New Lyricism
7-minute self-choreographed solo depicting deeply embodied musicality and its effects on emotion.
Premiered November 2022 at the Hollins Theater. Music by Nick Drake.
WATCH New Lyricism here: https://vimeo.com/778925319 (password: drake2022)
Change / Coil
10-minute group work set on 10 undergraduate dancers. Meditates on the intimacy of memory and joy of finding unexpected community.
Premiered November 2022 in the Hollins Theater. Music by Big Thief.
WATCH Change / Coil here: https://vimeo.com/778636671 (password: change2022)
TRACES: Embodied Ephemera From Here to There
30-minute solo performance followed by 10-day multi-media gallery installation.
MFA Thesis Performance at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum. June 2022.
Photography by Orfeas Skutelis
Tiny Birds (2022)
This 7-minute duet researches queer friendship, kinship, and play.
Set on dancers Kelley Holt and Devonn McKenna, this work premiered at the Hollins University Theater in May 2022.
WATCH Tiny Birds here: https://vimeo.com/747699484 (password: birds2022)
Histories (2022)
This 11-minute solo researches queer memory, shame, desire, and hope.
Premiered as a part of DRAFTWORKS : Hollins University, April 2022. Performed again at Hollins MFA Dance International Summer Program, June 2022, and Midwest RAD Fest, March 2023.
WATCH Histories here: https://vimeo.com/752274847 (password: 2022)
Arrival at the Gates (2021)
The research for this 10-minute solo used José Esteban Muñoz’s senspirations of queer utopia as imagined framework to image the setting of heaven - queer utopia - on stage. What propels this work is a sense of arriving at a place which feels at once entirely unfamiliar and viscerally, intrinsically, known.
Premiered at Hollins University in November 2021.
DEPARTURE DANCES (2021)
MAY 26th, 2021 - BACKSPACE GALLERY - MADISON , WI
A work of ten individual vignettes, each their own departure. Entirely self produced, directed, and performed, this evening length performance used large moving set pieces to evoke the grief felt in departing from things - people - ideas - worlds.
WATCH: Excerpts of Departure Dances here (email alsveds@gmail.com for password)
Lullaby (2020)
This solo uses the physicality of hypnotization as a framework through which human vulnerability and manipulation are exposed.
This work premiered at the UW-Madison Alumni Festival in September, 2020 in Madison, WI, amidst world-wide panic.
Photography by Maureen Janson Heintz
BEAM / BEAST (2019)
This solo physicalizes the emotional range between shielding and attack, tenderness and force, prey and predator.
This work premiered at the UW-Madison Alumni Festival in September, 2020 in Madison, WI.
Performed by Tye Trondson
Photography by Maureen Janson Heintz
WATCH: BEAM / BEAST on Vimeo (password: 2020)
TINT (2019)
This is a solo about hiding - stealthiness - privacy - secrets - presence - and, also, gender.
Performed on the Chazen Museum of Art’s yellow bridge.
Photography by Mats Rudels
WATCH: TINT (2019) on Vimeo (password: 2019)
Fixed (2019)
This duet focuses on infatuation and fixation- on people, things, ideas, and worlds.
Performed by Akiwele Burayidi and Kaitlin Verchimak
Photography by Maureen Janson Heintz
WATCH: Fixed (2019) on Vimeo (password: 2019)
Of Double (2018)
This work is of my early investigations on the gender binary and its effects on relationships.
Performed by Akiwele Burayidi, Audrey Glock, Cassie Last, Elisa Hildner, Kaitlin Verchimak, and Mariel Schneider
Photography by Maureen Janson Heintz