choreography

A Conversation with Keyboard

Premiere: April 12, 2025

The Stissing Center for Arts & Culture in Pine Plains, NY 

Music: Domenico Cimarosa   Pianist:Matteo Mangialetti

Danced by Dance Then & Now - Diana Byer and Dancers 

Description: 2 dancers

*"Stephen Pier’s premiere of A Conversation with keyboard, featured Monica Lima and Kristina Shaw in elegant black dresses trading ballet phrases in rhythmic ebb and flow, and checking in with Matteo Mangialetti playing music by Domenico Cimarosa” the Ephemeralist by Susan Yung

 

 

Nine Episodes for Five Dancers

Premiere: July 6, 2024

Trentino Music Festival 

Music: Igor Stravinsky - Eight Orchestral Miniatures for 15 players

Danced by Trentino Music Festival Dance Studio Dancers

Description: 9 sections of solo, duet and group works

20 minutes

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Of Air and Light

Premiere: November 10,2022, The Millard Theatre, Hartford CT

Music: Caroline Shaw

Description: 9 Dancers ( 7 Women and 2 Men)

11 minutes

The Hartt School Dance Division

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The 9/11 Memorial Project - Collaboration project

Premiere: October 17,2021, The Gray Center, Hartford CT

Collaborative creation with members collaborative creation with members of the Hartt Brass Ensemble in the dedication of the new 9/11 Memorial Benches.

The Hartt School Dance Division

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The Peculiar Terror of Wonder

Premiere: 2019, Hartford CT

Music: Beethoven

Description: 4 Dancers

15 minutes

The Hartt School Dance Division

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The Others

Premiere: August 8,2018

Permanent Representative of Japan to the UN

Ambassador Bessho's Residence, NYC

Music: Miyavi (We are the others)

Arranged by Shiro Otake

Danced by Miki Orihara

Description: Solo

4 minutes

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The Poets II

Premiere: 2018  Hartford,CT

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Ballet Hartford

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The Poets

Premiere: 2018  Hartford,CT

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Touch

Premiere: 2018  Hartford,CT

Music:

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The Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts on Vernon Street

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Ceci N'est Pas Un Jouet (this is not a toy)

Gene Gort Project​

Music: Gene Koshinksi
Video: Gene Gort
Programming design: Gene Gort
Interactive programming: Timothy Lawless
Documention videography: Marc Hill

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Umi-e

Premiere: March 4, 2018  sheen center THE LORETO THEATER, NYC

Music: Hideaki Kuribayashi

Description:  Solo with Koto placed in the middle

9 minutes

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Handel Messiah
Premiere: December 8, 2017, Autorino Center for Performing Arts, Hartford CT
Music: Handel

Description: 13 dancers
Commissioned by  Vivid Ballet

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Babel
Premiere: November 27, 2017, Hartford CT
Music: Tooth and Nail by Missy Mazzoli
Video Design and Programming: Gene Gort
Violin: Jacob Dziubek
Costume: Ricky Lurie
Lighting Design: Nathan Sheuer
Video documentation: Cameo PhotoVideo

Description: 16 Dancers

11minutes

The Hartt School Dance Division

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On Your Toes
Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyric: Lorenz Hart
Description: November 2014, The Hartt School Production
The 1936 Rodgers and Hartt musical marked the first time a Broadway musical made dramatic use of classical dance and incorporated jazz into its score.
Stephen created all the Ballet elements including the first act "Princess Zenobia" ballet and co-choreographing the second act "On Your Toes" number

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Gestures
Premiere: April 17, 2014, Hartford CT
Music: Will Huebler, Erica Bryan, Andrew orris, Steven Serpa, Jessica Rugani, Adam Summerer, Ben Park, and Kurt Weil
Description: 12 women
12minutes
The Hartt School Dance Division and Facebook page to see the preview

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As If
Premiere: February 2013, Harpa Theater, Reykjavik, IS
Co-creation with Slingshot Kidō this interdisciplinary performance piece which had its premiere at Iceland’s Dark Music Days Festival

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Petrushka
Premiere: November 22, 2013, Hartford CT
Music: Igor Stravinsky
Description: 40 dancers including 3 principles 3 soloists
39 minutes
The Hartt School Dance Division and Facebook page to see the preview

Human Gesture Project
Premiere: July 25, 2013, Atlanta Ballet Summer Intensive
Music: Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weil, Erica Bryan, Will Huebler, Andrew Morris, Ben Park, Jessica Rugani, Steven Serpa, Adam Summerer
Description: 5 Women and 1 Man
7 minutes

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Rite of Spring
Premiere: June 2013, Bushnell Theater, Hartford, CT
Music: Igor Stravinsky
Description: 1 Man and 1 Woman
Commissioned by the Hartford Symphony Orchestra

At The Garden Wall
Premiere: November 16, 2012, Hartford CT
Music: Sergei Prokofiev
Description: 9 women
11 minutes
The Hartt School Dance Division and Facebook page to see the preview

Savage Beauty
Premiere: November 18, 2011, Hartford CT
Music: Somei Satoh
Description: 11 women and 4 men
14 minutes
The Hartt School Dance Division and Facebook page to see the preview

Shotorashion For Gagaku Ensemble and Dancers
Premiere: February 6, 2010, Fukushima, Japan
Music: Newly Composed by Sukeyasu Shiba
Solo
3 sections

Encryptions
Premiere: July 2009 at Atlanta, GA
Music: Robert Moran
Description: 6 women on point and 4 men
7 minutes

Nameless Garden
Premiere: July 5, 2008, at M-deux Ballet, Nagoya, Japan
Music: various
Description: 15 Dancers
25 minutes

Relics of Sand
Premiere: February 2008 at Summit Dance Ensemble, Minneapolis
Music: John Adams and Robert Moran
Description: 8 Dancers
9 minutes

Of All That
Premiere: December 2007 at St.Johnsbury Academy, VT
Music: George Gershwin
Description: Duet - man and woman.
4 minutes

Edge
Premiere: July 2007 Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Nilas Martins & Friends "Stars of Ballet" danced by Ask La Cour(NYCB), Megan LeCrone(NYCB), and Miki Orihara(MGDC)
Music: Elliot Carter, "8 Pieces for 4 Timpani"
Description: 3 sections for 3 dancers, man, woman barefoot and woman on pointe
Also duet version, man and woman on pointe
7 minutes

Puccini Project: Messa Di Gloria
Premiere: January 2007 at DiCappo Opera Theater, NYC. Commissioned by Nilas Martins Dance Company
Music: Giacomo Puccini, "Messa Di Gloria"
Description: 8 dancers and 30 singers on stage, orchestra in a pit
50 minutes

Two Celebrations in Three Parts
Premiere: December 2006 REVERB Festival in NYC, PierGroup Dance
Music: Graham Fitkin and Steve Martland
Costumes: Mitsuno Yoko
Description: 3 sections, solo, and 2 group sections, 10 dancers
14 minutes

Portal
Premiere: 2006 Juilliard Centennial Commission, danced by Abbey Roessner
Music: David Wallace, "Passacaglia" Original composition
Description: Woman's Solo on pointe
5 minutes

Se Come Voi
Premiere: April 2006, Nilas Martins Dance Company. Danced by Monique Meuniere
Music: Giacomo Puccini
Description: Woman's solo
4 minutes

Fireflies
Premiere: July 2005
Music: Andrew Levine, Original composition for piano, cello, and soprano
Description: Based on "Fireflies" by Rabindranath Tagore. 9 dancers
15 minutes

32 Cryptograms
Premiere: August 2005, the Juilliard Summer Program
Music: Robert Moran
Description: 10 dancers
9 minutes

Limon Suite
Premiere: August 2005, School of Hamburg Ballet, Germany
Music: J.S.Bach, "Suites for Cello"
Description: 17 dancers
6 minutes

Though My Wings...
Premiere: July 2005, Tottori Arts Festival, Japan. Danced by Miki Orihara(MGDC)
Music: Ingram Marchal and Philip Glass
Description: Solo
5 minutes

Brilliant Sky
Premiere: July 2004, Perry-Mansfield Summer Program
Music: Steve Martland
Description: 8 Women and 4 Men
10 minutes

Petrushka
Work in Progress---2003 Purchase Summer Dance Program, Burgos, Spain. 2004 Atlanta Ballet Pre-Professional Program
Music: Stravinsky
Description: 9 women on pointe and 3 men
23 minutes

Night Current
Premiere: May 2003, Purchase Dance Ensemble
Music: Gabriel Faure
Description: Woman's solo on pointe
4 minutes

One/Another
Premiere: July 2002, Perry-Mansfield Summer Program
Music: Mozart
Description: 14 dancers and lead couple
13 minutes

Under The Ice
Premiere: April 2001, The Ailey School
Music: Marin Marais and Sophia Gubaidulina
Description: Original version--5 Women and 1 Man;
Restaged
-14 dancers, the Juilliard Summer Program;
-3 soloists of Martha Graham Dance Company in Florida,Feb 16, 2002;
-7 dancers of the school of New National Theater, Tokyo, Feb 15, 2002;
-duet version September 2002
13 minutes

Call Not Waiting
Premiere: May 2001, Commissioned by the Juilliard Dance Ensemble, danced by Heidi Stoeckley
Music: Graham Fitkin
Description: Solo
3 minutes

Birds In Warped Time
Premiere: August 2000, the Juilliard Summer Program
Music: Somei Satoh
Description: 8-10 women on pointe, 3 men and Lead couple
11 minutes

Stranger Than Kansas
Premiere: 1999, the Juilliard Summer Program
Music: Robert Moran
Description: 8 Women and 3-5 Men
14 minutes

Comoedia
Premiere: 1999 NYC
Music: Paul Hindemith
Description: Men's duet
6 minutes

Triptych
Premiere: 1998, New Jersey Dance Theater Ensemble
Music: Paul Hindemith
Description: 13 women on pointe
Restaged 6 women, M-deux Ballet, Nagoya 2008
12 minutes

Louange
Premiere: 1998, the Juilliard Dance Ensemble
Music: Oliver Messiaen
Description: Women's duet
8 minutes

Hexology
Premiere: 1997, the Juilliard Summer Program
Music: Niel Le Large
Description: 12 Women on pointe
10 minutes

Mythical Beast
Premiere: 1995, Royal Danish Ballet
Music: Benjamin Koppel, original composition
Description: 2 Men and 2 boys
12 minutes

Duet for Solitary Figure
Premiere: 1994, Royal Danish Ballet
Music: Kim Helwig, original composition
Description: 1 dancer and 1 accordionist on stage
9 minutes

Doubletake
Premiere: 1994, Jackson Int. Ballet Competition

Danced by Johan Kobborg (Grand Prize)
Music: Antonin Dvorak
Description: Man's solo
3 and a half minutes

Hindemith Trio
Premiere: 1991, Royal Danish Ballet
Music: Paul Hindemith
Description: 2 Women on pointe and 1 Man
7 minutes

Blues for Lenny
Premiere: 1988, Hamburg Ballet
Music: Aaron Copland and Rzewski
Description: 3 Men and 1 Woman
12 minutes

 

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