Digital Collaborations
“… it’s refreshing to witness companies like Post:ballet adapt and create new paradigms for creating and performing. Audiences can experience their work in new, technologically and artistically inventive ways which push beyond the previously accepted bounds of what constitutes theatrical or immersive art.”
- Larissa Archer, 48hills
Director and Choreographer: Moscelyne ParkeHarrison
Cinematographer and Editor: Benjamin Tarquin
Vocalist: Tiffany Townsend Music: 5 Lieder, Op. 41: No 1, Wiegenlied by Richard Strauss
Costume Designer Áine Dorman Costumes constructed by Janethia Dorman and Áine Dorman
Performed and co-choreographed by Charmaine Butcher, Mia J. Chong, Landes Dixon, Colin Frederick, Emily Hansel, Caitlin Hicks, Zaria Jackson, Babatunji Johnson, Moscelyne ParkeHarrison, Benjamin Warner
Produced by Post:ballet Artistic Director Robin Dekkers, Associate Artistic Director Moscelyne ParkeHarrison
Executive Producers Lance Helper Stacey May
Special thanks to City Dance Studios, Berkeley Ballet Theater, Ali Griffin, and original cast members Crystaldawn Bell, and Jenna Marie.
Watch our collaborator spotlight on LA Opera Apprentice Tiffany Townsend.
Produced by Inner Child Productions in collaboration with Post:ballet
Director: Robin Dekkers
Cinematographer and Editor: Benjamin Tarquin
Composer and Musician: Daniel Berkman
Creative Producer: Bouchra Rachid Pinto
Choreography by Robin Dekkers with significant contributions from the performers
Performed by Crystaldawn Bell, Charmaine Butcher, Mia J. Chong, Cora Cliburn, Landes Dixon, Lexi Duff, Colin Frederick, Emily Hansel, Babatunji Johnson, Molly Levy, DeMarco Sleeper
Production Assistant: Joey LaBarge
Special thanks to Employees of Bay Area Rapid Transit, Berkeley Ballet Theater, and Ali Griffin
Producer- Inner Child Productions in collaboration with Post:ballet
Director and Choreographer- Robin Dekkers
Co-Director, Cinematographer, and Editor- Benjamin Tarquin
Music- ANNO: Four Seasons by Anna Meredith and Antonio Vivaldi (Summer)
Creative Producer- Bouchra Rachid
Costume and Makeup Design- Mia J. Chong
Dancers- Erik Debono, Colin Frederick, Emily Hansel, Caitlin Hicks, Jenna Marie, Moscelyne ParkeHarrison, Benjamin Warner, Adji Cissoko and Babatunji Johnson, Benjamin Freemantle
First Assistant Camera- Desmond O’Shea
Production Assistant- Joey LaBarge
Crew- Christian Bogeberg, Thomas Bowersox, Brent Miller, Brent Wirth
Special thanks to Berkeley Ballet Theater, Ali and Randy Griffin, Andy Meyerson, Kerry O’Toole, Bouchra Rachid and Nicolas Pinto, Christian Squires, 45 Third LLC, ABM Industry Groups LLC
Producers- The Living Earth Show and Post:ballet
Directors- Vanessa Thiessen, Benjamin Tarquin, Robin Dekkers
Composer- Samuel Adams, Musicians- Travis Andrews, Andy Meyerson
Choreographer- Vanessa Thiessen in collaboration with the dance artists
Cinematographer and Editor- Benjamin Tarquin
Costume Designer- Christian Squires, Makeup Artist and Production Assistant- Mia J. Chong, Costume Constructors- Jan Berletti, Christopher Dunn, Isabelle Burgess-Corkins Additional Aesthetic Contributions by Rashad Pridgen
Dancers- Charmaine Butcher, Mia J. Chong, Cora Cliburn, Landes Dixon, Emily Hansel, Caitlin Hicks, Babatunji Johnson, Colleen Loverde, Jenna Marie, Moscelyne ParkeHarrison, Anthony Pucci, Christian Squires The premiere of 'Lyra' was commissioned by San Francisco Performances
'Lyra' was filmed on the ancestral homeland of the Nisenan, Newe (Western Shoshone), Eastern Mono/Monache, and Numu (Northern Paiute) peoples, who are the Indigenous Peoples of these lands. This land was stolen from these people, who are still here and contributing to make the world a better place. Support justice on behalf of Indigenous People through the Native American Rights Fund at www.narf.org.
Dance of the Knights is the Post:ballet Season 12 Finale directed and choreographed by Robin Dekkers with cinematographer Benjamin Tarquin. Dance of the Knights combines the lush music of Prokofiev with dramatic storytelling in one of San Francisco's iconic hubs for travel.
Epic narrative comes to life in Lyra, an evening length co-production between Post:ballet and The Living Earth Show presented by SF Performances. The work features choreography by Vanessa Thiessen, cinematography by Ben Tarquin, direction by Robin Dekkers, costume design by Christian Squires, and an original score by Samuel Adams.
Post:ballet’s acclaimed short film, Swan Lake, features choreography by Robin Dekkers and cinematography/editing by Benjamin Tarquin.
A series of seven pieces performed by Post:ballet dancers with SF Symphony Associate Principal Second Violin Helen Kim, Playing Changes is an exploration of collaborative art during a time marked by isolation and uncertainty, and a celebration of the resilience and creativity of the Bay Area artistic community. All works were filmed at Oakland’s historic 16th Street Station and feature the choreography of Robin Dekkers, with cinematography and editing by Benjamin Tarquin.
Co-choreographed by Robin Dekkers and dance artist Emily Hansel, Eight Whiskus is an exploration of the space between. Set to music by John Cage (performed by violinist Helen Kim), this new short film by Reneff-Olson Productions was created at the AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
A duet that embodies the place where two powerful elements meet, La Folia features music by Danny Clay and choreography by Vanessa Thiessen, with costume design by Christian Squires and Christopher Dunn. On the Columbia River in Oregon, the dancers felt the ground catch falling leaves and listened to the river’s message. Here, where the earth’s terrestrial and aquatic realms join, we find a transitional place where separation, interaction, change, and uncertainty remain constant.
Post:ballet’s first (and last?!) holiday film, Waltz of the Snowflakes is co-directed by choreographer Robin Dekkers and cinematographer/editor Benjamin Tarquin and features Post:ballet dance artists alongside Studio Company dancers and alumni from our official school, Berkeley Ballet Theater. Filmed in Alameda, CA, the work celebrates the light and love that can be found in each of us.
Special Projects
Robin Dekkers’ Flutter was originally created for Post:ballet in 2010. The complex musicality, spatial shifts, and physicality in this dance for camera showcases the AXIS dancers' strengths as individuals and as a collective. "Flutter is a meditation on the relationship between masculinity and femininity, form and freedom, contraction and expansion." —Robin Dekkers. Produced by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Just weeks after the pandemic began in 2020 the Vita Brevis Club of San Francisco commissioned composer D. Riley Nicholson and Post:ballet creative artists Christian Squires and Robin Dekkers to create a new short film in quarantine. The resulting work, Without, was featured at the 2021 San Francisco Dance Film Festival.
Coming Home is produced by San Francisco Dance Film Festival (Co-Laboratory Film). Composer: Star Amerasu (“Space" by Ah-Mer-Ah-Su). Director: Marta Dymek. Choreographer: Robin Dekkers. Costume Designer: Christian Squires. Producers: Lindsay Gauthier and Kat Cole. Performers: Keon Saghari and Allie Papazian. Director of Photography: Tyler Cushing. Editor: Estafania Sequeira
Surface Up is co-produced by Post:ballet and The Living Earth Show. Composed by Samuel Adams (except from Lyra). Choreographed by Vanessa Thiessen. Director of Photography: Ben Tarquin. Costume Design by Rashad Pridgen. Creative Direction by Robin Dekkers. Performed by Andy Meyerson (The Living Earth Show) and Emily Hansel, Babatunji Johnson, and Moscelyne ParkeHarrison (Post:ballet). Assistant Cam: Javier Ochoa.
Tassel is co-produced by The Living Earth Show and Post:ballet. Composed by Anna Meredith. Choreography by Robin Dekkers. Directed by John Sanborn. Costume/Scenic Design by Christian Squires. Post:ballet Performers include Cora Cliburn, Rachel Coats, Aidan DeYoung, Caroline Langner, Jackie McConnell, Charles Martin, Gabriel Mata, Christian Squires, Vanessa Thiessen, Kar Will with Jan Berletti. The Living Earth Show Performers Travis Andrews (guitar) and Andy Meyerson (percussion). Makeup Art by Charles Martin and Christian Squires. Video Production by Video Free America (Skip Sweeney and Roger Jones). Camera Persons: Wes Middleton, Roger Jones, and John Sanborn