CHOREOGRAPHY
Photo credit: Jaqi Medlock
PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL FULL EVENING WORKS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE AS EXCERPTS.
ALL SHORTER WORKS ARE AVAILABLE IN ANY DESIRED COMBINATION.
VIDEO MATERIAL AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.
Active repertory
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
Black
(4 dancers, 4 minutes, will premiere June 2017)
Set to Nina Simone's "Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair," Black is a work that addresses interracial and same-sex relationships.
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
Arms Up/ Eyes Closed
(2 dancers, 4 minutes, 2014)
Arms Up/ Eyes Closed, performed to Stuart Warwick's "Ex-Gay", is much more than a homosexual love duet. The work hones in on the struggle for social and self-acceptance, as well as the conflict to show love publicly.
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UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
Abschied
(4 dancers, 5 minutes, 2012)
Originally commissioned for 3X1 Tanzcompagnie in Switzerland. Abschied is a quartet performed to Casta Diva sung by Maria Callas. The choreography is clad with feminine imagery ranging from Little Red Riding Hood to Queen Elizabeth.
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Greener Grasses
(2 dancers, 4 minutes, 2013)
Set to the score of Ingrid Michaelson, Greener Grasses addresses the joy and fear of saying "I do" to that special person.
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Chair
(1 dancer, 7 minutes, 2010)
A dramatic and tongue-in-cheek solo in which a woman finds her a new perspective on her codependent tendencies.
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PhOeNiX
(1 dancer, 5 minutes; 2005)
A breath-taking solo inspired by the imagery of firebirds. The movement vocabulary, performed to the Japanese drums of Kodo, utilizes a wide variety of jumps and creature-like crawls to amplify the constriction caused by the 7’ by 7’ cage of light. The orange painted female soloist fights, screams, and pleads with vigilance until she burns her life force with anger only to be born again. PhOeNiX also can be seen as part of the full-evening performance MaSs.
inActive repertory
Flightless Birds
(xxxxx dancers, xxxxx minute, 20xxxx)
RedBlueGreen
(6 dancers, XXX minute, 20xxx)
Flightless Birds
(xxxxx dancers, xxxxx minute, 20xxxx)
Hallo!
20122
original work for St. Gallen??
gOD
(1 dancer, 10 minutes, 20xxxx)
eYe (3 dancers, xxx minutes; 20xxx)
Earth Mother
(1 dancer, XXX minutes, 20XXX)
Charles
(5 dancers, 8 minutes, 20xxx)
Flightless Birds
(xxxxx dancers, xxxxx minute, 20xxxx)
Clouds
(1 dancer, 6 minutes, 2016)
Hippo (1 dancer, 3 minutes; 20xxx)
ShellCell
Mahlstrom
(3 dancers, 1 minute, 2007)
*PhOtO
(2 dancers, 6 minute, 2001)
It Looks Like Snow/ The Multiplicity of Things
(XXX dancer, XXX minutes, 20XXX)
Jump*t
(2 dancers, 1 minute, 20xxx)
(((STREB Piece))))))
(5 dancers, 8 minutes, 2013)
Somnex in Luminem
Video: https://vimeo.com/15706939
T1me m0ves 1n numb3rs
(2 dancers, 8 minutes; 2007)
Fast Track
(1 dancer, 1 minute, 2008)
Mahlstrom (3 dancers, 1 minute; 2007)Mahlstrom was originally created for the 60X60 festival, a one-hour event of 60 choreographic works performed to 60 original music scores. With its contorting swirls, spiffy partnering and crazy colorful costumes, this choreography has invigorated audiences since its premiere.
T1me m0ves 1n numb3rs (2 dancers, 8 minutes; 2007)Dressed in oversized hats and performed to the popular music of Nearly God, two lovers try to connect the disconnect between.
BrIcK (4 dancers, ??? minutes; 20xxx)
Shadow Songs
(7 dancers, 2 actors; 24 min.; 2009)
Set to the music of Tom Waits, choreographer Rekoert’s “Shadow Songs” uses seven dancers and two actors to reveal the complexity between aggression and accepted definitions of masculinity. Dressed in bare-skinned suit-inspired costumes and featured in one-sided lighting the performers compete and explore the nuances and dichotomies of manhood.
Burger Nation
(9 dancers, 77 minutes; 2004)
In “Burger Nation" nine dancers use satire to question the underlying assumptions of fast-food culture. Extrapolating from human gesture and the physical vocabulary of modern dance, “Burger Nation” portrays real people caught in contradictions of our culture and magnifies the implicit irony of using a physical art to detail a lifestyle that is so physically destructive. “Burger Nation” consists out of 18 short MTV segments with music varying from Mozart to Kelis’ “Milkshake”. Burger Nation is performed in collaboration with Martha Williams/ The Movement Movement.
Single? Double? Triple? (?? dancers, ??? minutes; 20xxx)
Wash (1 dancer, 4 minutes; 20xxx)
oO (2 dancers, ??? minutes; 20xxx)
Blue (3 dancers, ??? minutes; 20xxx)
High Grounds (2 dancers, ??? minutes; 20xxx)
STATE
(8 dancers, 30 minutes, 2011)
The inspiration of the choreographic work “STATE” comes from the music of popular folk artist Sufjan Stevens. His songs celebrate the rich histories, nuances, and diversity of various regions of the United States. While addressing the people indigenous to these locations, he portrays their unique stories by painting pictures of emotional states defined by physical locations.
Adapting this representation, the work addresses a range of emotions, playing off the word “state” as a means of defining emotional states as well as physical states. In the end, the piece has a raw emotionality, is extremely physical, and hopefully accessible.
The choreography features eight performers of varied ethnicity. It manifests a range of emotions as amplified in the dancer’s physical presentation: at times they appear wearing vibrant colors, at others wearing somber achromatic, black & whites.
MaSs
(19 dancers; 36 minutes; 2006)
“MaSs” addresses religion’s relationship to war. The 19 dancers in this choreography are costumed in Zentai body suits and body paint. Each costume relates to an animal, bringing mankind back to more primal times. The five sections each distinct in costume and movement vocabulary are presented in the following order:
Mass
Destruction
Lives
Here
No More
Separate distinct moments that come together as one, culminating in the message: “Mass Destruction Lives Here No More.”
