I Am A Dancer 2020

For our company's milestone 50th ANNIVERSARY SEASON, Felice Lesser Dance Theater will premiere I AM A DANCER 2020, an interdisciplinary work focusing on how dance workers navigated the Covid pandemic. Performances will take place at New York Live Arts the week of June 23, 2025.

Trap Ist

"...Felice Lesser’s Trap Ist is an important new work that really needs to be seen widely, and by multi-generational audiences... Her work deserves our attention."

-- Lisa Jo Sagolla, THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST, December 19, 2022

TRAP IST is Felice Lesser's multi-media, science fiction fantasy about enslaved humans who revolt against their A.I. captor on a distant planet.

Conceived, Written, Choreographed• and Directed by FELICE LESSER

Artistic Design, Sets & Animation by JONATHAN BURKHARDT

Music: BORUT KRZISNIK, STEFANIA DE KENESSEY, RICHARD EINHORN

Interactive Technology: LORNE SVARC (Technodramatists)

Lighting Design: EMILY CLARKSON

Production Stage Manager/Sound: MACKENZIE TROWBRIDGE

Cast: ZOE BADOVINAC and MIKALLA ASHMORE, ROCKA JAMEZ, AMINA KONATE, SHANNON MC CON, KHADIJAH MUNAJJ, NATALIE STYS, JOSEPHINE WOKURKA

•Choreography includes collaborations with the dancers/Krump solo material choreographed and performed by Rocka Jamez

World Premiere: December 1, 2022, New York Live Arts, New York, NY

Photos above: © 2022 Gerry Goodstein

Lightning

Choreography & Projected Video: FELICE LESSER

Music: BORUT KRZISNIK

Lighting Design: MATT MILLER

Cast: KATHERINE FILES, CHANMEE JEONG, CHIHWAN KIM, ACEE FRANCIS LAIRD, DANIELLE SHUPE, DONA WILEY

LIGHTNING reflects on some of today's most important issues: borders, global warming, equity, inclusion, racism, terrorism, technology, artificial intelligence, and the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.

Premiere: February 8, 2017, The Duke on 42nd Street, New York, NY

Photo of Breakthrough (Global Warming) © 2017 Gerry Goodstein. l-r Acée Francis Laird (on floor), Kat Files, Chihwan Kim, Danielle Shupe, Dona Wiley, Chanmee Jeong