PROJECTS
Title TBD (current)
Mediums: Dance, Music, Sculpture
A work in progress with collaborators Matias Homar (musician/contraption creator) and Dominic Giambra (dancer) using a sculpture with motion sensors, called "the contraption," which creates sound through movement.
Nest (2022)
Medium: Dance Performance and Choreography
Co-choreographed by Michaela Neild, Melanie Aceto, Dominic Giambra, Sari Hoke, and Adalia Pemberton-Smith. Nest explores how materials affect and are affected by movement. This work was created under the direction of Melanie Aceto.
Untitled Improvisation #1 (2022)
Medium: Improvised Dance and Music Performance
This untitled improvised duet by Michaela Neild and Jacquie Sochacki-Pittman was selected to perform at the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio, and danced to the live performance of Jaryn Danz on violin. The duet explores motifs of reconnection after intense and prolonged isolation.
Phil (2022)
Medium: Nebuta Wire Sculpture
Phil, a 5-foot-tall rubber ducky was conceived during a two-week Nebuta wire sculpting workshop with Brooklyn-based artist George Ferrandi. Phil enjoys warm bathwater, worms, and sunshine.
Untitled Improvisation #2 (2022)
Medium: Improvised Dance and Music Performance
This untitled improvised duet by Michaela Neild and Dominic Giambra was performed at the 2022 Inaugural Summer Arts Festival at Alfred University in Alfred, New York, and danced to the live performance of "A Letter From Treetops" by multi-instrumentalist, Jesse Chandler.
Creating an Open System (2022)
Medium: Dance Performance and Choreography
Co-choreographed by Michaela Neild, Matias Homar, Melanie Aceto, Dominic Giambra, Sari Hoke, and Adalia Pemberton-Smith. Creating an Open System explores how materials affect and are affected by movement. This work was created under the direction of Melanie Aceto. Danced to live improvised performances by musicians Ben Zucker, Jesse Chandler, and Thelonius Garcia.
The "DTD" Project (2021-2022)
Mediums: Community Engaged, Interdisciplinary Arts Programming, Dance Performance and Intermedia.
The "Dancing Through Difficulty" project was a year-long research project offering online, integrated arts programming for aging adults. Participants engaged in weekly dance classes and monthly workshops in writing, music skills, painting, collage, and poetry. The project concluded with a collaborative, live performance over zoom.
Interdependent (2021)
Medium: Dance Film/ScreenDance
Interdependent by Michaela Neild is part of a series of short dance films/studies which explore the framework of Emergent Strategy, which creates large-scale growth in communities through small-scale growth. Specifically, Interdependent focuses on themes of relating, dependence, reliance, sustainability, and reciprocity. Danced by Mollie Wolf and Katie O' Loughlin.
Inside/Out (2021)
Medium: Improvised Dance and Music Performance
This site-specific ensemble piece danced by Michaela Neild, Yukina Sato, and Teddi Vargas and choreographed by Laura Neese was performed at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio as part of Neese's thesis research on embodied and experiential anatomy. Danced to Sarah Troeller on cello.
Dance Arcadia (2021)
Medium: Dance Film/ScreenDance
Dance Arcadia by Michaela Neild is a green screen adventure through Mario World... Enough Said. Danced by and made in collaboration with classmates of Mitchell Rose's 2021 Dance Film II course.
Blue (2021)
Medium: Dance Film/ScreenDance
Blue by Michaela Neild is a site-specific dance film exploring perspective and presence. This project was conceived, filmed, and edited within a 24-hour time period. Danced by Yildiz Guventurk.
Be The Street (2020)
Medium: Community Engaged, Arts Programming, Devised Dance & Theatre. The "Be The Street" Project was conceived and directed by Moriah Flagler as part of a Humanities and the Arts Discovery Theme Project at The Ohio State University. The project was dedicated to creating collaborative spaces with and for the community, offering weekly devised theatre and dance workshops.
Impetus (2020)
Medium: Dance Film/ScreenDance
Impetus by Michaela Neild and danced by KerryLyn Kercher is part of a series of short dance films/studies which explore the framework of Emergent Strategy. Specifically, Impetus analyzes the element of “intentional adaptation”—the process of willingly and intentionally changing in ways that align our daily actions with our larger values and beliefs. Impetus was nominated by the Ohio State University for the 2021 inaugural ACDA Screen Dance Festival and selected for the ACDA Festival Gala Concert.
Quarantine Daydreams (2020)
Medium: Dance Film/ScreenDance
Quarantine Daydreams by Michaela Neild and danced by Emily Craver is a short dance film inspired by Composition C (No. III with Red, Yellow, and Blue) by Piet Mondrian. Composition C was created in 1935 as a response to the war and is categorized as De Stijl or Neoplasticism in style. Inspired by the geometry, color, simplicity and linearity of Mondrian's original work, Quarantine Daydreams takes the viewer on a journey from the mundane, colorless, anxiety-driving repetition of a day-in-the-life of Covid out into a new world full of color, fresh air, and joyous movement.
Late Night Strata (2019)
Medium: Dance Performance and Choreography
Late Night Strata is an ensemble work choreographed by Eddie Taketa for the Ohio State University's "13 Dance Shorts" fall faculty concert. Choreography was developed in collaboration with the dancers.
The Blue (2019)
Medium: Immersive Dance Performance, Installation, Exhibit
In collaboration with Melanie Aceto Contemporary Dance, performance artist Hanae Utamura offers a meditation on Niagara Falls, narrated through the lens of the ancient Japanese Shinto religion and the Japanese postwar consciousness.
PastFuture/FuturePast (2019)
Medium: Site-Specific, Immersive, Interdisciplinary Performance, Community-Engaged Programming. Under the direction of Stanzi Vaubel, Indeterminacy Festival is an annual arts festival that explores indeterminacy. Michaela served as head choreographer for the festival in 2019, working separately with one group of college-age dancers, one group of refugee youth, and one group of adults with Parkinson’s Disease.
What A Joy It Will Always Be... (2018)
Medium: Dance Performance and Choreography
What A Joy It Will Always Be... by Michaela Neild was choreographed in dedication to Michaela's Mother, inspired by the lines, colors, shapes, and memories associated with her favorite photo, and titled after a line from a poem included in a birthday card saved for many years - "what a joy it will always be, to be your Mother." This work was selected to perform at the 2018 Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts in Buffalo, New York.
Balancing Act/What We Leave Behind (2018)
Medium: Dance Performance and Choreography
Presented by Anne Burnidge Dance, the performances “Balancing Act” and “What We Leave Behind,” merge art and science through choreographed dance sequences with yogurt, love songs about bacteria, and installations that range from microbe ball pits to mini-plots of grass and dirt. This work was presented at the Buffalo Museum of Science in Buffalo, New York.
It's Just a Phase (2018)
Medium: Dance and Live Music Performance
The 1960s were a time of social, political, and cultural unrest and this manifested itself in the art and music of the period. Complementing Albright-Knox’s exhibition "Giant Steps: Artists and the 1960s", the concert program features The Buffalo Chamber Players welcomes Anne Burnidge Dance, exploring the various musical trends of the 1960s.
