SOLOWORKS Rise (2011) 24 minutes choreography/performance: Mare Hieronimus original soundscore: Derek Morton SPUN (2010) 13 minutes choreography/performance Maré Hieronimus soundscore Hildegard von Bingen and other found sound sleepwalking/wind picking up (2009) 10-25 minutes choreography/performer Maré Hieronimus soundscore Maré Hieronimus, music by Brian Eno solo work inspired by the origins of the folk-tale Sleeping Beauty and what it is to wake up after a hundred-year sleep, along side ominous premonitions of the future. youth was... (topiary horses) (2008) 8 minutes choreography/performer/text/video/costume Maré Hieronimus soundscore Brian Eno premiered September 27 @DUMBO Dance Festival, NYC solo offshoot of Topiary Horses Winters Passing (2007) 9 minutes choreography/performer/soundscore Maré Hieronimus premiered November 9 @Reverb Festival, NYC solo offshoot of TUNDRA spark/ridge/perch/till (2006) 16 minutes choreography Maré Hieronimus in collaboration with performers performers Maré Hieronimus, Sharon Mansur, Marcy Schlissel, Elyse Sparkes soundscore William Catanzaro and Maré Hieronimus video Kevin Doyle costume/prop Maré Hieronimus premiered August 3-5 @Solar One Festival, NYC an awakening: overlapping solos reveal both gradual and sudden shifts in the interior archetypal landscape of four diverse women. Specific objects are used that relate to the inner life of each performer, including a paper umbrella, a flashlight, a fisherman’s net, and a red wooden airplane. Through subtle manipulations of time, projected landscape imagery by Kevin Doyle appears and dissolves, creating a complex layering. till (2006) 20 minutes choreography/performer/costume/prop Maré Hieronimus soundscore Derek Morton premiered June 11 @Les Petit Versailles Gardens, NYC collaboration with electronic artist Derek Morton offshoot of spark/ridge/perch/till. dreamrunner (2005) 8 minutes choreography/performer/costume Maré Hieronimus soundscore William Catanzaro and Maré Hieronimus premiered October 15 @DUMBO Dance Festival, Brooklyn ethereal solo investigation of dreams and dream imagery, the dialogue between the conscious and subconscious mind. Set to a soundscrore by William Catanzaro and Maré Hieronimus, with guitar harmonics by Mark Sylvester. Inanna (2005) 23 minutes choreography/performer/soundscore Maré Hieronimus paintings Edna Emmet premiered January 27 @Villa Julie College Art Gallery, MD collaborative project with painter Edna Emmet based upon the Sumerian myth of Inanna, and the worlds first recorded love story. Hung in Space (2002) 11 minutes choreography/performer/costume Maré Hieronimus soundscore Oval premiered March 22-23 @Jack Guidone Theater, DC explores the multiplicity and paradoxical parts of the self through the embodiment of different characters and the “projection” of these characters out into pathways through space. DUET/GROUP topology (2012) current work in progress duet collaboration with Sharon Mansur Topiary Horses (2008) Duet, 22 minutes choreography Maré Hieronimus in collaboration with Tess Hartman performers Tess Hartman, Maré Hieronimus soundscore Maré Hieronimus text Maré Hieronimus video Derek Morton costume Tess Hartman, Maré Hieronimus premiered October 4-5 @Merce Cunningham Studio, NYC a magical realist dance drama, a journey into childhood wonderment and fantasy combining elements of dance, theater and projected poetic text written by Mare Hieronimus. Unfolds like an old-west mystery, with elements of a silent movie. TUNDRA (2007) Duet, 22 minutes choreography Maré Hieronimus performers Maré Hieronimus, Marcy Schlissel soundscore Maré Hieronimus text Maré Hieronimus video Derek Morton costume Olga Maidan premiered October 31 @ White Wave Rising Festival, DUMBO, NYC two women journey through an underworld, with projected manipulated Rorschach-like imagery by Derek Morton, and a soundscape including text written by Mare Hieronimus, inspired by old english poetry. sinuit and other corporeal episodes (2005) Quartet, 21 minutes choreography Maré Hieronimus performers Liz Filbrun, Megan Keil, Maré Hieronimus, Hannah Watkins soundscore William Catanzaro and Maré Hieronimus costume Maré Hieroniimus premiered April 14-16 @Sarah Lawrence College MFA Concert Bronxville, NY touch and the reaction of the nervous system to touch is explored through sensuality, violence, indifference and curiosity. Divided into three sections that layer and accumulate through density of material, performers, light and sound, each section is broken up by a dimly lit interlude. Set to a diverse soundscore by William Catanzaro and Maré Hieronimus that includes a vietnamese harp, the noise of a record skipping, and clanking change, the desire for, and the rejection of physical communion becomes a gateway into the investigation of individual and group dynamics. inevitability of bone attachment (2004) Duet, 9 minutes choreography Maré Hieronimus performers Milka Djordjevich, Lori Yuill soundscore Lucas Zarwell costume Maré Hieronimus premiered April 29-30 @Sarah Lawrence College MFA Concert Bronxville, NY in a southernly tinted landscape, two women map out the inner boundaries of their interdependent relationship. Swinging between extremes of slow motion and speed, small gesture and full body action, confinement of space and sweeping spacial pathway, they engage in an ongoing cycle. surfacing (2003) Quartet, 20 minutes choreography Maré Hieronimus performers Ellen Carol, Maré Hieronimus, Jane Jerardi, Serene Webber soundscore Lucas Zarwell and Maré Hieronimus video Maré Hieronimus costume/sculptures Maré Hieronimus premiered March 22-23 @ Jack Guidone Theater, DC ritual and meditative, four performers set the space over the course of 20 minutes by bringing 20 bone-like plaster sculptures into a grid-like formation, set to a rolling soundscore by Lucas Zarwell, with projected oceanic imagery. close (2003) duet, 12 minutes choreography Maré Hieronimus and Jane Jerardi performers Maré Hieronimus, Jane Jerardi soundscore Lucas Zarwell video Michael Wichita costume/prop Mare Hieronimus, Jane Jerardi premiered March 22-23 @ Jack Guidone Theater, DC collaboration with Jane Jerardi exploring themes of home, and place, destination and travel, set to an original score by Lucas Zarwell, with video animation by Michael Wichita. passing/meeting (2001) trio, 10 minutes choreography/performers/costume Nicole Bradley-Browning, Maré Hieronimus, Jane Jerardi premiered November @Joe’s Movement Emporium Mt. Rainer, MD collaboration with Jane Jerardi and Nicole Bradley-Browning exploring the literal and metaphorical space between two people as they come into contact. | photos of Topiary Horses and TUNDRA by Yi-Chun WU | | photos of spark/till by Angel Hess | | photos of Maré Hieronimus and Jane Jerardi by Michael Wichita | | site © Maré Hieronimus 2011 |