Dance Art|Projects Archives (2004-2011)


SPUN (2011)

a solo dance improvisation exploring cyclical notions of time, women's work, and presence

Conceived and Performed by Maré Hieronimus

Soundscore by Derek Morton

spun (2010-2011) Circular cycles of life from birth to death to rebirth, the spinning wheel is moving, visions unfolding, spiraling bodies in flight, never-ending. I am being spun. I am being spun. I am being spun.

Full Premiere at The Wassaic Dance Festival, Wassaic NY, Saturday, August 6th @ 4pm, 2011

photos by Tony Turner


SLEEPWALKING, WIND PICKING UP (2009-2010)

a solo dance improvisation and psycho-somatic exploration of the space between waking and dream states

Conceived and Performed by Maré Hieronimus

Soundscore collage by Maré Hieronimus, with music by Brian Eno

projected text Maré Hieronimus

sleepwalking, wind picking up is a solo work inspired by the folk tale sleeping beauty.  Inverting the fairy tale ending, the work is a psycho-somatic exploration of what it is to wake up after a 100 year sleep, along side ominous premonitions of the future.

photos by Yi Chun Wu


TOPIARY HORSES (2007-2009)

a magical realist multi-media dance drama and a journey into childhood wonderment and fantasy

Conceived by Maré Hieronimus in collaboration with Performer Tess Hartman

Performed by Tess Hartman and Maré Hieronimus

Soundscore, Text and Video by Maré Hieronimus, with Music by Cam Miller

Topiary Horses (2007-2009) is a magical realist dance drama, and a journey into childhood wonderment and fantasy that explores the role of imagination in our lives today, including themes of individualism verses culture/society, and the role of time and aging in relationship to this. The work combines dance and theater along with projected poetic text inspired by silent movies, and unfolds like an old western mystery.

Full Premier at The Merce Cunningham Studio, Under the Memory Tree, an evening of contemporary dance with Maré Hieronimus, Sarah Council, and Sarah Seely, Saturday October 4th & Sunday October 5th @ 8pm, 2008

Photos by Hope Davis


SPARK/RIDGE/PERCH/TILL (2006-2008)

overlapping solo portraits of the interior landscape of four unique women

Conceived and Directed by Maré Hieronimus

Created in Collaboration with Performers Elyse Sparkes, Marcy Schlissel, Maré Hieronimus

with Guest Artist Sharon Mansur

Soundscore by Maré Hieronimus and William Catanzaro

Video Installation by Kevin Doyle

spark/ridge/perch/till unfolds as an awakening, where overlapping solos reveal both gradual and sudden shifts in the interior landscape of four diverse women. Archetypal in feel, specific, imbued objects are used that relate to the inner life of the performer, including a flashlight, a fisherman's net, a wooden toy airplane, and a rice paper umbrella.

spark/ridge/perch/till was performed in many iterations, in both indoor and outdoor settings. It was performed as an elongated solo TILL Les Petit Versailled Gardens, and also shown as spark/till, and spark/perch/till. 

Full Premiere at The Solar One Powered Dance Festival, Thursday August 3rd -Saturday August 5th @ 6pm, Solar One Theater, Stuyvesant Cove Park, East River, NYC, 2006

Photos by Eric Bandiero


Tundra (2007)

a multi-media dance-drama and exploration of the feminine mysteries

Conceived and Directed by Maré Hieronimus

Performed by Maré Hieronimus and Marcy Schlissel

Soundscore and Text by Maré Hieronimus

Video Installation by Derek Morton

Sound Editing by Derek Morton

Costumes by Olga Maidan

TUNDRA (2007) A ghostly visitation, a woman’s voyage into the underworld, a meditation on exile and transmutation, TUNDRA is a journey into isolation, and the deep feminine mysteries that have been lost and forgotten.

With projected Rorschach-like imagery by Derek Morton, and a soundscape including old English inspired poetry by Maré Hieronimus.

Premiered at The White Wave Rising Festival, John Ryan Theater, Brooklyn, NY, Wednesday October 31st Gala @ 7:30pm, Friday November 2nd and Sunday November 4th @ 7:30pm, Saturday November 3rd, 2007

Text Excerpt:

"I want to tell you a story. 13

A story about a woman, and maybe it happened yesterday, or tomorrow, or maybe it never happened at all, except for in the far reaches of my imagination, in a dream that came to me late one night when I was alone. 12

This woman spun through me silently at first. She was so quiet, I could barely hear her, but I could feel her also aching in my bones, 11

weeping to come out.10"

photos by Yi Chun Wu


Dreamrunner (2005-2006)

a solo dance improvisation and exploration of dream states

Conceived and Performed by Maré Hieronimus

Soundscore by William Catanzaro and Maré Hieronimus with music by Mark Sylvester

8 minutes

dreamrunner (2005) is an ethereal solo investigation of dreams and dream imagery, and the dialogue between the conscious and subconscious mind. Set to a rolling collaborative soundscrore by William Catanzaro and Maré Hieronimus, with guitar harmonics by Mark Sylvester.

Premiered at The DUMBO Dance Festival, Brooklyn, NY, Saturday September 15th @ 3pm, 2005

photos by Steven Schreiber


Sinuit and Other Corporeal Episodes (2005)

a dance quartet exploring the nature of sensitivity and violence

Directed and Choreographed by Maré Hieronimus

Performed by Hannah Watkins, Liz Filbrun, Maré Hieronimus and Meghan Murray

Soundscore by William Catanzaro and Maré Hieronimus

In sinuit and other corporeal episodes (2005), touch and the nervous systems reaction to touch is explored. Working with the concept of mirror neurons (the firing of neurons when an animal acts, and when the animal observes action in another) the piece is divided into three interludes that accumulate through density of movement material, bodies in space, light, and sound.  Throughout the piece, the performers circulate around and observe one another, imprinting, interfacing and eventually colliding.  The work is ultimately a meditation on sensitivity and desensitization, compassion, indifference and violence.

Premiered at The MFA Thesis Concert/Sarah Lawrence College, The Bessie Schonberg Theater, April, 2005


Inevitability of Bone Attachment (2004-2005)

a dance duet exploring the nature of attachment

Directed and Choreographed by Maré Hieronimus Performed by Lori Yuill and Milka Djordjevich

Soundscore by Lucas Zarwell

inevitability of bone attachment (2004-2005) In a southernly tinted landscape, two women map out the inner boundaries of their interdependent relationship.  Swinging between extremes of slow motion and speed, small gesture and full body action, confinement of space and sweeping spacial pathway, they engage in an ongoing cycle.

Premiered at The MFA Spring Concert/Sarah Lawrence College, The Bessie Schonberg Theater, April, 2004