Choreographic works

kid subjunctive

CounterPulse, San Francisco
September 8-10, 2022

kid subjunctive embodies collective futurism. Framed as a series of episodes in answer to the questions “what is desired?” and “what is possible?” kid subjunctive is a real-time creation myth that never arrives at its destination. It's a performance of a potential for a piece that doesn't yet exist. kid subjunctive is accompanied by a score generated from live performer vocalizations and recorded sounds.

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EPOCH

ODC Theater, San Francisco
October 2nd, 2021

EPOCH subverts conventional performance models by defying Doris Humphrey’s warning “All dances are too long.” EPOCH unfolds over 12 hours, elevating task as devotional practice, to challenge the valuing of acquisition. “The invention was rich, the development unhurried but inevitable. The whole complex work exuded modesty, embracing what needed to be done,” Rita Felciano, for 48 Hills.

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Errant Spells for Forgiveness

The Craft, Brooklyn
June 10, 2019

Errant Spells for Forgiveness is a performance state and series of rituals designed to establish audience trust through performer vulnerability. Undermining the placidity of finding consensus through harmonic movement, Errant Spells is a performance state of extreme, non-performed self-consciousness, physicalized in raw supplication.

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Moves Cords Names

ODC Theater, San Francisco
November 8, 2019

Nol Simonse moves shards of material from his 19-year collaborative partnership with Christy. These shards were selected both intentionally and through chance rolls of dice. Courtney Moreno coils up audio cords (much respect to every technician in the history of performance). Christy Funsch reads the names of 100 people who have positively impacted her dance making (people who will probably not be honored with centennial celebrations).

"Signals from the West: Bay Area Artists in Conversation with Merce Cunningham at 100" commissioned ten Bay Area artists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds to participate in a residency with former Cunningham dancers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener and create new works of art in response to this experience. These commissioned works premiered, alongside excerpts of Cunningham repertory performed by Bay Area dancers.

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(note that the piece begins at cue point 51:29)

Golden Bull

Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco
November 2-4, 2018

Golden Bull draws from Pagan rituals and ceremonies to dismantle male power through feminizations of spatial constructs, touch, and listening. In this first co-directed piece, Christy and Nol are examining abstract designs of the male body in space, both in isolation and in relationship with other men. Using these spatial designs and implied relationships as launching pads, Golden Bull foregrounds femininity and hints at the transformative potential of ritualized task: “Rigorous intention, integrity and unapologetic originality are ever present.” -Claudia Bauer, for the San Francisco Chronicle.

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