Going on stage? Connect to your core!
This mini sequence brings breath awareness and spinal articulation, while waking up the core. Try it before a performance or challenging rehearsal!
Treeline Dance Works is a New York City based contemporary dance performance co-op that seeks to honor the creative voices and artistic input of its multiple collaborators through joint investment in movement research. The company has performed and taught nationally and internationally at over 60 venues, sharing their passion as active educators, performers and choreographers.
With an emphasis on an open feedback forum, this collaborative entity explores juxtapositions in movement, intermingling the quirky with the athletic, the subtle with the explosive, and the intimate with the communal.
July 16-19, 2019
The Peaceable Barn, CT
July 26, 2019 at 7:30p
Center for Performance Research
361 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, NY
October 5-6, 2019 @ 8pm
Triskelion Arts
106 Cayler Street, Brooklyn, NY
chronicles World War II stories as scribed in Lewis Huber’s memoir. The work questions how one dances written, verbal, and bodily histories, while simultaneously recognizing that the act of creating forms its own kind of history in the present? Unearthed Moments premiered in 2009 as a forty-minute...
is a co-choreographed work that defines athleticism in the duet form presenting the dancers as independent forces connected by their spatial relationship. The spatial design examines the boundaries between two individuals and the relinquishing effect of giving in to one another’s movement moti...
is inspired by Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, a literary work that examines the fundamental structure of myth and the journey of the archetypal hero. The work physicalizes Campbell’s notion of the monomyth, or simply put, the stages that comprise the hero’s tale. The...
was inspired by the processes of Apolysis (shedding or separation from) and Ecdysis (emergence into environment), as they relate to biology. The natural evolution of change and re-growth provide both a context and impetus for the movement vocabulary as we explored these ideas in the animal and human...
is a glimpse into the dysfunctional social formalities of finding a date and a mate in the 21st Century. From frustrating inner monologues to coffee talk with girlfriends; this work attempts to highlight the humor and awkwardness that can accompany adoration for another. The book How to Be Irresisti...
She stood in her shadow holding the weight of realization. Fractioned into pieces of herself, she fought on the side of irrationality over logical forward thinking and indulged desires with a crooked smirk. This work seeks to investigate the hurt of those multiple voices that pull our choices in dir...
This mini sequence brings breath awareness and spinal articulation, while waking up the core. Try it before a performance or challenging rehearsal!
Variations on a Plank; we have used this sequence as a rehearsal warm-up. Begin on your hands and knees, shoulders aligned with wrists and hips aligned with knees. On your exhale lift the knees to hover 2 inches from the floor (Short Plank). With an over under hand placement, begin walking yourself around (I am […]