Clepsydra

Clepsydra is inspired by Mary Mattingly’s sculpture “Ebb of a Spring Tide,” the movement material is created in abstraction to the exploration of our relationship to coastal ecosystems and the shifting nature of rivers and water lines, & water clocks, clepsydra. The wearable sculptures symbolize how water is carried and transported in our current time, as well as ideas of life support systems and umbilical cords connecting us to ourselves, others, and nature, and refers through movement to the delicate balance, and shifting nature of rivers and water lines. Clepsydra also aims to inspire hope that we can prepare for a changing world through innovative art and a restorative relationship with nature.

Premiered at Socrates Sculpture Park, New York City, 2023

Underground is dynamic solo whereby the dancer ritualistically creates and becomes the master and slave of their own subterranean environment. Created and manipulated within a visually theatrical display of small lights.  

Premiered at St Petersburg, Russia 2007 Reconstructed at Culture Lab, Queens, NY 2024

man/Mother composes three separately made solos to original music by Philip Butta that translate emotions, specifically connected to each dancer’s experience of the global COVID-19 pandemic. A thick branch, suspended down stage center, both an obstacle and a comfort, confronts us with hard truths that demand reflection and action. Why would mother nature create such an affliction? What have we done as humans to contribute to bringing it into being? How can we mend our fragmented relationship with that which made us?

Premiered at Green Space, New York City, 2020

Everything

Everything a dance performance installation evoking the ever-expanding universe, transforming the performance space into a constellation of stars and human bodies in various states of formation and explosion. Inspired by astrophotography, string theory, interconnectivity and meditations on space and time. The new dance work weaves together a visual, physical and emotional translation of the cosmos. 

Premiered at Zawirowania Dance Theater, Warsaw, Poland June 2019

Hinge

Hinge, an abstract movement tour de force for six dancers accompanied by original music played live on stage in collaboration with MuSE, Multicultural Sonic Evolution, this work celebrates the time honored tradition of music made uniquely for the dance.

Premiered at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, New York City, February 2014

Immeasurable

Immeasurable is a folk dance of distortions. Channeling her Eastern European folk dance experience through contemporary compositional structures, Valerie Green evokes the wildlife of the Balkan Mountains, aided by the music of avant-garde Czech singer-violinist Iva Bittová. The resulting community of four dancers manages to playfully engage space with an acknowledgement of the struggle to know and reconcile its cultural and individual identities.

Premiered at Insitu Site Specific Dance Festival, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY, July 2017

Skimming the Surface: Fragments of Collective Unconscious

Skimming The Surface. Inspired by trauma and emotional wounds, four women begin at what appears to be the end. The work’s action centers around a table and 24 knives engaged in precarious acts used to skim the emotional surface in an attempt to reveal a root life altering moment.

Premiered at Green Space, New York City, February 2013

Titanic. SI

Titanic.SI, a collaborative work between Valerie Green and Slovenian artists Michael G. Alujevic and Mojca Majcen, is a short dance/theater work based on the story of the great ship Titanic, inspired by and dedicated to boat number 15 which had on board two Slovenians. Historical facts frame the work and the fate of the individuals, as they find themselves in the middle of a catastrophic event.

Premiered at Queens Theatre, New York City, November 2014

Right Now

Right Now exposes a window into the performers being as she experiences the immediacy of different emotions. 

Premiered at Movement Research @ Judson Church, November 2001

Echo of a Trace

Echo of a Trace is an abstract mystical affirmation of presence and location, inspired by ancient Greek architecture, mythology and nature, displayed through intricate sensuality by iconic female figures.

Premiered at Cunningham Studio, New York City, January 2005

Inexplicable Space

Inexplicable Space is an abstract work developed from over 50 fortunes cookies, resulting in a mysterious, odd collection of movements and encounters amidst an installation of steaming crystal balls and flying orbs.

Premiered at Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York City, January 2012

Con-Joined

Con-Joined is a duet inspired by the many different phases of a relationship, from introductions to the eventual parting of ways, and the merry go round of attempts to make a situation work. This dance features clothing as a unifying object whereby the performers slip in and out of situations, forced to deal with the comfort and discomfort of habit and intimacy.

Premiered at ARC Pasadena, California, October 2012

Thread

Thread timelessly loops together an intriguing sense of relation and ceremony, whereby three women ravel, unravel, tangle, attach, separate, and are drawn back to one another to eventually knot.

Premiered at Tribeca Performing Art Center, New York City, June 2008

Weapons of Time

Weapons of Time is designed as a pre-performance or event installation (flexible configuration depending on venue). featuring three figures Knowledge, Protection, and Light and their universal tools doubling as representations of timeless “weapons.” In fantastical make-up, wearing eight feet long garments, each in their own work of art, includes trim of metal mesh, wire, and nails.  This contemplative work invites the viewer to allow their thoughts to journey to far-away places in which these figures might belong. 

Premiered at Performance Mix at Joyce Soho, New York City, March 2005