2012 Momentum
Trio
Music: Chopin
Created for the Senior Professional Program of the School of Contemporary Dancers
2011 Radiance
Solo: created for Kristin Haight
Music: J.S. Bach
“For Kris. In memory of the late Babs Asper, who loved dance, and composer Ann Southam, who turned to the music of Bach for solace.”
Premiere: November 2011, the Rachel Browne Studio, Winnipeg
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2009 Heartsmile
Duet
Music: Enrique Granados
Created for the Senior Professional Program of the School of Contemporary Dancers
2007 Flowering
Duet: Rachel Browne, Odette Heyn
Music: Scarlatti
Premiere: The Rachel Browne Theatre, Winnipeg
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2007 Ceremonies
Trio
Music: Ann Southam
Premiere: November 2007, Rachel Browne Theatre, Winnipeg
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2006 Mein Ruhe Platz (My Resting Place)
Solo: created for Sarah Roche
Music: Traditional Klezmer music
“In memory of Benjamin Aaron Sokoloff.”
Premiere: The Rachel Browne Theatre, Winnipeg
2006 Flowering
Trio: Rachel Browne, Odette Heyn, Kristin Haight
Music: Scarlatti
Premiere: June 2006, The Rachel Browne Theatre, Winnipeg
2006 (revised from 2000) Variations on Serenity
Duet and solo
Music: Ann Southam
WCD Premiere: The Rachel Browne Theatre, Winnipeg
2002 Sunstorm
Group Work
Music: Chopin
Premiere: May 2004, Gas Station Theatre, Winnipeg
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2004 Dreamscape
Duet
Music: Holly Harris (original score)
*Created for the Senior Professional Program of the School of Contemporary Dancers
2003 Songs That Dance
Solo: created for Gabriela Rehak
Music: Zoltan Kodaly, sung by Anne Sofie von Otter
Premiere: May 2004, Gas Station Theatre, Winnipeg
2003 What A Surprise!
Duet
Music: Deborah Romeyn
*Created for the Senior Professional Program of the School of Contemporary Dancers
2001 Sending Love
Trio
Music: J.S. Bach
Text: Adrienne Rich
Created for the Senior Professional Program of the School of Contemporary Dancers
1999 Remembering Summer
Solo: created for Susan Macpherson
Premiere: November 1999, Franco-Manitoban Cultural Centre, Winnipeg
1998 Edgelit
Solo: Pat Fraser, solo: Lisa Kuhn, quartet: Davida Monk and 3 younger dancers.
Music: Ann Southam
Premiere: June 1998, The Rachel Browne Studio, Winnipeg
1996 Four Messages
Quartet
Music: Ann Southam
Premiere: Dancers’ Studio West, Calgary
1997 Willow Island
Group work
Music: Simon Jeffes
*Created for the Senior Professional Program of the School of Contemporary Dancers
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1996 Edgelit
Solo: created for Davida Monk
Music: Ann Southam
Premiere: Calgary
1995 Toward Light
Cast of eleven women
Music: J.S Bach, Ann Southam
Premiere: Gas Station Theatre, Winnipeg
1995 ‘Re-Tuning’ or The Great Canadian Hoedown
Group Work for women
Music: Ann Southam
*Originally commissioned by the Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre, Toronto
1994 K.J.3. (also K.J.4.)
Trio or Quartet
Music: Keith Jarrett
*Originally commissioned by the Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre, Toronto
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1993 Four Haiku
Four intersecting solos for women
Music: Bernard Xolotl
Premiere: October 22, 1993, Gas Station Theatre, Winnipeg
1992 Mouvement
Solo originally created for Alana Shewchuk
Music: Bernard Xolotl
Premiere: September 11, 1992, Gas Station Theatre, Winnipeg
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1992 Sharonblue
Solo created for Sharon Moore
Music: Cole Porter
Premiere: August 14, 1992, fFIDA, Winchester Street Theatre, Toronto
1992 Dreamrite
Quartet: five women
Music: Diana McIntosh (original score)
Premiere: INDE Festival, DuMaurier Theatre, Toronto
1990 Ballade
Group Work
Music: Chopin
*Created for the Senior Professional Program of the School of Contemporary Dancers
1991 If Not Now
Solo created for Julia Zohrab
Music: Tracy Chapman
Premiere: July 17, 1991, Winnipeg Fringe Festival, Manitoba Theatre Centre,Winnipeg
1991 For David
Solo created for Brent Lott
Music: Traditional Sephardic Songs
“Created in memory of David Tucker.”
Premiere: September 13, 1991, Gas Station Theatre, Winnipeg
1991 Images
Trio for 3 women
Music: Debussy
Premiere: September 13, 1991, Gas Station Theatre, Winnipeg
1991 Pat’s Bach
Solo created for Pat Fraser
Music: J.S. Bach
Premiere: August 9, 1991, Fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists (fFIDA),
Winchester Street Theatre, Toronto
1991 Freddy
Solo originally created for Sharon Moore
Music: Kurt Weill, sung by Teresa Stratas
Premiere: July 17, 1991, Winnipeg Fringe Festival, Manitoba Theatre Centre Warehouse, Winnipeg
1990 Shout
Solo created for Constance Cooke
Music: Aretha Franklin
Premiere: September 14, 1990, Gas Station Theatre, Winnipeg
1990 Cuba Libra
Solo created for Sharon Moore
Music: Leo Brouwer
Premiere: September 14, 1990, Gas Station Theatre, Winnipeg
1990 Continuum (II)
Duet: Rachel Browne and Odette Heyn
Music: J.S. Bach
Premiere: September 14, 1990, Gas Station Theatre, Winnipeg
1990 My Romance
Solo originally created for Sharon Moore
Music: Rogers & Hart, Hoagy Carmichael, arranged & performed by Almeta Speaks
“For Miriam.”
Premiere: September 14, 1990, Gas Station Theatre, Winnipeg
1990 Fine, Thank You!
Three solos and one duet
Music: Odetta
Premiere: May 1990, Festival of Canadian Modern Dance, Gas Station Theatre, Winnipeg
1989 Sunset Sentences
Quintet for 5 women
Music: Samuel Barber, Diana McIntosh
Premiere: May 1989, Festival of Canadian Modern Dance, Gas Station Theatre, Winnipeg
1988 Tres Bailes Enigmaticos
Music: Montserrat Caballe and Alice Artzt
Premiere: Women and the Arts Festival, Winnipeg
1987 In A Dark Time the Eye Begins to See
Music: Johann Pachelbel, Vangelis
Text: Robert Jay Lifton
Premiere: June 8, 1989, Gas Station Theatre, Winnipeg
1987 solo for Christopher Gower
Premiere: Gas Station Theatre, Winnipeg
1987 Old Times Now
Solo originally created for D-Anne Kuby
Music: Almeta Speaks
Premiere: June 19, 1987, Gas Station Theatre, Winnipeg
1985 To The New Year
Music: Denise Levertov
Text: Denise Levertov, Muriel Rukeyser
Premiere: March 1985, Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers’ 20th Anniversary
1985 Camping Out
Choreography and concept by Tedd Robinson, with choreographic contributions by Rachel Browne
Solo created for Desiree Kleeman
Music: Franz Liszt
Premiere: Gas Station Theatre, Winnipeg
1985 The Cry
Quartet
Music: Bernard Xolotl
*Created for the Senior Professional Program of the School of Contemporary Dancers
1983 A Jest of God
Group work
Music: Jim Donahue (original score)
Premiere: Gas Station Theatre, Winnipeg
1983 Shalom
Solo: Rachel Browne
Music: J.S. Bach
Premiere: Brigantine Room, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
1982 Revival
Group work
Music: Jim Donahue (original score)
Premiere: Pantages Playhouse Theatre, Winnipeg
1982 M.L.W.
Solo and trio
Music: Mary Lou Williams
Premiere: Manitoba Theatre Centre Warehouse, Winnipeg
1981 Haiku
Duet: Rachel Browne and Ruth Cansfield
Music: Owen Clarke (original score)
Premiere: Manitoba Theatre Centre, Winnipeg
1981 Dreams
Trio
With text from dancers’ dreams
Premiere: Pantages Playhouse Theatre, Winnipeg
1985 “Untitled”
Solo originally created for Alana Shewchuk
Music: J.S. Bach
Dedicated to Benjamin Harkavy
Premiere: Pantages Playhouse Theatre, Winnipeg
1980 To the Year 2000
Trio
Music: Bela Bartok
Premiere: January 24, 1980, Pantages Playhouse Theatre, Winnipeg
1979 Solitude
Group work
Music: Johannes Brahms
Premiere: Pantages Playhouse Theatre, Winnipeg
1978 Birthday Offering
Solo created for Roger Smith
Music: W.A. Mozart
Premiere: Pantages Playhouse Theatre, Winnipeg
1978 The Other
Duet: Rachel Browne and Ken Lipitz
Music: Maurice Ravel
Poetry by Dorothy Livesay, Adrienne Rich
Premiere: Pantages Playhouse Theatre, Winnipeg
1977 Just about Us
Duet: Rachel Browne and Suzanne Oliver
Music: Jim Donahue (original score)
Premiere: Pantages Playhouse Theatre, Winnipeg
1976 Continuum (I)
Duet: Rachel Browne and Stephanie Ballard
Music: Johannes Brahms
Premiere: Pantages Playhouse Theatre, Winnipeg
1976 Five Cameos
Group Work
Music: J.S. Bach
Premiere: Pantages Playhouse Theatre, Winnipeg
1976 In Praise
Group Work
Music: J.S. Bach
Premiere: Pantages Playhouse Theatre, Winnipeg
1976 Interiors
Duet: Rachel Browne and Ken Lipitz
Music: Jim Donahue, lyrics by Dorothy Livesay
Premiere: Pantages Playhouse Theatre, Winnipeg
1975 The Woman I Am
Group Work
Music: Paul Horn (original score)
Poetry by Dorothy Livesay, Miriam Mandel, read by Renee Jamieson
Premiere: Pantages Playhouse Theatre, Winnipeg
1975 Cameo
Solo
Music: J.S. Bach
Premiere: Pantages Playhouse Theatre, Winnipeg
1974 Contrasts (II)
Group Work
Music: Bela Bartok
Premiere: Pantages Playhouse Theatre, Winnipeg
1972 Blues & Highs
Group Work
Music: Laura Nyro
Premiere: Pantages Playhouse Theatre, Winnipeg
1971 Rhythming
Solo: Rachel Browne
Music: Billy Graham (original drum solo score)
Premiere: St. Mary’s Academy, Winnipeg
1969 Theme and Rock
Group Work
Music: Bob McMullin
Premiere: performed with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and The Guess Who, Winnipeg
1969 Variations
Group Work
Music: J.S. Bach
Premiere: Pantages Playhouse Theatre, Winnipeg
1969 Cante Hondo
Group Work
Music: Ohana
Premiere: February 28, 1969, Pantages Playhouse Theatre, Winnipeg
1974 Contrasts (I)
Group Work
Music: Bela Bartok
Premiere: Winnipeg
1968 New Songs and Dances
Group Work
Music: Odetta
Premiere: April 26, 1968, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Winnipeg
1968 Miles Smiles
Sextet
Music: Miles Davis
Premiere: April 26, 1968, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Winnipeg
1968 Where The Shining Trumpets Blow
Trio for women
Music: Gustav Mahler
Premiere: Pantages Playhouse Theatre, Winnipeg
1967 The Urge
Trio for women
Premiere: Winnipeg
1967 Pas Le Meme Pas
Quintet for five women
Music: Gary Gross
Premiere: Winnipeg
1967 Anerca
Group work
Music: Edgar Varese, Tzvi Avni, Walter Carlos
Inuit chants, read by Renee Jamieson
Premiere: Winnipeg
1967 Three Faces of Jazz
Group Work
Music: Don Shirley
Premiere: Winnipeg
1966 Evening in the Suburbs
Sextet for 6 women
Music: Victor Davies (original score)
Premiere: Winnipeg
1965 Appalachian Spring
Group Work
Music: Aaron Copland
Premiere: Winnipeg
1965 Take Five
Group Work
Music: Dave Brubeck
Premiere: Winnipeg
1964 Turmoil
Group Work
Music: Bela Bartok
Premiere: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
1964 Odetta’s Songs and Dances
Group Work
Music: Odetta
Premiere: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
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