Repertory

OceanWaves

Premiere: 2022. Time: 21.5 minutes. Dancers: 10

Music: Murcof, Amand Amar, Cory Neale (Original Music & Sound Design)
Costume Design: Jill Peterson
Lighting Design: Alyssandra Docherty

“A shared human experience of the ocean of our mind, bodies and spirit in isolation, while dealing with an invisible threat” - The Dance Journal

Fish & Girl

U.S. Premiere: 2022. Time: 19 minutes. Dancers: 10

Poetry: Pan Cheng Lui
Music: Bill Ryan, Arvo Part, Cory Neale
Costume Design: Jill Peterson
Lighting Design: Alyssandra Docherty

“centered around chaotic modern life vis-a-vis climate change" - Edge Media Network

The Wind

Premiere: 2021. Time: 7.5 minutes. Dancers: 1

Music: Gustav Mahler’s “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen” (I am lost to the world), based on the poem by Friedrich Rückert.
Costume Design: Jill Peterson
Lighting Design: Frankie Markocki

“It was impossible to watch and not reflect on my flown youth and my enduring love of my own art and community of artists.” - Broad Street Review

SPRING 101

Premere: 2019. Time: 36 minutes. Dancers: 10

Sound Design: Cory Neale
Costume Design: Jill Peterson
Lighting Design: Matthew Lewandowski II

“The premiere of ‘Spring 101′ burst forth like a gushing choreographic stream.” - Dance Journal

FAITH PROJECT /
THE DOOR

Premiere: 2018. Time: 90 minutes. Dancers: 11

Thought Partner: Kimerer LaMothe
Multimedia Design: Jared Mezzocchi
Sound Design: Cory Neale
Lighting Design: Alyssandra Docherty
Set Design: Sara Outing
Costume Design: Jill Peterson

“doesn't back away from tackling complex social themes...an ever expansive and inspired choreographic journey" - Dance Journal

SANTUARIO

Premiere: 2017. Time: 38 minutes. Dancers: 10

Music: Arvo Part, Cory Neale, Club Mix (Wake Up, Safe and Sound), Excerpts“Poem for Pulse”by Jameson Fitzpatrick

“Santuario is a stunning artistic response to the Pulse Nightclub shootings...It is a profoundly moving dance elegy.” - HuffPost

Moment/s

Premiere: 2016. Time: 10 minutes. Dancers: 5-6

Music: Daniel Rhode and the New Music Ensemble of Grand Valley State University.

“With...Moment/s we are literally taken on a whirlwind of fleeting moments in our everyday existence, challenging our very notions of time, space, relationships, tension, stillness and discovery.” - The Dance Journal

Vertigo

Premiere: 2016. Time: 12 minutes. Dancers: 6

Music: Daniel Rhode and the New Music Ensemble of Grand Valley State University.

“[Vertigo] was a meditation on modern life knocking us off balance and our individual and private strategies to move through everyday chaos toward inner peace and resolve.” –ExploreDance.com

DREAMSCAPE

 Premiere: 2016. Time: 10 minutes Dancers: 7-8

Music: Daniel Rhode and the New Music Ensemble of Grand Valley State University.

“...the dancers garbed in all black, blending in to the dimly lit background, created an other-world experience with a continual shifting of bodies and shapes.”- The Dance Journal

HOME/S. 9th St.

Premiere: 2015. Time: 65 minutes Dancers: 6

Music Design: Cory Neale

“A moving, compelling look at the immigrant experience...a timely piece…leaves us with a sense of mystery and connection.” - Dance Enthusiast

Be/Longing

Premiere: 2014. Time: 70 minutes. Dancers: 9

Music Design: Cory Neale

“Be/Longing: Light/Shadow combines forceful, fast choreography with frozen tableaux.”- Times Union

ONE – IMMORTAL GAME

Premiere: 2013. Time: 40 minutes. Dancers: 10

Music Design: Cory Neale

"One was a true gift: smart choreography and an impassioned, athletic execution by a truly talented group of dancers." – The Dance Journal

Beyond the Bones

Premiere: 2003, revisited 2012. Time: 70 minutes. Dancers: 5-8

Music Design: Cory Neale

“transports us back to the beginning of humanity and the wellspring of our beings.” - Backstage

Mandala Project

Premiere: 2011. Time: 40 minutes. Dancers: 9

Music: Jonathan Goldman, Tibetan chanting, Kenneth Kirschner and Tim Russell.

"A masterwork of art, spirituality, and stagecraft.”- The Philadelphia Inquirer

 

AUTUMN SKIN

Premiere: 2011, revisited 2016. Time: 40 minutes. Dancers: 6-8

Music: Collage of Mum, Philip Glass, Alarm Will Sound, Arvo Part, Kenneth Kirschner.

“AUTUMN SKIN, demonstrated the company's versatility, technical proficiency, and capability of producing choreography both poignant and culturally relevant" - South Philly Review

 

A-U-M

Premiere: 2009. Time: 23 minutes. Dancers: 7

Music: OM chanting

"Virtuosic artistry...hypnotic energy" - Ballet UK.

Emptiness of Snow

Premiere: 2005. Time: 23 minutes. Dancers: 5

Music: Kenneth Kirschner, Tibetan bell Meditation music.

“Complex variety of speed, shape, and group configuration—dancers whipped and spun about by imagined wind and thrust to the floor, somehow always very neatly—gave this work a poetic sensibility." - The Village Voice.

Traces of Brush

Premiere: 2005. Time: 25 minutes. Dancers: 8

Music: Andy Teirstien

“...Incredibly captivating for audiences and dancers alike." - The Martha's Vineyard Times.

CHI

Premiere: 2002. Time: 9 minutes. Dancers: 9

Music: Glen Velez

The New York Times described it as “a buoyant, radiant dance”

the Land

Premiere: 2000. Time: 25 minutes. Dancers: 6

Music: Philip Glass, Lama Gyurmes, Jean-Philippe Rykiel, Kirby Schelstad.

“Brilliantly constructed...combines a fresh approach to conventional craft with a commitment to contemporary social-consciousness.”- Backstage

Butterfly

Premiere: 2000 Time: 5 minutes. Dancers: 1

Music: Giancomo Puccini “Un Bel Di”from Madame Butterfly.

"A little Isadora Duncan and a little Butoh... this was choreography and performing that was simultaneously both lush and spare." - The New York Times.

Moon Dance

Premiere: 1994. Time: 6 minutes. Dancers: 1

Music: Dead Can Dance

"[Moon Dance is] a powerful piece of choreography." - Knight Arts Foundation