Quicksilver Dance/Mariah Steele

Performed live
on Zoom Webinars
Nov 20 – 21, 2020

Choreography: Mariah Steele, in collaboration with the dancers
Original Music:
Yoshiko Arahata
Dancers:
Alexa Manalansan, Nicole Sao-Pedro Welch, Jenna Valez and Oona Wong Danders
Technical Design:
Hans Rinderknecht

Performed at
Spurrier Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
April 2019

Choreography: Mariah Steele, in collaboration with the dancers
Original Music:
Yoshiko Arahata
Text Editing: Mariah Steele
Dancers:
University of Rochester student dancers: Yara Izhiman, Rebecca Lawrence, Caitlin Quinn, Jingxuan Wang, Rongshen Wang, Oti Yonwuren

Performed at
Shawl Anderson Dance Center
Nov 17 – 19, 2017

Choreography: Mariah Steele
Music:
Arvo Part, Guy Klucevsek, Orange Mighty Trio, Kourosh Dini
Lighting Design:
Linda Baumgardner
Dancers:
Hannah Marks, Hannah McNany, Jenna Valez, Oona Wong-Danders

Performed at Quicksilver Dance's "The Memory Closet" at Temescal Arts Center
April 22 & 23, 2016

Choreography: Mariah Steele
Music:
Edvard Grieg
Dancers:
Kristen Bell,
Sarah Butler,
Karla Quintero and Hannah Vaughan

Performed at Quicksilver Dance's "Choose Your Own Mythology" at MIT's Simmons Hall
April 10 & 11, 2015

Choreography: Mariah Steele
Music composed, performed, and recorded by
Ryan Edwards
Dancers:
MaryRose Blandino, Grant Jacoby, Jennifer Roberts, Gabriela Silva and Jessica Smith

Performed at Quicksilver Dance's "Choose Your Own Mythology" at MIT's Simmons Hall
April 10 & 11, 2015

Choreography: Mariah Steele
Music: La Nef
Dancers:
MaryRose Blandino, Grant Jacoby, Marissa Molinar, Jennifer Roberts, Nicole Sao Pedro-Welch, Gabriela Silva and Jessica Smith

Performed at Quicksilver Dance's "Choose Your Own Mythology" at MIT's Simmons Hall
April 10 & 11, 2015

Choreography: Mariah Steele
Music: "Romanian Folk Dances,"
Béla Bartók
Dancers:
Hans Rinderknecht and Mariah Steele

Performed at the Festival St-Ambroise FRINGE de Montreal
June 15th, 2014

Choreography: Mariah Steele
Music composed, performed, and recorded by
Ryan Edwards
Dancers:
MaryRose Blandino, Lindsay Caddle LaPointe, Amy Caine, Grant Jacoby, Marissa Molinar, Nikki Sao Pedro-Welch, and Jessica Smith
Videography & Editing: Timothy Israel

Performed at Quicksilver Dance's "On the Threshold of Beginning" at MIT's Simmons Hall
April 18 & 19, 2014

Choreography: Mariah Steele, in collaboration with the dancers
Music composed, performed, and recorded by
Ryan Edwards
Dancers:
MaryRose Blandino, Lindsay Caddle LaPointe, Amy Caine, Grant Jacoby, Jennifer Roberts, Nikki Sao Pedro-Welch, and Jessica Smith

Performed at "IMAGES 2016" at Santa Clara University
Feb 4–7, 2016

Choreography: Mariah Steele
Music:
Rolf Lislevand Ensemble
Poems:
Pablo Neruda
Dancers:
Students of Santa Clara University

A dance-on-film, 2013

Choreography: Mariah Steele
Music:
Frank Sinatra
Dancers:
Hans Rinderknecht and Mariah Steele
Videography & Editing: Hans Rinderknecht

In loving memory of Joan and Richard Steele

Commissioned by: Francesca Galluccio-Steele and Phil Steele
Watch in high definition on Vimeo!

Performed at Quicksilver Dance's "Epoch Tales" Dance Residency Showcase at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts
November 16 & 17, 2012

Choreography: Mariah Steele
Music: Geinoh Yamashirogumi
Dancers:
Christina Aguirre, Naoko Brown,
Amy Caine, Whitney Hoke, Wayne Ong, Nicole Sao Pedro-Welch, Hans Rinderknecht, Mariah Steele

Performed at Quicksilver Dance's "Tempest in a Teacup" at MIT's Simmons Hall
April 20 & 21, 2012

Choreography, Text and Dancer: Mariah Steele
Poems by Tea Masters Sen Sotan and Buson

Performed at Quicksilver Dance's "Epoch Tales" Dance Residency Showcase at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts
November 16 & 17, 2012

Choreography: Mariah Steele
Music:
Manuel de Falla
Dancers: Christina Aguirre, Jackie Ball, Virginia Byron,
Amy Caine, Whitney Cover, Jeffrey Gugliotti, Whitney Hoke, Lauren Pajer, Hans Rinderknecht, Jennifer Roberts

Performed at Quicksilver Dance's "Tempest in a Teacup" at MIT's Simmons Hall
April 20 & 21, 2012

Choreography: Mariah Steele
Music: Simon & Garfunkel
Dancers: Amy Caine, Sarah Mae Gibbons, Magdalena Gyftopoulos, Cecilia Raassina and Katie Dunkel Zeek

Performed at Quicksilver Dance's "On The Threshold of Beginning" at MIT's Simmons Hall
April 18 & 19, 2014

Choreography: Mariah Steele
Video design: "Three Extrapolations of Perspective,"
Sarah Outhwaite
Music:
Hans Rinderknecht, mandolin

Recorded Dancers: Hans Rinderknecht & Mariah Steele
Live Dancer: Jennifer Roberts

Performed at Quicksilver Dance's "Rites of Passage" at MIT's Simmons Hall
April 20 & 21, 2013

Choreography, text, and video: Mariah Steele
Sound design: Hans Rinderknecht
Dancers:
Amy Caine, Jennifer Roberts, Nicole Sao Pedro-Welch

Performed at Quicksilver Dance's "On The Threshold of Beginning" at MIT's Simmons Hall
April 18 & 19, 2014

Choreography: Mariah Steele
Music: Aaron Jackson, "The Book of Wanting, Chapter I"
Dancers: Hans Rinderknecht and Mariah Steele

A dance-on-film, 2012

Choreography: Mariah Steele
Music:
Frank Sinatra, "All, Or Nothing At All"
Dancers:
Virginia Byron and Mariah Steele
Camera & Editing: Hans Rinderknecht

Commissioned by: Robert Boylan


Watch in high definition on Vimeo!

Performed at Quicksilver Dance's "Rites of Passage" at MIT's Simmons Hall
April 20 & 21, 2013

Music: Edgar Meyer, Bela Fleck, Mark Mitchell
Dancers: Hans Rinderknecht & Mariah Steele

Performed at Quicksilver Dance's "A Residential Scholar Event at MIT's Simmons Hall"
April 15, 2011

Choreography: Hans Rinderknecht
Music: Arthur Solari
Dancers: Hans Rinderknecht & Mariah Steele

Performed at SUNY Purchase' Dance Theater Lab As part of the Dance in Education Fund's "Afternoon of Choreography"
November 21, 2010

Music: Ravi Shankar
Dancers: Hans Rinderknecht & Mariah Steele

Performed at City Center Studios, NYC As part of "Dancing Away the Divide: A Performance to Benefit Girls Education in Central Asia"
June 12, 2008

Music: Steve Reich
Dancers: Kristen Arnold, Preston Burger, Hana Ginsburg, Kate Hirstein Mayefske, Meredith-Lynn Olivieri, Hans Rinderknecht & Jennie Scholick

Performed at SUNY Purchase' Dance Theater Lab As part of the Dance in Education Fund's "Afternoon of Choreography"
November 18, 2007

Music: Alan Hovhaness
Dancers: Hans Rinderknecht & Mariah Steele

Performed at Princeton University's Berlind Theater
April 1, 2006

Music: Jane Morgan & Georgia Gibb
Costume: Catherine Cann
Dancer: Mariah Steele