Dancing Wheels Repertory

Dancing Wheels Company dancers performing a piece from its diverse repertoire

A Broad Range of Emotions

Above (1991)

Choreographer: Daniel Job
Duration: 8 minutes
Music: Samuel Barber

Alice in Wonderland…Like It’s Never Been Seen Before! (2007)

Choreographer: Robert Wesner
Duration: 40 minutes
Music: Thievery Corporation

Anømalies (2012)

Choreographer: Mark Tomasic
Duration: 19 minutes
Music: Aphex Twin, David Karagianis, Polygon Window

A Wing/A Prayer (2004)

Choreographer: Mark Tomasic
Duration: 12 minutes
Music: Afro Celt Sound System

Babes in Toyland (2014)

Choreographer: Catherine Meredith
Duration: 50 minutes
Music: Victor Herbert, George Bruns, and Mel Leven, Gypsy Flamenco Masters

Big Trucks and Leverage (2008)

Choreographer: Stuart Pimsler
Duration: 23 minutes
Music: Benni Hemm Hemm/Text Recordings

Bonds of Action (2022)

Choreographer: Cody Krause & Dancers
Duration: 5 minutes
Music: Mr Untel

Chicken Lips (1994)

Choreographer: Sabatino Verlezza
Duration: 2 minutes
Music: Bruce Springsteen

CHOICE and consequences (2021)

Choreographer: Keith Young
Duration: 10 minutes
Music: Marvin Gaye and Pharrell Williams. Music arrangement created and sung by Craig Sams III aka Lil Craig of 2Reel

Clamor (2015)

Choreographer:  Sarah Swenson
Duration:  12 minutes
Music:  Original score by Alessandro Girasoli

Common Cause (2009)

Choreographer: Sara Whale
Duration: 5 minutes
Music: Sound Collage – Autechre, Matmos, David Hudson, Kate Bush

Concerto DW (2012)

Choreographer: Mark Tomasic
Duration: 12 minutes
Music: Antonio Vivaldi

Dancing On A Dream (2011)

Choreographer: Dianne McIntyre
Duration: 54 minutes
Music: Diane Tusek, Steven Mark Kohn, Eurythmics, Laszio Gardony, Whitney Houston, Earth Wind & Fire, Devo, Eddy Grant, Paula Abdul, Atlantic Starr, Lionel Richie, Aerosmith, Gloria Gaynor

Daring to Be DUMBO! (2013)

Choreographer: David Rousseve
Duration: 45 minutes
Music: Produced and Recorded by:  Chagrin Studio Orchestra; Stephen A. Eva, Musical Director

Dissolution of… (2013)

Choreographer: Catherine Meredith Lambert
Duration: 18 minutes
Music: Max Richter and Ólafur Arnalds

Echoes of an Angel’s Fall (2006)

Choreographer: Rebecca Anderson Darling, Pilobolus
Duration: 23 minutes
Music: Moby, Penguin Café Orchestra, Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, Isan

Egress (1993)

Choreographer: Sabatino Verlezza
Duration: 10 minutes
Music: Mike Oldfield, Ludwig van Beethoven

El alba (2021)

Choreographer: Alice Blumenfeld
Duration: 10 minutes
Music: Jorge Pardo, Nicolas Saez Flamenco, Duquende, Gerardo Núñez

An Ella Encounter (2023)

Choreographer: Laura Ann Smyth in collaboration with the dancers
Duration: 16 minutes
Music: Ella Fitzgerald

Extreme (2007)

Choreographer: Isaah Henderson
Duration: 4 minutes
Music: NOFX

Far East of the Blues (2010)

Choreographer:  Donald McKayle
Duration: 13 minutes
Music:  Duke Ellington

Firefly (2009)

Choreographer: Hoang Ngoc Dang (Mac)
Duration: 8 minutes
Music: Twelve Girls Band

Five by Nina

Choreographer: Catherine Meredith
Duration: 20 minutes
Music: Nina Simone

Fly (1998)

Choreographer: Keith Young
Duration: 10 minutes
Music: R. Kelly

Giggling Flame and Roaring Waves (excerpt) (2016)

Choreographer: Antoine Hunter
Duration: 16 minutes
Music: Roy Hargrove, Miles Davis

Going Up (2015)

Choreographer: Mark Tomasic
Duration: 25 minutes
Music: Antônio Carlos Jobim, Judson Mohawke, Giacomo Puccini, Sherman Brothers

Gypsy (1991)

Choreographer: Todd Goodman
Duration: 10 minutes
Music: Gipsy Kings and Alebenez

Half the Fun (2010)

Choreographer: Robert Wesner
Duration: 20 minutes
Music:  Duke Ellington

Helen Keller: A Tribute to Her Teacher (2007)

Choreographer: Christopher Flemming
Duration: 30 minutes
Music: Gabrielle Tesfa Guma, Vivaldi, Bilk, Millin, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky

Happy Feet (2022)

Choreographer: Kimberly Ocampo
Duration: 3 minutes
Music: Boogaloo Assassins

The Haze of Connection (2019)

Choreographer: Cody Krause
Duration: 4 minutes
Music: Michael Giacchino

Home or Home Home? (2022)

Choreographer: Celina Naima Speck
Duration: 5 minutes
Music: Kate Speck

Icarus (2003)

Choreographer: Sabatino Verlezza
Duration: 20 minutes
Music: Alessandra Belloni, John La Barbera

IF (excerpt) (2012)

Choreographer: Heidi Latsky
Duration: 20 minutes
Music: Randall Woolf and Stan Strickland

If You Believe (2014)

Choreographer: Ted Thomas
Duration: 12 minutes
Music: R.E.M.

Imagine, if you will… (2017)

Choreographer: David Dorfman
Duration: 14 minutes
Music: Wovenhand,  Liz de Lise, Omar Souleyman

Imposter! (2019)

Choreographer: Marissa Thomas
Duration: 5 minutes
Music: Ritchie Valentine and Aphex Twin with voice and text by Marissa Thomas

Incommunicado (2015)

Choreographer: Catherine Meredith
Duration: 11 minutes
Music: Global Communication

In Passing (2004)

Choreographer: Rosalind Newman
Duration: 8 minutes
Music: Arvo Part

In-Flux (2019)

Choreographer: Morgan Walker
Duration: 3 minutes
Music: Tim Hecker

Integrated (2022)

Choreographer: Sara Lawrence-Sucato
Duration: 5 minutes
Music: Caetano Veloso and Lila Downs

Interlude (2015)

Choreographer: Heidi Latsky
Duration: 8 minutes
Music: Written by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Yip Harburg, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” sung by Judy Garland

In the Square (2022)

Choreographer: Matthew Bowman & Morgan Walker
Duration: 4 minutes
Music: Anne Müller

Just Being (2003)

Choreographer: Bethany Prater
Duration: 5 minutes
Music: Isaac Albenez

Koto Vivaldi Trio, Duet, and Quintet (1995)

Choreographer: Sabatino Verlezza
Duration: 15 minutes
Music: Antonio Vivaldi

Labyrinth: A Tribute (2016)

Choreographer: Dezaré Foster
Duration: 45 minutes
Music: David Bowie, Trevor Jones & Javier Navarrete

La Vie en Rose (2009)

Choreographer: Mark Tomasic
Duration: 5 minutes
Music: Cyndi Lauper

Legacy (2012)

Choreographer: Terence Greene
Duration: 30 minutes
Music: Samuel Barber, Uakti, Rene Aubry, John Gentry

Let the Good Times Roll (2014)

Choreographer: Ginger Cox
Duration: 10 minutes
Music: Ray Charles

Lightfall (2015)

Choreographer: Robert Wesner
Duration: 23 minutes
Music: Stephen Melillo

Magic in the Air for Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) (2022)

Choreographer: Catherine Krakowiecki
Duration: 2 minutes
Music: Robert Cristian

Malindy Sings! (2023)

Choreographer: Staycee Pearl
Duration: 6 minutes
Music: Abbey Lincoln, Soy Sos Extended Ensemble featuring Anqwenique Kinsel

Marrow (2022)

Choreographer: Morgan Walker
Duration: 5 minutes
Music: Kangding Ray and Anna Caragnano and Donato Dozzy

MayRing Trio, Duet, and Sextet (1995)

Choreographer: Sabatino Verlezza
Duration: 12 minutes
Music: Stewart-Lennox, Lennon-McCartney

The Meridian Gate (2019)

Choreographer: Matt Bowman
Duration: 7 minutes
Music: Above & Beyond

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2021)

Choreographer: Catherine Meredith
Duration: 60 minutes
Music: Felix Mendelssohn

Missing You (2009)

Choreographer: Peter Kalivas
Duration: 6 minutes
Music: Consuelo Velázquez

Mortal Flesh Lullaby (2022)

Choreographer: Mark Tomasic in collaboration with the dancers
Duration: 15 minutes
Music: Traditional Ukrainian folk songs arranged by Nadia Tarnawksy and performed by Nadia Tarnawsky, Allison Munroe, and Brian Kay

Neither Lost Nor Found (2017)

Choreographer: James Morrow
Duration: 12 minutes
Music: Real Quiet, Eryka Badu, Låpsley

Od:yssey (2019)

Choreographer: Marc Brew
Duration: 16 minutes
Music: Òlafur Amalds

Pallas Athena (2017)

Choreographer: Catherine Meredith
Duration: 7 minutes
Music: David Bowie

Partial Timeline (2021)

Choreographer: Cody Krause
Duration: 5 minutes
Music: Amanda Bray

perception (2022)

Choreographer: McKenzie Beaverson
Duration: 8 minutes
Music: Zoë Keating

Pinocchio! (2010)

Choreographer: Ginger Thatcher
Duration: 57 minutes
Music: John Adams, Gustav Holst, Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Promise Her Anything (2004)

Choreographer: Hernando Cortez
Duration: 12 minutes
Music: Burt Bacharach

Proof (2023)

Choreographer: Mark Tomasic
Duration: 16 minutes
Music: Alexander Balanescu/Balanescu Quartet and Max Richter

The Quest for Equality (2015)

Choreographer: Dianne McIntyre and David Roussève
Duration: 20 minutes
Music: Steven Tyler and David Roussève

Ride the Vibe (2021)

Choreographer: Bryant Henderson Shea
Duration: 11 minutes
Music: Mount Liberation Unlimited, Made in M, Skrillex/Poo Bear. Edited and composed by Bryant Henderson Shea

Sat Sang (2004)

Choreographer: Tom Evert
Duration: 8 minutes
Music: Philip Glass, Ravi Shankar, Mychael Danna

Save the World (2014)

Choreographers: Vanessa Martínez de Baños and Ashley Carter
Duration: 4 minutes
Music: Madonna

Six by Nina (2019, revised 2023)

Choreographer: Catherine Meredith
Duration: 25 minutes
Music: Nina Simone

The Snowman (2000)

Choreographer: Sabatino Verlezza
Duration: 60 minutes
Music: Howard Blake

Songs My Mother Taught Me (2011)

Choreographer: Michael Uthoff
Duration: 15 minutes
Music: Leo Delibes, Antonin Dvorak, Carl Orff, and Giacommo Puccini

Stares Upon Stairs (2019)

Choreographer: Sara Lawrence-Sucato
Duration: 6 minutes
Music: Elliot Goldenthal and Dustin O’Halloran

State of Mine/Mind (2005)

Choreographer: Young Park
Duration: 18 minutes
Music: Various Artists

Steppin’ Out (1984)

Choreographer: David Brewster and Mary Verdi-Fletcher
Duration: 4 minutes
Music: Irving Berlin; Fred Astaire

Straight Down the Middle (2013)

Choreographer: Michael Uthoff
Duration: 15 minutes
Music: Alice Cooper

Sweet Radio Radicals (2008)

Choreographer: Dianne McIntyre
Duration: 18 minute
Music: The Carter Family, Mahalia Jackson, Etta James, Dolly Parton, Janis Joplin, Gladys Knight

Sweet Tina (2013)

Choreographer: Daniel ‘Isaah’ Henderson
Duration: 15 minutes
Music: Ike and Tina Turner

Take the “A” Train (1998)

Choreographer: Sabatino Verlezza
Duration: 6 minutes
Music: Duke Ellington

The Temptation Suite (2014)

Choreographer: Shawn Rawls
Duration: 12 minutes
Music: The Temptations

Tenderfella (2009)

Choreographer: Keith Young
Duration: 13 minutes
Music: Dan Gibson, Justin Timberlake, K C and the Sunshine Band, Eric Satie, The Police, Christina Aguilera

the tenderness of things lost and found (2019)

Choreographer: Laurel Lawson
Duration: 16 minutes
Music: Sergei Prokofiev, Byrdi, Zoe Keating, Emmylou Harris

These Are The Days (2017)

Choreographer: Beth Corning
Duration: 10 minutes
Music: David Bowie, Philip Glass edited by Herman Pearl

This Day (2022)

Choreographer: Donald Byrd in collaboration with the dancers
Duration: 25 minutes
Music: Max Richter

Three 4 Ann (2022)

Choreographer: Mark Tomasic in collaboration with original cast (Santa Monica College)

Duration: 12 minutes
Music: Guy Wood and Sam-my Gallop, performed by June Christy; Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers, performed by Dean Martin; Arnett Cobb performed by Ella Fitzgerald; additional soundscore by Ann Tomasic and friends

Time Spent (2004)

Choreographer: Michael Metcalf
Duration: 15 minutes
Music: “Scent of a Woman” soundtrack

Trust (2022)

Choreographer: Brian Murphy
Duration: 17 minutes
Music: Diskret, Max Cooper, Be Lukas Boysen, Phil France

Unconquered Warriors (2008)

Choreographer: Nai Ni Chen
Duration: 15 minutes
Music: Glen Velez

Untitled (2004)

Choreographer: Homer Avila (his last work)
Duration: 10 minutes
Music: Street Sounds, Kruder Dorfmeister, The K & D Sessions

Walking on Clouds (2006)

Choreographer: David Rousseve
Duration: 45 minutes
Music: Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, The Kinks and others

Walls of Glass (2009)

Choreographer: Lisa K. Lock
Duration: 16 minutes
Music: Gustav Mahler