Box Project: ethereal box & body in solitude

Work in progress.  Exploring degrees of the animate and inanimate, as well as surreal, and ethereal inspirations.  The project is to be provoking and forward looking with experimental innovation and conceptual findings, yet embracing and shedding new interest in a pivotal literary work from the last century.  The presentation aims to be a magical, surprising, and moving group work that touches on cultural identity, embodiment, disembodiment, symbolism, inner life and societal analysis of culture.  Utilizing physical interaction, use of text,  and even giving an inanimate object fulfillment of presence to be representations of far ranging concerns addressed by the body as well as to enhance the body's experience.  

Length: Current approx. 18:45 minutes. For quartet or group.

The development of the Box Project was supported in part by the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures Hothouse Program.

Still Sweet To Remember

Remembering as experiential, personal, and movement conversation; as well as human desires to reconnect to the past, and personal comment on remembering and it's possibilities and boundaries.  Musical play, embodied concept and an emotional undercurrent.

Still sweet to remember made it's west coast premiere at WestWave Dance Festival on December 13th, 2010 and will be presented at The A.W.A.R.D. Show!:Los Angeles at REDCAT in January 2011.  Rehearsal space partly provided by Dance Studio 84 and ARC Pasadena.

Length: approx. 14:45 minutes. For duet.

             Collaborator: Brandon Stirling Baker - Lighting Designer

photo: Bryn Cohn and Ahmaud Culver.

photo: photo of Freya Sargent and Allison Hurd by Arthur Fink. 

photo of Pam Gonzales and Tiffany Stacey by Scott Groller
 

photo of Nick Bruder and Jess Miles by Scott Groller

photo of Julia Romanskaya, Pam Gonzales, and Tiffany Stacey
  

photo: Scott Groller

photo: Scott Groller
 

photo of Rachel Abrahams by Scott Groller
 

2006 

  “Grief Processes” 

 Lighting- Arianna Aquino

2005 

  "Unearthing"

 at Vital Express Theater as College of the Canyons Guest Artist 2005

Sandra Chiu and Yuliya Romanskaya. Photo: David DeSilva 

To Remember

To Remember was premiered at DanceNOW NYC's The Raw Festival on April 10th , 2010.  "To Remember" is a male/female duet mining memory in relationship. This was different but an in point for the later female duet Still Sweet To Remember.

Length: approx. 6:00 minutes. For duet.

Untitled

Untitled was presented in 2009 by Bates Dance Festival's Young Choreographers/New Works.

Length: approx. 3 minutes. For duet.

Instinct Equilibrium

Instinctual actions and reactions in the pursuit of, attempted rebellion against, and acceptance of equilibrium.

Instinct Equilibrium was presented in 2009 for the premiere of The Next Dance Company at REDCAT in the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles.

Length: approx. 6:50 minutes. For duet.

Collaborators: Matt Mellinger- Lighting Designer

Flux

Human Connection is paralleled with magnetic attraction or varying degrees of magnetic flux.  A distinct swaying and rippling movement quality in a smart and inventive work.

Flux was premiered at the Sharon Disney Lund Theater in 2008. Flux was also presented by ACDFA for their finale Gala Concert in 2009 at the Tedd Mann Theater in Minneapolis.

Length: approx. 4 minutes. For duet.

Collaborators: Brandon Stirling Baker- Lighting Designer

Any Moon They Are

A collaboration between Pam Gonzales (Choreography),  Beth McMullin (Sound and Electronics), and Kegan McGurk (Animation).  All disciplines are intertwined as sound and animation are triggered by the movement of electronic balls.  Stark yet full of surprises.

Any Moon They Are was awarded and made possible by the Cal Arts Interdisciplinary Grant.  It was premiered in The Black & White Studio in 2008.

Length: Approximately 13 minutes. For trio.

Epochs

Eerie, quirky, and explosive.  Four characters face bits of epochs in time. 

Epochs was premiered at the Sharon Disney Lund Theater in 2008.

Length: Approx. 4:30 minutes. For quartet.

Collaborators: David "DK" Kroth- Lighting Designer

From Red

Explores ideas associated with shades of the color red: passion, fire, blood, etc. A color globally associated closely to the human experience.  Movement and interaction in varying shades, from indulging in- to smearing out.

From Red was commissioned by Cal Arts and premiered in the Cal Arts Winter Concert in 2007.

Length: Approx. 10:40 minutes. For 8 dancers.

Collaborators: Abra Raphaela Rose Brayman- Set Designer

                      Dan Howe- Lighting Designer

                      Fontella A. Boone- Costume Designer

Train Lines

The lines of machinery and travel are juxtaposed with the experience and emotions of leaving, arriving, moving, and the continual distance and travel between.  Rhythm, physicality, body line, and the embodiment of the machine as well as the personal.

Train Lines at the Cal Arts Spring Dance Concert in 2007.

Length: approx. 4 minutes. For solo dancer.

Collaborators: Shannon Rodriguez- Lighting Designer