choreography
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Glitch (2021) The Cowles Center, Minneapolis Threads Dance Project: Awake. Alive. Anew. Part social commentary, part sci-fi dystopia, "Glitch" is a quirky blend of theater and dance. Three women struggle to a breaking point in an attempt to have their voices heard. Out of the silence emerges a perfect, soothing voice that everybody listens to. In desperation, the women fit in perfect little boxes so that finally, everybody listens to them, and they listen to everybody. |
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Safe House (2020)
The ArtBox, Minneapolis Inbox@Artbox “Safe House” explores the extremes of control and security in isolation. Utilizing text, the work alternates between darkly comedic revelations and nuanced physicality. In the face of uncertainty, the soloist clings to what they believe to be true about the world outside. |
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shadowlands (2019)
The Loft Stage, Woodbury Minnesota Dance Festival "The earth has music for those who listen" -George Santayana. From the wreckage of our Earth emerges a song, a prayer, an outcry. I created this work as an embodied response to the ravaging impacts of human activity on the Earth and our climate. This work blends voice, improvisation, and dynamic physicality. |
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Human: A Dance Film from Nadia Honary on Vimeo. |
Human (2018)
Video Variant “Human” is positioned within and against nature to explore concepts of decay, renewal, growth, and implosion. I developed the base choreography in a studio setting, and gave direction to dancer Elly Hollenhurst for how to adapt it once we were on site to film. After filming, videographer Nadia Honary and I worked together to edit the material. I am particularly interested in framing nuanced movement, positioning dance in non-traditional spaces, and giving immediate, repeatable access of the work to viewers. Choreography & Direction: Jenn Pray Film & Editing: Nadia Honary Performer: Elly Hollenhurst Music: Sevdaliza |
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Emergence (2021)
The Phipps Dance Company Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, WI This piece was created in the depths of the longest hardest winter. Amidst uncertainty, loss, and isolation, these six dancers brought their joyful energy and hope into their rehearsals together. "Emergence" is at once a remembrance and a hopeful look towards the future. |
All That Remains (2020)
Iowa Dance Theater Fisher Theater at Iowa State University "Spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song." -Rachel Carson, "Silent Spring" |
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Les Jeunes Rêveurs (2018)
Ballet Arts Youth Ensemble Ted Mann Concert Hall, Minneapolis Cathedral Dance Festival, Eden Prairie A spirited group of young girls escape their mundane classroom, embarking on mischief and adventure. |
In//Out//Through (2018)
The Phipps Dance Company Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, WI Connection, disconnection, and wavering: The dancers shift and rebound as relationships form, break, and drift. |
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Here We Are Again (2016)
Bel Campo Dance, Amsterdam Tanzwerkstatt Europa, Munich This Machine, Minneapolis Here We Are Again is a commentary on the American dream and pervasive cycles of systemic oppression. The work was created in response to the 2016 police killing of Philando Castile. |
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The Beginning of Things (2016)
Dance & Other Behaviors Tek Box Theater & The Southern Theater, Minneapolis The Beginning of Things is an immersive dance-theater work that includes audience participation. The work is an adaptation of Kate Chopin's "The Awakening," an 1899 novel that tells the story of a young woman's struggle to exert her freedom and sexuality in a repressive society. The scenes are crafted with emotional overtones rather than dialogue and multiple characters. The audience is invited to move around the stage and to drink, dance with, and talk with the performers. At times the onstage audience forms a backdrop for the audience who choose to remain seated, as in the party scene where an ambiance of conviviality is juxtaposed against the unraveling retreat of the protagonist. Vocals, piano and sound design by Jessica Pray Patel. Piano music composed by Chopin. |
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Fictions (2016)
Dance & Other Behaviors The Southern Theater, Minneapolis Original Score: Seth Tracy Storytelling & Conceptual Development: Jordan Lee Thompson |
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Contact (2016)
Threads Dance Project The TekBox Theater, Minneapolis Contact explores the effect of touch on human connection and livelihood. How does our relationship to physical nourishment change throughout life, and within different contexts? From the first breath to the last, Contact is an up-close and personal look at the power of touch in the context of an increasingly physically isolated world. |
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Seek (2016)
STRONGmovement The Tek Box Theater, Minneapolis "Remembrance is a form of meeting" -Khalil Gibran Created in collaboration with Darrius Strong, of STRONGmovement. |
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The Time Machine (2016)
The Italian Film Festival Commissioned by Roberto Francesco Cicero, Systems4Living Movement direction for a short film with original music, live vocalist and an actor. |
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An improvisational structure investigating fashion coercion and movement coercion.
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The Deep (2014)
The Minnesota Dance Festival The O'Shaughnessey Auditorium, St. Paul A physical contemplation of submersion. Original score by Seth Tracy. |
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Epidermis I & II (2014)
Dance & Other Behaviors Public Functionary, Minneapolis Shiny. Loud. Two short works created for the HOTROCITY launch party. Original score by Seth Tracy. |
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(In)humanity: A Study through Movement (2014)
Dance & Other Behaviors The Southern Theater, Minneapolis What separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom? Join our documentary crew on the site of a contemporary dance performance at the borders of humanity to see where, visually and kinetically, human and animal converge. Original score by Seth Tracy. |
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Project Space (2014)
The Minnesota Museum of American Art Project Space A 20-minute site-specific response to selections of the 2014 Minnesota Biennial. Original, adaptive score by Ryan Horton. |
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Lorelei (2014)
Choreographer's Showcase The Ritz Theater, Minneapolis TekBox Theater, Minneapolis "O River, I see drifting Deep in your flux of silver Those great goddesses of peace. Stone, stone, ferry me down there" -Excerpt from "Lorelei" by Sylvia Plath Music: original vocalizations by Jessica Pray Patel |
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Eta Carinae from Jennifer P. on Vimeo. |
Eta Carinae (2014)
Iowa Dance Theatre & Ballet Arts Youth Ensemble Hoyt Sherman Place, Des Moines Dances at the Lakes, Minneapolis The TekBox Theater, Minneapolis A stellar system spirals, brightens and explodes. |
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Memoryscape (2013)
Dance & Other Behaviors The Minnesota Fringe Festival Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis A movement-based drama unfolds as the twin goddesses of Memory and Forgetting weave through the mind of a man who seeks to forget. Original score by Seth Tracy. Cello by Olivia Quintanilla, vocals by Jessica Pray Patel and animation by Jordan L Thompson. |
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Passages (2013)
The Pointe Academy Dance Ensemble The Scottish Masonic Temple, Des Moines The passing of time presents transitions, change, and reflection for a group of young dancers. |
Migrations (2013)
The Minnesota Dance Festival The O'Shaughnessey Auditorium Migrations explores the meaning of home for three generations in an American family- from the rural homestead, through life as a military family, and ultimately to an urban existence. Dedicated to my grandmother, Patricia Socolofsky. Original Score by cellist Olivia Quintanilla. |
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Reflections: Private Moments in Public Spaces (2012)
Dance & Other Behaviors The University of Iowa Museum of Art , Iowa City An exploration of the limits of physical privacy, the performance space as a public environment, and interpersonal behavior in the social sphere. Created in collaboration with media artist Jordan L Thompson. |
Should the Shadows Come (2012)
The University of Iowa Space Place Theater, Iowa City A woman's journey navigating the depths of doubt, hope and hopelessness. "The one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind" -James 1:6 |
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You...but Better! A Girl's Guide to Getting Gorgeous (2011)
The University of Iowa Space Place Theater, Iowa City A commentary on the effects of an image-saturated culture. Obsession-perfection-beauty... How do I look? |
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On the Town (2010)
Iowa Dance Theatre Central Academy, Des Moines A lighthearted celebration of the street characters in Times Square, circa 1930. |
Kismet (2008)
Pointe Academy Dance Ensemble Scottish Masonic Temple, Des Moines Commissioned by the Scarlet Hair Show. |
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