https://thealittleperformance.com/selected-choreography daily 1.0 2019-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/573250b3a3360c5f7769ad26/1462926527149-PAOGBK64WSJGYV4VXC0Z/coming_through3.jpg Selected Choreography - Coming Through Danscentrum Jette, Brussels, BELGIUM   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/573250b3a3360c5f7769ad26/1488574930722-NJP3QYVBO9TNC2DWFB3Q/2016-11-05-20.50.27.jpg Selected Choreography - Election Therapy November 5 & 6 2016 at Undercurrent Projects. Dancers, poets, video artists, painters, and musicians converge and band together to create a cauldron of reactions and desires about the 2016 US election. Artistic Directors: Thea Little, Morgan Roddick, Niki Singleton Dancers: Thea Little, Lindsey Mandolini, Jeremy Pheiffer Musicians: Morgan Roddick, Michaela Gomez, Sean Ali Visual Artists: Niki Singleton, Nicholas Cueva https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/573250b3a3360c5f7769ad26/1488572363423-FVR5AQELQEIEFP7RKDFI/Ballet.jpg Selected Choreography - Control Quartz Created during the 2015 Leimay Fellowship Presented at the SOAK Festival at Leimay/Cave Conceived and Directed by Thea Little Dancers, Improvisers, and Collaborators: Laura Bartczak, Ariane Bernier, Adi Eytan, Emelie Hedvall, Butch Merigoni, and Holly Mitchell "Slick Move" by Niki Singleton and Collaborators "Upside Down Pipe" by Elisa Soliven Music Recorded and Composed by Thea Little https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/573250b3a3360c5f7769ad26/1524160707251-BOBNM7CQZ899G6SZ7BMH/1StationConflict.jpg Selected Choreography - Nomatic Communication https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/573250b3a3360c5f7769ad26/1524170762353-9L8V3ICXJTXSXZ6J79A4/1Thea+Emerging2+at+PMix31+by+Philip+Sheridan.jpg Selected Choreography - Successful This is a solo work that Thea Little honed and performed for more than a year culminating at the Performance Mix Festival 31 in June of 2017. In Successful, Little, the solo performer, grapples with her obsessive ambition and competition for success in a satirical way through repetitive effort and subsequent failure. She emerges out of a triangle structure, built by visual artist Niki Singleton, and attempts mighty jumps, balancing on her tippy toes, intricate step work in a looping pattern, and persistent runs up the structure only to succumb to gravity each time. Within the work, Little’s triangular plinth is a symbol of Patriarchal power that offers success, but mainly is a hindrance to her goals. Throughout, Little relates to the viewers about busy schedules, prioritizing, and social climbing while humorously referencing texting and phone alerts. When Little mischievously rips off a small triangle section velcro-ed to the main sculpture and spins with it on her head like a trophy, she’s expressing elation upon having met a very important person such as a curator or press person or someone that could help her with her career. Successful deals with female ambition and the drive for success in a male-dominated professional world. Little takes on five characters each married to a vowel sound which amounts to a menacing melody referencing a Dictatorial environment. The work touches on Patriarchal gender expectations with a pathetic character ingratiatingly repeating “Special” to a woman in contrast to a gruff “Successful!” delivered to a man. Successful links sexism and Fascism in the end with Nazi-like gesturing and asks questions about present-day America and the future for women in this country. Choreographed, Written, Composed and Performed by Thea Little Performance Mix Festival 31 at University Settlement, June 2017 Set Design: Niki Singleton Sound Manipulation: Morgan Roddick Photos: Phil Sheridan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/573250b3a3360c5f7769ad26/1524159014580-CUW58WQQ9JVJKJPZ1X2U/CommonLanguage.jpg Selected Choreography - Miss - Communication This piece is the third iteration of the lineage, from Successful to Nomadic Communication to Miss - Communication. The work was presented at 100 Bogart Galley, a large-windowed Brooklyn gallery on the street level, by Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation and The Exponential Festival 2018. The set piece was expanded from 20 minutes to 40 minutes and was in an art gallery setting with visual art curated by Little and generously lent by Chez Bushwick. Throughout Miss - Communication, the dancers build a language together made up of characterizations based on rockstars, dictators, socialists and eccentric grandparents as well as imagined people experiencing miss-communication, non-communication and false communication. The dancers develop logical and emotional languages with the visual art and with each other. They strive to communicate to one another with the distance of oceans between them, they miss-communicate at cocktail parties and they non-communicate in military drills. Moments of ambition and self-serving urges disconnect them from one another yet their magnetic practice of ritualistic songs and complex geometric patterns triumphs to gravitate them together while a sorcerer changes the ending. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/573250b3a3360c5f7769ad26/1576445352834-F8XZT64C18RW4TEYPE6E/Thea+Little+%2522Honest+Process%2522_1143_med+res+w%3Ao+%C2%A9.jpg Selected Choreography - Honest Process (section) at National Sawdust July 11, 2019 8PM In Honest Process, Thea Little and collaborators excavate and reinvent ideas of ego, commercialism, and narcissism toward collective ambition, vulnerability, and the wise self. Within a culture that carries the pressure of being constantly happy, productive, and successful largely according to western capitalistic values, Honest Process explores the opposing ideas of self-assured wisdom, internal success, and healing the self with embodied intuitive wisdom. By utilizing a wash of abstract gestures, vocals, and facial expressions that form a communicative internal language, Honest Process exposes a sometimes serious, sometimes playful relation to healing and all that healing can look and feel like. Within Honest Process, there is a strong sense of listening to one another, gently acknowledging and seeing the audience, being present in the moment, being patient with time and space, as well as a healthy dose of humor, competition, and over-the-top improvisation. Honest Process acknowledges that healing is not always neat or linear and is an active and engaging journey. Honest Process and all of its traces, memories and efforts is forever dedicated to my/our dear and enchanting friend Dave Koenig, and our loved ones. Honest Process Conceived, Composed and Directed by Thea Little Performers and Collaborators: Thea Little, Katie Norton-Bliss, Lea Torelli Costume and Set Design: Nicole Lane Fulmer Sound Design: Brian McCorkle Dramaturg and Choreographer’s Assistant: Emily Aiken Understudy: Sayoko Kojima Artistic Consultants: Peter Sciscioli, Stephanie Tack Hair and Makeup: Marisa Mircovich photo by JILL STEINBERG Q&A Moderator: Peter Sciscioli Honest Process is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). Contributors Include: Brooklyn Arts Council, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/573250b3a3360c5f7769ad26/1488564560110-PY54JUAEPPMOSXFTOHWR/_V2A1447.jpg Selected Choreography - Control Equinox The Brooklyn Museum, September 15, 2016, Brooklyn, NY Conceived and Directed by Thea Little Curated by Leimay and commissioned by the BEAT Festival Collaborators and Performers: Ayana Wildgoose, Christiana Roberts, Ellie Van Bever, Jeremy Pheiffer, Mariah Martens Sculptor: Niki Singleton Composer and Musician: Morgan Roddick Photo Credit: Satoshi Tsuchiyama https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/573250b3a3360c5f7769ad26/1576448264354-DNZZWKDQVIY5B5RYFYJG/DefIMG_5543.jpg Selected Choreography - Excerpts from Extraordinarily Inverse at Center for Performance Research April 26 & 27th, 2018 Thea Little and seven distinctive dancers in Extraordinarily Inverse explore the boundaries of dance, theater and opera by overlapping exquisite movement, learned atonal songs, a secret language of 300 physical-vocal gestures accumulated over time, and text from the assertive to the absurd. The performers use these four elements to communicate while maneuvering through community and individualism, harmony and dissonance, and understanding and confusion while assessing decisions around their goals and ambitions. The surrounding questions remain: Does their coded language unite them or cause more chaos? When and how do they choose ambitious actions that are thoughtful and not hurting others or do they satisfy their egos and selfishness to satisfy themselves only? Are the latter actions, a reflection of themselves or rather a comment on our corrupt society? The characters of Extraordinarily Inverse navigate what it means to communicate from contrasting points of view, with many various harmonious and conflicting intentions, and through calling upon the knowledge of what it means to be a being voyaging the terrain of listening, being heard, and creating together through communal conversation. Choreographed by Thea Little in collaboration with the dancers Performed by Thea Little, Emily Aiken, Dot Armstrong, Sayoko Kojima, Lindsey (Lou) Mandolini, Katie Norton-Bliss, Christiana Roberts, Lea Torelli Music Compositions by Thea Little Dramaturgy and Sculpture by Niki Singleton Poem by Julie Bentsen Text by Thea Little and the dancers Costumes by: Sayoko Kojima Rehearsal Assistant: Katie Norton-Bliss Understudy: Meredith Mulligan photo credit: Quentin Burley @thefleetnyc https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/573250b3a3360c5f7769ad26/1462916956338-HMV9E32JI7Q72WQ0KE7R/SingingTaxiDriverDynamic.JPG Selected Choreography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/573250b3a3360c5f7769ad26/1462918577803-LRPX7UCBHYS7N1RTEQ2Z/SingingTaxiDriverDynamic.jpg Selected Choreography https://thealittleperformance.com/sucfesful daily 0.75 2017-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/573250b3a3360c5f7769ad26/1462927898651-DC79V7Y8RVF3Y3CIVTSW/MmAaAaRound%2Cjpg.jpg Sucfesful - Sucfesful Performed at Present Archaeology, Undercurrent Gallery, LES, NY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/573250b3a3360c5f7769ad26/1462927898651-DC79V7Y8RVF3Y3CIVTSW/MmAaAaRound%2Cjpg.jpg Sucfesful - Sucfesful Performed at Present Archaeology, Undercurrent Gallery, LES, NY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/573250b3a3360c5f7769ad26/1462927488199-MMJHSQ6POJDKP66BZXO6/SealCurrents.jpg Sucfesful https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/573250b3a3360c5f7769ad26/1462927674095-W4KZC4K6CBU4EPSBQ5UX/ThinkBend.jpg Sucfesful https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/573250b3a3360c5f7769ad26/1462927396771-BQZZ4NKK62Z1EMT7I1UP/Ears+Chke.png Sucfesful https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/573250b3a3360c5f7769ad26/1462927330216-GESO0T0DPVZ886AO0Q9T/Ears+Chke.png Sucfesful https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/573250b3a3360c5f7769ad26/1462927794374-WN9QREF5YWNTGB3N68UU/BrickProscenium.jpg Sucfesful https://thealittleperformance.com/composition daily 0.75 2016-05-16 https://thealittleperformance.com/news daily 0.75 2016-05-17 https://thealittleperformance.com/news/2016/5/16/house-fest-5-spring-2016 monthly 0.5 2016-05-17 https://thealittleperformance.com/news-1 daily 0.75 2016-05-17 https://thealittleperformance.com/pagecv daily 0.75 2017-03-03 https://thealittleperformance.com/statement daily 0.75 2016-05-17 https://thealittleperformance.com/honest-process-press-page daily 0.75 2020-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/573250b3a3360c5f7769ad26/1590439016198-06S1DB0DI3PQ2RZ6RJWQ/cover.jpg Honest Process Press Page https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/573250b3a3360c5f7769ad26/1590448357948-WTRP8ZDZI9UZPYWU8RWX/pdf.gif Honest Process Press Page PRESS RELEASE https://thealittleperformance.com/read-me-forte daily 0.75 2025-05-12