FREQUENCY (2019)
Premiered in Tampa, Florida

FREQUENCY casts its performers into a vast friction-filled digital landscape that evokes images and relationships from a past grievously misremembered. A duet between Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves, FREQUENCY is a throwback to the company’s genesis as a duet company and reflects the significance of time spent trying to tune two lives together.

Direction, Choreography, and Performance by Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves of Orange Grove Dance
Lighting Design by Dylan Uremovich
Projection & Media Design by Mark Costello
Original Music by Dylan Glatthorn
Sound Design by Matt Reeves
Videography by Jonathan Hsu of JHsu Media
Video trailer edited by Matt Reeves

Children of Babel is the third installment in ‘4 Recurring Dreams’, a tetralogy of evening length dances that explore the nature of recurring dreams and opens up new dialogues on timely themes such as migration, exodus, and transformation.

Inspired by the invisible radio wars between the United States and Cuba since 1959 and mythopoetic research into personal dreams and stories of one family’s migration from Cuba during the Mariel Boatlift of 1980, Children of Babel takes its audience and performers into a vivid sand filled landscape where the voices of a country pulled apart echo 90 miles in all directions.

Orange Grove Dance's world premiere of Children of Babel is supported by The Carla Fund for Choreography and Performance, established by the Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation, and Joe’s Movement Emporium’s Creative Residency.

Direction and Choreography: Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves
Choreography created in collaboration with performers

Performers: London Brison, Robin Neveu Brown, Juliana Pongutá Forero, Jonathan Hsu, Colette Krogol, Shanice Mason, Matt Reeves, and Mei Yamanaka

Music Composition: Dylan Glatthorn
Lighting Design: Peter Leibold
Sound and Media Design: Matt Reeves
Costume Design: Robert Croghan
Scenic and Prop Design: Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves
Stage Manager: Tarythe Albrecht

This trailer features signature live and cinematic works performed by Orange Grove Dance company. OGD's mission is to bring dance, design, and film to all communities as a vibrant process capable of reflecting the extraordinary nature of the human experience.

Where do words and letters go, after we say them, do you know? Some of them turn into shadows and dance and play in my House of Light!

This is the story of a secret House of Light, where Letters and Words live, play and create stories. Shadow letters turn into shadow characters, shadow characters come out of a shadow house and turn into flat puppets. What do we do, if A -angel falls asleep and its W-wings fly away? Angel and Boy and we all will go on a journey to find the Wings. Together we will run, jump, learn some pantomime moves, recall the alphabet and use our imagination to turn letters into character! And of course we will find the wings, and in the end tired and happy Letters will return home and… fall asleep: Z-Z-Z-Z...


Goals and Objectives:
- Introduce shadow puppets as a literacy and science teaching tool
- Introduce and/or recall alphabet
- Introduce object transformation (letters into characters) as a great problem solving tool and a foundation for coding and decoding skills (basic reading and math skills)
- Social-Emotional context - helping your friends

Interactive show about the life cycle of a bird for children from 6 months to 6 years old
In a nest in a tree, an egg is kept warm. Then a Baby Bird hatches! The Baby is fed and nurtured by... the Forest Fairy, and both the Baby and the Fairy begin to explore what it means to grow up, and to learn how to fly, and what it means to be a parent. They feel sunshine and rain, smell flowers, taste berries, and see butterflies. There are surprises. One day, the Baby learns to spread its wings and fly. Take the journey with your own Baby Bird!