Repertory

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Breath into Air

Premiere: 2024. Time: 32.5 minutes. Dancers: 10

Music: Cory Neale (Original Music & Sound Design)
Costume Design: Jill Peterson
Lighting Design: Alyssandra Docherty

“The kinesthetic empathy created by the virtuoso moving and breathing dancers of the KYL/D ensemble evokes feelings of familiarity, alienness, and healing.” - thINKingDANCE

“A complex and thoughtful work, Breath into Air invites multiple interpretations.”- Broad Street Review

“The piece is an emotional tour de force—a moving addition to KYL/D’s substantive repertoire.” - The Dance Journal

Ocean Waves

Premiere: 2022. Time: 21.5 minutes. Dancers: 10

Music: Murcof, Amand Amar, Cory Neale (Original Music & Sound Design)
Costume Design: Jill Peterson
Lighting Design: Alyssandra Docherty

“A shared human experience of the ocean of our mind, bodies and spirit in isolation, while dealing with an invisible threat” - The Dance Journal

Fish & Girl

U.S. Premiere: 2022. Time: 19 minutes. Dancers: 10

Poetry: Pan Cheng Lui
Music: Bill Ryan, Arvo Part, Cory Neale
Costume Design: Jill Peterson
Lighting Design: Alyssandra Docherty

“centered around chaotic modern life vis-a-vis climate change" - Edge Media Network

The Wind

Premiere: 2021. Time: 7.5 minutes. Dancers: 1

Music: Gustav Mahler’s “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen” (I am lost to the world), based on the poem by Friedrich Rückert.
Costume Design: Jill Peterson

“It was impossible to watch and not reflect on my flown youth and my enduring love of my own art and community of artists.” - Broad Street Review

SPRING 101

Premere: 2019. Time: 36 minutes. Dancers: 10

Sound Design: Cory Neale
Costume Design: Jill Peterson
Lighting Design: Matthew Lewandowski II

“The premiere of ‘Spring 101′ burst forth like a gushing choreographic stream.” - Dance Journal

FAITH PROJECT /
THE DOOR

Premiere: 2018. Time: 90 minutes. Dancers: 11

Thought Partner: Kimerer LaMothe
Multimedia Design: Jared Mezzocchi
Sound Design: Cory Neale
Lighting Design: Alyssandra Docherty
Set Design: Sara Outing
Costume Design: Jill Peterson

“doesn't back away from tackling complex social themes...an ever expansive and inspired choreographic journey" - Dance Journal

SANTUARIO

Premiere: 2017. Time: 38 minutes. Dancers: 10

Music: Arvo Part, Cory Neale, Club Mix (Wake Up, Safe and Sound), Excerpts“Poem for Pulse”by Jameson Fitzpatrick

Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli

“Santuario is a stunning artistic response to the Pulse Nightclub shootings...It is a profoundly moving dance elegy.” - HuffPost

Moment/s

Premiere: 2016. Time: 10 minutes. Dancers: 5-6

Music: Daniel Rhode and the New Music Ensemble of Grand Valley State University.

Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli

“With...Moment/s we are literally taken on a whirlwind of fleeting moments in our everyday existence, challenging our very notions of time, space, relationships, tension, stillness and discovery.” - The Dance Journal

Vertigo

Premiere: 2016. Time: 12 minutes. Dancers: 6

Music: Daniel Rhode and the New Music Ensemble of Grand Valley State University.

Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli

“[Vertigo] was a meditation on modern life knocking us off balance and our individual and private strategies to move through everyday chaos toward inner peace and resolve.” –ExploreDance.com

DREAMSCAPE

 Premiere: 2016. Time: 10 minutes Dancers: 7-8

Music: Daniel Rhode and the New Music Ensemble of Grand Valley State University.

Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli

“...the dancers garbed in all black, blending in to the dimly lit background, created an other-world experience with a continual shifting of bodies and shapes.”- The Dance Journal

HOME/S. 9th St.

Premiere: 2015. Time: 65 minutes Dancers: 6

Music Design: Cory Neale

“A moving, compelling look at the immigrant experience...a timely piece…leaves us with a sense of mystery and connection.” - Dance Enthusiast

Be/Longing

Premiere: 2014. Time: 70 minutes. Dancers: 9

Music Design: Cory Neale

Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli

“Be/Longing: Light/Shadow combines forceful, fast choreography with frozen tableaux.”- Times Union

ONE – IMMORTAL GAME

Premiere: 2013. Time: 40 minutes. Dancers: 10

Music Design: Cory Neale

Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli

"One was a true gift: smart choreography and an impassioned, athletic execution by a truly talented group of dancers." – The Dance Journal

Beyond the Bones

Premiere: 2003, revisited 2012. Time: 70 minutes. Dancers: 5-8

Music Design: Cory Neale

Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli

“transports us back to the beginning of humanity and the wellspring of our beings.” - Backstage

Mandala Project

Premiere: 2011. Time: 40 minutes. Dancers: 9

Music: Jonathan Goldman, Tibetan chanting, Kenneth Kirschner and Tim Russell.

Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli

"A masterwork of art, spirituality, and stagecraft.”- The Philadelphia Inquirer

AUTUMN SKIN

Premiere: 2011, revisited 2016. Time: 40 minutes. Dancers: 6-8

Music: Collage of Mum, Philip Glass, Alarm Will Sound, Arvo Part, Kenneth Kirschner.

Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli

“AUTUMN SKIN, demonstrated the company's versatility, technical proficiency, and capability of producing choreography both poignant and culturally relevant" - South Philly Review

A-U-M

Premiere: 2009. Time: 23 minutes. Dancers: 7

Music: OM chanting

Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli

"Virtuosic artistry...hypnotic energy" - Ballet UK.

Emptiness of Snow

Premiere: 2005. Time: 23 minutes. Dancers: 5

Music: Kenneth Kirschner, Tibetan bell Meditation music.

Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli

“Complex variety of speed, shape, and group configuration—dancers whipped and spun about by imagined wind and thrust to the floor, somehow always very neatly—gave this work a poetic sensibility." - The Village Voice.

Traces of Brush

Premiere: 2005. Time: 25 minutes. Dancers: 8

Music: Andy Teirstien

Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli

“...Incredibly captivating for audiences and dancers alike." - The Martha's Vineyard Times.

CHI

Premiere: 2002. Time: 9 minutes. Dancers: 9

Music: Glen Velez

Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli

The New York Times described it as “a buoyant, radiant dance”

the Land

Premiere: 2000. Time: 25 minutes. Dancers: 6

Music: Philip Glass, Lama Gyurmes, Jean-Philippe Rykiel, Kirby Schelstad.

Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli

“Brilliantly constructed...combines a fresh approach to conventional craft with a commitment to contemporary social-consciousness.”- Backstage

Butterfly

Premiere: 2000 Time: 5 minutes. Dancers: 1

Music: Giancomo Puccini “Un Bel Di”from Madame Butterfly.

Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli

"A little Isadora Duncan and a little Butoh... this was choreography and performing that was simultaneously both lush and spare." - The New York Times.

Moon Dance

Premiere: 1994. Time: 6 minutes. Dancers: 1

Music: Dead Can Dance

Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli

"[Moon Dance is] a powerful piece of choreography." - Knight Arts Foundation