●Human Future Dance Corps
●Iland
●Jennifer Lacey, Megagloss
●Dance by Neil Greenberg
●Merce Cunningham
●Body Cartography Project
●Thin Man Dance
●Compagnie Sui-Generis
●David Zambrano
●Miller Rothlein Theater
●Cathy Weis Projects
●Cydney Wilkes
●Dance Awards
Heather Kravas
Solid Objects, 2020
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Collaboration with choreographer Heather Kravas and visual artist Victoria Haven.
Punk, feminist, precise and extreme, one solid object is a choreographic abstraction grappling with the messy and incontrollable inevitability of human emotion. Utilizing borrowed movements, the dance is reduced to rhythm and essence then rebuilt through strict and sloppy repetitions. Making room for a presence of failure, physical vulnerability tangles with formal obsessions to embrace accidents, boredom, exhaustion and exuberance.
Human Future Dance Corps
DD DorvillierDanza Permanente, 2019
Diary of an Image, 2014
Danspace Platform, St. Mark’s Church, NYC
Danza Permanente, 2012
Kunstencentrum STUK, Leuven
Choreography, a Prologue for the Apocalypse of Understanding, Get Ready!, 2009
Dance Theater Workshop, NYC
The Kitchen NYC
ILAND
Jennifer Monsonbend the even, 2018
Chocolate Factory Theater, Brooklyn
Elliott Jenetopulos, Mauriah Kraker, Regina Garcia, Susan Becker — co-collaborators
Jeff Kolar — co-composition
“The research for this project was started in February 2017 with weekly rehearsals at dawn. These rehearsals have generated material connections between light, music, and movement – not as a representation of the liminal states of dawn but as a way of accessing new frameworks for emanating presence and animacy through the three mediums.”
— Jennifer Monson
Jennifer and Zeena Parkins improvising bend the even materials
In Tow, 2016
Danspace Project, Saint Mark’s Church, NYC
Film Project, 2011-2013
The Clocktower Gallery, NYC
Atlas of Holes, 2002
Galpogaas, Brooklyn
Sender, 1997
The Kitchen, NYC
La Mer, 1995
PS 122, NYC
Tacklerock, 1994
Danspace, St. Mark’s Church, NYC
Finn’s Shed, 1991
PS 122, NYC
Ursa’s Door, 1990
Danspace St. Mark’s Church, NYC
Ignasius Bight, 1989
PS 122, NYC
Hunk/Toad/Deliver, 1989
Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, NYC
Blood on the Saddle, 1987
Danspace, St. Mark’s Church, NYC
Jennifer Lacey, Megagloss
Place Historique, 2015
Mona Bismarck American Center, Paris
$ Shot [Lacey, Lauro, Parkins, Cornell], 2000
Kortrijk Theater Kortrijk, Belgium
Jennifer Lacey, Zeena Parkins, Nadia Lauro, Erin Cornell
[voice tells] 14 tiny pictures no more, no less, 1998
PS 122, NYC
Dance by Neil Greenberg
(like a vase), 2010
Dance Theater Workshop, NYC
Really Queer Dance With Harps, 2008
Dance Theater Workshop, NYC
Quartet With Three Gay Men, 2006
Dance Theater Workshop, NYC
Partial View, 2005
Dance Theater Workshop, NYC
Two, 2003
Dance Theater Workshop,NYC
Construction with Varied Materials, 2001
The Kitchen, NYC
Sequel, 2000
The Joyce Theater, NYC
My Fair Lady, Part Three, 1997
The Joyce Theater, NYC
The Disco Project, 1996
PS 122, NYC
Not-About-Aids Dance, 1994
The Kitchen, NYC
Kick Me Dance, 1992
La Mama Annex, NYC
Destiny Dance, 1991
PS 122, NYC
Merce Cunningham
Second Beacon Event at Dia:Beacon, Merce Cunningham Dance Company with John King, George Lewis, Fast Forward and Zeena Parkins. Held in two parallel galleries devoted to Walter de Maria’s Equal Area series. 2009Merce Cunningham Memorial, Merce Cunningham dancers with David Behrman, Alex Waterman, Zeena Parkins, Richard Teitelbaum & Jon Gibson. Park Avenue Armory, NYC. 2009
Body Cartography Project
Olive Bieringa and Otto RamstadSuper Nature, 2012
Commissioned by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Mammal, 2010
Les Subsistances Lyon, France
A commission from the Lyon Opera Ballet.
Score presented in four-channel surround sound.
½ Life, 2010
Southern Theater, Minneapolis
The survival of the body amidst a world of scientific research, data, and control. Score presented in four-channel surround sound and included a Max patch for ‘spinning winds’ collected from Japan, Canada and New Zealand.
Thin Man Dance, Inc.
John JasperseMisuse is Liable to Prosecution, 1987
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn
Prone, 2005
The Kitchen, NYC
Rickety Perch, 1989
Danspace Project, St Mark’s Church, NYC
Compagnie Sui-Generis
Emmanuelle Vo-DinhAboli Bibelo, 2007
Le Triangle, Rennes, France
Ici/Per.For, 2006
Theatre Philip Gerard, Paris
Croisees, 2004
La Passerelle, Saint-Brieuc, France
Sagen, 2001
La Passerelle, Saint-Brieuc, France
Texture/Composite,1998
Le Volcan, Le Harvre, France
David Zambrano
Zeta, 2011
A performance created on the spot with dance artist David Zambrano.
Miller Rothlein Theater
Amanda Miller and Tobin RothleinPunch, 2011
Kimmel Center, Philadelphia
A score for voices, percussion, and strings re-imagining Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite. The score features: William Winant, Kristen Slipp, Gabrielle Herbst, Maggie Parkins, and Jeff Gauthier.
Cathy Weis Projects
Cathy WeisA Bad Spot Hurts Like Mad, 2001
The Kitchen, NYC
Cydney Wilkes
Hup 2, 1997
Dance Theater Workshop, NYC
Wolf, 1995
Dance Theater Workshop, NYC
Hup, 1992
PS 122, NYC
Angel Animal, 1990
Movement Research, NYC
Fissure, 1998
The Joyce Theater, NYC
Dance Awards
2007–2008 — ‘Bessie’ /Composer Award
“Setting the standard of excellence for original live music for contemporary dance; and for not resting on her laurels but consistently raising the bar on her own achievements.”
2006–2007 — ‘Bessie’ /Composer Award
“Adventurous and richly textured scores and musical environments in the works of such choreographers as DD Dorvillier, John Jasperse, Neil Greenberg, Jennifer Monson and others and for taking choreographer/composer collaborations to a new level of intimacy through her piercing aural insights.”
1997–1998 — ‘Bessie’ Composer Award
“For the roar of the crowd, the raw, rocking undertow and overflow of music and musicians ruthlessly closing in on the dance, in Jennifer Monson's Sender.”