What we have is enough, improvisation performance series. (Photo above right )

BILATERAL EXCHANGE 2023: Improvisation research and practice residency at Earthdance (MA), The Playhouse at Thayer Hill (MA), Atland Residency (MA), and CEC in Philadelphia, PA Collaborators: Ellie Goudie-Averill, John Hughes, Germaine Ingram, Lilianna Kane, Jungwoong Kim, Kendra Portier, Ernö Zoltán Rubik, Helèn Tomasko, Gabrielle Revlock

Redwoods (2024) and MidTide (2018).

A new trisection choreography by Annie-B Parson, Donna Uchizono, and Tendayi Kuumba. Premiere: the Perelman Performing Arts Center (NYC).

The Oath section of the The March!
‍A trisection choreography by Big Dance Theater featuring new works by Annie-B Parson, Donna Uchizono, and Tendayi Kuumba.

The Oath (2025): concept and choreography by Annie-B Parson, a film by Alla Kovgan.

Conceived, curated, and edited by Janessa Clark.  

Communion is a BESSIE Award nominated experimental screendance response to the isolation and uncertainty we are all facing as artists and humans in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis. Because dancers can no longer breathe together, touch, or share the experience of movement within the physical studio, Communion invites 40 dancers, separated by physical distance and the pandemic, into a digital space to commune together.Each unique duet is created from videos by two different dancers who are separated by cities, countries, and sometimes continents. Artist Janessa Clark combines these videos to create virtual duets which are set to music donated by a composer also collaborating remotely.

Rituals of Resistance (2022)

American Woman Project: Maryland (2021)

AWP: What does it mean to be a woman? what does it mean to be a woman in America? how do we create an alternative geography that follows the existing map but develops from a logic other than the dominant logic of the nation state? People say the dance field is dominated by women. It isn’t. It is populated by women. The field of professional concert dance does not empower women, understand women, or celebrate women. In so many ways, it reflects the systemic patriarchies of our nation: in issues of labor distribution, opportunities for advancement and recognition, and even bodily autonomy [Miller].

The Relational Body Project (Installation 1 & 2)

Flatland

Noise’s Noise

Two-liter Alteration

The Mirth of Floating Sideways

Flutter (2013)

Through the creation and presentation of Flutter, MVworks is exploring themes of individuality, vulnerability and compassion. Compositionally, Flutter places abstract movement next to, within, and following story-driven content. The interaction between these elements creates subtle plot lines that ebb and flow throughout the dance. Much of the movement for the work has been individually crafted for each performer based on their personality, preferences and habits.

…within us (2009)

Set in a 360 degree hyper-intimate environment with audience members integrated among the performers ?within us. breaks through spatial boundaries, invades personal space, and examines the human instincts that lay at the core of physical and emotional conflict. Inspired by the images of violence in Jacob Landau?s visual artwork and focusing on the repression that exists all over the world and across time periods, the performers act as both aggressor and inflicted. Creating palpable tension and relief, ?within us. continues mvworks? investigation of kinetic transfer through movement.

Other Stories

A collection of interwoven movement events that highlight the friction between stories, other stories attempts to unearth our memory of our lives through a physical process. If we are all a compilation of stories about our selves, our country, our friends, lovers, parents, children, teachers, what happens when we are confronted, particularly within an intimate relationship, with a story that diverges from ours, how do we deal with that friction against our reality? Further, what does it mean to believe that there is no one reality, but to give our selves over wholly to our stories? What happens to our relationships when our stories change?

Bigger, Faster, Better (collab)

Entrances and Echoes

Expert Witness.

Projects and collaborations with Launch Movement Experiment (Rachel McKinstry and Liz Riga)

Mnemosyne Project

Ohio is in the Midwest

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