Current Repertory
Aspects of Me
Aspects of Me is a series of solos and duets that include “Me and Myself,” “Me and the Branch," “Me and Her,” and “We.”
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Griot Songs
Griot Songs – references 3 stages of womanhood: child into woman, young womanhood, and maturity.
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Benches
Benches takes you into a park for a day to people watch and imagine the lives of the those who are alone, in pairs, and in groups.
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Plugged
Plugged explores our relationships to the machines that occupy our world and how these machines affect our sensitivity to nature, quiet, and the earth. Original sound score by Dean Wallraff.
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Schoenfield Dances
Schoenfield Dances features a rag, fughetta, shuffle, and boogie and melds 20th century popular dance styles with a classical movement sensibility.
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For Rose
For Rose is about the passing of choreographer Benita Bike's mother Rose. Stark and poignant, this dance touches on complicated feelings of love, discordance, and death.
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Entrelazadas
Entrelazadas means "entwined" or "interlaced" in Spanish. This classical dance delicately traces the relationships of three women. The accompaniment is guitar and vocal music by Spanish composers Juan del Enzina, Gaspar Sanz, and Joaquin Rodrigo.
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Recent Repertory
On Beat 3
On Beat 3 is a trio that uses driving percussive rhythms and colorful off-balance movements to explore a world of ordered chaos.
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In the Garden
In the Garden is accompanied by the sounds of night and Finnish vocal music, and brings an ancient lost garden to life. Dancers in red dresses move red garden stones around to create paths throughout the garden, and golden tree spirits are freed to explore the night.
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Through the Lens
Through the Lens is accompanied by the quirky and surprising music by Hans Reichl, Barry Hall, and John Beck. The fantastical instruments used in these compositions are made from various non-standard materials, and the movement that this music inspires is completely surprising.
Old Postcards from Europe
Old Postcards from Europe takes its inspiration from three late 19th & early 20th century postcards found in Munich, Vienna, and Budapest. Postcards come to life in this dance for five.
Pushing Time
2016
Renaissance 5
2015
Currents and Eddies
2012
Southern Memories
2011
Aliens
2010
Eternal Encounter
2008
Dances in White
2007
VIDA Songs
2006
Overlapping
2004
Heaven and Earth - In Search of the Spirit
2004
Gottschalk Dances
2003
A Few American Songs
2002
Bloomers!
2001
Concerto in Slendro
1999
Angels and Wantons
1998
Nature Studies
1997
Human Nature
1996
Journey
1995
Reflections on Being American
1994
Little Dances with Women
1993
Songs of Change
1992
Le Tombeau de Rameau
1991
Un Petit Divertissement
1990
Percussion Suite
1989
Womansong
1988
In the Ruins
1987
Le Femmes des Montagnes
1987
Voices and Recitations
1986
Child's Play
1986
Cycle
1985
Suite
1984
In the Expanse
1983
Folk Dance
1982
Szerelem
1982
Sculptures
1981
Soundspace
1978
Solo
1977
Space for Two
1977
From the "Kammermusiken"
1976
For Lyric
1975
Selections from "Pierrot Lunaire"
1975
Clap Dance
1975
Three Movements
1973
Duet
1973
Composition in Three
1971
Dream of a Tepid Night
1970