Nancy Karp + Dancers celebrated its 40th anniversary year with the world premiere of fly through the night, and land near dawn October 28-30, 2022 at Dresher Ensemble Studio in Oakland. Created…
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“piano piano”, is a site-specific work created for the Dresher Ensemble Building and Studio in West Oakland. The work invited audiences through the building’s hallways, balconies, and central floor space,…
Inspired by the David Brower Center’s exhibition, “Douglas R. Tompkins: On Beauty”, that celebrated the life and work of the late conservationist Doug Tompkins, Nancy Karp created a site-specific performance work…
Nancy Karp + Dancers returned to ODC with the world premiere of MEMORY/PLACE. Inspired by the current era of human mass migration, Artistic Director Nancy Karp made a work in…
“Studies I, II, III, IV” – Four solos designed for the Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition, October 25, 2015. A work-in-progress for a larger work to be performed by the dance…
A work of fiery explosions, movement punctuated by tender moments of stillness. The imagery is drawn from the classic forms of ancient vase painting and the spaces and shapes created…
A duet created in collaboration with dancers Diane McKallip and Randee Paufve. Wardrobe provided by Babette. Premiering at the dance company’s 35th Anniversary Season in San Francisco, February 2015. *…
Three ActsI. VoiceII. DanceIII. Immersion A collaboration with Bay Area artists, Cheryl Calleri and Thekla Hammond, presented by the San Francisco Performance Art Institute, 2013. A continuum is a continuous…
A site-specific solo work choreographed and performed by Nancy Karp for the Artesiana Festival at the Villa Romana del Casale in central Sicily. “the gesture, but not the target”, created…
This pure movement work was developed during a three month intensive rehearsal period with dancers Christy Funsch, Diane McKallip and Anne-Lise Reusswig. The pace is fast moving and highly rhythmic;…
Stop signs and stop lights are merely a suggestion,” Cadagon Guide to Sicily. La Traversa opened Nancy Karp + Dancers’ 24th Anniversary Season at the Cowell Theater, at Fort Mason…
Created in the spirit of a traditional Sicilian religious procession, this site-specific work for eight dancers from the company and San Francisco’s Green Street Mortuary Band was commissioned for the…
Premiere performances: ODC Theater, San Francisco, Sept. 20-22, 2001New York premiere: Joyce SoHo, March 1-3, 2002 In il mercato, Nancy Karp created elaborate choreographic structures evoking the energy and chaos of…
“…a rich and absorbing dance ….. the work of a single vision: congruent, integrated, and authentic.” – Sima Belmar, The San Francisco Bay Guardian “… resounding focus and visual purity.”…
surface roll was designed specifically for an empty 1920s’ vintage swimming pool located in a natural amphitheater surrounded by gardens and redwoods at Villa Lauriston, in Portola Valley, California. . Charles…
Threading Light, a work for ten dancers, was inspired by the architecture of the galleries at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and the paintings of…
“…a stunning synthesis of history and art…a grim form of dance-theater, reminiscent of Edward Hopper’s lonely paintings and full of allusions.” —Paul Hertelendy, The San Jose Mercury Times “The movement…
Falling Angels is a site specific dance work for 7 dancers made at the former Del Monte fruit cannery in Emeryville, CA. These are excerpts from the work presented in…
The gestures and movement phrases for this work have been abstracted from portraits of Bauhaus and Russian Constructivist & Suprematist* artists and their work, specifically the seminal Malevich “Suprematist Painting,…
A site-specific performance at Theater Artaud, San Francisco created for the “Mozart from the Fringe Festival”.
Choreographed in 1990. Live performance at the Broadway Performance Hall, Seattle, WA, 1990
The title of the performance, Terrace Canon, was derived from the action of the 30 performers moving in canon with one another- movement echoing and repeating from one group or…
The Alphabet of Bones,” 1989Collaboration with visual artist, Joyce Cutler-Shaw Premiere: Sushi Gallery, San Diego, CA
Notes by visual artist/collaborator, Carol Law For many years Nancy and I both had an interest in the Bauhaus artists and their fascination with finding universal images of communication through…
In 1985, Ms. Karp, with the co-sponsorship of the Goethe Institute in San Francisco, invited the visual artist Wolfram Erber to be in residence with Nancy Karp + Dancers and…
On the Greens, a site-specific work for Washington Square, North Beach, San Francisco, is a dance work created for 10 dancers, and performed to a sound score by Bill Fontana,…
Dot Bunch, realized with support from the National Endowment for the Arts Inter- Arts Program funds, was created in 1984 in collaboration with composer Charles Amirkhanian and visual artist Carol…
Terrace Dancing was created for the multiple terraces and rooftops of the Oakland Museum. The dancers moved through the museum site with the audience having the option to travel with…
An interplay of movement, sound, and photographic projection. “Landscape Sculpture with Carillon”, is a multi-channel field recording of the bells of Sather Tower, U.C. Berkeley, recorded simultaneously from different locations…
Choreographed in 1982 Moving on a grid pattern, in alternating tempos, dancers work with split second accuracy and timing. A trip for dancers: Deirdre Carrigan, Nancy Karp, Diane McKallip. Music…
Choreographed in 1982. A dance for two men and two women, this work is a vigorous dance for dancers, Kathe Burick, Diane McKallip, Robert Saito, and Paul Supkoff. The music…
A work for 5 dancers who move in simple phrases in varied geometric floor patterns. The music, composed for American Gamelan instruments consists of a series of progressions for gong,…
BART, the first site-specific dance work choreographed by Nancy Karp, was created for the Bay Area Rapid Transit system’s stations and trains. The choreography, for ten dancers, utilized exaggerated pedestrian…