Work
Portrait of
"The self is not a singular fixed identity, but a constantly evolving multiplicity."
-bell hooks
The Intermission (and here we go again) explores personal performances that exist within a performance. With the artistic production serving as a metaphor for social experience, six artists journey together to establish their individual sanctuaries while blurring dramaturgy with reality. The work asks: at the end of the day, aren't we all putting on a show?
Weightless
Our personalities, mentalities, and emotions are molded by those we choose to spend time with. When someone new emerges within our orbit, we intrinsically shift. Examining the impact various relationships have had on our own lives and the lives of the artists in collaboration with us, we explore what these connections do to the trajectory of individual orbits.
If ever
If ever examines the complexities of intimacy within platonic, familial, and romantic relationships. The movement aims to delineate our human affinity for one another and the tension between the stability and instability inherent to connection. Emerging at the terminus of extreme isolation, the work comments on our tactile dependency on those around us and explores mental and emotional states within these relationships. The work, in final form, is a 30 minute culmination of vignettes portraying affection, intimacy, anger, struggle, pain, and loss. If ever is molded by musical choices, alternating between melodic classical, blues, and pop songs of the past.
Trailer for If ever
Previous Performances
Season 3
September 22 & 23, 2023 five two Dance Company at The Mark O’Donnell Theater in Downtown Brooklyn
October 13, 14, & 15, 2023 Studio to Stage Showcase at Alpha Omega Theater
December 10, 2023 Steffi Nossen Choreography Showcase at Emelin Theater
January 26, 2024 Layers V.5 with Terre Dance Collective
Season 2
November 3, 2022 Dance Bloc at Dixon Place
November 5, 2022 Spring Directors’ Choice Performance: five two Dance at Mignolo Arts Center
November 12, 2022 Featured Guest at alma’s Premier Performance at KNJ Theater
December 3, 2022 American Dance Guild Festival at Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater
December 4, 2022 Steffi Nossen Choreography Showcase at Emelin Theater
January 28, 2023 unKEMpt Dance Festival at Arts on Site
February 10, 2023 WHITEWAVE’s SoloDuo Festival at Dixon Place
February 17, 2023 SharedSpace Showing at Mark Morris Dance Center
March 26, 2023 SPARK Theater Festival at TADA! Theater
April 14, 2023 New Wave Performance at Five Angels Theater
May 13, 2023 Boston WiP at Tufts University in Somerville, MA
July 15, 2023 The Junction Dance Festival Performance Series in White Junction River, VT
July 22, 2023 Vida Dance Festival at Arts on Site
Season 1
December 4, 2021 Steffi Nossen Dance Foundation’s Fall Showcase at Bethany Arts Community
December 12, 2021 Artists After Hours Emerging Artist Showcase
February 27, 2022 Balance Arts Center Showcase
February 27, 2022 7MPR Showcase at Arts on Site
March 20, 2022 Fertile Ground at Green Space
April 10, 2022 Falling in Dance at iKADA Dance Center
April 10, 2022 Layers V.3 Virtual Showing with Terre Dance Collective
May 6, 2022 INHALE/EXHALE Performance Series with Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers
May 19, 2022 CREST at Chilo's Greenwood
May 22, 2022 WAXworks at Triskelion Arts
June 3, 2022 Spring for Spring in Metuchen, NJ
June 5, 2022 Queens Outdoor Dance Festival
July 10, 2022 KoDaFe International Dance Festival
July 15, 2022 Split Bill with Grace Yi-Li Tong at Arts on Site