Full Length Evening Works
RITE
“RITE” is a healing ceremony, a meditative ritual, and an exorcism of the ego.
Choreographed by Artistic Director Valerie Green, VG/DE’s newest evening length work performed by six men is a physical invocation of our internal struggle with self-image and societal pressure, and the vulnerable journey from Form to Clarity. The dancers’ instinct drives this powerful, trance-based dance, isolating them from one another—they experience both a personal and collective spiritual catharsis.
Premiered at the Center at West Park, New York City, February 2024
Home
HOME is an international cross-collaborative dance project with choreographers from six countries: Maria Naidu (Sweden), Ashley Lobo (India), Souleymane Badolo (Burkina Faso), Sandra Paola López Ramírez (Colombia), Bassam Abou Diab (Lebanon) and Dance Entropy’s Artistic Director Valerie Green (US). These esteemed choreographers were commissioned by Green to create a work for her company, drawing upon the significance of this concept in their home country. Directed by Green, the dynamic full-evening work, which weaves together the different dances, explores identity, culture, environment, ritual, history, and community. In these divided times, connection and understanding across diverse cultures is more important and needed than ever.
Premiered at Gibney Dance Center, New York City, September 2022
“Time Capsule – A Physical Documentary”
“Time Capsule – A Physical Documentary” is a dance film, directed and choreographed by Valerie Green, in collaboration with cinematographer Alex Lopez, composer Mark Katsaounis, and the dancers of Valerie Green/Dance Entropy. Eight solos physically trace emotional experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic, filmed against the backdrop of iconic New York City landscapes. A dynamic interplay of beauty, strength, and resilience, "Time Capsule” is a testament to the faith we have in our City, its vast infrastructure, the delicate spirits that inhabit it, and the tender terrains we all hold within.
Premiered at Teatro El Parque, Bogota, Colombia April 2021
Utopia
What does Utopia mean to you?
Is it a physical, external place—or, might it reside internally?
Valerie Green/Dance Entropy, in collaboration with visual artist Keren Anavy, explores the idea of the perfect place through the mediums of dance and visual art. The new work questions whether Utopia might be an internal place, investigated through personal and intimate moments and alongside the community. The notion of what it means to be safe persists inside an environment that is continually built and deconstructed.
Premiered at Danspace Project, New York City, December 2018
Impermanent Landscape
Impermanent Landscape is an evening length performance in the round inspired by the ideas of cubism, perspective, perception, and impermanence. Breaking the 4th wall and moving choreography outside of the traditional stage and audience formats, Impermanent Landscape features the geometry and architecture of overlapping bodies, creating its own personal landscape. Supported by a sonic terrain of original music by Martyn Axe while featuring an additional layer of sound bites, from sensors triggered by the dancers' movement through a live video feed.
Premiered at Green Space, New York City, March 2016
Succession
Succession channels fluid movements of a fetus in the amniotic sac, aging, an installation of hundreds of flowers, a spiritual burial, and a symbolic rebirth. Ms. Green has thread together segments from her body of solo works creating a life cycle journey.
Premiered at The International Mugham Center, Baku Azerbijan, August 2014
Rise And Fall
Rise and Fall is inspired by the rise and fall of ancient and modern civilizations running the following cycle, including: a new beginning, footprints of the past, early civilization, agriculture, industrialization, modernization, gross consumption, awareness, terror, population dissipation, and knowledge to begin again. Additionally inspired by the book The Long Descent by John Michael Greer.
Premiered at Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York City, January 2012
