Repertoire
This work explores the relationship between three entities and how these relationships intertwine throughout multiverses. We step into new realities whilst moving through sensations of etherealness and grotesqueness. The audience is free to step into these alternating dimensions with us and explore what it is like to live in a world outside of what we know.
This work was choreographed and performed by directors of NewBrese Dance; Rachel Calabrese & Sawyer Newsome first at the Provo Arts Festival in Provo, Utah in 2020. It was then re-worked and restaged for The Craft NYC Choreographers Showcase in Governors Island, New York in 2021. Since then, they have been working on how to develop the piece into an evening length work and have premiered its newest version at SMUSH Gallery in Jersey City. This piece explores the highs and lows within a relationship and how anger can slowly form into toxicity within the communication and everyday situations of a couple.
This work researches the distinct experiences we have as individual's throughout the process of becoming who we are today. How each person we have come into contact with has imprinted something onto us and affected our sense of self and our reality. We are playing with a warped sense of time and reality within this piece. We want the audience to step inside this created world with us.
Volition is a physical contemporary dance work that explores the various relationships amongst our species and what happens when we have the strength to rely on one another. It features fierce and trusting partner work that symbolizes the strength of community. It was choreographed on select dancers of Wasatch Contemporary Dance Company in Orem, Utah for the companies spring season. The 6 dancer work premiered in 2021 at the North Hampton House in American Fork, Utah. NewBrese wishes to restage this work and add on in the upcoming year.
Riding Riptides emerged from being adjudicated as emerging choreographers at Eisenhower Dance Detroit's summer festival in 2021 in Detroit Michigan. This work in progress explores the idea of water and how even though it is viewed as malleable and forming to whatever container holds it, it is also strong and not forgiving when it comes to its strength and ferociousness. The dancers explored this idea through improvising whilst thinking about a time in their lives when they felt vulnerable and someone helped them versus when they felt strong and steady, maybe even defiant and a little reckless. How do we ride the riptides of the ocean and in turn the riptides of life?