CURRENT REPERTOIRE
PARTY OF ONE (2018)
"Party of One" combines live performance and dance for camera to celebrate queerness and pose uncomfortable questions about the line between consent, invitation, and unwitting surrender. The work is dedicated to the nearly 1.6 million homeless youth in the United States, 40% of whom identify as LGBTQ. "Party of One" plays with the spectrum of feelings about aging and coming out – celebrating it, embracing it, manipulating it, and fighting it. "Party of One" addresses issues surrounding youth and desirability that transcends conventional gender identity.
Dancers: 5
Running Time: 25 minutes
*May be performed with up to 12 additional community dancers, or restaged for performance by up to 16 dancers.
FOUR LETTER WORD (2015)
Through a litany of timeless love songs, Four Letter Word explores the awkward, tender, and complicated sides of 3 four-lettered words: love, like, and lust. Through humor and heartfelt expression, Four Letter Word honors the authentic experience of women in love.
Dancers: 4
Running Time: 50 minutes
*Research for Four Letter Word was supported by the ArtLabJ Artist Residency Program. Sections of Four Letter Word were created through commission by Bowling Green State University.
HAMAIKETAKO (2015)
Hamaiketako is the basque word signifying the light meal between breakfast and lunch. In this duet inspired by Lucinda Child’s “Carnation”, the dancers’ unique appetites lead them to enjoy a very strange picnic.
Dancers: 2
Running time: 6 minutes
CIRQUE NOIR (2015)
Running Time: 22 minutes
Inspired by the endless possibilities of a balloon at rest, Cirque Noir gives a nod to the clowns of commedia dell’arte and embraces the cynical, sensual characteristics of film noir. The balloons in Cirque Noir are more than props - they are partners in performance, providing obstacles and opportunities to command authority over their presence. Internalizing cinema historian Mark Bould's observations regarding the film noir genre, the balloons in this work remain an “elusive phenomenon...always just out of reach.”
Dancers: 6
*May be restaged for performance by up to 16 dancers.
*Originally commissioned by Michigan State University and restaged on students at Bowling Green State University.
Photo Credit: The Shutter Monkeys
Photo Credit: The Shutter Monkeys
OBject/obJECT (2016)
OBject/obJECT originated as an installation performance at the Virgil H Carr Center in Detroit, investigating the subject of woman as object vs woman as objecting figure. In restaging the work on casts of varied gender identities, this work has evolved to represent the voices of any individual who endures objectification, confronting assumption and mobilizing resistance to marginalization due to gender identity.
Dancers: 7-22
Running Time: 22 minutes
Miss Informed (2017)
How did we get here? When did facts become inconsequential? Is anyone listening? This duet is a snapshot of a movement conversation between two individuals whose growing irritation and disgust lead to misinformation and a breakdown in communication.
Dancers: 2
Running Time: 8 minutes
*Created as part of the Bad & Nasty Initiative - an evening
of performance and installation to strengthen community,
engage/rage in dialogue, rupture false rhetoric, disrupt the
normalizing and be heard.
OTHER REPERTOIRE
Playground Games for Bois & Grrrls (2017)
Effigy (2017)
Peculiar Juice (2012)
Vested (2012)
Green Eyed (2012)
*May be restaged for performance by up to 22 dancers. This work has been restaged on dancers at Grand Valley State University, Oakland University, Bowling Green State University, and Cranbrook Schools.
NOT IN MY HOUSE (2018)
“NOT IN MY HOUSE” radically shifts the narrative about LGBTQ identity through the creative re-imagining of coming out stories in this evening length performance blending vogue, contemporary dance, and storytellin. Created and performed by an entirely queer-identified cast and crew, this work celebrates and explores the complexities of LGBTQ identity.
Dancers: 5
Running Time: 52 min
WOMEN’S WORK (2018 - work in progress)
“Women’s Work” questions the popular obsession with gender reveals and the absurdity of conforming to rigid ideals of gender expression by poking fun at the masks of masculinity, femininity, and the world in between.
*This work in progress was created as part of KFD’s initiative under the same name to encourage the creation and presentation of new work by artists aligning under a common theme, “Women’s Work.”
Dancers: 1
Running Time: 10 min
Photo Credit: Jenna Belevender
