La Escalera and The Mud Angels with puppeteer and visual artist Luis Tentindo as part of Labapalooza! at St. Ann's Werehouse. Link to slide show

HER KIND: The Life and Poetry of Anne Sexton with playwright and actress Hannah Wolfe, was first performed in 2006 at the Bowery Poetry Club and Dixon Place in NYC and then again in 2007 at the NYC and San Francisco Fringe Festivals. The collaboration between playwright, Hannah Wolfe and choreographer, Laurel Dugan Tentindo, transports the audience from a modest classroom to the macabre, sensual world of the late poet, Anne Sexton.  HER KIND weaves film, contemporary dance, haunting character portrayals and the riveting work of one of the most popular and controversial 20th century American poets.  In the DVD clip Tentindo plays Elizabeth, Sexton’s alter ego, and moves to Sexton’s “Music Swims Back to Me” mixed by Daniel Mintseris, featuring music by Lindsay Rae Spurlock.

Bird Trilogy with dance theater artists Florence Peake (London) and Sally Dean (UK/Indonesia)
Prauge Fringe Festival 2005

Thirteen Kinds of Desire with Jazz singer Pamela Knowles

Mesh with dance maker Mare Heronimous

Monster Tag with Irish Musicians

MONSTER TAG, was performed at Danspace Project Presents Food for Though, curated by Irene Hultman at St. Mark’s Church, NYC in June of 2007.  The DVD includes an excerpt of the piece with choreography and performance by Laurel Dugan Tentindo, appearances by Pepper Fagan and Irish folk music by Louisa Bennion and Grainne Murphy.  Within the dance a graceful and ferocious monster, a dancer in a costume of fake fur, exists in a world of puppeteered props.  The Monster’s character transforms from contained, to wild, to releasing.

The Discovery of Slowness with Erik Kaiel

Nana (in Progress) My grandmother is a master story teller.  I have been recording her stream-of-consciousness monologues for years.  She talks endlessly about her childhood in the Depression Era, love and loss.  I will make a short movie in collaboration with a video artist which will be projected onto a large white, moving, screen (dancer).

My grandmother, Evelyn, is a master storyteller.  I have been recording her stream-of-consciousness monologues for years.  She talks endlessly about her childhood in the Depression Era, love, and loss.  I will make a short movie of Evelyn in collaboration with a video artist, which will be projected onto a large white, moving, screen (dancer).