Selected Choreographic Works
Pieces Of Her
2023
Performed by: JuliAnn Kirk, Thea Gray, Jordan Lorenger, Brynn Buschle, Maria Mitchell, Maddie Walmsley
Music: Mike Wall
Sound Design: Henri D'Haene
Running time: 20 minutes
Alma College Studio Theatre
Alma, Michigan
If This Were My Body What Would I Say
2022
Music: Adrian Copeland
Costume Design: Heather Leigh Brown
Running time: 12 minutes
Heritage Center Main Stage
Alma, Michigan
The Tallest Tree In Paradise
2012
Music: Blind Mamie Forehand, Rev. Sister Mary Nelson, T.C.I. Womenʼs Four
Costume Design: Lynn Bowman
Premiere: University of Minnesota, Rarig Center, Experimental Theater, Minneapolis, MN
Running Time: Eight Minutes
Performed as part of the Minnesota Fringe Festival, set to original recordings of gravel-voiced Southern gospel singers, the rough and tumble, fervent
One Fish, Two Fish, Dead Fish, Blue Fish
2012
Music: The Books
Premiere: The University of Alaska at Anchorage
Running Time: Ten Minutes
This dance was created during a residency at the University of Alaska Department of Theatre/Dance
Delicatessen
2011
Music: Carlos Dʼ Alessio
Costume Design: Adele Forest
Lighting Design: Gary Holmquist
Premiere: Holzworth Performing Arts Center, Davenport, IA
Running Time: Seventeen Minutes
Performed by eleven professional dancers from Ballet Quad Cities, this love story in six sections chronicles the sweetness, the bliss, the mundaneness of love.
In The Blue Hour
2023
Music: Mike Wall
Running Time: Nine Minutes
Performed by six dancers of Sanspointe Dance Company, this work,The Blue Hour (from the French expression l'heure bleue) is the period of twilight each morning and evening where there is neither full daylight nor complete darkness. The time is considered special because of the quality of the light.
Turn Around And Look At Me
2023
Program notes: When choreographing dances I start with a series of questions that I would like to consider answering with the moving body. In making this dance we asked; what is an “Influencer”? How do we decide who to follow? Who should lead? And does it matter?
Music: Glen Campbell, Niccolo Paganini, Steven Staryk, Charles Gounod, Johann Sebastian Bach, Yo-Yo Ma, B
Turn Around And Look At Me
2023
Program notes: When choreographing dances I start with a series of questions that I would like to consider answering with the moving body. In making this dance we asked; what is an “Influencer”? How do we decide who to follow? Who should lead? And does it matter?
Music: Glen Campbell, Niccolo Paganini, Steven Staryk, Charles Gounod, Johann Sebastian Bach, Yo-Yo Ma, B
Turn Around And Look At Me
2023
Program notes: When choreographing dances I start with a series of questions that I would like to consider answering with the moving body. In making this dance we asked; what is an “Influencer”? How do we decide who to follow? Who should lead? And does it matter?
Music: Glen Campbell, Niccolo Paganini, Steven Staryk, Charles Gounod, Johann Sebastian Bach, Yo-Yo Ma, B