repertory

ddc presents repertory which draws on life experiences and the culture that surrounds us to create work. From these life experiences, Artistic Director Deven P Brawley has developed a repertory of work that ranges from explosive and passionate to intimate and restrained.

TruthOut!

Blurred Borders International Dance Festival 2009

The Bullet with the Butterfly Wings

3 Dancers - 6 Minutes - Contemporary

Choreography: Deven P Brawley

Music: Max Richter & Dinah Washington

Debut Detroit Dance City Festival 2014

“When you are feeling grief, you can look right into somebody’s eyes because you feel you haven’t got anything to lose – you are just there.”

–Pema Chodron

Interconnection (Re-Imagination of WIRED - 2007)

3-4 Dancers - 11 Minutes - Contemporary

Choreography: Deven P Brawley

Music: Trifonic

Debut Midwest Regional Alternative Dance Festival 2013

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” –Albert Einstein

Kinetic

3 Dancers - 9 Minutes - Contemporary

Choreography: Deven P Brawley

Music: John Powell

Debut Around/About Contemporary Dance Festival 2010

"Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision." -James Thurber

TruthOut!

8 dancers - 1 actor - 16 minutes - Contemporary Dance Theatre

Choreography: Deven P Brawley

Music: The Beatles

Text: Deven P Brawley & Trevor Perringer

Debut Blurred Borders International Dance Festival 2009

Set to the music of the Beatles, underscored by text from Deven P Brawley & Trevor Perringer. ddc explores; with keen insight and flawless comic sensibility, the interwoven notions of gay marriage and the arguments against having equal rights.

Bent

2 dancers - 8 Minutes - Contemporary Dance Theatre

Choreography: Deven P Brawley

Music: Micheal Brooks

Text: Martin Sherman

Debut Diversionary Theatre's Dance/Theatre 2008

A dramatic adaptation of Martin Sherman's Bent, one of the most shocking and moving testaments to the power of the individual in the face of overwhelming oppression. Set in a consentration camp work zone, Bent exposes the meaning of self, our responsibilities to others, and how we handle impossible situations.

1,256 Dear John's & Counting

3 dancers - 12 Minutes - Modern Dance Theatre

Choreography: Deven P Brawley

Music: Karol Szymanowski

Debut Pianoist Peter Gach's - Labirynth of the Heart 2008

1,256 Dear John's & Counting explores the difficult process of writing when emotions are involved. Set to the Four Mazurka's of Karol Szymanowski, this perfect tone for three individual looks in the male perspective on the frustrations of love, longing, and ending a relationship.

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