Nichelle Suzanne Strzepek

THREE at the CORE: A Conversation With Sue Schroeder, Artistic Director of Several Dancers Core

Sue Schroeder, Several Dancers Core founder and artistic director, took some time to talk with me about THREE. The performance will include three works, by three female choreographers, from three different locales.

REVIEW: The Convenient Woman

Chapman and Scates have developed a vocabulary of movement and gesture that is memorable and significant but abstract enough that audiences are given room to adhere their own meaning. They are engaging performers.

Teresa Chapman & Leslie Scates: The Convenient Woman

The Conveient Woman is a dance-theatre performance that provides a personal and satirical look at our culture’s obsession with conveniences, afflictions of dissatisfaction and discontent, and pursuit of the feminine ideal.

Flash Response: “Marie” Houston Ballet

Sunday was probably the only day this week that I might have had a “day off” from dance. I’m currently preparing to perform in the latest Suchu Dance work which opens this Thursday so, for me, the next seven days will be intensely movement and production oriented. I didn’t take the day off, however. IContinue reading “Flash Response: “Marie” Houston Ballet”

Suchu Dance – How to Absorb the Colorama Format

Suchu Dance’s second premiere of the 2008-09 season, features six newly recruited and four veteran Suchu Dance performing artists in this breathtaking and unusual dance theatre premiere conceived and crafted by Suchu Dance founder and artistic director Jennifer Wood. Set inside one continuous, 45-foot diameter circle of 13-foot tall translucent panels enveloping both performers and audience alike, withContinue reading “Suchu Dance – How to Absorb the Colorama Format”

Review: SODC Seen and Unseen

When it comes to Sandra Organ’s choreography, what you see is what you get. In titling her latest concert, Seen and Unseen, her 11th offering in honor of Black History Month, Organ has discovered a play on words that evokes shades of meaning. Perhaps the most tangible example is the inclusion of both premiere andContinue reading “Review: SODC Seen and Unseen”