Will

Premiere: June 2009
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach, Ciaconna for solo violin
For 4 dancers: 2 male, 2 female

Responding to the severe intensity of Bach’s Ciaconna for solo violin, Lavagnino creates an angular, taut movement vocabulary for four dancers. The male/female duets display a cool, internally driven performance quality that shows detachment and an impasse in communication.

3 four 1

Premiere: June 2009
Music: G.F. Handel – J. Halvorsen, Passacaglia for violin and viola
For 4 dancers: 3 female, one male

The choreography in this quartet plays off the virtuosic interplay of the two string voices in the Handel – Halvorsen score with quick, technical footwork, ample movement, and quirky partnering to reflect the pull and bounce of the music and individual qualities of each dancer. The male figure responds to the specific personality of each his three female partners.

Facets

Premiere: 2008
Music: Zoë Keating, Legions {War}, Fern, and We Insist
For 7 dancers: 3 male, 4 female

Facets is a full-bodied and exuberant study of space and partnering with a truly contemporary aesthetic. The sumptuous cello score by Zoë Keating inspires movement that is direct and challenging and then giving and tender. This allows for a rich movement lexicon and dramatic shifts in the choreography.

Facets was choreographed and first performed at The Yard, a colony for performing artists in Chilmark, MA, as part of a Company Residency.

INWARD

Premiere: February 2008
Music: Original composition by Scott Killian with violinist Jacob Lawson, INWARD
For 9 dancers

Inward features an original score by Scott Killian in collaboration with violinist Jacob Lawson. The work focuses on the disappearance of free-floating thought and imagination in this age of technology-driven isolation. Inward explores the pressure, speed and focused quiet of our opposing external and internal lives.

Fell of Night

Premiere: February 2008
Music: Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet No. 14 in C Sharp minor, Opus 131
For 7 - 9 dancers

Through a series of duets and trios where temporal and spiritual worlds intersect, Fell of Night explores the tension, imbalance, and ultimately, the support that may result from the loss of a loved one.