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Tipping Point

2006

Tipping Point was originally made as commission for Groundworks Dance Theater in Cleveland OH, which Niehoff later set on her own group of dancers with Lingo. It was a 20-minute work for five dancers. Each dancer occupied a single square of light. The physical material was floor bound and largely stationary and the vocabulary was repetitive; creating energy that rode the line between soothing and autistic. The dancers found moments of connection and disconnection using mathematical probability that created a cool, puzzle-like quality to juxtapose the frenetic, underlying hum of the movement.

Performance History:
March 2006 (premiere): Groundworks Dance Theater, Cleveland OH
March 2006: Velocity Dance Center, Seattle WA
September 2009: Groundworks Dance Theater, Cleveland OH

Original Cast: Felise Bagley, Jennifer, Amy Miller, Mark Otloski, David Shimotakahara
Original Lingo Cast: Bianca Cabrera, Aiko Kinoshita, Ricki Mason, KT Niehoff, Janine Tiede
Collaborators: Sarah Murat (music), Julie Keenan (lighting)

Two Guys and a Truck

2006-2009

Created in 2006 for the Spectrum Dance Theater Studio Series (Artistic Director, Donald Byrd), the duet Two Guys and a Truck started with the task of never allowing the two dancers to separate, creating a complex, Twister-like vocabulary to be negotiated from beginning to end. The 10-minute duet was picked up by Groundworks Dance Theater in 2007 and re-staged by Niehoff for the A.W.A.R.D. show at On the Boards in Seattle with dancers Oscar Gutierrez and Jody Keuhner in 2009.

Performance History:
February 2006 (premiere): Spectrum Dance Theater, Seattle WA
September 2007: Groundworks Dance Theater, NYC
December 2009: Lingo at On the Boards, Seattle WA

Original Cast: David, Peter
Original Lingo Cast: Oscar Gutierrez, Jody Keuhner