“Must Life...” (2001) Quartet, 5’30” Choreography by: Richard Haisma Music: Eliza Carthy This is the company’s oldest and most enduring work created to ease the pain of a single woman’s most personal loss through precise immersion in the community of flow and feeling. (This dance is suitable indoors or outdoors.) “Yellowing Snapshots” (2001) Solo Choreography by: Whitney Denesha Repertory
 
“Geomantics” (2005) Solo, 4’30” Choreography by: Richard Haisma Music: the ambient silence A riveting, luscious and transcendent expression of elemental energies and a grappling with space that leaves the viewer more certain and glad for their residence on the third planet from the sun. (This dance is suitable indoors or outdoors.) “Oasis” (2004) Nine Dancers, 12’ 30” Choreography by: Richard Haisma Music: Robert Een Oasis takes place in a mysterious zone of tribal recreation, resolve and renewal. Nine figures in loose-flowing scarlet clothing decamp at a desert oasis to ritually create intricate spaces and lightning-like energies in a setting drenched in memory. Deliberately invoking their own dark side these sensual nomads are then free to lighten up, laugh and continue on to the next caravansary, leaving the old man of the oasis to prime the mortal pump. (This dance is designed only for the proscenium stage.) “Morning Workout” (2006) Solo, 5’25” Choreography by: Richard Haisma Music by: Eric Zabriske A strong, engrossing and intimate dance for a self-realized woman who prepares for her day athletically, reverently and comically. (This dance is suitable indoors or outdoors.) “Lunch Break at the Dance Factory” (2006) Quartet, 4’30” Choreography by: Richard Haisma The folk-pop music with a cascading beat joins the rollicking choreography to pull the viewer into an intricate, athletic ceremony for spaceship earth. (This dance is suitable indoors or outdoors.) “Texturing” (2003) Quintet, 6’30” Choreography by: Richard Haisma With the flavor of India in the tabla and flutes of the music, the choreography explores tactile and spiritual spaces with a ritual insistence on the ground beneath our feet. (This dance is suitable indoors or outdoors.) “Never Give a Sword to a Man Who Can’t Dance” (2006) Solo, 4’30” Choreography by: Curtis Stedge
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Photo credit: Rick Shannon