Current Repertory
Petrichor
A work danced to the adagio section of Beethoven’s string quartet masterpiece in A minor, Op 132 No 15, unlocks the grace and wisdom inherent in Beethoven’s score. The music is also known has the “Song of Thanksgiving….” and much of the ardor and deep seated joy that is invested in the texture and pith of what Beethoven was after is carried throughout the dance work, reaching towards the sublimity felt in the lucid aching cords and the grander of the choral resonances.
Toxic/Nourishment
This company work uses the idea of nourishment as a metaphor for love and the different ways we encounter and interact with each other and our environment to sustain our nutritional needs emotionally, psychically, and spiritually. The work investigates the myriad ways we nourish ourselves and how we feed each other while ingesting both the toxic and beneficial from our surroundings and interpersonal relationships.
Fissures
Fissures is a work where space and time collapse. The interior landscape that is evoked is a metaphor for the way events in everyday reality, however large or seemingly insignificant, can cause fault lines in the interior sense we have of ourselves, challenging us to hold onto the “I” of everyday, to an inner life which builds with the “taking in” of the world and renews our connectedness to others. The work grew out of the emotional resonance from the events of 9/11, and deals with the need to find a meaningful integration from the dislocation that those events, like other traumatic episodes, can create.
Visions In The Fun House
Through a progression of dream scenarios, Vision explores the devastating repercussions abuse has on the survivor’s relationship with himself and others. Through an intensely personal and direct performance, the audience is taken into a chaotic world filled with memories of childhood abuse and neglect. Depicted by evoking dream states that captures these memories, the work takes audiences on a journey of these experiences and in so doing, we come to know how the child navigates towards integrating what is unmanageable, while simultaneously learning to cope with the unthinkable.
Bellavia
Set in a banquet hall after a wedding ceremony, Bellavia portrays the multi-generational evolution of an Italian American family’s identity. The work is a portrait of young newlyweds and the unique relationships and culture that have identified them. At once satirical and touching, it is a work that with a raucous yet compassionate humor, looks back at an earlier generation as they stand on the threshold of a new life in America. It is a truthful and elegiac portrayal of the people in this close knit Italian American family and their dreams that came into fruition.