DANCEWORKS 2025 by American University (recap!)

The feminine includes the masculine and the singular includes the plural. (part 2)

by @hausofbambi

Choreography: bambi

Performance: Alyson Atkinson, Sophie Bergey, Abbie Branda, Emma Brown, Hannah Campos, Yashica Chhetri, Devi Dutta-Sultan, Kate Henry, Leah Hitzrot, Hannah Knauss, Ana Martino, Maddie Mester, Juliana Pironti, Myra Schoengold, Genevieve Skinner, Dorothy Ann Smith, Anne Maison Tasker, Jordyn Williams

Music: “Breather” by Jamie XX

Costume Design: Sydney Moore and Jillian Skara

Lighting Design: Mike Riggs

Choreographer’s Note: Breathe.

Look, It’s Tomorrow

by @1part_tariq

Choreography: Tariq D. O’Meally

Performance: Maddie Bussolari, Silia Dimasi, Ella Forsyth, Isabella Gourley, Hope Hammerslough, Kate Henry, Amelia Lisco, Clara Malone, Samantha Short, Dorothy Ann Smith, Katie Willard-O’Neill

Collaborator & Rehearsal Assistant: Malik Burnett

Music: “Healer” by Kasia Kadlubowska; “Oppenheimer” by Jocelyn Pook; “Unquiet Grave” by Cecile McLorin Salvant; “It’s Gonna Rain” by Steve Reich

Costume Design: Sydney Moore

Lighting Design: Mike Riggs

Choreographer’s Note: “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today.” – Martin Luther King Jr. Look, It’s Tomorrow is a movement poem expressed as prayer, wish, and meditation. This work follows a community coming to terms with a world that has changed and can’t change back.

in my B.A.G.

by @julianapironti

Choreography: Juliana Pironti (’25) in collaboration with dancers Leah Hitzrot and Sophie Bergey

Performance: Leah Hitzrot and Sophie Bergey

Music: “Healthy Digestion” by Suso Saiz; “Slow House” by Takayuki Niwano (庭野孝之); “Avka(New Life)” by Yotam Avni; “Flawless” by Red Axes and ECHO*; and “Faith’s Hymn” by Beautiful Chorus

Costume Design: Cody Von Ruden and Jillian Skara

Lighting Design: Mike Riggs

Choreographer’s Note: “In moments of apparent scarcity, our best defense is to respond with abundance.” – Tourmaline

Heart Fire Sums

by @perforemanmurray

Choreography: Erin Foreman-Murray

Choreography created in collaboration with the performers

Performance: Emma Brown, Silia Dimasi, Ella Forsyth, Leah Hitzrot, Allison Hoeffler, Ali Kirschbaum, AK Morrison, Arrow Nason, Wil Rokicki, Gemma Sommer Rehearsal Assistant: Gemma Sommer

Music: “F comme” by Kham Meslien; “The Sun Roars Into View” by Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld; “Wurlitzer” by Leifur James

Costume Design: Sydney Moore and Jillian Skara

Lighting Design: Mike Riggs

Gods, Monsters, and Legacies

by @ronyaleeandthelightfactory

Choreography: Ronya-Lee Anderson with contributions from Dancers

Performance: Alyson Atkinson, Maddie Bussolari, Jacqueline Gibson, Amelia Lisco, Ana Martino, Maddie Mester, Hōkūlani Panerio-Langer, Juliana Pironti, Samantha Short, Genevieve Skinner, Jane Claire Spires, Anne Maison Tasker

Rehearsal Assistant: Samantha Short

Sound Credits: Excerpts from Martin Luther King Jr. Speech “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” “Skyhooker” by Ben Salsbury and Geoff Barrow, “You Can’t Run from Blood” by Ben Salisbury, “Main Theme” by Jay Wadley, “Stop the World” by Geri Allen

Sound Design: Ronya-Lee Anderson

Costume Design: Jillian Skara

Lighting Design: Mike Riggs

Choreographer’s Note: Gods, Monsters and Legacies examines the range of possibilities for human connection in difficult times. It posits that we have within us both beauty and brutality, generosity and greed. It is an invitation to investigate our values, to unpack the mythologies and folklores necessary for survival. In response to the Nigerian proverb, “in the moment of crisis, the wise build bridges and the foolish build damns,” Gods, Monsters and Legacies demands wisdom.