June 14-15, 2024
The James & Martha Duffy Performance Space
Mark Morris Dance Center, Brooklyn, NY

konverjdans—celebrating its 8th year of creating and producing original new work in dance in collaboration with other artists—presents HYPHA. Featuring:

Three world premieres: ‘sky-shattered’ by Tiffany Mangulabnan, ‘Carve the Night Swells’ by Jordan Miller, 'Buried Giants’ (excerpt) by Amy Saunder; a new film, ‘I’m Fine, But Barely’ choreographed and directed by Miller with cinematography by Saunder; all new, original musical scores by Alexis Gideon and Bradley Harris; original costume design by Reshma Patel-Cline; original lighting design by Conor Mulligan; and performances from dancers Antuan Byers, JoVonna Parks,  Łukasz Zięba, and the konverj directors.

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Nov 16, 2023
Robert E. Cole Studio & Adjacent Lounge
Mark Morris Dance Center

Cocktails at 6:30pm in the adjacent lounge
Performance at 6:50pm
Party & Auction until 8:45pm

Showing new (or revisited) works choreographed by artistic directors Amy Saunder, Jordan Miller and Tiffany Mangulabnan, with original new scores composed by Alexis Gideon and Bradley Harris, and performances from dancers James Anthony, Antuan Byers and JoVonna Parks (along with the konverj directors).

August 26-27, 2022
Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn NY

”Kwento”, the Tagalog/Filipino word for "story", is the word we use when we ask one another to recount our day-to-day experiences. After two years of separation, and with many stories to tell, we return to the stage for our sixth season with three world premieres by artistic directors Amy Saunder, Jordan Miller and Tiffany Mangulabnan. Each new work tells different kinds of kwento, whether through narratives or vignettes - stories of friendship, love, loss, separation, and the ways in which we come back together.

We Tell Ourselves Stories
choreography by Amy Saunder; live music by Bandits on the Run

Don't Get Comfy / Nowhere
choreography by Tiffany Mangulabnan; live music by Carmen Q. Rothwell

We just seem to be here
choreography by Jordan Miller; new original score by Sergio Carrasco and Jake Handelman

DIGITAL PERFORMANCE PROGRAM

June 24, 2022
Robert E. Cole Studio + Terrace
Mark Morris Dance Center, Brooklyn, NY

Join us for the konverjdans benefit to support our summer 2022 season!

This evening will feature excerpts from new work by the three konverjdans artistic directors: Amy Saunder,Jordan Miller, and Tiffany Mangulabnan, with live music by Carmen Rothwell and a special guest performance by Gabrielle Lamb's Pigeonwing Dance.

Join us after the show for our cocktail party on the terrace and mingle with the artists - we’ll have wine, beer, hors d'oeuvres, and a silent auction!

Tickets start at $50 // Artist Tickets $30 (Limited Quantity)

Virtual/Livestream Attendees: Suggested Donation of $50

October 24, 2021
Dance Initiative, Carbondale, CO

Join us on Sunday, October 24, at 8pm EDT, for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look into our July 2021 choreographic residency in Carbondale, Colorado, where we worked with local artists like violinist MinTze Wu, poet Bianca Godina, dancer Katherine Bolaños and costume designer Katie Browne.

Also featuring solos choreographed by Gabrielle Lamb, Tiffany Mangulabnan, and Jordan Miller, performed by Katherine Bolaños, Jordan Miller, and Amy Saunder.

October 3, 2021
8:00PM EDT (on Zoom)

Join konverjdans and friends for the long-awaited release of Jordan Miller's dance film, Falling Dreams. Featuring dancing by Tiffany Mangulabnan, live from the Philippines, and a live musical performance by Sean Cronin.

July 26-August 7, 2021
Riverside Theatre
(Performances at 7:30pm on Friday & Saturday, August 6-7, 2021)

konverjdans returns to Vero Beach, FL, to co-host a two-week summer intensive at Ballet Vero Beach! We’ll be teaching master classes, choreographing new pieces for the students and ourselves to perform, as well as setting our ‘Realigned’ on the beautiful dancers of Ballet Vero Beach. We’ll also be performing Camilo Rodriguez’s ‘je, tu, il, elle,’ which he created in collaboration with us on our first trip to Vero Beach in 2018.

July 17, 2021
Basalt, CO

konverjdans heads over to Carbondale, CO, as guest artists in residency with Dance Initiative Carbondale. We’ll be creating and rehearsing at The Launchpad and collaborating with local artists—violinist MinTze Wu, poet/spoken-word artist Bianca Godina, and costume designer Katie Brown, and Aspen Santa Fe Ballet dancer Katherine Bolaños—to create a totally collaborative, multidisciplinary new work for the stage, which we’ll perform at the end of our stay!

Image still from film by Amy Saunder: Jordan Miller rehearsing Gabrielle Lamb’s ‘O, Solitude’ at The Launchpad in Carbondale, CO.

June 2, 2021
7:30pm EDT (on Zoom)

Join us for the premiere of four new dance films: ‘Viriditas’, choreographed and directed by Gabrielle Lamb; ‘Returning’, choreographed by Ariel Grossman and directed by konverjdans with Sergio Carrasco; ‘Windowsill’, choreographed and directed by Jordan Miller; and ‘Parecemos’, choreographed and directed by Tiffany Mangulabnan.

We’re also hosting a post-show talkback with the artists behind the films, to be moderated by Ballet Vero Beach artistic director Adam Schnell.

Dec 2, 2020
7:00pm EDT (on Zoom)

Join konverjdans and Sweet Megg as we converge on Zoom on Monday, December 7, 2020, at 7pm EST, for the premiere of ‘When I Learned to Sing’, a new dance film to the original music of Sweet Megg, with choreography by Caili Quan, direction and cinematography by Sergio Carrasco, and performances by Sweet Megg, Tiffany Mangulabnan, Jordan Miller and Amy Saunder; plus live musical and dance performances!

October 10, 2020 | 5:30pm EDT
Rooftop, 1184 Saint Marks Ave, Brooklyn, NY

$10 Suggested Donation. Seating is limited for social distancing, and masks are required. To RSVP and receive location & safety information, email konverjdans@gmail.com.

UPDATE: We are at full seating capacity (limited for social distancing)! But we invite you to join us virtually: tune in to our YouTube livestream through the button above.

For our second outdoor, socially-distanced show of the season, we’re hosting our first-ever rooftop performance in Brooklyn, featuring new pieces by Caili Quan, Gabrielle Lamb, and Tiffany Mangulabnan; live original music by Megg Farrell and Noé Socha; new films by Jordan Miller and Amy Saunder; a design collaboration with Frankie Bingxin Yu; and featuring dancers Antuan Byers and Peter Cheng!

September 21, 2020, 7:00pm EDT
Zoom Performance Link

We are so grateful to everyone who joined us for konverj on Zoom in September—our collaborating artists, supporters, friends and family: together you helped us raise $500 for Brown Girls Do Ballet. The funds have gone directly towards the Kennedy George and Ava Holloway Dance for Change Scholarship, a scholarship the organization awards to female dancers of color between the ages 6-16.

THANK YOU for joining us in the fight to keep dance alive through these trying times, and to make the art world a more beautifully colorful and diverse place.

Live Performances:
a new solo by Courtney Renee Cochran;
music by Megg Farrell; ‘Waking/Dreaming Space’ by Tiffany Mangulabnan; ‘Windowsill’ by Jordan Miller

Film Screenings:
the premiere of Amy Saunder’s new short dance film; Peter Cheng + Marie Lloyd Paspe’s ‘Lútalica | Wanderer’; Cortney Taylor Key + Tiffany Mangulabnan’s ‘HER PRIDE’

Nov 7-9, 2019 at Film Noir Cinema (122 Messerole Ave, Brooklyn, NY)

Nov 9, 2019 (Closing Night) at Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Ave, New York, NY)

konverjdans has been commissioned to choreographed the live piece, ‘Dragon’, for the premiere of ‘Odyssey’, the first feature film by Indelible Dance founder Robin Cantrell, with principal cinematography by Melissa Wu.

It’s the directorial film debut of our friend Robin, whose creative vision, whether on film or in person, astounds and inspires us year after year. Her film is going to be beautiful; some of the evening will be outright ridiculous and hilarious; much of it will be moving, and all of it will be rich and varied, as always. Don’t miss it.

Sept 24, 2019
8:30 & 10pm
Jalopy Tavern, Redhook, Brooklyn, NY

konverjdans performs with Sean Cronin’s Very Good for the release of Very Good’s new record, ‘Adulthood’. It’s an album release party that is going to be a kind of “analog version” of his band’s new album and, in his own words, “some kind of Dadaist Variety show featuring the full 9-piece band, actors Jon Froelick and David Skeist, and the dance company konverjdans.”

August 15, 2019 | 5:30pm
Under the DUMBO Archway

konverjdans performs as part of the DUMBO visual and performance art series Live Under the Archway. We’ll be collaborating with visual artist Priscilla Fusco and musician/composer/singer Sean Cronin to make some very bizarre magic under The Archway, which you can find on Water Street, between Adams Street and Anchorage Place, in DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY. We don’t think you want to miss this.

August 14, 2020
Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park, New York, NY

konverjdans was selected to perform Tiffany Mangulabnans’s ‘(Listening) Through Walls’ at the 38th Annual Battery Dance Festival at Robert F. Wagner Junior Park.

‘Walls’ was created in collaboration with pianist, composer and electronic musician Hank Mason. Performing the work are dances Peter Cheng, Blake Krapels, Tiffany Mangulabnan, Jordan Miller, Amy Saunder, and Łukasz Zięba.

May 31, 2019 at 7:30pm
June 1, 2019 at 7:30pm
The Mark O’Donnell Theater at The Actors Fund Arts Center
160 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn, NY
$20 general admission

UPDATE: BOTH NIGHTS ARE SOLD OUT!

Join us this spring 2019 as we celebrate our third season of dance-making and collaborating in New York. We will premiere three new choreographic works by Caili Quan, Amy Saunder and Tiffany Mangulabnan, which will feature the music of Likho Duo, Ian Chang and The Real Mike Wilson, and performances from the three artistic directors—Saunder, Mangulabnan, and Jordan Miller—dancers Peter Cheng, Courtney Key and Łukasz Ziéba, and musicians Christian Lee, Cliff Schmitt & Noé Socha.

April 29, 2019 at 6:00pm
Lighthouse BK
145 Borinquen Place, Brooklyn, NY 11211
$25 entrance + drink

Join konverjdans for Cocktails at Golden Hour: our spring 2019 fundraiser at the beautiful, open-aired Lighthouse in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Help us raise funds for our spring 2019 season, which culminates in our May 31 & June 1 performances (info below), and enjoy our konverjdans-customized cocktails, wine, and live music by the likes of Megg Farrell, Ernesto Villalobos, and other musical guests!

March 8, 2019
The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Contemporary ballet company konverjdans, visual artist Anton Vitkovskiy and percussionist Prana Rising come together for an evening of integrated live painting, dance and music at The Living Gallery in Brooklyn.

Gallery doors open & live painting begins at 6pm
Performance begins at 7:30pm
Tickets online or at the door: $12

November 7, 2018

With the endorsement of Wendy Whelan, konverjdans has been invited to spend a week in residency with Ballet Vero Beach. We will be creating a new ballet with ballet master and principal dancer Camilo A. Rodrigues and presenting this new piece along with konverjdans's own repertoire in a culminating performance on November 7th.

Performance Details
Where: Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, Florida
When: Wednesday, November 7th, 2018  @  7-9pm

TICKETS

October 20, 2018
Mark Morris Dance Center, Brooklyn, NY

Welcome us back from Fort Wayne, Indiana - and send us off to Vero Beach, Floria! We'll share the work we're taking on our fall tours (including two New York premieres - one each by konverjdans directors Jordan Miller and Tiffany Mangulabnan) as well as present the original choreography of fellow dancer and collaborator Peter Cheng . . . plus more to be announced!

When: Saturday, October 20th, 2018 @ 5:00pm (cocktail reception at 6pm)
Where: First Floor, Mark Morris Dance Center, Brooklyn, NY

TICKETS & more information

October 6-13, 2018
Fort Wayne, IN

konverjdans tours to co-director Jordan Miller's hometown of Fort Wayne, Indiana, for a week of master class and performances! Support the tour here.

Master Repertory Class at Fort Wayne Dance Collective:
October 8th @ 7:15-8:30pm

Performances at PPG ArtsLab:
October 12th & 13th @ 7:30pm
TICKETS
* Performances will feature collaborations with Fort Wayne musicians and visual artists Hope Arthur, Heather Miller, Kurt Roembke and Dalen Wuest, and an opening performance by Project Ballet