Washington Ensemble’s 10 year anniversary reSET: ALL STARS
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Dancers/Collaborators: Alyza DelPan-Monley, Aja Green, Akoiya Harris, Lorraine Lau, Marco Farroni Leonardo, Stefan Richmond
Sound: “Comfy in Nautica,” “I’m Not,” “Search for the Delicious” - Panda Bear’s Person Pitch
Text: “Lonely Wanderer” Panda Bear, “The Daughters of the Moon,” Italo Calvino
Referenced Works: “The Distance of the Moon,” “The Colorless,” “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino; Avocado Ibuprofen, “Anam Cara” John O’Donohue, “Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through” T. Fleischmann, “Pure Colour” Sheila Heiti, Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and Theory of Forms, many videos and imagery pulled from ig and pinterest, and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s recent discovery of lunar caves at the Sea of Tranquility
CHANNEL CHANGER
Financed by Bumbershoot to launch their inaugural Fashion District during the Bumbershoot Arts and Music Festival
Fashion Designer: Janelle Abbott
Choreography: Alyza DelPan-Monley
Sound Design: Keyes Wiley
Videography: Ripple Fang (Everything Time Studio)
Performers: Aja Green, Akoiya Harris, Ash Fetherbay, Alyza DelPAn-Monley, Hana Shiozaki, Lisa Kwak, Nia-Amina Minor, Prasti Dewi, Stefan Richmond, Tariq Mitri
September 2023, Seattle WA
Into The Deeps
created by DangerSwitch!
produced in association with Theatre Off Jackson
directed by Eddie DeHais and Alyza DelPan-Monley
Join DANGERSWITCH!, Seattle's wildest physical theatre ensemble, as they dive deep into the depths of the ocean. Merging dance, clown, and design with their special blend of macabre hilarity, this play will investigate political and socio-economic structures to create a hilarious, weird, and gut-wrenching spectacle.
GENERATING ENSEMBLE: Joe Cummings, Eddie DeHais, Liv Fauver, Lauren Linder, Jackie Miedema, Sabina Moe, Jordan Moeller, Carter Rodriguez, Nick Spencer, Jessica Stepka
DESIGN/PRODUCTION TEAM
Director - Eddie DeHais & Alyza DelPan-Monley
Stage Manager - Cassie Lorene Bray
Lighting Designer - Emily Leong
Costume Designer - Fantasia Rose
Makeup Designer - Nick Spencer
Sound Designer - Dana Amromin
Scenic/Props Designer - Eddie DeHais
Assistant Scenic Designer - Lenny Urbanowski
Fight Choreographer - Ryan Higgins and Table Flip
Behind This Door, Beside This Lamp
Seattle International Dance Festival, 2016
Raisbeck Hall
Dancers: Owen David, Alyza DelPan-Monley, Lorraine Lau, Alysha Shroff, Jan Trumbauer
Three parts obstacle course, two parts dancer board game, and a surprise cactus that showed up to burst your bubbles, this dance was an exploration of tangents, letting the next moment spill out from where we were to somewhere we sometimes didn’t know we were headed.
Produced by On the Boards as part of their new Solo Festival of Dance.
fall is a solo that I choreographed, which was performed three different nights, in three variations, by three different performers - Liv Fauver, Nabilah Ahmed and myself. This method explores how the form of a solo can exist in the content of the movement, but can also be embodied anew by different performers, similar to how a monologue or song maintains its form and yet completely transforms with a different soloist.
fall examines is a thought that never hits the ground, exploring the word fall. We are constantly falling. We spring forward and fall back. We fall asleep. We witness empires and markets fall into crisis or ruin. We sky-dive, in pursuit of the bliss of free-falling. Things fall into our hands. We fall in love. We fall short of expectations. Our jokes fall flat. Falling catches us at our moments of triumph and failure. In journeying through these different experiences, I hope to remind us that if not for falling, we might never fly.
This That & The Other - an evening of performances produced by Elby Brosch, Liz Houlton and Alyza DelPan-Monley
()elp is a joke without a punchline, spawning from an attempt to capture subjective experiences, weaving ideas into a tangle of attainable somethingness.
In the search for ways to express within limits of language, we find ourselves in a strange terrain, where each individual performs and externalized expression of words. To learn the language, one must converse with, play with and get to know the words personified. As you grow up, you begin to mold yourself into the word that best expresses what’s inside of you. On a rare occasion, a person may search for the word inside of them, and having never seen this word externalized, chooses to make a brand new word.
