing desensitization to violence and its continuing rise. The piece starts in a place of harmony and community and progress through a loss of sensitivity and awareness of others into a place of willful aggression.
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(University of Oklahoma)
This work is a trio that considers the facets of grief. The piece investigates the stages that we go through as we process a loss.
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