Over. And Over. And Over. (2004)

10 minutes
Music by John Abercrombie
Costume by Kristen Mangione

A solo for Kristen Mangione exploring the obsessive nature of not letting go of something.

I, Not I (2004)

10 minutes
Music by Steve Roach
Costumes by Kristen Mangione

A dance for two women, it is an encountering of the shadow, or deeper self, with the everyday person on the outside. Steve Roach’s minimalist score frames play between the instinctual and the evolved.

Skin Deep (2001)

65 minutes
Sound Design by Devin Poore featuring music by Another Fine Day, Doris Day, Jimmy Harry, Orlando Cachaito Lopez, Rogers & Hammerstein, Zbigniew Preisner, The Beastie Boys, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Mötley Crew, The Supreme Beings of Leisure; Themes from Charlie’s Angels, Mister Rogers Neighborhood, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Text by Amelia McCarthy
Video and Set Design by Devin Poore
Costumes by Lee Harper

Charlie's Angels, Laura Ingalls, Cindy Crawford, Madonna... Who did you want to be when you grew up?
Skin Deep is a dance theater meditation on the bitter sweetness of growing up and being fantastically female in the late 20th Century. Standard notions of beauty are addressed through the synthesis of choreography, TV commercials, fashion photography and video in this evening length work.

Another Valentine (2000)

10 minutes
Text by Jeanette Winterson (Excerpts from the Passion)
Costumes by Loren Cordes

A duet featuring the heartbreaking account of one woman's inner most desires. Inspired by the paintings of Gustave Klimt and text from Jeanette Winterson's The Passion, a pivotal love affair is distilled and blown apart through movement.

15 Gestures…For All that Struck the Earth (2000)

5 minutes
Music by Gregorio Allegri
Costumes by Amy Sodaro

A quartet set to Allegri's Renaissance Mass piece, Miserere. Structural elements of space and time are rigorously applied to a string of 15 gestures, contrasting abstraction, ritual and drama.

Photo: Rosalie O'Connor
Dancer: Francesca Todesco

The Angel Who Would Not Speak to God (2000)

4 minutes
Music by Zbigniew Preisner
Costume by Amy Sodaro

A solo that contemplates the enormous suffering of mankind in spite of a benevolent God. It is inspired by the short story of the same title by Devin Poore.

The Mourning After (1999)

10 minutes
Music by Nat King Cole, Claude Debussy, Eugene Friesen
Costumes by Amy Sodaro

A dance for five women, four chairs and 200 daisies. Inspired by pagan rites and medieval art it explores the human response to death.

Valentine (1997)

14 minutes
Music by Philip Glass, Sally Potter, Nat King Cole
Poetry by e.e. cummings
Costumes by Loren Cordes

A work for six dancers blends modern dance, theatrical collage, and imagery inspired by Rodin and Klimt. Notions of first love, lust and loss are played against a backdrop of musical excerpts.