Choreographic Installation Program
Order:
Cycle Break (Nathan)
Balance of Opposite Forces (Dara)
Replay (Sarah YE)
R(n)Cha0s (Victoria)
eroding (Anna)
The Ocular Cycle of Izanami (Sheamar)
Cycle Break
Choreographer: Nathan Crewe-Kluge
Music: Familiar Things Disappear, I Can’t Express My Deep Love, and Constant Growth Fails by Hauschka
Cast: Elise Heitkamp, Kendall Lademann, Sarah Murphy, Anna Parks, Dara Schlesinger, Victoria VanderPlas, Sheamar Williams-Robinson
Notes: This work explores the circularity and cycles that we experience in life. Cycles can create positivity and comfort through repetition, routine. Conversely, cycles can also be a trap, or a limitation. This piece covers the arc of communally learning how to hold and nurture positive cycles, while breaking the negative ones.
Balance of Opposite Forces
Choreographer: Dara Schlesinger
Music: Faun by Ólafur Arnolds
Dancers: Nathan Crewe-Kluge and Anna Parks
Notes: Balance of Opposite Forces is about the Chinese principle of Yin and Yang. The duet is about the dynamics and natural form of flowing energy.
Replay
Choreographer: Sarah Murphy
Music: “Replay” by René Aubry
Dancers: Eva Berry, Vivian Boyce, Esther Harrington, Sara Lastra, Julia Reed, Eleanor Young
Notes: performed by Youth Ensemble, an audition-only program for the school’s most advanced dancers to gain additional performance experience and learn more about a professional dance career.
R(n)Cha0s
Choreographer: Victoria VanderPlas
Music: And Then I Knew’t Was Wind by Toru Takemitsu, Ghost by Chmura, Comfort In Chaos, and Tears by John Summit
Dancers: Nathan Crewe-Kluge, Kendall Lademann, Elise Heitkamp, Sarah Murphy, Anna Parks, Dara Schlesinger, Sheamar Williams-Robinson
Notes: An experimental creation focused on organizing randomized numbers, music, and ideas in space.
eroding
Choreographer: Anna Parks
Music: Motion Peter Sandberg
Dancers: Victoria VanderPlas and Sheamar Williams-Robinson
Notes: A piece about change.
The Ocular Cycle of Izanami
Choreographer: Sheamar Williams-Robinson
Lore: The continuous cycle of life and death.
Music: Parola by Anna Caragnano/Donato Dozzy, Vessel by Katharine Petkovski, and orchids by Eden Mulhollan.
Cast: Elise Hetikamp, Kendall Lademann, Nathan Crewe-Kluge, Victoria Vanderplas, Dara Schlesinger, Sarah Murphy, and Anna Parks.
Notes: In order to step into your new life you must let go of your old life; the only way to achieve that is to eat the fruit of self-realization.
