DEBUTS : The Frame Wide Open

Premiere

New Archibald

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Choreography

Jennifer Archibald

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Jennifer Archibald’s choreography runs on voltage: a fusion of contemporary ballet, hip hop, and athletic physicality that reads instantly in the body. Her movement language is rhythm-driven and razor-clear, with sharp directional changes, percussive phrasing, and a grounded power that asks dancers to move beyond “pretty” into something raw, urgent, and alive.

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What makes Archibald especially magnetic is the way her work sits at the intersection of styles without feeling stitched together. It feels like one confident dialect, fluent in speed, attack, control, and release. Even when the choreography is abstract, it carries a narrative charge: each section has purpose, pressure, and momentum, as if the dance is solving a problem in real time.

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Premiere

New Denice

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Choreography

Christian Denice

 

Christian Denice crafts work that’s emotionally resonant and atmosphere-rich, choreography that doesn’t just move through space, it moves through memory. His ballets are often described as lyrical and evocative with shifting moods, the kind of phrasing that can feel meditative one moment and quietly seismic the next. He tends to build a piece from a human question (time, longing, hope, what we carry) and let the movement do the unfolding, without forcing a literal story.

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Underneath the surface, Denice’s approach is deeply body-aware: movement as a way of unlocking sensation and lived experience. The result is choreography that feels intimate and expansive at once, less about spectacle and more about emotional weather, how it changes, how it returns, how it leaves an echo.

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Premiere

New Topazio

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Choreography

Carly Topazio

Carly Topazio’s choreographic voice is fearless and kinetic, contemporary ballet that blends classical precision with athletic, emotionally charged movement. Her work often moves in bold physical architecture: intricate partnering, sharp spatial design, and group patterns that snap into focus, then fracture into something more vulnerable and human.

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What makes Topazio’s style land is its balance of drive and detail. The movement has modern edge and technical clarity, but it’s rarely just about speed or shape; it’s about how structure holds meaning, and how stillness can hit as hard as motion. Expect choreography that feels propulsive, intentional, and immediate, work that meets the audience with a kind of direct eye contact.