Stage
Shuteye
"ShutEye" (2024) is a love song for bedrooms; the intricacies of a space that houses rest, conflict, intimacy, comfort... It celebrates the notion that a bedroom is a place for emotional and physical security, while also serving as a place of story-telling for distressing memories and thoughts. In this melodic duet, the performers create an ode to the nostalgic significance and intimate ties of a bedroom, both in shared and isolated spaces.
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Performers: Anne Mohan & Chloe McArthur
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Music: Adrianne Lenker//Glen Fittin & Scott Hogan
rubberhose
"Rubber Hose" (2023) celebrates early animation styles through the development of some of the most iconic characters: Betty Boop, Popeye, Koko the Clown, Felix the Cat, & others. The work carries the audience through a journey of play and subtle interactions between distinctly different egos in the space; We observe a manifold of greetings, childhood curiosity, romance and heartbreak, and conformity, and notice how these egos adjust and relate to one another in these scenarios. Largely inspired by direct scenes from animations, the dancers embody their characters' movement vocabularies with buoyant, comically exaggerated, and grounded qualities. Through these dramatized and hyper-animated personalities, "Rubber Hose" resurrects the golden age of cinema.
Performers: Alyssia Farias, Vanessa Martinez, Anne Mohan, Emery Myers, Christina Szumloz, Olivia Wojtowicz
Music: Matija Strniša//Jararaca//Duke Ellington//Cab Calloway
cirrus
“Cirrus” (2022) plays with the total abstraction and personification of clouds. Created on ten bodies, the dancers use the influence of space and music to find the contrasting density and power of stratus clouds, the neutrality of cumulus clouds, and the spontaneity of cirrus clouds. The movement was created through the investigation of characteristics of these clouds: how they move qualitatively, play, react to one another, block, reveal, and create storms. The work challenges its audience to compare cloud activity to people, specifically how humans experience life in similar fluctuations. Throughout the dynamic and tactile imagery in "Cirrus", we celebrate the behavioral comparisons drawn between people and nature.
Performers: Faith Bender, McKenzie Brewer, Mia Crider, Alyssia Farias, Deovionn Gaynor, Amina Kolenc, Gryff Mendonssa, Anne Mohan, Selah Piett, Olivia Wojtowicz
Music: Pink Floyd//Max Cooper//Storm Corrosion