Experiment with Dancer and Lines (Video 2008)
Created in 2005

3 minutes
Dancing by Aynsley Vandenbroucke
Animation by Myra Margolin
Music by J.S. Bach (The Well Tempered Clavier performed by Glenn Gould)
Videography by Mathew Pokoik
(filmed at Mt. Tremper Arts)

Experiment with Dancer and Lines is a collaborative journey between one dancer and a number of life-sized animated lines. The projected, minimal lines reveal the dancer, partner with her, and ultimately transform into stars falling around her.

And How Should I Begin? (2007)

50 minutes
Choreographed by Aynsley Vandenbroucke with the performers
Performed by Djamila Moore, Dawn Springer, Kristen Warnick
Sound Design by Geoff Gersh
Lighting Design by Nelson R. Downend, Jr.
Costumes by Liz Sargent
Videography by Jenny Holub
(filmed at Baryshnikov Arts Center, NYC)

Inspired by T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," this piece is a journey through the world of human connections and missed connections. Made up of many short vignettes, it is a conversation between poetry and movement.
Link to another video clip here.

Full Circle (2006)

46 minutes
Choreographed by Aynsley Vandenbroucke with the performers
Performed by Cheri Paige Fogleman, Djamila Moore, Aynsley Vandenbroucke, Kristen Warnick, and Molly Wilson
Live viola and electric boomerang by Leanne Darling
Live percussion by John Wieczorek
Light Consultation by Nelson R. Downend, Jr.
Costumes by Naoko Nagata
Videography and Editing by Jenny Holub
(filmed at Mt. Tremper Arts and Baryshnikov Arts Center, NYC)

Lit entirely by flashlights and performed with only one row of audience members arranged in a circle surrounding the performers, Full Circle plays with perception and investigates community, circles, cycles, and light. A highly original event, Full Circle works well in non-traditional spaces, inside or out.

Below The Skin (2004)

48 minutes
Choreographed by Aynsley Vandenbroucke with the performers
Performed by Cheri Paige Fogleman, Janice Lancaster, and Dawn Springer
Live viola and electric boomerang by Leanne Darling
Lighting Design by Nelson R. Downend, Jr.
Costumes by Naoko Nagata
Videography by Jenny Holub
(filmed at Lincoln Center Institute's Clark Studio Theater, NYC)

Below The Skin is a multifaceted movement and music exploration of the question "What is it to give everything?" The dancers and musician ask: What is it to give your all in rehearsal, in performance, in rest, in work and in play, physically, emotionally, honestly?

After Fall (2002)

35 minutes
Choreographed by Aynsley Vandenbroucke with the performers.
This duet performed by Liza Domnitz and Dawn Springer.
Entire piece performed by Caroline Adams, Kim Craigie, Liza Domnitz, Cheri Paige Fogleman, Janice Lancaster, Djamila Moore, Dawn Springer, and Molly Wilson.
Music by Ensemble Venance Fortunat and Schola Cantorum Coloniensis.
Lighting by Nelson R. Downend, Jr.
Costumes by Naoko Nagata.
Videography by Jenny Holub
(filmed at Lincoln Center Institute's Clark Studio Theater, NYC)

After Fall is a quiet and contemplative piece that grew out of the time surrounding September 2001. The movement is understated, panning between intimate duets and sculptural ensemble work. Exploring resilience, subtlety, and the relationships between religion and dance, it is a piece that invites the audience into introspection and silence.