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REPERTORY AVAILABLE FOR TOURING:

“Toward Home” (2010)
This piece is an exploration of home through dance and music. The cast works together moving through a vivid landscape of departure, new love, loss, and reinvention.  These disparate journeys converge as the path toward home is found, abandoned, and re-created.

Choreographer: Kate St. Amand, Composer: Damon Ferrante
Costume Design: Naomi Luppescu, Lighting Design: Kate Ashton
Running Time: 60 Minutes
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“Dolce” (2010)
This piece is a rich and joyful exploration of the different relationships women share. Set to a playful and passionate score by Edvard Grieg, the music of the “Holberg Suite” leads the dancers through jumps, turns, and intricate partnering.

Choreographer: Kate St. Amand, Music: Edvard Grieg, “Holberg Suite”
Running Time: 20 Minutes
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“the last of the leaves” (2009)
Highly physical, the last of the leaves uses the driving and churning idiosyncrasies of John Adam’s “Shaker Loops” to explore the many mysteries surrounding cycles of human life. Birth, illness, death, and the different energies needed to experience them, are points of departure for this piece as the dancers journey through qualities both distant and tender.

Choreographer: Kate St. Amand, Music: John Adams, “Shaker Loops”
Costume Design: Elizabeth Payne, Lighting Design: Kate Ashton
Running Time: 25 Minutes
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“Abravanel” (2007)
This evening length piece journeys through the movement, music, and history of the Sephardic Jewish people. The Sephardim were the Jewish people of Spain who, during the Inquisition in 1492, were forced out of the country and settled in places such as Turkey, North Africa and the Middle East. The dancers share with the audience this remarkable story of struggle, travel and new beginnings.

Choreographer: Kate St. Amand
Music: Edward Shearmur featuring Ofra Haza, Davka, Divahn featuring Galeet Dardashti
Lighting Design: Tony Marques, Costume Design: Elizabeth Payne
Running Time: 50 Minutes
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“Pelléas et Mélisande” (2008)
“Pelléas et Mélisande” uses six dancers and Seblius’ score to explore musicality and movement. The story follows a love triangle, which is expressed through grand swells of music and movement when marriage is called for publicly, deep longing notes and reaching arms of a woman who knows her sadness well, hops and quick feet with uplifting notes when love is found, explored, and then finally lost. The movement is tightly connected to this versatile score, and each audience member is allowed to travel their own path to individually connect with the journey of the music and the dancers on stage.

Choreographer: Kate St. Amand, Music: Jean Sibelius
Costume Design: Kate St. Amand, Lighting Design: Kate Ashton
Running Time: 30 Minutes
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REPERTORY AVAILABLE TO SET ON STUDENTS:

The State (2004)
A piece set to three beautiful Baroque-era pieces of music, The State
is a theatrical piece filled with classical motifs with a modern message.
Beginning with a George Washington figure in center stage, the dancers
convey, with a hint of humor, a look at the political climate of today
and the feeling of unity that is possible if we could overcome some
differences.

Choreographer: Kate St. Amand, Music: Thomas Arne
Lighting Design: Tony Marques
Running Time: 12 minutes

The Weight (2003)
A piece for six dancers dressed in long white skirts that explores
the idea of marriage, commitment and engagement. The piece is set to composed by Dvorak and is filled with voluminous movement, grand poses, and sweeping gestures.

Choreographer: Kate St. Amand, Music: Antonin Dvorak
Lighting Design: Tony Marques
Running Time: 7 minutes

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Photography: Christopher Duggan; Lighting Design: Kate Ashton