Moving Men or Telling Left from Right, commissioned by Dixon Place,is a repertory work for nine men, one woman and a roasted chicken. Using chicken as a metaphor for the male fear of intimacy, the work is a raucous and hilarious love duet.

Reasons for Moving, created for University of Michigan’s Power Center for the Arts, is a large group work for a large stage. Originally for 20 dancers, the highly athletic work includes film, partnering, and intricate architecture and timing.  It describes the connectedness of people to each other, their communities, their environment, and the world. Live or recorded original score by Daniel Bernard Roumaine for jazz ensemble and DJ.

Diet Coke Can Save Your Life, created through an NCCI grant at Montclair State University is a repertory work for 5-15 women. The work has been re-created on Alexandra Beller/Dances, Rhode Island College, and others with the help of Dance Space Center’s Artist in Residency Program. Using gestures drawn from mass media, Ball gowns made entirely of diet coke cans, and a sound score of infomercials and driving music, DCCSYL an examination America’s cultural obsession with physical perfection, especially in women.

Or Are You Just Happy To See Me? is an extremely physical and athletic women's quintet which addresses the function of desire and examines both the male and female role in sexual politics. Danced to a suite of songs by Tom Waits and text spoken and sung by the dancers, the work is a visceral and rugged tour de force. It has been set on Rhode Island College, and the University of South Florida among others.

Why Things Fall, commissioned by P.S. 122’s New Stuff Series, has been described as “an athletic, mercurial, dynamic dialogue with fate.” It is a quintet created in response to the events on September 11th, 2001. An abstract response, we investigate why things fall apart (buildings, relationships, egos, companies...) and what the social expectations are for comfort in the face of tragedy.  Set to an original collage score with slides by photographer Amy Upton, it is a physically arduous work requiring, as does recovery from grief, diligence, observation, and a willingness to fall. The work has been set on numerous companies and Universities in the United States and continues to garner critical acclaim.

Hold Your Breath/I’ll be Right There, created through an Evolving Arts commission, is a duet choreographed by Alexandra Beller and Colleen Thomas. Using an answering machine as a symptom of growing social hysteria, the work humorously deconstructs the ego’s methods for survival.

* This list reflects some works that can currently be set or performed. A full list of works choreographed can be found in Resume.