Choreography
Signal Lost
The group work, "Signal Lost," is a contemporary work that emphasizes emotional connections between the dancers through internal and external challenges that they face throughout the narrative of the piece. Conceptually, the piece relates to how going through an unknown phase of life can feel like taking a road trip and relying solely on the GPS. Sometimes, you have to reroute your path if you miss a turn. There are other times where the signal may be lost entirely, and this causes you to reevaluate the route.
Performances:
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- Emerging Artists Theatre Spark Theater Festival, March 17, 2023 NYC
- Spring for Spring Dance Festival, June 4, 2023 Metuchen, NJ
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Dancers in video: Calla Chapnik, Brooke Cheek, Joan Liu, Flavie Neuville, Olivia Shirley
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Dancers in photos: Brooke Cheek, Erica Isakower, Annie Lewis, Joan Liu, Claire Wampler
Invisible Instincts
This collaborative work is titled, "Invisible Instincts." The inspiration for this duet was the fight-or-flight response that is driven by the sympathetic nervous system, and we further investigated how different people exhibit varying responses to sensory stimuli.
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Performances:
- Project Moshen's "Artistry Unfolded" showcase May 22, 2022 Philadelphia, PA.
-Slippery Rock University Dance Theatre "Fresh Moves" concert November 12-13, 2021.
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Choreography and Performance: Laura Ardner and Faythe Lewis
Photo by Cassie Dietrich
Photo by Cassie Dietrich
Photo by Ashlin Broody-Walega
Photo by Cassie Dietrich
AA Lamp in A Dark Room
This piece follows a non-linear interpretation of the 79 AD eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that destroyed the city of Pompeii, Italy. The piece begins in the present day looking at the city from the tourist perspective before transporting back to before the disaster and the sense of urgency along with it. Once the bodies had been frozen in time by becoming cemented following the disaster, I envisioned the spirits of the victims reuniting with each other in the afterlife to reflect on everything that had happened. The spirits of the victims experience out-of-body moments to look at their cemented body casts that continue to be viewed and interpreted by tourists for many years to come.
Performances:
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-Slippery Rock University Dance Theatre Fall Concert December 7th, 2019
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-Slippery Rock University Dance Theatre Adjudication Concert #3 November 8th, 2019
Dancers: Sarah Dietsch, Faythe Lewis, Kristina Lewis, Rachel Male, Caitlin O’Halloran, Andres Ortiz, Austin Shaffer, Hayden Summers, Kaitlin Yankovich
Photos by Hannah Floyd
"Darkness fell, not the dark of a moonless or cloudy night, but as if the lamp had been put out in a dark room" -Pliny the Younger
Pede Claudo
This solo analyzes the characters Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde from Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I viewed movie and musical adaptations of this novel for inspiration, and I focused on the central conflict of the story where Jekyll was trying to figure out what causes the evil in people and how to suppress his own evil urges. Jekyll tries to suppress his urges by creating a potion to remove the evil from his system; however, he ended up creating a sinister second personality named Edward Hyde. The choreography utilizes shifts of focus, effort levels, and leading with right or left sides of the body to clarify which character is present at each given time.
Performances:​
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-Koresh Artist Showcase January 25th-26th, 2020
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-Slippery Rock University Dance Theatre Adjudication Concert #2 November 9th, 2019
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-Slippery Rock University LMA Solo Concert May 8th, 2019
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Photos by Mike Hurwitz
Undecided
This solo explores the concept of feeling stuck inside the habit of thinking too much, and this piece demonstrates how this idea can lead to indecisiveness.
Performance:​
-Slippery Rock University Composition I Final Showing December, 2018 ​
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