MILL: An Immersive Performance
Premiere: April 29 & 30, 2023 at The Silo in Houston’s Fifth Ward
Inspired by the performance venue, The Silo in Houston’s Fifth Ward, a 1924 abandoned rice mill warehouse, MILL is a full-length immersive dance performance that bridges the chasms of time by reliving historic moments of the 1950s that resonate complexly with present day experiences.
Read the PREVIEW, written by Ashley Clos
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Photos by Tati Vice
Fille Folle
Premiere: October 11, 2022 at Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston (MATCH) in Mind The Gap presented by Dance Source Houston
Enthralled by the dichotomies of women in the Middle Ages and inspired by the poems of Charles Baudelaire, Fille Folle examines the role of woman in a time when she could reign as Queen yet have no legal power or rights of her own. Suzanne Hull explained, "the ideal women of the time was rarely seen and never heard in public." She is expected to be beautiful and graceful, yet she is silenced, gritty, and if she reveals her emotion—she’s a mad girl.
Photos by Lynn Lane
Perhaps
Premiere: April 23, 2021 at Virtual Dance EXposure hosted by Lehigh Valley Dance Exchange
"Perhaps" is an amalgamation of examining and reclaiming one's body autonomy from cultural, societal, and religious traumas against it. As the dancer reflects on femininity, sexuality, and the concept of purity, there is a question of stepping into one's full self. Will there be new freedom found? Will the world open to her or is she now open to the world? Through sensual and visceral movement, the dancer chooses to challenge patriarchal standards, chooses self-love, and indulges in a great perhaps.
Dance Film Photo Stills
Swells
Premiere: April 18, 2020 on Facebook Live via Zoom; National Water Dance 2020
“Swells” was created as a part of the movement choir for National Water Dance. This work was made to honor the Water, Earth, its inhabitants, & the Indigenous Peoples who paved the way in honoring nature. We dance for Climate Change, for Hope, and for the Future.
“Swells” was meant to be performed among the waves, wind, and sand of Rockaway Beach, NY. Instead, the COVID-19 Pandemic hit and we adapted to the technology of today, choosing to perform this work virtually. Below, you can view our “film” version of the work. Or, you can click here to see the Facebook Live performance.
shaking morning
Premiere: June 20-22, 2019 at The Theater at Gibney 280
"shaking morning" in its entirety is a journey marked by human connection, memories of loss and leaving, and the question of defining home: is it the people or the place? Themes of displacement, familial bonds, and survival are explored through movement that is rooted in the juxtapositions of tenderness and athleticism. Human touch is the driving force of "shaking morning" - the dancers constantly catching one another, pushing one to move on and pulling another to stay, holding each other in moments of intensity. The work asks: Do you watch someone leave or do you let them go? Do you stay caught between two worlds - the moving on or the holding back? What are the hopes of home that keep us rooted?
The work also lives in a place of femme power. There is a sisterhood in “shaking morning” that lifts the woman up, highlights the raw strength of the female body and the power of community. Deep in the performance are moments of audience-performer connection where the dancer says, “Here am I. You’re seeing all of me.” The work strips the dancer down, physically and emotionally, to a place that is bare and vulnerable… which is where the world of “shaking morning” lives.
Photos by Eric Bandiero
Stronghold
Premiere: August 3, 2018 at Gibney Dance
Developed under the mentorship of Doug Varone as a part of his DEVICES Workshop, “Stronghold” is inspired by the story of Mariam and Laila of “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini, two women brought jarringly together by war in Afghanistan, by loss and by fate. As they endure dangers and hardships they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, showing that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival.
Photos by Nina Wurtzel
