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"Are You Listening?":
This piece is through the lense of women's conversations with one another compared to a conversation with a man. The work is to reflect on how you interact with another during a conversation, are you participating or are you just nodding along?
Performed:
Spark Theater Festival at The Chain Theater: September 2024
Open Rythmic festival at Martha Graham studios: January 2025
WRD Fellows at Alvin Aliey Cite Group Theater: March 2025
"Obedience":
This is "Obedience" with an extension, it continues to be a work in progress, there is more to say on women's rights and laws that are restricting us.
Performed:
Dance New Jersey Show Up and Dance at Montclair University: March 2024
"Codes/Obedience":
This Piece Is a previous piece "Codes" With an addition called "Obedience". Obedience looks at how recent laws and restrictions have regressed women's rights and how these laws have impacted us and others around us.
“The experience of women in America is to fight: politically, mentally, and physically.
This is the manifestation of those experiences in moving bodies.” ~ Leigha Bartko
Performed:
28th Street Theater November 2023
"Codes":
This piece is about the hypersexualization of women, zoning more to dress codes. This piece is trying to break the genderedized, feminine and masculine movement to create a morphed ungendered movement quality.
Performed:
Mason Gross School of the Arts: April 2023
KYLD Inhale/Exhale Performance series: August 2023
Koresh and Germantown Community Arts Festival: September 2023
"This Body Is..."
This Body is... is a self validation journey I was going through, this is for me to accept all of myself and to push away negativity from society and self.
Performed:
Loree Dance Theater Rutgers University
"The Move"
The Move is about the constant changes that we all go through in life. This piece demonstrates the awkward and uncomfortable parts of change and how it can be overwhelming.
Performed:
Loree Dance Theater Rutgers University