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Spindrift (Excerpts)
Choreography: Denise Gula
Music: The Four Seasons, Vivaldi
Costumes: Gilda Scappel

Dancers: Juliana Freude, Kasha Hilton, Courtney Jankovic, Chelsea Sprague, & Adwoa Boakye

This work explores the beauty and power of the eastern coastline of the United States. The word "spindrift" means "windblown sea spray", and references small twigs, seaweed and sea foam that swirls at the base of a rocky shoreline. The rage that emerges with startling speed from a calm that seemed as though it could never end; the sunlight bouncing off small white caps; sea gulls swooping down it the water and the moss clinging to rocks as seaweed gently swirls at their base inspired the movement. The dancers movement seems to be digging deep and sifting through sand or scooping up water. Other times, they puncture the calm water or swirl overhead spiraling upwards from under the oceans' depth.

Tabula Rasa (Excerpt)
Choreography: Denise Gula
Music: Position Music-Orchestral Series
Costumes: Denise Gula

Dancers: Juliana Freude, Kasha Hilton, Courtney Jankovic, Chelsea Sprague, Kassandra Lee, Kathryn Tokar and Anna Trumbo

Tabula Rasa (Latin for blank tablet or clean slate) Movement that is
inspired by this or that but ultimately there is more than meets the eye.
Initially I challenged myself to create a piece that was about nothing but
the movement inspired by the music but ultimately I found that task to be
impossible. Despite efforts to make the dance reveal nothing, the dance took
on its own meaning, forcing both myself and the dancers into an
unintentional direction and ultimately imposing a meaning that would give
shape to the work.

Excerpt from Season Encore Preformance