This June, I will be teaching and making a new work at the LAC/KU Dance’s Summer Ballet Intensive, before travelling for the rest of the summer to attend the Movement Intensive in Compositional Improvisation with the Architects and a MELT Workshop with Irene Dowd. Other East Coast classes and workshops to be added soon!
Peter and the Wolf will be back at the Lawrence Arts Center for the third year running, with public performances on March 31st and April 1st. The show will feature many new cast members (including Peter himself) as well as sets by visual artist Neil Goss, costumes by Susan Rendall, music by the KU Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Raffaele Cipriano, and choreographer Eleanor Goudie-Averill as the Wolf.
My new piece, Untitled Dance for Eleven, has been a challenge and a joy to work on with the beautiful UDC dancers. We will be joined live by the KU Percussion Ensemble, playing Steve Reich’s Music for Pieces of Wood. The dance broadly relates to the physical and cultural landscape of KS, both in terms of being able to take up space and see far out onto the horizon, and also about feeling limited because of the cultural landscape. Hope you can come out to the Lied Center and support KU Dance! Tickets available HERE.
This Fall, I have been commissioned to create a new work for the University of Kansas Dance Department‘s University Dance Company. It is a joy to be back in the KU studios, and I can hardly believe that it has been twelve years since I was a student there myself. Here is my beautiful cast preparing to work one of our new phrases:
The piece will premiere at the UDC concert on November 17–18th at the Lied Center.
Here I am rehearsing for a new solo, commissioned by the Lawrence Ballet Theater for their annual Emergence Concert. The concert also features three guest artist works, Tarantella, and the original Firebird Ballet.
Returning is the first contemporary ballet solo that I have made for myself in many years. It is concerned with the cyclical nature of the decisions we make, the ability to adapt, and also to return…
Stone Depot’s Eleanor Goudie-Averill, in her post as artist-in-residence at the Lawrence Arts Center, has choreographed the musical extravaganza Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (and makes a cameo in each performance). Get tickets for the final weekend HERE.
The performance of Chitty follows an extremely successful remount of Peter and the Wolf, seen by every second grade student in Lawrence, KS, at the end of January.
