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The Sustainability Project: FREE EVENT! Premiere:6th St & Ave B Community Garden Choreography:Ellen Cornfield (with the dancers) Music:Renee Kurz Dancers:Hope Davis, Lindsay Fisher, Jonathan Fredrickson, Megan Krauszer, Ellie Kusner, Ryan Mason, Caitlin Scranton, and Emily Stone. |
 
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Dance for a Small Room: Stage version Premiere:June 20, 2008 Abrons Art Center NYC Choreography:Ellen Cornfield (with the dancers) Music:Koven J. Smith Music:Renee Kurz Music:Carol Mullins Dancers:Hope Davis, Lindsay Fisher, Jonathan Fredrickson, Ellie Kusner, Megan Krauszer, Ryan Mason, Caitlin Scranton, Emily Stone Cornfield’s newest work, in collaboration with composer Koven J. Smith, explores the process of inhabiting a world shrinking in available space, resources, and psychological safety. It showcases a mix of live and set music, and choreography with a dynamic physical language showing equal fluency in the colloquial and the refined. |
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Dance for a Small Room: Improv Premiere:September 16, 2007 NYC Construction Company Choreography:Ellen Cornfield (with the dancers) Music:Koven J. Smith Dancers:Lindsay Fisher, Beau Hancock, Ellie Kusner, Caitlin Scranton |
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Fault Lines Premiere:May 4th, 2007 - NYC Choreography:Ellen Cornfield (with the dancers) Music:Koven J. Smith Music:Renee Kurtz Music:Carol Mullins Dancers:Lindsay Fisher, Beau Hancock, Ellie Kusner, Gena Mann, Daniel Puneky, Caitlin Scranton “Fault Lines” creates startling and thrilling new dance terrain, merging the power of full-throttle dancing with the intimate dynamics of human emotions, identifying the isolation of the individual within the context of the social community as it grapples with the madness of war and the relentlessness of self-sabotaging behavior. The piece creates an emotionally resonant landscape, framing the performers’ humanity and triggering the audience’s recognition of themselves. In collaboration with composer Koven J. Smith sought a fusion of the formal with the raw and everyday. Smith’s original score interweaves his musical material with snippets from World War II and 1950’s political speeches and newscasts, events that bear direct reference to our own time. The music has a rhythmic and emotional power, narrative yet nonlinear, with clear political overtones. |
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Fusion Response Premiere:2005 Choreography:Ellen Cornfield Dancers:Hope Davis, Martin Davis, Mandy Kirschner The title of this work, Fusion Response, is borrowed from the term optometrists use to describe the brain’s ability to make one unified visual image out of what the two eyes see separately. In this new piece, Cornfield weaves our everyday movements (a nodding head, a shaking finger) into a vocabulary of lush and sophisticated dance phrases, juxtaposing the ordinary with the extraordinary, creating a resonating narrative within an abstract language, and fusing what our human eye (and heart) and our abstract eye (and heart) see into one vibrant and potently personal visual field. |
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Thread Choreography:Ellen Cornfield (with the dancers) Music:John King Music:Karen Young Dancers:Jeffrey Bauer, Ellen Cornfield, Rashaun Mitchell, Hope Plumb, Cara Regan, Kerry Stichweh, Andrea Weber Thread weaves repeating lines of movement material into new patterns and combinations, a repetition and evolution that pulls the dance forward in a seamless energic swirl of delicate, lushly sensual dancing. “Thread,” working with repeating loops of material, inspired by the DNA spiral code of life, is itself a loop. The elegant, deeply electronic musical score by New York composer John King underscores the contemporary sense of time and location evoked by the dance. The costumes are by Karen Young. |