Choreography & Movement Direction

archival videos and commercial resume available upon request

CURRENT MUSING:
AGING IN PLACE
(formerly known as “HERE NOW AND THEN”)

AGING IN PLACE: follows Ruth, a former nurse in her late 90s, living alone in New York City’s Upper East Side during the COVID 19 pandemic. Her family struggles to accept her cognitive decline and her new caregiver takes on roles beyond her capacity. Exploring themes of memory, isolationism, fantasy, delusion, and familial roles, Aging in Place asks “what needs to break in order for changes to be made?”.

Current explorations: uniting realism and fantasy, externalizing the experience of dementia in order to bring viewers into Ruth’s experience, incorporating dance and world expansion in ways that directly serve story, transitions that distort the viewer’s sense of time.

Scary Fun Fact: Did you know that 24-hr in home care in NYC costs $118,300/year?! And that’s after long term care insurance is factored in. Finances, fear of change, and lack of community/government support are often factors that cause care to be out of the conversation.

PITCH DECK AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

here, now, and then

role: choreographer, director, sound designer

ShowDown Series, Gibney Dance Center, November 2019
Hamilton Residency, Barn Arts, July 2019

Here, Now, and Then is an evening length dance theater piece that explores the themes of memory, isolationism, fantasy, and delusion using linear based storytelling, detailed sound design, and evocative gesture. HN&T follows a woman with dementia as she traverses through her ever-changing environment.

Dancers: Nancy Brier, Ebony Webster, Madeline Robertson, Jada Williams

UNLOVABLE

role: choreographer, director, sound designer

YourMove Modern Dance Fest, Loew’s Theater, November 2019
Sans Limites Movement Fest, Hudson Guild Theater, June 2019

UNLOVABLE is a comedic, narrative-based, modern dance theater piece that emphasizes the mundane and operatic natures of our current texting and dating cultures. Using opera classics, the recorded voice of SIRI, modern dance, linear storytelling and the use of props, the soloist shares the farcical high and lows of texting a new dating partner.

Dancers: Seneca Lawrence

Devotion

role: choreographer, director

New Steps Choreographer’s Series, Chen Dance Center, April 2018
POP Series, Gibney Dance Center Featured Film, June 2019

Devotion explores the habitual natures of isolationism and addiction using narrative dance and repetitive gesture. In January, 2019, Devotion was adapted to film, shot by Stone Street Cinema

Dancers: Brittany Henry, Lei-Lei Bavoli, Sophia Zukoski (Chen Dance Center), Erin Washingston (Dance Film)

Monuments (a full length play by evan starling-davis)

role: Movement direction

Alliance of Residence Theaters, South Oxford Space, A.R.T/NY
Recipient of A.R.T/NY’s Creative Space Development Grant

MONUMENTS: a morality play follows the story of Avery Mann—a young mind of the academy— navigating his inescapable death within the system. His guardians fail to prepare him for his purpose. Teachers, peers, and authority misunderstand him. For while his curiosity of truth places a target on his back, it also places a target the ones responsible. He dreams of revolution and revolutions require blood: by any means necessary.

Play by Evan Starling-Davis
Directed by Claire Jamison