Slightly more calculated
"slightly more calculated" is a study of curiosity and self discovery. The seeming simplicity of just one person in a small space can become infinitely interesting, complicated and funny when given the opportunity. Sharing this experience with an audience invites the viewers to find pieces of themselves in the soloist and a mirror to their own discovery process.
Premier- May 2022 at TanzOrtNord Festival in Lübeck, Germany
SPUN
Premiered at Dixon Place as a benefit concert for Bee's Fund (and organizationthat helps young lesbian, bisexual and trans women, 18-25, who have been rejected by their families). The piece was then invited to perform at Jacobs Pillow's Inside/Out space in the summer of 2016 (see SPUN page for details and photos).
Performed as part of First Look at the Green Building in Brooklyn. And Excerpt of Creatures of Habit.
Photos by James Cernero
CrEatures of Habit
"Creatures of Habit" features seven male dancers, each dancer will be taking on a single trait à la the “Seven Dwarves” : happy, sleepy, dopey, grumpy as well as adding some new temperaments: envy, ambition, apathy. From the one-dimensionality and extreme specificity of these single traits, generating a three-dimensional on-stage universe by exploring how these traits move and interact with one another.
This universe is inspired in part by the play “No Exit” by Jean-Paul Sartre, The 1944 existentialist French play that suggests that “hell is other people”. The seven temperaments are paraded into the enclosed space and be forced to navigate each other's one dimensional personality, body and desires.
In a combination of the Price is right and Hunger Games, there are periodic eliminations when each character reaches their potential, stasis or change.
Promotional photos by Nir Arieli
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Sleepwalker
Performed by Christopher Ralph and Reed Tankersley at the Green Building, Brooklyn, NYC
Brand New Key
Performed by Jonathan Royse Windham and Elliott Reiland at the Current Sessions
Photos by Corey Melton
The Hall
Conceived and developed for the Freight Project and performed at Hubbard Hall and Dixon Place
Performed by Jonathan Royse Windham, Brendan Duggan, Christopher Ralph, Sarah Stanley, Lavinia Vago and Lucy Stack
Photos by Rachael Shane
two duets, some awkward moments, a long silence and a slow dance.
Dixon Place and the Current Sessions Issue II, Vol I at the Wild Project
Performed by Christopher Ralph, Sarah Stanley, Lucy Stack, Sarah Mettin, Brendan Duggan, Alexander Dones, Amy Ruggiero, Georgie Cauldwell, Elliot Reiland, Francesca Romo
"uproariously funny" - {DIY Dancer}
"Hilarious.." -Dance Enthusiast
"Inventive..." -Dance Pulp
Oh! Darlin'
The Current Sessions at the Wild Project (NYC) 2011, Dance From The Heart at the Cedar Lake Theater 2012
Performed by Jonathan Royse Windham with appearances from Christoper Ralph and Gregory Dolbashian
Oh! Darlin' is a quirky, hilarious look at a man in relationship to someone he loves through out his life.
Photos by Corey Melton
Says Shoot
The Current Sessions at the Wild Project (NYC)
is a chance composition based on the game "rock, paper, scissors". In the dance
the two participants are required to perform different choreographic tasks based on who
wins and who loses. The contrast of a humorous and playful beginning and
hard-hitting end carefully exhibit the beginning and the end of a relationship between two people.
The Dinner Party
Dance Theater Lab at SUNY Purchase 2011
Performed by Christopher Ralph, Jolina Javier, Austin Jarred, Amy Ruggiero, Lucy Stack, Zach McNally and Cat Cogliandro
The Dinner Party explores how inhibition and anxiety can shape and change
the human form. From these fears can emerge extreme characters,
which in this dance, all end up trying to interact at a dinner party.
The work explores the individual as part of a group, as well as mob mentality.
230 South Adelaide
Philadelphia Fringe Festival at the Painted Bride 2009, Terra Firma Dance Showcase 2009, Staller Center in Stonybrook 2009
Performed by Amy Ruggiero
230 South Adelaide is the lamentation of a long and important relationship
told from one person's perspective. It fluctuates from the tenderness of
grieving to the rawness of anger and regret.
The Curse of Thomas Watson
Philadelphia Fringe Festival at the Painted Bride 2009
The Curse of Thomas Watson shows the painstaking process of waiting. The audience
witnesses an individual go through the five stages of grieving (denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance)preemptively.