Dance Lab NY

Dance Lab NY is an artist-led organization providing NYC-based dance artists with a week-long residency that includes professional dancers, a rehearsal director, digital support, and a salary, allowing choreographers to develop new work without the pressure of a finished product. In February 2023, I was appointed as a choreographer for DLNY’s Spring Cycle.

The primary objective of my research was to push the boundaries of my choreographic vocabulary and explore more experimental approaches to movement creation. Working with the dancers, I introduced improvisational tasks and in-progress movement material, using processes like compositional deconstruction and transformation filters to evolve these ideas. This resulted in material that was distinctly warped in nature and inherently unique to this lab and group of dancers, serving as a foundation for future pieces rather than a completed work.