COMPANY REPERTORY
PARALLEL LIVES
Premiere: 2018
Description: Inspired by poor and working women who’ve shared life-changing events, both beautiful and tragic.
Choreography: Gary Abbott
Original Music Composed by: Evangelos Spanos, based on La Folía
FORCES
Premiere: 2018
Description: Exploration of the spiritual influences on daily consciousness they are one..we are one... I in them and you in me- Elohiym (el-o-heem).
Choreography: Nicole Clarke-Springer
Music: Marcelo Zarvos
INDUMBA
Premiere: 2017
Description: In July 2017 South African choreographer Fana Tshabalala completed a three-week residency with Deeply Rooted Dance Theater to create an American-focused adaptation of his work INDUMBA, created to illuminate the perpetual impact of apartheid politics in his native South Africa. “Indumba” means African healing hut, and is a work of stirring resilience and reconciliation.
Choreography: Fana Tshabalala
Music: Nicolas Aphane
WHEN MEN…
Premiere: 2016
Description: Considers the idea of abandoning stigmas to strengthen from within.
Choreography: Joshua L. Ishmon
Narration: Charlie Chaplin
Music: "Iron Sky" by Paolo Nutini
UNTIL LAMBS BECOME LIONS
Premiere: 2014
Description: Reflections on healing.
Choreography: Nicole Clarke-Springer
Music: Nina Simone
WILD IS THE WIND
Premiere: 2013
Description: Intimate reflections
Choreography: Kevin Iega Jeff
Music: Nina Simone
BACH’D
Premiere: 2011
Description: Reflects the timeless grace, passion, power and rhythmic qualities of Johann Sebastian Bach's compositions.
Choreography: Gary Abbott
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach
THE MARCH
Premiere: 2007
Description: Reflections of America’s Civil Rights Era
Movement I: Bridge Over Troubled Waters (2014)
Premiere: 2014
Choreography: Kevin Iega Jeff
Music: Roberta Flack
Movement II: Adagio for Strings
Choreography: Kevin Iega Jeff & Gary Abbott
Music: Samuel Barber
HADIYA
Premiere: 2004
Choreography: Nicole Clarke-Springer
Music: Oliver Arnalds, Nasser Alqatami, Oliver Nelson, Dear Euphoria and Marcelo Zarvos
HEAVEN
Premiere: 2004
Description: Joy and humanity. Clarity and resolve.
Choreography: Kevin Iega Jeff and Gary Abbott
Music: Janice Pendarvis, Anthony Moten, and Raymond Jones
Music Reimagined in 2018 by: Sam Trump
THE DANCE WE DANCE SUITE
Premiere: 1998
Description: Company repertoire reflecting the soul's journey through human experience, introspection, self-discovery and acts of free will.
Choreographer: Kevin Iega Jeff & Gary Abbott
Text: Shonnese C.L. Coleman, Lee Aca Thomson performed with Karamu KushMusic: Circle Six
Music: Bobby McFerrin
SURRENDER
Premiere: 1997
Description: The trinity of spirit, mind and body.
Choreography: Kevin Iega Jeff
Music: Terrance Trent Darby and Hans Zimmer
JUST…MISS SADIE
Premiere: 1996
Description: A comedic, at times pathetic, journey of a woman trapped by her own vice
Choreography: Gary Abbott
Music: Ruth Brown, Linda Hopkins, Hound Dog Taylor and Jimmy Scott
RESONANT UNTRUTH
Premiere: 1996
Description: One man’s quest for self-discovery and healing
Choreography: Krystal Hall-Glass
Music: Sam Cooke and The Last Poets
DESIRE
Premiere: 1994
Description: Desire explores three types of attraction, love at first sight, love of physical beauty and young love. When the company dances together it depicts the primal urge of attraction felt by all.
Choreography: Gary Abbott
Music: Hans Zimmer, Geoff McCormack Simon Goldberg
EULOGY
Premiere: 1991
Description: ...cathartic memories
Choreography: Kevin Iega Jeff
Music: Bobby McFerrin
SOMEWHERE
Premiere: 1992
Description: A dance of longing, hopes and dreams.
An excerpt from “Sweet Ree”
Choreography: Gary Abbott
Music: Aretha Franklin
CHURCH OF NATIONS
Premiere: 1991
Description: Questions whether religious leaders give consent to war in the name of God?
Choreography: Kevin Iega Jeff
Music: Ennio Morricone and The Art Of Noise
NIA KEII, A GIFT OF LIFE
Premiere: 1982
Description: Natures element depicted in interpretive movement.
Choreography: Kevin Iega Jeff
Music: Joe Sample
IN A CHILD’S EYE
Premiere: 1985
Description: Strong colors, powerful emotions, passionate social views, finely etched in joyful, dynamic and soul-filled movement: these are some of the ingredients of In A Child’s Eye, a work that tells the story of a young girl’s dream journey to a flower community where she encounters a war between Good and Evil. Ultimately, Evil is destroyed, but resurrected as the community embraces the reality that Evil will always exist, and the need to co-exist with Evil is inevitable.
Choreography: Kevin Iega Jeff
Music: Charles Gross, Stevie Wonder and Gustav Holtz
FLACK
Premiere: 1984
Description: A Portrait of strife, despair and ultimate triumph.
Choreography: Kevin Iega Jeff
Music: Roberta Flack, Donny Hathaway and Quincy Jones
DEDICATION
Premiere: 1982
Description: An ancestral elder passes the legacy of life onto children of the new world.
Choreography: Kevin Iega Jeff
Music: Quincy Jones, Clause Ogerman, and Patti Austin
ESSENCE: PORTRAIT OF FOUR WOMEN
Premiere: 1972
Description: Shows the lives of four women of color intersecting on an emotional journey of self-actualization and sisterhood
Choreography: Martial Roumain
Music: Nina Simone, Zulema, Roberta Flack and Nikki Giovanni with the James Cleveland Choir