Choreography
The Tender Gravity of Kindness
7-minute work on 15 dancers
Choreography: Rachel Oliver Young
Premiered: November, 2023, at the Schomp Theater, Denver, CO
Lighting Designer: Stanley Reed and Keith W. Rice
Music: Olafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm, Trevor Hall, East Forest
In Truth It’s Just Begun
6-minute work on 17 dancers
Choreography: Rachel Oliver Young
Premiered: November, 2023, at the Schomp Theater, Denver, CO
Lighting Designer: Rowan Neilio
Music: Kerry Muzzey
Found From Within
5.5 minute group piece on 18 dancers
Choreography: Rachel Oliver Young
Premiered: November, 2022, at the Schomp Theater, Denver, CO
Costume Designer: Aubrey Klinger Fearns
Lighting Designer:
Music: Vladimir Kurumilian
Photography by: Neva Oliver
Meanwhile, the World Goes On
7.5-minute work on 16 dancers
Choreography: Rachel Oliver Young
Lighting Designer: Buck Beltzer and Keith W. Rice
Premiered: November, 2022, at the Schomp Theater, Denver, CO
Selected for: the Gala Concert at the National High School Dance Festival, Byham Theatre, Point Park University, March (Pittsburgh, PA)
Music: Vladimir Kurumilian
Photography by: Neva Oliver
Conniptions
5-minute work on 16 dancers
Choreography: Rachel Oliver Young
Premiered: November, 2022, at the Schomp Theater, Denver, CO
Costume Designer: Aubrey Klinger Fearns
Lighting Designer: Keith W. Rice
Music: Rodrgio y Gabriela
Photography by: Neva Oliver
The Softer Side of Darkness
5-minute work on 19 dancers
Choreography: Rachel Oliver Young and Jennifer Howard
Premiered: November, 2021, at the Schomp Theater, Denver, CO
Costume Designer: Aubrey Klinger Fearns
Lighting Designer: Ryan Rosenberg
Music: Olafur Arnalds
Photography by: Neva Oliver
Interconnected
5-minute work on 19 dancers
Choreography: Rachel Oliver Young
Premiered: November, 2021, at the Schomp Theater, Denver, CO
Lighting Designer: Thomas Hutyra
Music: Ben Egger
Photography by: Neva Oliver
The In Between
Site-specific artist showing in collaboration with Joy French.
Artist Residency awarded through Open AIR - Artist-in-Residence at Travelers Rest State Park (Lolo, MT)
June, 2021
Photography by: Neva Oliver
Ache to Climb
10-minute site-specific work for 4 dancers.
Choreography: Rachel Oliver Young in collaboration with the dancers
Premiered: April, 2016
Commissioned by: All Over Westbeth in WestFest Dance, New York, NY
suds in the mouth, blue in the face
12-minute work on 8 dancers
Choreography: Rachel Oliver Young in collaboration with the dancers
Premiered: December, 2015 in Crossing Boundaries at Dixon Place, December, New York, NY
Music: Michael Wall
But in the dark you see only what glows
5-minute work- duet
Choreography: Rachel Oliver Young
Premiered: WV Wesleyan University, Fall 2014, Buckhannon, WV
Commissioned by: West Virginia Dance Company
Music: Paper Bird and readings of Diane Gilliam Fisher’s book Kettle Bottom
re-leafing
6-minute work
Choreography: Rachel Oliver Young
Premiered: April, 2014 as part of ACDFA North Central Region, Montana Theater,Missoula, MT
Music: Jesse Manno, text lecture by David Richo
Photography by: Heather Gray
Settle
45-minute work
Choreography: Rachel Oliver Young
Premiered: January, 2014, as Artist in Residence, ATLAS Center for Media, Arts and Performance (CMAP), Boulder, CO
Music: Jesse Manno
Photography by: Heather Gray
Commissioned and Restaged for new dancers: Bare Bait Dance Company
Sticks and stones
45-minute work on five dancers
Choreography: Rachel Oliver Young and Kate Speer
Premiered: August, 2012, Dairy East Theater, Boulder, CO
Music: Annie Lennox, Blondie, The Books, Iron & Wine, Kaki King, Sleep Whale
Photography by: Heather Gray