Post:ballet is a contemporary dance company based in the Bay Area dedicated to collaborating with multidisciplinary artists and bringing diverse communities together to create and experience "what's next" for ballet.
Post:ballet is a contemporary dance company based in the Bay Area dedicated to collaborating with multidisciplinary artists and bringing diverse communities together to create and experience "what's next" for ballet.
Post:ballet Festival Pitch Deck
Associate Artistic Director Moscelyne ParkeHarrison
moscelyne@postballet.org
Artistic Director Robin Dekkers
robin@postballet.org
Description: say i am you depicts a constructed world that gradually dissolves into a new reality. Through the dancers' individual movement identities, they create a world that breaks down over the course of three chapters. The piece delves into the psychology of the body in space and explores how this experience transcends the boundaries of a traditional proscenium stage.
Choreographer: Moscelyne ParkeHarrison in collaboration with Post:ballet
Music: HYbr:ID oval blackhole by alvo noto, Ay Çürüdü by Anadol 5 Lieder, Op. 41: No 1, Weigenlied by Richard Strauss, Klaus Tennstedt, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jessye Norman
Number of dancers: 8
Duration: 25 minutes
Set: 12x12 tube light square. The piece is hung and slowly raised throughout the piece.
Premiered March 2022 at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley.
say i am you
Description: A sleeper hit is a piece of art that becomes popular by surprise, or years after its release. sleeper hit! is based on the question: What does it feel like the day people see you?
Choreographer: Moscelyne ParkeHarrison
Music: Emotional Soundscapes No. 1 by Francesco Giomi. Khi-Tang by Tzusing. Lip Biter by Michael J. Blood, mixed by Jessy Lanza. 1994—11 Remix by Demokrator. Twilite by DJ Spookie, mixed by Jessy Lanza. Set mixed by Moscelyne ParkeHarrison and Alexander Sargent
Number of dancers: 9
Duration: 10 minutes
sleeper hit! was originally commissioned by The Juilliard Dance Department.
Premiered July 2024 at the Meredith Willson Theater, The Juilliard School, NYC.
sleeper hit!
Description: Inspired by the The Cassandra Complex, Magma is based on the ancient Greek myth of Cassandra, who was cursed with foretelling the future whilst no one believed her visions. The work follows nine characters navigating their relationship to truth, ignorance, and entropy.
Choreographer: Moscelyne ParkeHarrison with Post:ballet
Music: mixed by DJ.ari.b
Duration: 32 minutes
Number of dancers: 9
Set: Video projection, DJ booth if played live.
Premiered January 2024 at the Midway, SF.
Magma
About Post:ballet:
Post:ballet was founded in 2009 by Robin Dekkers, named “25 to Watch” by DANCE Magazine, with a vision to push the ballet envelope through innovative multidisciplinary collaborations. SF Chronicle noted that Post is “a company that not only lives dangerously- it thrives on it,” and SF Arts Monthly called Post’s productions “decidedly daring and always beautifully performed.”
Integrating classically-trained dancers with artists working in animation, architecture, new music, cinematography, fashion, and visual arts, Post’s collaborations range from intensely intimate to wildly conceptual.
The Post:community and audiences are as different from the traditional ballet audience as Post is from a traditional ballet company. 65% of Post:ballet audiences live in San Francisco or corresponding regions. 65% have a household income of $120,000+, and 80% are between the ages of 25 and 40.
The Post:ballet audience are an intersection of community leaders, style trendsetters, and technology executives who are at the forefront of Bay Area life.