Videos

Big Sur Elephant

A video inspires a musician to compose an improvised score; the score inspires three overlapping improvised dance solos; and the audience sees all five perspectives. This excerpt shows just one of the dances.

Peter Chwazik, Rhonda Morton

Big Sur Improvisation

Here's the full Big Sur video and score. The video was created as a compilation of improvised movement on the beach at Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park on the Big Sur coastline in California.

Peter Chwazik, Rhonda Morton

Navy Dad, Air Drum, Sure is Windy

In this piece, there's One Rule: every time you move the chair, you become someone new.

Sean Lukasik, Rhonda Morton

Words You Love and the Places They Take Me (2008)

Words are contributed by the audience in secret before the performance, and when they are randomly called out, the performer goes wherever they take her.

Rhonda Morton

Sacrifice

A powerful theme invites an authentic performance.

Peter Chwazik, Sean Lukasik, Jaydn McCune, Rhonda Morton

Risking Reciprocity

In this playful Contact Improvisation dance of giving and receiving, two people ask, "Does trust come from me, from you, or from us?"

Sean Lukasik, Rhonda Morton

Connections

A soundscape is created from audience stories about deep connections, with students from Corning Community College.

Chelsea Bentley, Corey Hankinson, Sean Lukasik, Jaydn McCune, Rhonda Morton

Sleeplessness

At a "Living with Mental Illness" symposium, we asked the audience to give us words on that theme. An instrumental loop created in the moment provides the foundation.

Peter Chwazik, Jaydn McCune, Rhonda Morton

Propsibilities

Given props they've never seen before, and moving from circle to circle, two performers improvise scenes, sometimes in duets, sometimes in simultaneous solos.

Sean Lukasik, Rhonda Morton

The Dreamer

Excerpts from a 15-minute piece where one performer stays in all the time, two others enter and exit as they are moved, and an instrumentalist punctuates the piece with a soundscore. The audience called the theme: self-critics.

Peter Chwazik, Sean Lukasik, Jaydn McCune, Rhonda Morton

Gravity Training, Fishing, Dream Boat, Psycho Therapist

Another piece based on the One Rule: every time you move the chair, you become someone new.

Sean Lukasik, Rhonda Morton

Fu Manchu Snuggles

Two performers create an improvised shared monologue from the audience-supplied theme of "Snuggles." Can you tell who is leading and who is following at any given moment?

Jaydn McCune, Rhonda Morton

Kaleidoscope

A theme from the audience inspires a poet, a musician and two dancers. Anyone can start, anyone can end, anyone can lead, anyone can follow.

Peter Chwazik, Amelia Harnas, Jaydn McCune, Rhonda Morton

These Are the Same Bones

Five-minute open score solo -- just see what comes.

Rhonda Morton

Convergence I

Excerpts from the finale of "From the Space Between Us."

Peter Chwazik, Amelia Harnas, Lisa Laing, Jaydn McCune, Rhonda Morton, Stan Stewart

Convergence II

From the finale of "Swallowing Fire, Etc." with students from Corning Community College.

Chelsea Bentley, Peter Chwazik, Corey Hankinson, Sean Lukasik, Jaydn McCune, Rhonda Morton, Oribes Reis, Meghan Strang, Heather Thomas

Cooties

Another shared monologue, this one about the childhood "joy" of cooties.

Jaydn McCune, Rhonda Morton

Words You Love and the Places They Take Me (2005)

Words contributed by the audience in secret before the performance.

Rhonda Morton

Moving Possibilities

Back and forth for an hour, never moving the same way twice. Improvised music. Perplexed/intrigued audience. And a video compilation of three sidewalk performances and the poem that inspired it all.

Peter Chwazik, Rhonda Morton

Love Melting Fear

Audience-provided theme inspires us all and we inspire each other.

Peter Chwazik and Rhonda Morton with guest artists Ray Chung and Katarina Ericksson at Moment's Notice in Berkeley, CA.