Rosing
Solo with six poems
10 minutes
Premiere: June 21, 2023, Chesterwood, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
The Many Faces of Love
(Isadora Duncan reconstruction)
23 minutes
Premiere: June 21, 2023, Chesterwood, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Choreography: Isadora Duncan
Additional choreography: Ian Spencer Bell
Music: Johannes Brahms, 16 Waltzes, Op. 39, performed by Lauren Aloia
Duncan material (1910-1912) staged by: Lori Belilove
Banderole
Trio with poem
35 minutes
Premiere: August 15, 2021, The Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts
Original cast: Ian Spencer Bell, Vanessa Knouse, Joshua Tuason
Duet
Trio with poem
25 minutes
Premiere: October 14, 2019, CounterPulse, San Francisco, California
Original Cast: Ian Spencer Bell, Gary Champi, Joshua Tuason
Lighting: Nick Houfek
The Dance Enthusiast essay
Marrow
Solo with 10 poems
20 minutes
Premiere: March 17, 2016, The Center, New York City
Lighting: Nick Houfek
Interview and poem in Gulf Coast
Poems and process on Dante’s Old South Radio Show
Oberon’s Grove essay
Kahn & Selesnick photos
Holler
Solo with poem
Five minutes
Premiere: March 11, 2015, Poetry Foundation, Chicago, Illinois
Culture Rover essay
Wallkill
Quartet with poem
25 minutes
Premiere: November 9, 2013, Temp Art Space, New York City
Original Cast: Ian Spencer Bell, Mairéad Filgate, Jenna Liberati, Justin Rivera, Joshua Tuason
Lighting: Nicholas Houfek
Geography Solos
Solo with five poems
20 minutes
Premiere: September 1, 2013, Ille Arts, Amagansett, New York
Lighting: Nick Houfek
The New York Times review
Oberon’s Grove essay
Paste-up
Group dance with borrowed text from Leonard Bernstein’s 1960 recording of Benjamin Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
20 minutes
Premiere: May 21, 2013, New York City Center Studios
Original cast: Ian Spencer Bell, Joshua Tuason, Lindsey Jones, Courtney Lopes, Stevie Oakes, Mara Driscoll, Justin Rivera, Debra Bona, Oceane Hooks-Camilleri, Sally Kreimendahl, Vani Ramaraj
Lighting: Nicholas Houfek
Socket
47 minutes
Premiere: May 30, 2012, New York City Center Studios
Original Cast: Ian Spencer Bell, Nathaniel Darst, Mara Driscoll, Jenna Liberati, Joshua Tuason
Lighting: Nicholas Houfek
The New York Times review
Oberon’s Grove essay
Two-Minute Songs
Quintet with music of The Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Camille Saint-Saëns, Joni Mitchell, Felix Mendelssohn, Roy Orbison, J. S. Bach
16 minutes
Premiere: June 10, 2011, Merce Cunningham Studio, New York City
Original Cast: Ian Spencer Bell, Fiona Brown, Nathaniel Darst, Jenna Liberati, Joshua Tuason
Lighting: Nicholas Houfek
Split
Quartet to the sound of keys dropping; for Elizabeth Bishop’s One Art
12 minutes
Premiere: May 13, 2010, West End Theater, New York City
Original Cast: Ian Spencer Bell, Fiona Brown, Jenna Liberati, Joshua Tuason
Lighting: Nicholas Houfek