Doug Varone and Dancers -

The creation of Mouth Above Water was made possible through public funding from the National Endowment for the Arts with additional generous support from Major Choreographic Sponsor Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Additional funding support was provided by New York State DanceForce with funding from the New York State Council on the Arts Dance Program, and from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. It was created while in residence at Pick of the Crop Dance Company, and the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York and in part, by a Company-in-Residence grant from the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center. Special thanks to DRA.

Carrugi premiered on March 24, 2012 at the Center for the Arts, on the campus of SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.

The creation of Carrugi was made possible through public funding from the National Endowment for the Arts with additional support from the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts. It was also made possible in part by a Company-in-Residence grant from the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center. Additional funding support was provided by New York State DanceForce with funding from the New York State Council on the Arts Dance Program, and from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. It was created, in part, while in residence at Pick of the Crop Dance Company, and the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

Chapters from a Broken Novel premiered at the Quick Center for the Arts in Fairfield, CT on October 1, 2010. The work was developed at the 92nd Street Y School of the Arts Harkness Dance Center as part of its artist in residency program.

The creation of Chapters from a Broken Novel was made possible through public funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Chapters from a Broken Novel received commissioning support from the Bates Dance Festival, Portland Ovations, San Francisco Performances, the University of Akron, and the National Performance Network Creative Fund.

Major commissioning support for the composition of David Van Tieghem’s original score was furnished by the Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation. This commission was also made possible by American Music Center and was a part of a national series of works from Meet The Composer’s Commissioning Music/USA Program, which is made possible by generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Helen F. Whitaker Fund.

Additionally, the touring of Chapters from a Broken Novel is funded in part by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts. NDP is supported by lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, with additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust.

Additional support was provided by the following individuals through the DOVA Commissioning Club:

Ruby Clipper, Janis Colella, Jan & Bill Corriston, Robert E. Gilson, Naomi S. Grabel & Neil Kutner, Ellyn Jennings, Murray Louis, Gridley McKim Smith, Marie Mantz, Jeanne Murphy & William C. Oris, Ron Oberdick, Lida Orzeck, Melissa S. Rockefeller, Meriam Rosen, Thomas J. Schwarz, Robert Sikora & Terri DiGiacomo, Diane Sklar, Beth Tiedemann, Dianne & Daniel Vapnek, Joseph & Marie Varone, Carol K. & Peter Walker, and Stephen & Cathy Weinroth.

2013 Premieres

Mouth Above Water

2012 Premieres

Carrugi

2010 Premieres

Chapters from a Broken Novel

2008 Premieres

Alchemy

2007 Premieres

Victorious

Beyond the Break

Dense Terrain

2006 Premieres

Boats Leaving

Lux

The Constant Shift of Pulse

2005 Premieres

Orpheus and Euridice

The Invisible Man

2004 Premieres

The Thing of the World

Deconstructing English

Desert Tango

Castles

2003 Premieres

Distance

Of the Earth Far Below

Le sacre du printemps

Heaven

Beats and Stomps

2002 Premieres

The Drawing Lesson

The Bottomland, Part II

The Bottomland, Part I

The Beating of Wings

Short Story

2001 Premieres

The Drawing Lesson

Ballet Mecanique

Short Story

Approaching Something Higher

2000 Premieres

Brace

Polonaise #44

Tomorrow

Neither

As Natural as Breathing

1999 Premieres

Eclipse

String Quartet #2

Agora

Sleeping With Giants

And Their Words To The End Of the World

The Plain Sense of Things

1998 Premieres

Need

Knave

Bel Canto

Mercury

Assembling A Common Language

1997 Premieres

Proverb/ Valley

Democracy

1996 Premieres

In Thine Eyes

Let's Dance

1995 Premieres

After You've Gone/ Mr. Al

1994 Premieres

Aperture

Peak Sacred

Possession

Smashed Landscapes

Strict Love

1993 Premieres

Rise

on the field of destiny

1992 Premieres

Beauty

Momentary Order