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Repertory
"Ménage de Sang Bleu (Circle of the Blue Bloods)"
- Cast: 3 Dancers
- Music: Antonio Vivaldi "Gelindo en Ogni Vena" from "Farnace'
- Costumes: Olivera Gajic
- Running Time: 12 minutes
A trio for two women and a man. The piece explores a tangled and romantic ménage a trois. An erotic and dangerous struggle for power in which public formality and private abandon co-exist.
A 12 minute film version shot on Super 16 film.
"Betting on the Muse"
- Cast: 4 Women
- Music: Poetry written and read by Charles Bukowski
- Sound Design: Andrew Przbytkowski
- Costumes: Olivera Gajic
- Running Time: 15 minutes
- Technical note: Live piece is lit with 8MM projectors.
15 minute live piece exploring the female archetypes prevalent in Charles Bukowski's work; the prostitute, victim, good woman, and femme fatale.
15 minute film version of "Betting on the Muse" shot on Super 8MM film.
"Don't Come Around"
- Cast: 6 Dancers
- Music: Antonio Vivaldi and Charles Bukowski.
- Sound Design: Andrew Przbytkowski
- Costumes: Olivera Gajic
- Running Time: 75 Minutes (with one 12 minute intermission)
- Set Design: Austin McCormick
An evening length piece that begins in the decadent world of a Baroque banquet and evolves slowly into a stripped and lonely landscape.
"Folies d'Espagne"
- Cast: 7 Dancers
- Music: improvisation on theme of"Folies d'Espagne"
- Sound Design: Andrew Przbytkowski
- Costumes: Olivera Gajic
- Running Time: 12 Minutes
- Cellist: Raphael Dubbe
A piece based on reconstructed Baroque notations. A mysterious woman comes to court where nuance and manner are essential. Within this structure, a tangled web of emotions and relationships are explored....
Ten minute short film shot on HD digital film. Made possible by a grant from Dance Films Association, Susan Braun Award 2007. Premiere Screening at Walter Reade Cinema, Lincoln Center January 2008 (Jury Award Nominee).
"Tromp L'Oeil"
- Cast: 6 Dancers
- Sound Design: Andrew Przbytkowski (inspired by Vivaldi themes)
- Costumes: Olivera Gajic
- Running Time: 12 minutes
Commissioned by New York Baroque Dance Company for their “Urban Baroque” festival 2007. The piece attempts to bring Baroque movement vocabulary into the 21st century by combining the antique with the contemporary.
"Delusions of Grandeur"
- Cast: 1 Man
- Music: “Cum Dederit Dilectus Suis Somnum”, Antonio Vivaldi
- Costumes: Olivera Gajic
- Running Time: 6 Minutes
A sexy and powerful solo in which the last aristocrat in a royal lineage dances between life and death, fighting to stay strong and keep his customs and traditions alive.
"Dido's Lament"
- Cast: 3 Women
- Music: Henry Purcell- Dido and Aeneas, 'Thy Hand, Belinda'” and 'When I Am Laid In Earth', Carolyn Watkinson (soprano)
- Costumes: Austin McCormick
- Running Time: 5:30 Minutes
A beautiful and haunting trio for three women each in various stages of the grieving process.
"Le Bel Indifferent"
- Cast: 1 Man, 1 Woman
- Music: Edith Piaf, “Le Bel Indifferent” recorded by Piaf written by Jean Cocteau
- Costumes: Olivera Gajic
- Running Time: 45 Minutes
Based on the one act play “Le Bel Indifferent” written by Jean Cocteau for Edith Piaf. Using Cocteau’s story of a women driven mad by jealousy and suspicion as a backbone, we explore what it means to truly experience one’s life as opposed to acting out a pre-scripted and manipulated situation. Piaf’s spoken voice and music serve as the audio landscape.
"The Judgment of Paris"
- Cast: 4 Women (3 Dancers, 1 Actress), 2 Men(1 Dancers, 1 Actor)
- Music: excerpts from The Judgment of Paris (opera) by John Eccles and William Congreve. Marlene Dietrich, and Offenbach’s “La Belle Helene” (comic opera). Text; from various Greek sources Homer- Iliad, Euripides- Helen, Aeschylus-Agamemnon (458 BC).
- Sound Design: Austin McCormick
- Costumes: Olivera Gajic
- Running Time: 90 Minutes
A dance/theater piece based on the Greek myth The Judgment of Paris that inspired the Baroque Opera. The piece explores classic themes of sexuality, attraction, betrayal, manipulation, and loss. Extracting from the structure of Baroque Opera, these themes are considered from a contemporary perspective.
