Current Repertory

Inexplicable Space • Rip Tide • Dandia • Chiquita Chiquita • Twilight • Thread • Kin • Underground •

The Shedding • Naked Heart • Echo of a Trace • Loss and Desire • Splash • Weapons of Time • Right Now • Wild Kingdom

The Shedding

The Shedding focuses on the physical and

emotional transformations humans go through over the course of their lives and the difficulty

we experience in stripping away habits and inhibitions.  Six dancers emerge from fabric cocoons to explore a new environment;

some help each another, others struggle alone.  The dancers peel, "ooze" out of, and cast away the layers of their inner selves,

gradually unearthing a pure self-awareness and freedom. 

Choreography by Valerie Green
Performed by Michelle Cohen, Angel Flores, Valerie Green, Erin Hunter, Virginia Munday, Jennifer Schmermund
Commissioned music by Alon Nechushtan
Costumes, Video, Set Design by Valerie Green
Length: 50 min.    

Photo by Angel Hess

The Shedding is made possible in part with funds from the Decentralization Program,

a re-grant program of the New York State Council on the arts, administered by the Queens Council on the Arts. 

Performance History

• The Flea Thearter May 2007-excerpt
• La Mama Moves Festival May 2007-excerpt
• Green Space Blooms Festival April 2007 (premiere-evening length)
• New Dance Alliance, Performance Mix @ Joyce Soho April 2007-excerpt
• 92 St. Y Sundays @ 3 Nov. 2006 (evening length)
• FUSE, Performance Dance, CT. Oct. 2006-excerpt
• Dance For Peace @ Fort Greene Park, Sept. 2006-excerpt
• Dixon Place April 2006-excerpt
• 92 St. Y Fridays @ Noon March 2006-excerpt