“Leaves us wanting more!”
Accidental Suite (2021)
Accidental Suite is a dance meditation on connection. Born from raw experimentation and wrangled through structured improvisation, this performance piece builds relational tension through increasing levels of contact. The work draws metaphorically upon Complex Systems and how that connects us as social beings and brings us together to create a sum which is greater than its parts.
Featuring an original score by Zac Selissen, Accidental Suite evokes chance encounters and near misses. In these deeply alienating times, it taps into the most essential of human needs, relating to one another.
In May of 2019, B/S P launched the Titles Project, an open-access online series of short dance films, created in-house. The online-audience was invited to interact with the company and to become stakeholders in the process by viewing five films, and voting on the one they wished to see expanded for a Live event. On June 17th, the audience officially selected Accidental Suite. The expanded choreography was set to premiere live in March 2020, but was cancelled due to coronavirus. In 2021, we were finally able to premiere the work live at Arts on Site in the East Village.
Accidental Suite is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by LMCC.
9 dancers, 30 minutes
Titles Project (2019)
In May of 2019, B/S P launched the Titles Project, an open-access online series of short dance films, created in-house, with the intention of meeting people where they are. The audience was invited to interact with the company and to become stakeholders in the process by viewing five films, free of charge, and voting on the one they wished to see expanded at a live event.
Emic Flux (2016)
Reflects humanity’s propensity toward separatism and the Insider/Outsider phenomenon that accompanies this trend. Intimate duets hint at interpersonal relationships, while broad strokes and spatial asymmetry illustrate posturing and dynamics between the dancers from a broader vantage. The original score, composed by Zac Selissen, may also be performed live
3 dancers, 1 musician, 11.5 minutes
Hot Knife In Cold Butter /
Flo Through Me (2016)
This series of vignettes is a crisp yet tender dissection of movement and relativity. Inspired by life, nature, intellectual curiosity, and complex intimate spaces, this piece meditates on humanity’s abstract and visceral connection with time, beings, space, and sound
6 dancers, 40 minutes
Skyfire (2014)
A collaborative event inspired by impressions of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. Crafted to travel through a surreal rendering of space and time, this abstraction draws upon universal ideas and images surrounding love, betrayal, labor, and the pure joy of existence, set to an original score by James Guastaferro and Zac Selissen
7 Dancers, 3 live musicians, 40 minutes
Something Particularly Specific in the Wild (2014)
A site specific piece, inspired by impressions of Dante’s Inferno, set in the boiler room of the historic Westbeth. The viewer is led on a descent through the depths of a Gotham basement as the natural world fades in this hallucinatory abstraction
6 dancers, 5.5 minutes
Indelible Cognition (2014)
Communication over time takes on different forms, creating imprints on our minds and memories. All may be perceived differently based on which side one sits, whether sending or receiving
12-14 dancers, 16 minutes
Concrete Illusion (2013)
A dance film, which may be presented as a live work as well, created from concept to final product in seven days, premiered in 2014 as part of Sally Taylor’s multidisciplinary, multi-sensory global arts initiative, ConSenses
2 dancers, 5 minutes.
Reflexive (2012)
Reflexive lives as a “flex piece” with several self-contained sections that may be united by transitional scenes or performed in isolation
Differential Cohomology (2011)
A synesthetic abstraction of the mathematical theory by the same name. Commissioned by celebrated mathematician James Simons and premiered with live accompaniment by the Sirius String Quartet
10 dancers, 4 musicians, 36 minutes
SH2 (2009, rev. 2010)
SH2 delves fearlessly into the systemic processing of external occurrences. Responding to an unknown event, beings transition between quietly weaving limbs and twisting leaps landing in delicate balances. Teetering perhaps on an edge or paralyzed by a particular sight or sound, they peer at their own thresholds through observant, compassionate, and gratefully surrendered eyes
6 dancers, 30 minutes
Sequitur or Non (2010)
An exploration of linguistics and non-verbals, drawing the mind and body into a world of surfaces and folds, revolving joints, and a place where the need to make sense of all things may or may not apply
“Evoked an equally sensuous and sinister quality.“
-Dance Source Houston
Duet version, 7 min / quartet version, 10-12 min.
Resonant Imaging (2009)
Derived from multiple MRI inspired thoughts, it is a multi-media journey through the surrealistic experience of the mind
1 dancer, 7 minutes 45 seconds, includes projection
Et Tu (2008)
Sexy and athletic, this duet explores the dynamic between two people as they experience occurrences of comedy, melancholy, fun, betrayal, and the tragedy of it all
2 dancers, 7.5 minutes