Ceremonial Cannon
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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. |
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Wrapped in Red
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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. |
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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.
Infinite K
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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 |
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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.
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
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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 |
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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
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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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