Choreography

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A new work on perspective. How can the isms of the past live in the present? Tableau. Demolition. Reconstruction. Machine Learning. Rediscovery. The Light's Eye. Community.  

Premiered at Works In Progress at Marymount Manhattan College 2024

Dancers: Benjamin Stoesz, Alex Ferrigan, Gabi Scheele, Jenna Dike, Deven Crawford, Cici Cardinal, Mark Dilorio, Kate Gombar, Isabel Torok, Caitlyn Zaniewski, Catherine Smith 

Music: The Sacrifice by Culoe De Song, End Credit Bonus By Cristobal Tapia de Veer, and Dripsody (1955) by Hug Le Caine

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A physicalization of the tether the natural world has on humans. Provoking awareness, the constant reminder and repeated actions needed to make the natural world "work" for human life.  You will always have to keep mowing your lawn, or clearing the trail. 

Premiered at The Watermill Center Annual Summer Benefit 2023 

Durational Experimental Solo Piece 

Dancer: Evelyn Dugan

With Guidance from Robert Wilson, Charles Chemin, Andreas Andreou, Lyuba Todorova, Chloe Bellemere

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Without expectation, there can be no disappointment. Take a chance, play a game.  Ask yourself, is it cake? 

Premiered at Marymount Manhattan College in their Dancers at Work Program A fall 2023. 

Dancers: Alex Ferrigan (she/her), Ava Bagan (she/her), Gabi Scheele (she/her), Grace LeBeau (she/her), Jenna Dike (she/her), Kate Gombar (she/her), Isabel Torok (she/her), Nova Persio (she/her) 

Mentors: Dan Cooper (Music) and Jamal White (Choreography) 

Music: "Struße ” by Ori Lichtik and Gidon Schocken and words by Evelyn Dugan

"3 Cubed" centers around disassociating from the boxed in square and favoring the repetitive notions of defeat in life. Why do we favor defeat? How do we do it? Three bodies in space to create another.   

Performed at Bridge for Dance's "Uptown Rising performance Series" November 2022 (Manhattan, NY)  

Videography: Jacob Hiss  

Dancers: Brianna North, Dan Doran, Spencer Schofield  

Music: "No Man No Cry" by Jimmy Sax, "Loose Change" by Brent Faiyaz, "On the Run" by Pink Floyd, Arranged by Evelyn Dugan

"Body in Space" was selected to be presented at The Forty-Fifth Annual Honors Day Colloquium at Marymount Manhattan College in 2022 on the Past/Present/Future Panel. Evelyn Dugan was sponsored by her Composition professor, Luke Miller.  "Body in Space" are left to live in the assumptions of the other people in that space. I wanted to experiment with basic movement that could be conceptually understood through the universal tool of body language, and invite the viewer to interpret my being through that movement.   Body in Space, was created based on experimental phrase work that highlighted the 7 dynamics of energy under the elements of choreography.  This video project was also inspired by the site specific work of Noemi LaFrance, a canadian dancer/choreographer. My chosen location was Roosevelt Island. I found this unique angle on the south quarter of the Island that created a sort of symmetrical vanishing point for the eye using nature (the trees, grass, water) and the city as the frame, without any other human bodies in the frame.  After watching the film, I want to take this opportunity to ask you all what you saw.  

Music: Body by SYML