Compositions

Mandy’s compositions take place in a world thick with ritual and altered possibilities. She has used her incisive choreographic eye to help bring productions to fruition in partnership with dance, circus, theater and multidisciplinary companies, and as the creator of her own work & founding member of Shapeshifter Collective.

Selected Works

  • The Illusion of Stationary Stars.

    Movement direction & choreography in collaboration with the artists of Hypha.

    Inanimate48 Festival- honoree

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  • Water From a Stone: Trio

    Choreography in collaboration with the aerialists.

    US Aerial Dance Festival

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  • Illuminated Liminal

    Concept & Choreography.

    Inanimate48 Festival- honoree

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Selected Choreography.

Collaborator/ Performer: Circus 617. New work to premiere June 2022. Recipient, LAB arts grant.

Telephone International Arts Exhibition. Choreographer, performer of dance film work Linnaean Time.

Collaborator / performer for immersive circus-theater work Ritual of Inquiry by Hypha. Recipient, BAC grant.

Movement Director, The Illusion of Stationary Stars. Created in collaboration with Hypha. Inanimate48 Festival honoree.

Illuminated Liminal. Choreographer, performer, concept for aerial dance film by Shapeshifter Collective. Inanimate48 Festival honoree.

Commissioned choreography, Un/Lost. Frequent Flyers Productions, Wonder.

Easy, Or: I May Regret This. Solo dance work, Excessive Realness Dance Festival: The Spill.

Choreographic consultant, performer, collaborator: Zabiti: An Immersive Circus Adventure. Rainbow Militia.

Shapeshifter Collective, aerial dance film Acceptance. Choreographer /performer.

Water from a Stone: Trio. choreographer. Aerial Dance Festival.

We Have Traveled This Way Before and Tree of Life: commissioned choreography, Frequent Flyers Productions: Aerial Intelligence.

Director of Circus, Escape Velocity. Immersive circus theater work. Recipient, CSA Arts Fellowship, New Hazlett Theater.

Shapeshifter Collective, A Funeral For Hopes and Dreams. Choreography & co-direction for full-length multidisciplinary performance work. Still Cellars & Fort Collins Fringe Festival.

Commissioned choreography, Pull. Frequent Flyers Productions: Aerial Street View.

Choreography and concept, Yellowstone. Dance-film work, Shapeshifter Collective. Recipient, Playspace Arts Residency

Commissioned choreography & immersive staging consultant: Conjure Up. Frequent Flyers.

Birds of Paradise/ The Offing: Director/ choreographer of full-length immersive dance work. Mr Rogers Gallery, NYC.

Choreographer, assistant director Dante’s Inferno. Immersive full-length theater work. Submerge Theater Group.

We Create the Language: Creator/director of immersive participatory choreography experience. Figment Festival.

Director/ choreographer, Tree Project. acrobatic site-specific tree-climbing performance group. Presented in NY, TX, TN, GA, PA, LA.

co-choreographer: The Movement Farm dance collective. Bushwick SITE fest, The Spoon Festival.

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