...within us. (2009)
Choreographed by Megan V. Sprenger
Performed by Tara O’Con, Maria Parshina, Alli Ruszkowski, Richert Schnorr
Set Design by Brad Kisicki
Lighting Design by Joe Levasseur
Sound Design and Composition by Jason Sebastian
Costume Design by Mary McKenzie
Production Management by Aaron Rosenblum
Master Carpentry by Jason Laughlin
Carpentry by William Burns and Anthony Cerrato
Rigging by Bill Kennedy
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.
In an attempt to leave source and direction behind, this work investigates
what happens if I just let myself dance.
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No where (2007)
Choreography by Megan V. Sprenger
Performed by Maria Parshina,Tara O'Con and Alli Ruszkowski
Set Design by Brad Kisicki
Lighting Design by Joe Levasseur Sounds Design Jason Sebastian
Costume Design by Mary McKenzie
No where premiered at Performance Space
122 in May of 2007.
Using Pascal’s Triangle as compostitional structure and raw, unadorned,
emotionally driven movement, the work takes you on an instinctual, methodical
and ultimately irreversible journey toward personal discovery.
Direction Lost (2006)
Choreography and Performance by Megan V. Sprenger
Orignal Music by the Peculiar Gentlemen
Costume Design by Mary McKenzie
An examination of the potential collaboration
between mathematical theory and choreography. Using the Fibonacci sequence
(1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8…) and creating small simple movements, that
when combined with the preceding motion, could create a phrase we created
a work that grew into an examination of cycles. Always starting at the
same place and ending further away with each new sequence, but inevitably
only traveling in a circle.
system 1011 (2005)
Choreogprahy by Megan V. Sprenger
Performed by Ali Harmer, Rachel Borggia, Kate Enright, Annie Kloppenberg
and Alli Ruszkowski
Costume Design by Megan V. Sprenger
A Site specific work created for Dance
Theater Workshop's 40 Forward Birthday celebration. Set in a closet in the
David R. White Studio, five performers, each moving within the structure
of the Fibonacci Sequence, start slowly and gradually fill the closet with
a fury of texture and movement.