CHOREOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO

moon body, water bodies

currently, solo w/ text + audio description

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in process

 

by Dani Cole

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photo by Richard Sayama

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an improvisation that toggles the memory of my body as it was and the ongoing movement-stasis in Crip time... an undoing of what is work, a look at effort through listening  

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crisis/thought

currently - workshop/process based, not performative

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early WIP sharing at Greenspace in March 2020, to be presented at La Mama through Chen Dance Center in 2021

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M O B I V collaborators

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photo by Claire Sersun

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navigates endless mind spirals that trigger and exacerbate being overwhelmed. with laughter,    M O B I V pull themselves together in community and spill out into cycles chaotic let go and holding on tight to their vocal chords, speaking when they may otherwise be silent in a world of too much.

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in lungs

2019-2020

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WIP shared at Gibney in May 2019

Premiere at TADA! Theater in October 2019

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M O B I V collaborators include Liana Kleinman, Anna Pinault, Riley Sullivan, Natalie True

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music by Hildur Guðnadóttir, Ghost in the Brazos

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photo by Nicole Stoddard

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an evening-length dialogic and movement work, grounded in reflection. M O B  I V navigates the resiliency and tangible conjurations of memories through dance and spoken text developed in community writing and embodiment workshops.

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what we held, slipped through

fall 2019

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guest artist commission on the Steffi Nossen Dance Company, performed at the Choreographer's Showcase at the Emelin Theatre

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music by Hildur Guðnadóttir & Hauschka

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photo by Ellen Crane

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commission with Steffi Nossen; what we held, slipped through is movement-oriented work, drawing from in lungs that questions how easily our favorite recollections fall through the porous walls of our memory & ways in which they also resurge with surprise

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don't go back. where?

fall 2018

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presented at Bridge for Dance's Uptown Rising Performance Series, the New Work Series, College Choreographic Symposium

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performed by Mimi Rosepink, Lily Sheppard, Riley Sullivan

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costumes by Natalie True

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music by Augusta Reade Thomas

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photo by Nick Nazzaro

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a trio work negotiating collective memory in the relentless forward motion of time

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TRES?

summer 2018​

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presented at San Francisco Conservatory of Dance's Summer Performance I 

 

created in collaboration with dancers

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performed by Jessie Fernandez, Bailey Jet, and Alice Svetic

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music by Hildur Guonadottir

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made in residency at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, navigating the confusion of binaries and the gaps that are filled with diverse meaning

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please, wait to be eated.

spring 2018

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presented at Marymount Manhattan College's DAW, Evening of Contemporary Dance

 

created in collaboration with dancers

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performed by Lia Gagianas, Cassidy Grady, Rachel Locker, Jillian Rosner, Natalie True

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costumes by Mondo Morales

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music by Daniel Rosenboom & Lisa Moore

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photo by Firstenfilm

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a is for apple. a is for authority. 

SIXTY-2

spring 2018

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presented at Spark Dance Forum WIP

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performed + created by Dani Cole and Sophia Heiner

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music by Hildur Guonadottir

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an intensive duet extended from SIX-TY and 60 (solo version) 

SIX-TY (short version)

fall 2017

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presented at Marymount Manhattan College's DAW

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performed by Jess Akers, Dani Cole, Joey Chang, Hannah Gryzmala, Sophia Heiner, Amanda Killmer, Sam Warner, Kam Vaulx

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costumes by Mondo Morales

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music composed by Dani Cole & Joey Chang

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photo by Firstenfilm

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an interdisciplinary investigation of left and right wing politics and the coercive manipulation of time

60 (solo version)

ongoing,.. began November 2016

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presented at Marymount Manhattan College's WIP, 92Y's Fridays at Noon as "44...45.", Spark Dance Forum

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performed by Dani Cole

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costumes by Dani Cole

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music by Dani Cole and Augusta Read Thomas

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photo by Ezra Goh

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an intensive solo meditation on the limiting nature of time. how does time feel amidst the drives and confusion of partisan politics and the current presidency? how does it feels to simultaneously look back at times of naïveté and actively continue onwards?

land gone

spring 2017

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presented at Marymount Manhattan College's DAW, Spark Dance Forum, CBG Dance Festival, Steffi Nosen Choreographers' Showcase, Marymount Manhattan College's Honors Day 

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originally performed by Misha Culver, Sarah Jannsen, Liana Kleinman, Jillian Rosner, Emily Sindoni, Bella Tenaglia

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costumes by Mondo Morales

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music by Evgueni Galperine, Sacha Galperine, & Valgeir Sigurosson

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photo by Firstenfilm

 

an exploration of freedom utilizing unconventional imagery of the Statue of Liberty

It was the children

fall 2014

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presented at Specialty Center Dance Company's Fall Performance, 92nd St. Y's Dance Up - The Next Generation

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performed by members of the Specialty Center Dance Company 

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music by Max Richter and Arvo Part

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photo by Cliff Cole

 

created in honor of Alexander Lebenstein, WWII Holocaust Survivor, Foundation for Holocaust Education projects

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