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Ceremonial Cannon 

Choreographer/ Director:  
Ross Daniel
Dancers:
Sarah Rose 
Kimberly Sausman 
Ross Daniel
Costume Designers: 
 Ross Daniel 
Music Composer and Editor: Ross Daniel In Responce and Collaboration with the Alvin Ailey New Directions Choreography Lab 2019-2020

“Ceremonial Cannon” is a presentation of what is being outwardly projected. Taking body, gender, emotion, and relationships at "face value." I often find that cultivating deep relationships become quite difficult as I grow older. This dance feels that it is responding to the distain I have for the  "elevator speech" mentality that as humans we most remain in. I crave layers and depth to greetings, meetings, and relationships and this dance abstracts shoes desires in a very formal way. "Ceremonial Cannon" feel as if it is in the same house as my previous work "Infinite K." Abstracting presentation and mocking shallow impressions. 

Wrapped in Red


Choreographer/ Director:  
Ross Daniel
Dancers:
Ross Daniel
Costume Designers: 
 Ross Daniel 
Music Composer and Editor: David Dingess & Ross Daniel
Music: The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You're Going to Have to Leave Now, or, 'I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight Them Until They Are Off Our Lands​!​' By: Sufjan Stevens


“Wrapped in Red” is a visual art exhibition of 5 small sculptures that inform an 8-minute dance. “Wrapped in Red” is a physically abstract explanation of my “beingness” as organism, as human, as cisgender white man, exploiting passionate weaknesses and exhaustion as a catalyst for human connection. I build sculptures to uncover specificity in themes within my dance making. These small sculptures are psychosomatically uncovering thematic objectives that I want my art to portray. The performance of “Wrapped in Red” is created by accumulating responses from the sculpture’s physical structure, mood, and form.
 I explore these prompts through dance improvisation resulting in the conception of set phrase material. This research can share another unique perspective that offers clarity to the through-line within the creation and execution of dance performance.
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Infinite K 

Choreographer/ Director:  
Ross Daniel
Dancers:
Alex Lance
Mary Catherine Womack
Ross Daniel
Sarah Rose
Rehearsal Assistant: 
Kayla McClellan
Mentor: 
Gwen Welliver
Costume Designers: 
Currie Leggoe and Ross Daniel 
Set Designer: 
Ross Daniel 
Lighting Designer: 
J. Russell Sandifer 
Music: Infinite K
Music Composer and Editor Ross Daniel
Music: Bad Trails
Composer and Performer Battles 
Music: Parlez-moi de lui
Composer: Dieval and Stillman
Performer Françoise Hardy

In Partial Fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts Degree in Dance
at Florida State University 
Infinite K is (A-frame vs. Human Form) & (Structure vs. Emotion.) Daniel investigated these four words through movement improvisations in relation to an improvisational sculpture building practice. Infinite K is a 21-minute work in which the composition and decomposition of physical and sculptural structures take place throughout the duration of the work. The performers manipulate flat, transparent rectangles (7.6 feet in height and 3.6 feet in width) to create sculptures that are in direct contrast to the size and structure of the human body, blurring the lines between monumental structure and the human form. The phrase material was created from multiple sessions of improvisational sculpture building. These sculptures where built within 30-minute intervals, and are made of small pieces of wood and glue.
 
Ross Daniel has been in process with this work has been since November 2015. It has been a rewarding test of intention, when creating art. Daniel has found clarity in his choreographic research in conjunction with visual art as well as his choreographic practice in relationship to his teaching practice. This progression could not have been possible without the mentorship of Gwen Welliver, along side the support and trust of the dancers you will see perform in Infinite K; Alexandra Lance, Mary Catherine Womack, and Sarah Rose. 

Say Polite 5X Fast 

Dancers:
Madison Fitzgibbons
Elizabeth Homick
Forrest Hershey
Alex Lance

Choreographer:
Ross Daniel

Music Composer
David Dingess

Sound Credits
Death of a Salesman 
Original Sound Score

Sound Editor 
Ross Daniel

Video Editor
Ross Daniel

Documintation
FSU School of Dance
This is the product of 2 years of research on the play "Death of a Salesman." The concept has changed many different times but it remains the constant of a distorted civil reality. Don't memorize the unrealistic rather find support in self.

t7ib

Dancers:
Sara Ramsey
Jacqueline Cannon
Olivia Allen 
Savannah Lee Sickmon 
Caroline Labreche 
Ansley Coots 

Alex Lance

Choreographer:
Ross Daniel

Costumes:
Ross Daniel 

Lighting: 
J. Russell Sandifer

​Set Design: 
Ross Daniel 

Sound Credits
Flowers Grow Out of my Grave 
Composed by Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields.
Performed by The Silver Lake Conservatory of Music Children's Choir 
No Me
Composed by David Dingess

Sound Editor 
Ross Daniel

Video Editor
FSU School of Dance Documentation 

Documintation
FSU School of Dance
t7ib consisted of movement experiments directly inspired by limbo or "in-between." This dance is an abstraction of life and death that showcases a primal objective that shifts from one moment to another. The main ideas where to create dance phrases that had no start, and fell underneath a definitive end.  
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