The next couple weeks are filling up with lovely opportunities:

August 14- STEPS on Broadway Performance Lab Showing, “Cheek to the Light”

August 31-September 2- TrioDance Collective DanceNOW(NYC) Silo Artist Residency at Kirkland Farm

September 18- Collaborations in Dance Festival at Triskelion Arts Center, Featuring a new collaboration between myself and my brother, architect James Diewald.

September 19- Fertile Ground at Green Space, “Cheek to the Light”

Looking Forward to it!!! And now, making the big and very stressful move from brooklyn to manhattan!

TrioDance Collective has had a busy few weeks! We finished our inaugural performance (aptly named “First”) on June 26, and were thrilled with our packed house for both performances. Our final callbacks for our second season are tomorrow. We’ve been able to meet so many wonderfully present and talented dancers through our [...]

I’m working on anew piece called “Cheek To The Light” that looks into the relationship I had with classical training as a child. I want to excavate that relationship with dance at its most heated point. I can remember feeling most connected to it when I was about 14 years old, rehearsing for [...]

I am so grateful to have been able to share TDC’s premiere with so many supportive people and fantastic dancers. Thank You, Thank You! I have posted a couple of video excerpts while I work on my fully edited HD versions. Please enjoy!

Many, Many Thanks to everyone who helped make our show a success this weekend. We had a full theatre both nights, and the run went very smoothly. I’ll be adding video from the performance soon if you weren’t able to see the show.
I’m not quite ready to let go of the [...]

TrioDance Collective Presents
FIRST.
Our Inaugural Performance in New York City, featuring 3 premieres by 3 emerging New York Choreographers.
Honey- Emily Jeffries
Albedo- Barbie Diewald
Beyond The Monolithic Black- Jessie Cosentino

Please Join Us!
JUNE 25 and 26 (Friday and Saturday) at 8pm. The show runs appx. 1 Hour.
At: TRISKELION ARTS CENTER, 118 N. 11th St. in Williamsburg.
Directions:
Take the L [...]

Last Week’s work: trio, opening, coda.

This week’s work on the opening:

anne carson has executed a gorgeous translation of Sappho’s fragments, “If Not, Winter.” They date back to 630 B.C. and today, I find them impossibly beautiful and moving. Of nine books of songs Sappho has said to have written, none of the music is extant, and only one poem exists in its [...]

Material From Tuesday:

G & S- love a good pas de deux (working on making this one, all though the use of space can get a bit muddy):

and i think that his valse sentimentale in f minor is maybe the most beautiful thing. i had been listening to lots of chopin and prokofiev as of late, but oh my. now i want to make a waltz.

i’ve been thinking about classicism a lot lately. the rigor of it, and [...]