2011
Infinite Her
Choreography: Lynn Andrews in collaboration with dancers
Live Electric Guitar: Richie Hall
Lighting Design: Amanda Thomas
Premier: CDF Theatre, Birmingham, AL
Length: Eight Minutes
Supported in part by the Arts and Humanities Council of Tuscaloosa County, this duet explores universal motion such as the moon orbiting the earth, the tides, gravity, and the sun rising and falling.
2011
Unsquare Dance
Choreography: Lynn Andrews
Live Fiddle Player: Russel Hopper
Length: Ten Minutes
Performed by eleven professional dancers with 10 community members and accompanied by five musicians, Dances Along the Line will wind through Railroad Park from the pavilion to the birch bowl in a 35 minute performance open and free to the public. Unaquare Dance opened the performance with a lively seven dancer square dance.
2011
Delicatessen
Choreography: Lynn Andrews
Music: Carlos D’ Alessio
Lighting Design: Gary Holmquist
Costume Design: Adele Forest
Premiere: Holzworth Performing Arts Center
Length: Seventeen Minutes
Performed by eleven professional dancers from Ballet Quad Cities, this love story in six sections chronicles the sweetness, the bliss, the mundaneness of love.
2010
Crossing The Field
Choreography: Lynn Andrews in collaboration with dancers
Music: The Books
Lighting Design: Lyndell McDonald
Costume Design: Cornelius Carter
Premier: Morgan Auditorium, University of Alabama
Length: Thirteen Minutes
2010
One Fish, Two Fish, Dead Fish, Blue Fish
Choreography: Lynn Andrews
Music: The Books
Premiere: The Birmingham Art Museum
Length: Ten Minutes
This sight specific quartet was performed in the atrium of the Birmmingham Art Museum and took choreographic inspiration from artist Dale Chihuly, whose glass sculptures hang on the museums atrium wall.
2010
Golden Record
Choreography: Lynn Andrews & Rhea Speights in collaboration with Luther College students and faculty
Music: NASA space sounds
selections from The Voyager Golden Record
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F. First Movement by J.S. Bach Night Chant by Navajo tribe recorded by Willard Rhodes ”The Fairie Round” from Pavans, Galliards, Almains and Other Short Aeirs by Anthony Holborne performed by David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London ”Mugam” recorded by Radio Moscow
Senegalese percussion recorded by Charles Duvelle
Peruvian wedding song recorded by John Cohen
“Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground” by Blind Willie Johnson
“Liu Shiu” (Flowing Streams) by Bo Ya performed by Kuan P’ing-hu
Lighting Design: Tom Berger
Costume Design: Rhea Speights
Premiere: Luther College Studio Theatre, Decorah, IA
Length: Thirty Three Minutes
In August 1977 NASA sent into outer space a phonographic recording–the “Golden Record”– containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on earth with hopes of some day communicating to intelligent life.
2010
Another Landscape
Choreography: Lynn Andrews & Rhea Speight
Music: Dirty Three
Lighting Design: Amanda Thomas
Costume Design: Lynn Andrews & Rhea Speights
Premiere: CDF Theatre, Birmingham, AL
Length: Twenty Minutes
Another Landscape creates and recreates and creates again pictures and images inspired by the perpetual act of making art. We used various artists as jumping off points for the this collaborative work including Antony Gormley, Marc Chagall, Michael Corinne West, Vincent Van Gogh, and many of the plein air artists. Another Landscape was performed by six dancers.
2010
Ashes to Ashes
Choreography: Lynn Andrews in collaboration with dancers
Music: Zoe Keating
Lighting Design: Lyndell T. McDonald
Costume Design: Lynn Andrews
Premiere: University of Alabama-Gallaway Theatre, Tuscaloosa, AL
Length: Thirteen Minutes
Eleven dancers from the University of Alabama’s Department of Theatre/Dance, melt in and out of contact with one another as the dance quickly detereates from complex patters of movement to slow repetition.
2010
Laced Lips
Choreography: Lynn Andrews
Music: Tosca Tango Orchestra
Lighting Design: David Page
Costume Design: Alison Page
Premiere: Virginia Samford Theatre, Birmingham, AL
Length: Twelve Minutes
A commissioned work by Arova Contemporary Ballet for seven dancers who live in and around hot-spots for bohemian night-life.
2009
Lost In The Translation
Choreography: Lynn Andrews in collaboration with dancers
Music: Tom Ze
Lighting Design: Lyndell T. McDonald
Premiere: University of Alabama-Morgan Auditorium, Tuscaloosa, AL
Length: Sixteen minutes
Fifteen dancers from the University of Alabama’s Department of Theatre/Dance create a world where gestures become words and every language seems foreign.
2009
A Very Dry Spell
Choreography: Lynn Andrews
Music: Hazmat Modine
Lighting Design: Alex McConnell
Costume Design: Lynn Andrews
Premiere: CDF Theatre, Birmingham, AL
Length: Six Minutes
A quirky trio about life’s very dry spells.
2009
Tango Obscuro
Choreography: Lynn Andrews
Music: Campo
Lighting Design: David Page
Costume Design: Alison Page
Premiere: Virginia Samford Theatre, Birmingham, AL
Length: Five Minutes
A solo defining the lines between the clear and the obscure.
2009
Threshold
“Tell me the landscape in which you live, and I will tell you who you are” -Gassett
Choreography: Lynn Andrews in collaboration with dancers
Music: Paul Brill, Mark O’ Conner, William Elliott Whitmore, Zoe Keating Edgar Meyer, Yo Yo Ma
Music Design: Carlos Cueller Brown
Lighting Design: Courtney Watson
Costume Design: Juliana Waechter
Set Design: Shawn Maxwell
Premiere: Space Place Theatre, Iowa City, IA
Length: Thirty Minutes
In making this dance, I drew inspiration from the land, the Iowa prairie, and the people in my family who first turned its soil more than 130 years ago. Having grown up in Iowa it seemed only fitting that I return to make a dance about the women who came before me. “Threshold” documents the past, but also carries a new story into the future–a story told by our every step, gesture and breath.