In one studio, you are the clay, and then in another studio, you are the sculptor.
— Lauren Lovette on balancing her dance career with her choreography
 
 

 

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original choreography


Pangaea Calling

Premiere: December 6, 2023, Juilliard New Dances, Peter Jay Sharp Theater

Credits

Music: Alberta Khoury, Pangaea Calling

Length: 21 min.

Costume: Grier Coleman

Lighting: Nicole Pearce

Original Cast: Joshua Armstrong, Sofia Benning, Caleb Burks, Enzo Cardix, Daya deJongh, Tyler Duncan, Lexie Elliot, Alessandra Gonzalez, Georgia Greene, Fredy Harner-Rondon, Briana Keingatti, Quinn Kuch, Yasmina Lu, Alex Marxer, LaMonte Sadler, Ryan Sherk, James Street, Mateo Tirres, Dasha Vishnyakova, Braden Ward


Paul Taylor Dancer in Lauren Lovette's Dreamachine

Photo by Whitney Browne

Dreamachine

Premiere: April 28, 2023, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Credits

Music: Michael Daugherty, Dreamachine

Length: 38 min.

Set & Costumes: Santo Loquasto

Lighting: Jennifer Tipton

Original Cast: Kristin Draucker, Kenny Corrigan, Jessica Ferretti, Devon Louis, Eran Bugge, Madelyn Ho, Lee Duveneck, Alex Clayton, Maria Ambrose, Lisa Borres, Jake Vincent, Austin Kelly


Eco

Premiere: April 7, 2023, Oregon Ballet Theatre , Newmark Theatre

Credits

Music: Hilary Hahn and Haushka, Silfra

Length: 15 min.

Costumes: Eileen Ehlert

Set & Lighting: Michael Mazzola 

Original Cast: Alex Gomez Barbosa, Eva Burton, Leigh Goldberger, Gavin Hounslow, Kangmi Kim, Mathilde Lambert, Isaac Lee, Michael Linsmeier, Juliette Ochoa, Medea Robertson, Nick Sakai, Bailey Shaw

 
 

 

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Photo by Whitney Browne

Solitaire

Premiere: November 2, 2022, Paul Taylor Dance Company, New York City Center

Credits

Music: Ernest Bloch, Concerto Grosso No. 1

Length: 24 min.

Sets & Costume: Santo Loquasto

Lighting: Brandon Stirling Baker

Original Cast: John Harnage, Eran Bugge, Kristin Draucker, Lee Duveneck, Madelyn Ho, Christina Lynch Markham, Devon Louis, Maria Ambrose, Lisa Borres, Jada Pearman, Jessica Ferretti, Austin Kelly, Kenny Corrigan


Pentimento

Premiere: March 24, 2022, Paul Taylor Dance Company, New York City Center

Credits

Music: Alberto Ginastera, Variaciones Concertantes

Length: 25 min.

Lighting: Jennifer Tipton

Original Cast: Michael Apuzzo, Christina Lynch Markham, Madelyn Ho, Kristin Draucker, Lee Duveneck, Alex Clayton, Devon Louis, John Harnage, Maria Ambrose, Lisa Borres, Jada Pearman, Jessica Ferretti, Austin Kelly


Back When

Premiere: February 5, 2022, Nevada Ballet Theatre , The Smith Center for the Performing Arts

Credits

Music: Florence B Price, Concerto in One Movement

Length: 19 min.

Original Cast: Brooke Lyness, Sergio Alvarez, Robert Fulton, Christina Girardi, Camille Kellems, Betsy Lucas, Emma McGirr, Jaime DeRocker, Katie Zimmerman, Leo Ameika, Shane Horan, Jackson Martin

 
 

 

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Notes on a Canvas

Premiere: July 16, 2021, Why It Matters , Spring Studios, NYC

Credits

Music: Jorge Viladoms

Length: 5 min.

Lighting: Brandon Stirling Baker

Original Cast: Lauren Lovette and Julian MacKay


Good Light

Premiere: July 16, 2021, Why It Matters , Spring Studios, NYC

Originally commissioned, unfinished, by Damian Woetzel for the Vail Dance Festival

Credits

Music: Caroline Shaw, In Manus Tuas

Length: 8 min.

Lighting: Brandon Stirling Baker

Original Cast: Remy Young and Laine Habony


La Follia Variations

Premiere: February 9, 2021, ABT Studio Company Winter Festival
Virtual Performance, filmed November 2020, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park

CREDITS

Music: Francesco Geminiani, arranged by Michi Wiancko

Length: 13 min.

Original Cast: Tristan Brosnan, Finnian Carmeci, Cy Doherty, Teresa D’Ortone, Andrew Robare, Yoon Jung Seo, Olivia Tweedy, Aleisha Walker


The Shaded Line

Premiere: September 26, 2019, New York City Ballet, David H. Koch Theater

CREDITS

Music: Tan Dun, “Fire Ritual”

Length: 20 min.

Costumes: Zac Posen

Lighting: Mark Stanley

Original Cast: Georgina Pazcoguin, Mary Thomas MacKinnon, Unity Phelan, Taylor Stanley

 
 

 

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IF YOU'RE GONNA BUILD A BODY, START WITH THE BONES

Premiere: August 5, 2019, Vail Dance Festival

Commissioned by the Vail Dance Festival - Damian Woetzel, Artistic Director

CREDITS

Music: New Commission by Kate Davis, Caroline Shaw, Alex Foote, and Cameron MacIntosh

Length: 17 min.

Original Cast: Kennard Henson, Unity Phelan


Papillon

Premiere: August 6, 2018, Vail Dance Festival

Commissioned by Damian Woetzel for the Vail Dance Festival

Credits

Music: Robert Schumann, Papillons Op. 2

Length: 17 min.

Original Cast: India Bradley, Preston Chamblee, Barton Cowperthwaite, Miriam Miller, Unity Phelan

 
 

 

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Le jeune

Premiere: November 11, 2017, American Ballet Theatre Studio Company, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park


Credits

Music: Eric Whitacre, Equus

Length: 9 min.

Original Cast: Sierra Armstrong, Jacob Clerico, Jarod Curley, Léa Fleytoux, Simon Hoke, Abbey Marrison, João Menegussi, Grace Anne Pierce, Javier Rivet, Ingrid Thoms   


Not Our Fate

Premiere: September 28, 2017, New York City Ballet, David H. Koch Theater

Credits

Music: Michael Nyman, 3 movements from “Concert Suite from Prospero's Books” (1. Prospero's Magic, 4. Cornfield, 5. Miranda)

Length: 15 min.

Costumes: Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim of MONSE and Oscar de la Renta

Lighting: Mark Stanley

Original Cast: Sara Adams, Meaghan Dutton-O’Hara, Ask la Cour, Taylor Stanley, Preston Chamblee, Laine Habony, Mary Elizabeth Sell, Sarah Villwock, Christopher Grant, Lars Nelson

 
 

 

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angels of the get through

Premiere: August 7, 2017, Vail Dance Festival

Commissioned by Damian Woetzel for the Vail Dance Festival

Credits

Music: Caroline Shaw + Andrea Gibson, “Angels”

Length: 8 min.

Original Cast: Patricia Delgado, Devon Teuscher, Miriam Miller, and Lauren Lovette


For clara

Premiere: September 20, 2016, New York City Ballet, David H. Koch Theater

Credits

Music: Robert Schumann, Introduction and Concert Allegro, Op. 134

Length: 15 min.

Costumes: Narciso Rodriguez

Lighting: Mark Stanley

Original Cast: Emilie Gerrity, Unity Phelan, Indiana Woodward, Zachary Catazaro, Chase Finlay