NG Artistic Ensemble
Select Works
​In The Weeds (2023)
In The Weeds was inspired by native North American plants and utilized the technical dance vocabularies of ballet and the Cunningham technique. Interweaving unison and non-unison; duets, solos, and group work, dancers shared reoccurring phrases that evolved over the course of the work. Dancers were paired with native plants, Noa and dancer Elsa Gaston were both American Licorice, which was used by Native Americans as an herbal remedy for many ailments and to strengthen the throat for singing. Premiered March 2023 at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, IL.
Choreography
Anna Peretz Rogovoy
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Running Time
13 minutes
Untied (2022)
Untied explores where communities’ differences, impermanence, chaos, resistance, fluidity, fragmentation, mystery constantly recycle and where doubt and trust can unconditionally coexist. Premiered October 2022 at the Krannert Center for Performing Arts.
Choreography
Roxane D'Orléans Juste
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Running Time
10 minutes
Shund (2022)
Shund is a collaborative and interdisciplinary MFA thesis performance connecting spoken word, Jewish folktales, and bird migration patterns. The work included live music arranged by Cody Jenson, and performed by Charlie Harris, Frances Harris, and Cody Jenson. Performed 2022 at The Krannert Center for Performing Arts.
Choreography
Sarah Marks Minonsohn
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Running Time
10 minutes
Future Cake (2022)
Future Cake examines the tension between unison and non-unison movement as a communicative engine in dance. Using choreography as a companion to thought, O'Connor hopes to move us beyond negative connotations of “chaos” into a new space of expression, where pluralism supersedes the singularity of meaning. Premiered 2022 at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.
Choreography & Music
Tere O'Connor
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Running Time
40 minutes
Cedar Closet (2020)
Cedar Closet was built using movement material from Hook's repertory of solos, as far back as 1994. Each dancer learned a different solo or solos from archival footage. The dances were wranglednto a new entity by experimenting with various proximities, borrowing moments and flavors, augmenting, multiplying, exaggerating, and creating spatial and rhythmic relationships between the soloists. The work embraces the contemporary moment while revisiting these works, combing backwards in order to move forward with conscious optimism. Premiered 2020 at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.
Choreography
Sara Hook
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Running Time
40 minutes
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