Choreographed Works, 1974-2022

In choreographic terms, the dances sometimes have changed to suit new circumstances, or appeared in multiple iterations with more than one title, or borrowed sections from one another. It also has meant that some dances have been made with extensive collaboration from particular colleagues, above and beyond the role the dancers normally play in developing movement and narrative content. With all this in mind, it is not an exact science to make a list of choreographed works. What follows is our best attempt, with choreographic collaborators noted where their leadership was especially significant.

Wicked Bodies – Green Music Center, Sonoma, CA (2022)

Healing Wars – Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. (2014)

Appalacian Spring (collaboration with Jim Ross) – Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, MD (2014)

A Civil War Christmas (choreography for a play by Paula Vogel) – Center Stage, Baltimore, MD (2013)

Blood, Muscle, Bone (collaboration with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar & Urban Bush Women) – Center Stage, Baltimore, MD (2013)

The Treadmill Tapes – Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2011)

The Matter of Origins – Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, MD (2010)

garage/dances – Colonial Parking Garage, Washington, D.C. (2010)

Darwin’s Wife – Center for Education and Culture, Sapporo, Japan (2009)

613 Radical Acts of Prayer (collaboration with Cassie Meador) – New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, NJ (2007)

Man/Chair Dances – Omaha Symphony Orchestra, Holland Performing Arts Center, Omaha, NE (2006)

Ferocious Beauty: Genome – Wesleyan University, Middleton, CT (2006)

Small Dances About Big Ideas – Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA (2005)

Corpus (collaboration with Ann Hamilton) – MASSMoCA, North Adams, MA (2004)

The Mad Dancers (play by Yehuda Hyman, co-directed and co-choreographed with Nick Olcott) – Theater J, Washington, D.C. (2003)

Oh Brad! – Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C (2003)

Hallelujah/USA – Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, MD (2002)

Dancers at a Cocktail Party – Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, FL (2002)

Uneasy Dances – Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Tampa, FL (2002)

Hallelujah: In Praise of Paradise Lost and Found – Power Center for the Performing Arts, University Musical Society, Ann Arbor, MI (2001)

Hallelujah: In Praise of the Creative Spirit – Bates Dance Festival, Lewiston, ME (2001)

Hallelujah: In Praise of Beauty and Disorder – Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN (2001)

Hallelujah: In Praise of Constancy in the Midst of Change – Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington, VT (2001)

Hallelujah: Stones Will Float, Leaves Will Sink, Paths Will Cross – Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA (2001)

Hallelujah: In Praise of Fertile Fields (collaboration with Martha Wittman) – Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Beckett, MA (2000)

Halleljulah: In Praise of Ordinary Prophets (collaboration with Peter DiMuro) – University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (2000)

Hallelujah: First Light – The dock, Eastport, ME (2000)

Hallelujah: In Praise of Animals and Their People – Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (1999)

Hallelujah: Gates of Praise – Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (1999)

Getting to Hallelujah – Garde Arts Center, New London, CT (1998)

Moving to Hallelujah – Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA (1998)

White Gloves/Hard Hats – Garde Arts Center, New London, CT (1998)

Pas de Dirt – Garde Arts Center, New London, CT (1998)

Fifty Modest Reflections on Turning Fifty – Gammage Auditorium, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (1998)

Shehechianu: Skin Soliloquies – Lansburgh Theatre, Washington, D.C. (1997)

Fresh Blood – Queens Theatre in the Park, NY (1997)

Light Years – Intelsat Headquarters, Washington, D.C. (1996)

Nocturnes – Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (1996)

Shehechianu: Bench Marks – Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, D.C. (1996)

The Music Hall’s Shipyard Project – Music Hall/Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, NH/Kittery, ME (1996)

Sustenance Dance (collaboration with Michelle Pearson) – Mayfair Festival of the Arts, Allentown, PA (1996)

Portsmouth Pages – Music Hall, Portsmouth, NH (1995)

Room for Many More (collaboration with Kimberli Boyd) – Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, IL (1995)

Shehechianu: Faith and Science on the Midway – Lansburgh Theatre, Washington, D.C. (1995)

Flying Into the Middle – Joyce Theater, New York, NY (1995)

Safe House: Still Looking (site-specific) – Friends Meeting House, Wilmington, DE (1994)

Safe House: Still Looking (theatrical version) – Cowell Theater, San Francisco, CA (1994)

Spelunking the Center (collaboration with Tom Truss) – Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. (1993)

This is Who We Are – Marvin Center, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (1993)

Incidents in the Life of an Ohio Youth – BalletMet, Columbus, OH (1993)

The Awakening (collaboration with Kimberli Boyd) – McKinley High School, Washington, D.C. (1992)

Untitled (site-specific) – Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. (1991)

The Good Jew? – Israeli/Jewish American Dance Festival, Boston, MA (1991)

Untitled – Meredith College, Raleigh, NC (1991)

Short Stories (version 2) – American Dance Festival, Durham, NC (1991)

Short Stories (version 1) – The Barns at Wolf Trap, Vienna, VA (1991)

Anatomy of an Inside Story – Dance Place, Washington, D.C. (1990)

A Life in the Nation’s Capital – Dance Place, Washington, D.C. (1990)

The Perfect Ten – Serious Fun! at Lincoln Center, New York, NY (1990)

Docudance 1990: Dark Interlude – 14th Street Dancenter, New York, NY (1990)

May I Have Your Attention Please! – Union Station, Washington, D.C. (1990)

Five Days in Maine – Maine Festival, Portland, ME (1989)

Floating Hand – Dance Place, Washington, D.C. (1989)

Reenactments – Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. (1989)

Ms. Appropriate Goes to the Theatre – Dance Place, Washington, D.C. (1988)

Atomic Priests: The Feature – Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY (1987)

Sketches from Memory – DAMA Theater, Washington, D.C. (1987)

Atomic Priests: Coming Attractions – DAMA Theater, Washington, D.C. (1987)

Black Sea Follies – Lenox Arts Center, Lenox, MA (1986)

Still Crossing – Liberty Dances in Battery Park, New York, NY (1986)

Russia: Footnotes to a History – Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (1986)

The Transparent Apple and the Silver Saucer – Sidwell Auditorium, Washington, D.C. (1984)

Space Cadet – Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C. (1984)

Ives & Company – National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. (1984)

E. Hopper – Dance Place, Washington, D.C. (1984) 

Second Variation on a Window – Dance Place, Washington, D.C. (1984)

Pavane for Two Older Women – New Music America/Old Post Office Pavilion, Washington, D.C. (1983)

Variations on a Window – New Music America/Old Post Office Pavilion, Washington, D.C. (1983)

Docudance: Nine Short Dances About the Defense Budget and Other Military Matters – Marvin Center, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (1983)

Songs and Poems of the Body: In the Text – Dance Place, Washington, D.C. (1982)

Docudance: Reaganomics (No One Knows What the Numbers Mean) – Dance Place, Washington, D.C. (1982)

Songs and Poems of the Body: In the Gallery – Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. (1981)

Current Events – Dance Place, Washington, D.C. (1981)

Journey 1-4 – Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C. (1980)

Fanfare for the Common Man – City Dance/National Mall, Washington, D.C. (1980)

Pollution Dances – McPherson Square, Washington, D.C. (1979)

Who’s on First? – City Dance/Warner Theater, Washington, D.C. (1979)

RSVP – O’Neill Choreographers’ Conference, Waterford, CT (1979)

Bonsai – National Arboretum, Washington, D.C. (1978)

Goodbye Wisconsin – Dance Exchange, Washington, D.C. (1978)

Still Life with cat and Fingers – Dance Exchange, Washington, D.C. (1978)

Elevator Operators and Other Strangers – Dance Exchange, Washington, D.C. (1978)

Ms. Galaxy and Her Three Raps with God – Baltimore Theatre Project, Baltimore, MD (1977)

Memory Gardens – Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C. (1976)

Woman of the Clear Vision – Hand Chapel, Mount Vernon College, Washington, D.C. (1975)

Approaching Someone (choreography for play by Megan Terry) – Washington Area Feminist Theater, Washington, D.C. (1974)

New York City Winter – St. Mark’s Danspace, New York, NY (1974)