Current Repertory

About the work:

I make dances that are bold, at times untraditional.  They have included dancing in buckets of water, performers spitting stones, bodies birthing out of fabric cocoons, and dancers perched on platforms in six-foot costumes. The themes I explore include examining rites of passion, traditions of culture, and notions of self.  By intertwining extreme explorations of human behavior, my movement creates a visible friction.  I create dynamic images that feature unexpected interactions and physical power alongside feminine sensuality.  Visually theatrical, my dances include various uses of fabric, props, and video. I choose an eclectic range of music that may include traditional, ethnic, electronic, or abstract sound scores. 

Rip Tide • Chiquita Chiquita • Twilight • Thread • Kin • Underground • The Shedding • Naked Heart • Echo of a Trace • Loss and Desire • Splash • Weapons of Time • Who Am I Right Now

Most Current:

Rip Tide

A sextet inspired by everything water, images range from ocean waves to rock hopping in the stream, hurricanes, swimming, fish, seaweed, and more. 

   Photo  Sharon Harsa

Choreography by Valerie Green

Performed by Amy Adams, Andrea Brown, Sarah Hartley,

Joanie Johnson, Kristin Licata, and Jennifer Painter

Original Music by Milos Raickovich

Costumes by Deborah Erenberg and Valerie Green
Length 18 min.               

Performance History

• LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, December 2008 (premiere)