Photo by sarah ferguson

Photo by sarah ferguson

Requiem

  • Richmond Ballet, 2018

  • Music: Faure's Requiem

  • Lighting: Les Dickert

  • Costumes: Emily Morgan

  • 12 dancers (6 women, 6 men)

  • 35 minutes, 53 seconds


photo by keith sutter

photo by keith sutter

 

Poetry of Being

  • Smuin Contemporary American Ballet, 2017

  • Music: Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence

  • Lighting: Michael Oesch

  • Costumes: Susan Roemer of S-Curve Apparel and Design

  • 10 dancers (5 women, 5 men)

  • 20 minutes, 43 seconds


photo by yi yin

photo by yi yin

 

Illuminations

(created for the Choreography XX competition)

  • Oregon Ballet Theater, 2017

  • Music: Benjamin Britten's Illuminations

  • Lighting: Michael Mazzola

  • Costumes: Mark Zappone

  • 9 dancers (5 women, 4 men)

  • 23 minutes


Photo by chris hardy

Photo by chris hardy

 

Sarcastic Sketches

  • Smuin Contemporary American Ballet, 2017

  • Music: Daniel Sullivan's Sarchasms (original score)

  • Lighting: Michael Oesch

  • Costumes: JoEllen Artnz

  • 5 dancers (2 women, 3 men)

  • 9 minutes, 30 seconds


photo by chris hardy

photo by chris hardy

 

 

There's Rosemary...

  • Smuin Contemporary American Ballet, 2017

  • Music: Handel's Rodelinda "Ho Perduto Il Caro Sposo"

  • Lighting: Michael Oesch

  • Costumes: JoEllen Artnz

  • 2 dancers (1 woman, 1 man)

  • 2 minutes, 41 seconds


Photo by keith sutter

Photo by keith sutter

 

J-I-N-G-L-E BELLS

(created for Smuin's annual Christmas Ballet)

  • Smuin Contemporary American Ballet, 2016

  • Music: Frank Sinatra J-I-N-G-L-E BELLS

  • Lighting: Michael Oesch

  • Costumes: JoEllen Artnz

  • 4 dancers (2 women, 2 men)

  • 2 minutes, 4 seconds


photo by dave friedman

photo by dave friedman

 

Labyrinth

  • National Choreographic Initiate, 2016

  • Music: Ludovico Einaudi's Tracce, Ombre, Questa notte, and La linea scura

  • Lighting: Monique L’Heureux

  • Costumes: JoEllen Artnz

  • 9 dancers (5 women, 4 men)

  • 18 minutes, 20 seconds


photo by dave friedman

photo by dave friedman

Staring at Clouds

  • National Choreographic Initiate, 2016

  • Music: Michael Torke's Bright Blue Music for Orchestra

  • Lighting: Monique L’Heureux

  • Costumes: Susan Roemer of S-Curve Apparel and Design/ JoEllen Artnz

  • 9 dancers (5 women, 4 men)

  • 7 minutes


photo by david de silva

photo by david de silva

 

With Alacrity

  • Amy Seiwert's Imagery, 2016

  • Music: Waelandanna's Swamp Song w/Ania

  • Lighting: Jim French

  • Costumes: Susan Roemer of S-Curve Apparel

  • 4 dancers (3 women, 1 man)

  • 8 minutes


photo by chris hardy

photo by chris hardy

Merely Players

  • Smuin Contemporary American Ballet, 2016

  • Music: Vampire Weekend's Unbelievers, Fleet Foxes' White Winter Humnal, and Bon Iver Flume

  • Lighting: KT Graham

  • Costumes: Susan Roemer of S-Curve Apparel and Design/ JoEllen Artnz

  • 10 dancers (5 women, 5 men)

  • 9 minutes, 30 seconds


photo by sarah ferguson

photo by sarah ferguson

From My Life

  • Richmond Ballet, 2015

  • Music: Smetana’s String Quartet No.1 in E minor "From My Life"

  • Lighting: Christopher Devlin Hill

  • Costumes: Emily DeAngelis

  • 10 dancers (5 women, 5 men)

  • 13 minutes, 35 seconds

Created for Richmond Ballet's New Works Program


photo by chris hardy

photo by chris hardy

 

What Just Happened

  • Smuin Contemporary American Ballet, 2015

  • Music: Shostakovich’s Jazz Suite No. 2

  • Lighting: Michael Oesch

  • Costumes: JoEllen Artnz

  • 6 dancers (3 women, 3 men)

  • 3 minutes, 41 seconds


photo by vincent of dreamhouse

photo by vincent of dreamhouse

La Linea Scura

  • Smuin Contemporary American Ballet, 2013

  • Music: Ludovico Einaudi’s La linea scura

  • Lighting: Michael Oesch

  • Costumes: JoEllen Artnz

  • Duet (1 woman, 1 man)

  • 5 minutes, 6 seconds

Commissioned by Dayton Ballet for their 2016-2017 season


photo by chris hardy

photo by chris hardy

Joy To The World

(created for Smuin's annual Christmas Ballet)

  • Smuin Contemporary American Ballet, 2015

  • Music: Eugene Ormandy's Joy To The World

  • Lighting: Michael Oesch

  • Costumes: JoEllen Artnz

  • 14 dancers (7 women, 7 men)

  • 1 minutes, 52 seconds


photo by chris hardy

photo by chris hardy

Remember When

(created in collaboration with Weston Krukow)

  • Smuin Contemporary American Ballet, 2015

  • Music: Nancy Sinatra's Bang Bang

  • Lighting: Michael Oesch

  • Costumes: JoEllen Artnz

  • Duet (1 woman, 1 man)

  • 2 minutes, 52 seconds

Selected and performed for the 2015 McCallum Theater Dancing Under the Stars Choreographic Competition


photo by keith sutter

photo by keith sutter

 

Fantasia

(created for Smuin's annual Christmas Ballet)

  • Smuin Contemporary American Ballet, 2014

  • Music: James Galloway's Fantasia on "I Saw Three Ships"

  • Lighting: Michael Oesch

  • Costumes: JoEllen Artnz

  • 6 dancers (3 women, 3 men)

  • 3 minutes, 10 seconds


photo by jackie pinto

photo by jackie pinto

 

Pieces of Eight

  • Sacramento Ballet 2011

  • Music: Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata

  • Lighting: Kyle Lemoi

  • Costumes: Theresa Kimbrough

  • 8 dancers (4 women, 4 men)

  • 11 minutes, 41 seconds


photo by Sacramento ballet

photo by Sacramento ballet

 

Unconscious Surrender

  • Sacramento Ballet Ballet, 2010

  • Music: Barber's Adagio For Strings

  • Lighting: Kyle Lemoi

  • Costumes: Theresa Kimbrough

  • 18 dancers (8 women, 10 men)

  • 9 minutes, 46 seconds


photo by alexander biber

photo by alexander biber

 

Erbarme dich

  • Sacramento Ballet Ballet, 2011

  • Music: Bach's St. Matthew's PAssion

  • Lighting: Caitlin Sapunor-Davis

  • Costumes: Theresa Kimbrough

  • 7 dancers (3 women, 4 men)

  • 7 minutes, 28 seconds


photo by alex biber

photo by alex biber

 

Scars Already Seen

  • Sacramento Ballet, 2011

  • Music: Civil War's Dance Me To The End of Love

  • Lighting: Caitlin Sapunor-Davis

  • Costumes: Theresa Kimbrough

  • Duet (1 woman, 1 mn)

  • 3 minutes, 5 seconds

Selected and Performed at the Mondavi Center for the Arts


photo by jack hartin

photo by jack hartin

 

 

MomentTarry

  • Sacramento Ballet Ballet, 2008

  • Music: Prokofiev's Overture on a Hebrew Theme

  • Lighting: Caitlin Sapunor-Davis

  • Costumes: Theresa Kimbrough

  • 10 dancers (6 women, 4 men)

  • 8 minutes, 46 seconds

Selected and performed for the 2009 McCallum Theater Dancing Under the Stars Choreographic Competition


photo by keith sutter

photo by keith sutter

 

 

Fading Shadows

  • Sacramento Ballet Ballet, 2007

  • Music: Albinoni's Adagio For Strings

  • Lighting: Caitlin Sapunor-Davis

  • Costumes: Theresa Kimbrough

  • 10 dancers (5 women, 5 men)

  • 6 minutes, 3 seconds

Selected and performed for the 2008 McCallum Theater Dancing Under the Stars Choreographic Competition


photo by jack hartin

photo by jack hartin

 

Souvenir

  • Sacramento Ballet Ballet, 2006

  • Music: Tchaicovsky's Souvenir de Florence

  • Lighting: Caitlin Sapunor-Davis

  • Costumes: Theresa Kimbrough

  • 6 dancers (3 women, 3 men)

  • 4 minutes, 47 seconds

Selected and performed for the 2007 McCallum Theater Dancing Under the Stars Choreographic Competition

Selected and performed for the 2008 Los Angeles Dance Invitational