Repertory
Remaining Vertical Music by Gazal, puppets by Toni Taylor & Brian Pekarsky 4 dancers, 2 puppeteers, 2004, About 25 minutes long, dance & shadow puppets explore how we deal with the results of our freely made choices vs. those forced on us.
updowninout.allaround music by many, arranged by David Drinkwater, set/props by David Judelson, quartet, 2002, About 25 minutes long, ladders & fabric extend the range of the dance vocabulary to consider the different energies of collective and individual action.
Ecstatic Equilibrium music by David Drinkwater, 5 dancers Core of My Sentient Skin, music by David Drinkwater
Empyrean music by Northwind & Modern Jazz Quartet, quartet Bad Habits, music by Aron Copland, 4 dancers, 12 minutes long. Coplandıs ³title of work² and yo yos are used to highlight the usual return of habits that we try to get rid of
3 Sisters music by David Drinkwater, trio, 12 minutes long. A look at the relationships of women isolated from the world for toolong.
String Theory music by Bach, trio, To Bachıs unaccompanied cello ³suites² (confirm title of work), 13 minutes long. Considers the possibility of parallel dimensions and playing catch with god and/or the universe.
Tripudio music by Mozart, trio Core of my Sentient Skin, music by David Drinkwater
Dance Sketches poetry/soundscape by Jan McLaughlin, video by Toni Taylor, 2-6. Either as a duet or for a group of 6. Poet Jan Mclaughlin wrote the piece after watching a rehearsal. The dancers created the vocabulary in an improvisational process. The work asks us to consider what we are truly seeing as we watch dancers.
Conversations music by Janis Joplin, poetry by Alice Walker, solo. 12 minutes. An imagined front-porch-with-a-bottle-of-something conversation between Joplin, Walker, & Taylor about healing from hurts, the work around staying calm.
Peaceful Clan music by Cool as Grits String Band, quartet, 12 minutes. A look at a family that occasionally appears to be fine, but wonders why mom wants to leave.
no, not god Gregorian Chants & Kronos Quartet, quartet, 12 minutes. An early piece with 4 dancers about our struggle when god appears to fail us, leaving us to doubt the existence of one. Ah, Geez Easy, music by Itzhak Perleman, solo. A life in the day of one who get up, struggles through the day and blissfully goes back to bed.
1000 Reasons to Cut Your Hair poetry/soundscape by Jan McLaughlin, construction by Adrian Truini, duet. 2 performers, 15 minutes Truiniıs tilted closet it used to create the various spaces to consider feminine expectations of duty, closet, and style, and why we feel free to comment rudely when we disagree with those expections.
Quarter to Three music by Tom Waits, solo., 12 minute.s He/she left you and the bartender is closing up.