Wolf-in-Skins (Open Rehearsal)
July 1, 2017
Join composer Gregory Spears and me for an open rehearsal of new music and choreography from our dance opera Wolf-in-Skins featuring renowned countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo and dancers Christiana...
Hora
May 22, 2017
Come witness the "short form" as described by Doris Humphrey in her pithy quote: "All choreography is too long!" as the Harkness Dance Center celebrates the Fridays at Noon series (1986-2016) with a string...
Il Giardino d′Amore (world première)
May 9, 2017
Première performances of my new work Il Giardino d'Amore, set to Alessandro Scarlatti's early 18th century serenata Il Giardino di Amore inspired by the mythic lovers Venus and Adonis, will take place...
The Afternoon of a Faun (première)
March 5, 2017
This winter I will reimagine Claude Debussy's famous ballet score Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (originally choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1912) for eight...
Il Giardino d′Amore (excerpts)
January 7, 2017
Excerpts from my new work Il Giardino d'Amore, set to Alessandro Scarlatti's early 18th century serenata Il Giardino di Amore inspired by the mythic lovers Venus and Adonis, will take place as part of...
Daisy Chain
December 9, 2016
As curator of a Fridays at Noon program entitled Daisy Chain, I have asked emerging choreographers Christine Elmo, John Hoobyar, and Raja Feather Kelly to each select a dance artist on whom they will make...
Flowstone (première)
October 22, 2016
This fall I will set a new work entitled Flowstone on student dancers at the Chadwick School. Inspired by the phenomenon in which speleothems (or "cave deposits") known as flowstones are formed by films...
Il Giardino d′Amore (excerpts) & Dardanus Suite (excerpts)
June 12, 2016
Dancers Andrew Champlin, Christiana Axelsen, Raja Kelly, Caitlin Scranton, Kyle Gerry, and Justin Lynch will perform excerpts from Dardanus Suite (2015) and Il Giardino d'Amore, my new work set to Alessandro...
The Good So Far (world première)
June 6, 2016
Students from the Interlochen Arts Academy Dance Company will première my new work The Good So Far featuring costume designs by Andrew Jordan and set to renowned composer Nico Muhly's orchestral work...
Il Giardino d′Amore (excerpts)
May 23, 2016
Dancers Andrew Champlin, Christiana Axelsen, Raja Kelly, Kyle Gerry, and Justin Lynch will perform excerpts from Il Giardino d'Amore, my new work set to Alessandro Scarlatti's early 18th century serenata...