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Emily's Place (2008)
Solo inspired by Trisha Brown's Locus.
Dancer: Emily Hite
Premiere: The Garage, San Francisco
salto ergo sum (2008)
Site-specific Stanford Lively Arts Commission
Original cast: Jennifer Chien, Deborah Miller, Hope Mohr, Julie Sheetz
Premiere: Stanford University
Moments of Being (2008)
Quintet for men and women that weaves listening-based improvisation and classical vocabulary to a soundscape of found sound and Bach.
Original Cast: Ashley Burnett, Cameron Growden, Emily Hite, Kyle Marinshaw, Greta Schoenberg
Music: J.S. Bach, Partita No. 2 in C Minor
Costumes: Connie Strayer
Sound Design: Kristin Miltner
Premiere: Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco
Under the skin (2007)
Dancers and community performers move through a tapestry of video and text exploring medical imagery of the female body.
"A beautiful, rich, complex work" --Janice Ross, dance historian
Original Cast: Susie Brain, Jasmine Chiu, Adrienne Chung, Madeline Graber, Katharine Hawthorne, Kathleen Magner, Cori Marquis, Carol Schultz
Video: Douglas Rosenberg
Sound Design: Andrea Williams
Costumes: Connie Strayer
A Stanford Dance Division commission made possible through the generous support of the Michelle Clayman Institute for Gender Research and the Patrick Suppes Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Science and Technology.
The Language of the Listening Body (2006)
Public soundwalk events in Manhattan and Long Island City with dancers and members of the general public explored listening and movement in the urban environment.
Artistic Collaborator/Acoustic Ecologist: Michelle Nagai
Dancer Participants: Biba Bell, Robbie Cook, Lise Brenner, Laura Hymers, Alejandra Martorell, Yves Musard, Rebecca Wender.
Made possible through the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance (iLAND).
Elision (2006)
A lush ensemble work based on the somatic experience of memory.
Original Cast: Marcela Delgado, Cori Marquis, Tina Z. Mayers, Anastasia Nevin, Marci Sanchez, Nicole Thompson, Abby Williams
Music: Somei Satoh
Costumes: Connie Strayer
Premiere: American College Dance Festival
Made possible by the Stanford University Dance Division, Mary Edith Clifford Award for Alumni Choreography.
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More awake when dreaming (2005)
A poetic physical theater piece explores identity as collapsible fiction. Through a collage of spoken word, energetic state, and inventive movement, the piece takes a wry look at the stories we tell ourselves.
Original cast: Tricia Brouk, Jennifer Howard, Hope Mohr
Costumes: Mandy Kirschner
Premiere: Movement Research at Judson Church, New York City
Allow me to say goodbye(2005)
Made through the use of aleatory procedures, this quintet explores themes of distance and desire through falling and receding figures.
Original cast: Emily Hite, Songhua Hu, Sophie Messer, Sarah Sullivan, Nicole Thompson
Music: Score four by Carolyn Chen, Matthew Czinger, Elizabeth Luvada Donald, Jeffrey Trevino
Costumes: Diane Frank
Premiere: Encounter:Merce, Stanford University
Made possible through a Stanford Lively Arts commission.
Doctor Atomic
Assistant to Lucinda Childs, Doctor Atomic, San Francisco Opera, October 2005. Music by John Adams, Libretto by Peter Sellars. Notated Ms. Childs' choreography and assisted with movement development. View Diagram
Point of Departure (1999)
A spare psychological solo.
Cast: Hope Mohr
Music: Untitled electronic composition 1989 by Michael Schumacher
Premiere: Merce Cunningham Studio |
