CHOREOGRAPHY
Choreography Experience
Through the groundwork of play, I practice testing the body’s physical ability and instinctual knowledge of solving choreographic equations. This often results in athletic, quirky, and engaging work.
I find what qualitative movements are repeated in improvisation, investigate why, and conclude its connection within the work as a whole.
FREEDOM, ARTISTRY, AND MOVEMENT
"As an dancer and choreographer, I am very interested in the newest of technology and how the dance world can fit within that realm." - Amber Daniels
THE CROSSWORD EXPERIMENT
In Risk of Play, Daniels invites the audience to partner in the storytelling process. This gripping hybrid of performance, dance theater and play generates a full-bodied experience that thwarts expectations of conventional storytelling. Each performance results in a different outcome, creating a charge of spontaneity and raw performance that is crafted in the moment by performers and audiences together. Chance is the name of the game and, in this work, everybody wins.
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A collaborative exploration of the capabilities of Zoom for a dance concert setting. Sections of this project discovers new thoughts, tricks, and innovations within this new platform of performance. Participants in this collaboration include multiple dancers from musicians, directors, and filmmakers to discuss the possibilities of Zoom being used to create art.
"There is a secret game that we’re hoping that the audience will join us in, all while being COVID compliant," - Amber Daniels
Risk of Play
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In collaboration with Chelsea Hilding (Greensboro, NC), Entry One is an exploratory film of the tussling embodiment and entrapment of the female body. This film will continue in multiple entries and eventually a larger performance.
This film premiered April 1, 2021 at Side Step: Graduate DanceWorks.
ENTRY ONE
In collaboration with Rebecca Hill (College Park, MD) Veiled ciphers through historic vaudeville repertoire extracting inspiration to create an abstract dance theater work. In an era of #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, American territory borders, a global pandemic, a monumental presidential election and further investigations of social norms, we are researchers with the knowledge that the present is affected by our past. Using vignettes, audiences will simultaneously experience both the despair that haunted the entertainment industry of the vaudeville era, as well as the joy.
VIELED
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An investigation of gameplay inspired by women who innovated technologies and even risked their livelihoods to benefit the communities they called home such as actress Hedy Lamar who was known as the “mother of wifi” patenting the spread spectrum technology used today.
Premiered 2022 at Florida State College at Jacksonville
Performed at the University of Maryland at College Park
That's All
With the guidance of my MFA program, I created short-version dances and videos. These are an expression of my understanding of dance and it's movements. With the freedom to create with no boundaries, I explore concepts with the help of technology
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