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Portrait Project

Photography byTerry Girard
Portraits of Michael Ingle, Tara O'Con, Kendra Portier, Yarden Raz, and Alli Ruszkowski

A companion project to Hold my Hand, created in partnership with photographer Terry Girard. Searching for a deeper truth within each performer, Girard incorporates double exposure, digital, and Polaroid photography to accentuate each performers personality.

Click here to view the portraits on our blog.

Hold my Hand (current project)

The Artistic Team
Choreographer: Megan V. Sprenger
Dancers: Michael Ingle, Tara O'Con, Kendra Portier, Yarden Raz, and Alli Ruszkowski
Lighting Designer: Joe Levasseur
Sound Designer: Jason Sebastian
Costume Designer: Mary McKenzie

Hold my Hand is a new evening length piece exploring the ideas of authentic movement, genuine performance, and our base need to feel connected to one another. The work will continue our investigation into the audience performer relationship, kinetic transfer, and will utilize a wide-ranging movement vocabulary from technically based phrases to an unpolished movement style.

One-Shot
Created and Performed by Megan V. Sprenger
Sections of movement created in collaboration with Tara O'Con, Kendra Portier, Yarden Raz, and Alli Ruszkowski

One-Shot is a web-based, solo performance relay, curated by Sarah Maxfield and produced in collaboration with Studio 5-2. Each participating artist receives six hours of rehearsal time at Studio 5-2, during which to create a solo performance specifically for the internet. Each web-based solo will premiere online and remain available in a web-based catalogue for performance-viewing at any time. This chain of archived presentations will be augmented by a blog, moderated by Sarah Maxfield, through which participating artists can discuss their experiences with the project, as well as their artistic work in general. One-Shot aims to maximize existing resources to spark creativity and community. One artist. One day. One take. Infinite possibilities.

...within us. (2009)

Choreographed by Megan V. Sprenger
Performed by Tara O'Con, Maria Parshina, Alli Ruszkowski, Richert Schnorr
Set Design by Brad Kisicki
Lighting Design by Joe Levasseur
Sound Design and Composition by Jason Sebastian
Costume Design by Mary McKenzie
Production Management by Aaron Rosenblum
Master Carpentry by Jason Laughlin
Carpentry by William Burns and Anthony Cerrato
Rigging by Bill Kennedy

Set in a 360 degree hyper-intimate environment with audience members integrated among the performers �within us. breaks through spatial boundaries, invades personal space, and examines the human instincts that lay at the core of physical and emotional conflict. Inspired by the images of violence in Jacob Landau�s visual artwork and focusing on the repression that exists all over the world and across time periods, the performers act as both aggressor and inflicted. Creating palpable tension and relief, �within us. continues mvworks� investigation of kinetic transfer through movement.

...within us. Downloads:
...within us. press release
...within us. Technical Rider

While Waiting (2008)

Choreography and Performance by Megan V. Sprenger

In an attempt to leave source and direction behind, this work investigates what happens if I just let myself dance.

Math works

No where (2007)

Choreography by Megan V. Sprenger
Performed by Maria Parshina,Tara O'Con and Alli Ruszkowski
Set Design by Brad Kisicki
Lighting Design by Joe Levasseur
Sounds Design Jason Sebastian
Costume Design by Mary McKenzie

No where premiered at Performance Space 122 in May of 2007.

Using Pascal’s Triangle as compostitional structure and raw, unadorned, emotionally driven movement, the work takes you on an instinctual, methodical and ultimately irreversible journey toward personal discovery.

No Where Downloads:
No Where press release
No Where Technical Rider

Direction Lost (2006)

Choreography and Performance by Megan V. Sprenger
Orignal Music by the Peculiar Gentlemen
Costume Design by Mary McKenzie

An examination of the potential collaboration between mathematical theory and choreography. Using the Fibonacci sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8…) and creating small simple movements, that when combined with the preceding motion, could create a phrase we created a work that grew into an examination of cycles. Always starting at the same place and ending further away with each new sequence, but inevitably only traveling in a circle.

system 1011 (2005)

Choreogprahy by Megan V. Sprenger
Performed by Ali Harmer, Rachel Borggia, Kate Enright, Annie Kloppenberg and Alli Ruszkowski
Costume Design by Megan V. Sprenger

A Site specific work created for Dance Theater Workshop's 40 Forward Birthday celebration. Set in a closet in the David R. White Studio, five performers, each moving within the structure of the Fibonacci Sequence, start slowly and gradually fill the closet with a fury of texture and movement.


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Portrait Project Photography byTerry Girard Portraits of Michael Ingle, Tara O'Con, Kendra Portier, Yarden Raz, and Alli Ruszkowski A companion project to Hold my Hand, created in partnership with photographer Terry Girard. Searching for a deeper truth within each performer, Girard incorporates double exposure, digital, and Polaroid photography to accentuate each performers personality. Click here to view the portraits on our blog.

Hold my Hand (current project) The Artistic Team Choreographer: Megan V. Sprenger Dancers: Michael Ingle, Tara O'Con, Kendra Portier, Yarden Raz, and Alli Ruszkowski Lighting Designer: Joe Levasseur Sound Designer: Jason Sebastian Costume Designer: Mary McKenzie Hold my Hand is a new evening length piece exploring the ideas of authentic movement, genuine performance, and our base need to feel connected to one another. The work will continue our investigation into the audience performer relationship, kinetic transfer, and will utilize a wide-ranging movement vocabulary from technically based phrases to an unpolished movement style.

One-Shot Created and Performed by Megan V. Sprenger Sections of movement created in collaboration with Tara O'Con, Kendra Portier, Yarden Raz, and Alli Ruszkowski One-Shot is a web-based, solo performance relay, curated by Sarah Maxfield and produced in collaboration with Studio 5-2. Each participating artist receives six hours of rehearsal time at Studio 5-2, during which to create a solo performance specifically for the internet. Each web-based solo will premiere online and remain available in a web-based catalogue for performance-viewing at any time. This chain of archived presentations will be augmented by a blog, moderated by Sarah Maxfield, through which participating artists can discuss their experiences with the project, as well as their artistic work in general. One-Shot aims to maximize existing resources to spark creativity and community. One artist. One day. One take. Infinite possibilities.

...within us. (2009) Choreographed by Megan V. Sprenger Performed by Tara O'Con, Maria Parshina, Alli Ruszkowski, Richert Schnorr Set Design by Brad Kisicki Lighting Design by Joe Levasseur Sound Design and Composition by Jason Sebastian Costume Design by Mary McKenzie Production Management by Aaron Rosenblum Master Carpentry by Jason Laughlin Carpentry by William Burns and Anthony Cerrato Rigging by Bill Kennedy Set in a 360 degree hyper-intimate environment with audience members integrated among the performers �within us. breaks through spatial boundaries, invades personal space, and examines the human instincts that lay at the core of physical and emotional conflict. Inspired by the images of violence in Jacob Landau�s visual artwork and focusing on the repression that exists all over the world and across time periods, the performers act as both aggressor and inflicted. Creating palpable tension and relief, �within us. continues mvworks� investigation of kinetic transfer through movement. ...within us. Downloads: ...within us. press release ...within us. Technical Rider

While Waiting (2008) Choreography and Performance by Megan V. Sprenger In an attempt to leave source and direction behind, this work investigates what happens if I just let myself dance.

Math works

No where (2007) Choreography by Megan V. Sprenger Performed by Maria Parshina,Tara O'Con and Alli Ruszkowski Set Design by Brad Kisicki Lighting Design by Joe Levasseur Sounds Design Jason Sebastian Costume Design by Mary McKenzie No where premiered at Performance Space 122 in May of 2007. Using Pascal’s Triangle as compostitional structure and raw, unadorned, emotionally driven movement, the work takes you on an instinctual, methodical and ultimately irreversible journey toward personal discovery. No Where Downloads: No Where press release No Where Technical Rider


Direction Lost (2006) Choreography and Performance by Megan V. Sprenger Orignal Music by the Peculiar Gentlemen Costume Design by Mary McKenzie An examination of the potential collaboration between mathematical theory and choreography. Using the Fibonacci sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8…) and creating small simple movements, that when combined with the preceding motion, could create a phrase we created a work that grew into an examination of cycles. Always starting at the same place and ending further away with each new sequence, but inevitably only traveling in a circle.

system 1011 (2005) Choreogprahy by Megan V. Sprenger Performed by Ali Harmer, Rachel Borggia, Kate Enright, Annie Kloppenberg and Alli Ruszkowski Costume Design by Megan V. Sprenger A Site specific work created for Dance Theater Workshop's 40 Forward Birthday celebration. Set in a closet in the David R. White Studio, five performers, each moving within the structure of the Fibonacci Sequence, start slowly and gradually fill the closet with a fury of texture and movement.