Foreign Bodies

An epic journey through the evolution of mankind. Flesh and texture collide in a barrage of corporal imagery contrasting a range of architectural form in an ever-transforming environment. Abstractions of strangers in a strange land of bacteria invading a body evoke metaphors of loss of identity and the wonder of life's persistence until the full cycle of life is completed. Music by Esa-Pekka Salonen. Commissioned by the LA PHIL (Esa-Pekka Salonen, Director Musical)

Dreamcatcher

Based on the Native American legend, the 18 foot aluminum and steel spinning web takes a journey through faith. The meaning of dreams in our lives and what price we will pay for them is examined as the Dreamcatcher journeys through the struggle, the despair, the pain, the hope, and the joy of our dreams. Ultimately, it is a journey of faith.

 

Capture (d)

Capture(d) features two performers involved in a courtship dance. One is attached within a rocking silver half-sphere, and the other dances with and around him. Together they explore the beauty and hardships we experience in our relationships, and the strength it takes to sustain them.

Trajectoire

Set on an abstract Twenty-First Century Galleon, the group is set adrift – sink or swim – upon the ever-shifting landscape of human relations in modern society. A visceral and emotional journey, Trajectoire examines tremendous loss and abandonment. At journey’s end, the piece shows the transcendence of the human soul against all odds.

Tete En L'Air

Set on an abstract Twenty-First Century Galleon, the group is set adrift – sink or swim – upon the ever-shifting landscape of human relations in modern society. A visceral and emotional journey, Trajectoire examines tremendous loss and abandonment. At journey’s end, the piece shows the transcendence of the human soul against all odds.

 

D2R A

A wall peppered with protruding metal bars reveals an abstract military obstacle course in the trenches of war. The restrictions of being wounded or physically limited influence movement, and the dancers must achieve their goals despite self-imposed handicaps and inescapable gravity – yet they have no destination.

 

Caged

Using the cage-like structure, a Man is exploring, establishing and claiming his space. It is within the structure and the reactionary movement that themes of confinement, pressure, freedom, escape, and entrapment are explored.

Knockturne

Knockturne brings to the stage all the ordinary and extraordinary possibilities, difficulties and resulting absurdities of one of the most common structures in our architectural landscape – doors. Tall doors, short doors, revolving doors, doors that flip - doors of all sizes, door that we enter, exit, reconfigure, climb and collide with every day of our life. In Knockturne we discover doors dividing space, doors that provide thresholds of experience, doors that block our way to adventure, and doors that we open and close within friendships, love affairs, families, and business relationships. Knockturne is a play on the English/French word "Nocturne" (Notturna - canzone di notte) using the word knock (corpi), as in "to knock on a door" (corpi al portella) as the first syllable. In its current incarnation, Knockturne is presented as a love duet between a man and a woman.

Humachina

Combines the word “human”, with the Latin word for machine, “machina”. The principal of human motion and mechanical relations, a combination of the human form, and the simplicity of the most important of machines, the wheel.

 

Origin

A sensual solo stimulated by the power of the feminine mystique omni-present in the form of a cyber-spatial female sculpture of sublime contours – a stunningly iridescent other-worldly apparition.

 

Atom

The beginning of the world, and the smallest particle that creates life is you. If you look within the center of yourself you find balance, unity and equilibrium.

 

Apex

With spinning ladders and cheerful, jaunty music, the performers explore the intricacies of human relationships – how we support each other, let each other down and move intricately to avoid collision.

 

Le Seige

When mankind discovers the intriguing value of the lowly bench, everyone who encounters it wants it, and will do anything – anything! – to get it. And once a person has it, he or she will do anything to keep it, mostly away from everybody else – and also by any means. Even if it means destroying it.