(inner)views I-VII (2009) Promo Video

(inner)views I-VII is a lens into the LGBTQ community of New York City. Choreographer Janessa Clark combines dance, film and music for an evening-length work that invites audiences into the lives of queer women. The film features seven individuals of diverse backgrounds who share their on-screen stories in order to provide honest and uninhibited perspectives on the question of sexual identity. Against this backdrop is the sensual and emotionally flavored movement that has been created for three dancers. (inner)views I-VII is accompanied by the live music of singer/songwriter Ganessa James. Her rich textures will include original music and several covers that express love, life, and pride.

blowback (2008)

blowback (2008) is inspired by Edie Sedgwick. It explores the worlds of Rock 'n' Roll, excess and vanity while stripping naked that secret need for love, attention and what our subconscious locks away.

JUNK, DUET #1 (2007)

Junk, Duet #1 discovers play, indulgence, the paralleling of reality and ecstasy. This duet was research material for what would eventually become the trio blowback(2008).

Everone Says I Love You: Section 1 (2006)



Everyone Says I Love You: Section 1 is a duet based on a complex relationship. The exact nature of this relationship is left intentionally vague in order to present a multiplicity of possibilities. Examining the popular European perspective that Americans are "in love" with everything and the word "love" itself is overused, the duet takes on the guise of lovers, families or even waring countries in order to embody the different contexts for the word "love". The text is comprised of "I Love You" in 17 different languages both as an exercise in the power of the exact translations, and the mystery that is created when speaking this foreign version. Have Americans devalued the word "love"? Does it mean more to hear it in another language? Do we, as lovers, use it to comfort or to coerce? And where has this power taken us?

TESSERACT (2005)

Tesseract is a quartet that experiments with inertia, impact and momentum. Through physical exploration, Tesseract challenges how much force and stress the body can withstand before giving in to the overwhelming desire to rest.

FUTURE BECOMES PAST (2003) 2005 restaging

Future Becomes Past is a solo that examines loss and the noise of being alone. The dancer's body is covered in handwritten poetry which, as though it is as palpable as braille, informs her of what is no longer there and what has come to pass.

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