GERALD CASEL DANCE

Cover Your Mouth When You Smile (2018)
Choreography and performance by Gerald Casel. Peiling Kao, and Na-ye Kim
Original sound score performed live by Timothy Russell
Lighting design by Aron Altmark
Performed at ODC Theater, San Francisco, June 14, 2018

Taglish
Choreography by Gerald Casel
Performed by Gerald Casel and Suzette Sagisi
Live Sound Score by Tim Russell

'Taglish' (Tagalog/English) brings together Filipino and American elements in one space to represent what our bodies have been exposed to as dancers. Contending with the tensions between lineage, appropriation, bi-culturality, and representation, the dance asks whether it is possible to present the body adorned by and simultaneously devoid of its culture and history through performance.

This dance was inspired by and is a response to Trisha Brown's 'Locus'.

- Performed at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as part of Hope Mohr's Bridge Project: Ten Artists Respond to Locus, with inspiration from Trisha Brown

Splinters in Our Ankles (premiere, Dec 19, 2015)
ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA
Choreography by Gerald Casel, in collaboration with the performers
Performed by Arletta Anderson, Kristen Bell, Christina Briggs-Winslow, Rebecca Chaleff, Janet Collard, 
Peiling Kao, Kevin Lopez, and Parker Murphy
Original music performed live by Tim Russell
Lighting and media design by Jack Beuttler
Set design by Kate Edmunds
Costumes (part 2) by Ellen Howes

Choreography by Gerald Casel
Performed by Arletta Anderson, Gerald Casel, Rebecca Chaleff, Damara Vita Ganley, Peiling Kao, Molly Katzman, Steven Moses, Nicholas Stettenbenz
Live music by Tim Russell
Lighting and visual design by Jack Beuttler

Performed at Joe Goode Annex, Oct 17, 2014 in San Francisco