Choreography & Movement Direction

Choreography | Movement Direction | Consulting

Alicia Keys - One Night Only at the Apollo Theater

Creative Director: JAMES W MATAITIS BAILEY

Choreographer: EBONY WILLIAMS

Assistant Choreographer: MISHAY PETRONELLI

Aerial Consulting: AERIAL ACROBATIC ENTERTAINMENT

Aerial choreography & performance: KYLA ERNST-ALPEER & MEGAN HORNADAY

Photo: RAMON RIVAS

Estée Lauder Revitalizing Supreme ✨

Directed by Jacob Sutton, and starring Carolyn Murphy, Ana de Armas, and Adut Akech. I was aerial consultant, aerial casting director, aerial choreographer, and movement director.

Bloomingdale's Holiday Window Reveal 2017

Producer: ABCirque & Fox/The Greatest Showman

Client: Bloomingdale's

I choreographed an aerial fabric solo that I performed while sharing the stage with singer and actress Keala Settle.

collaboration with Giles Clement for his Dreams of Falling series

Being Flynn

Produced by Spring Street Social Society, “Being Flynn” was an enchanting promotional performance series, centered on the building’s namesake and bon vivant, Flynn – revealing a voyeuristic snapshot into his stylish apartment as he engages with an eclectic cast of neighbors, lovers, and friends.

I created the choreography for my character, "the Ballerina."

Lyra En Vega - collaboration with ballet choreographer Edgar Lee Peterson III

photo by Jaqlin Medlock

Wonderland - collaboration with Indelible Dance

Introspection

site-specific performance for a Tomo Mori art installation. photo by Galo Delgado

Raised By Robots from The Chicago Party

choreography in collaboration with the performers, Team Circus Duo

Photo by Andrew T Foster

#TweetDance + Readymade Cabaret

Readymade Cabaret uses Duchamp’s notions of chance and readymades to celebrate the beauty of chance encounters. The scenes that are performed, and the order in which they are performed, depend on the roll of the dice; so in any given performance, the audience sees 1 of a hundred million possible plays.

The Spring 2015 run of Readymade Cabaret was supported in part by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Conceived and Directed by Erin B. Mee

#TweetDances by Kyla Ernst-Alper

Text by Jessie Bear

Scenic/Art Design by Sam Silbiger

Stage Management by Sophia Cohen Smith

Whether it is a live show, a single spotlight act, a grand group number, or performance activations, my years in the industry have taught me how to entertain audiences of all sizes, at all types of events. I work as a director and coach with professional movement artists, vocalists, and with folks who are not professional movers. I choreograph or co-choreograph all of my aerial performances, and co-direct and co-choreograph my cabaret show The Underground Cabaret, in residence at The Slipper Room, with my collaborators Elizabeth Munn and Ivory Fox.

As an aerial and dance consultant for productions, I blend my 15+ years of digital production and post production experience with over 20 years as a professional performer, choreographer, and teacher. I am lucky to have long working relationships with some of the best riggers, performers, and dance and aerial-specific vendors and locations.

My work includes:

Director & choreographer, The Underground Cabaret, in residence at The Slipper Room
Specialty choreographer & performer, It’s A Ship Show on Virgin Voyages Valiant Lady
Choreographer & featured performer, Big Tiny and Touching music videos for composer Black Taffy
Co-Aerial Choreographer & featured performer for Pandora x SirisXm present Alicia Keys One Night Only concert at The Apollo Theater
Aerial Consultant, co-choreographer & featured performer for the immersive Off-Broadway production Midsummer: A Shakespearience from Variety Life Productions
Aerial choreographer & featured performer for The Ride x American Circus Theatre’s Eyes on New York
Aerial choreography, casting, consulting, and movement direction for Estée Lauder’s Supreme 2021 campaign, working with 3 professional aerialists and with Adut Akech, Ana de Armas, and Carolyn Murphy
Choreography & performance of an aerial solo for the Bloomingdale's Greatest Showman-themed holiday window reveal in front of their flagship store in NYC with ABCirque, performed live and for television broadcast with Keala Settle
Site specific choreography featuring a cast of twelve for the Wix IPO party and interactive dance performance production for Eventbrite, The Brooklyn Museum, and the Governors Island Art Fair
Choreography & performance as “The Ballerina” for Being Flynn, a promotional play in the ground floor of a new luxury residential building in NYC, produced by Spring Street Social Society
Production, choreography, and performance of two iterations of The Chicago Party, a concept circus & burlesque variety show in collaboration with music and digital artist bpms, produced at The Slipper Room, NYC
Site-specific dance performance within an art installation by Tomo Mori
Contemporary ballet and aerial collaborations with Encounters Dance directors Gisela Quinteros and Edgar Lee Peterson III
Choreography & performance of aerial and dance pieces for the bands Earthside, Cordis, and Huff This
Choreography & performance for a motion-capture-based thesis project
Choreography & performance of dance-aerial piece "been thinking...", which was voted audience favorite at the NYC10 spring 2014 festival