PERFORMANCES, EVENTS & WORKSHOPS
UPCOMING EVENTS
PAST EVENTS
September 15-18, 2021
light and desire
an evening-length premiere with five international women artists
September 15-18, 2021
New York Live Arts
Featuring:
Carla Forte (Venezuela)
Ermira Goro (Albania/Greece)
Rosalynde LeBlanc (North America)
Joanna Leśnierowska (Poland)
Ildiko Toth (Hungary/Germany)
with Eleanor Altholz, Nadia Halim, Garnet Henderson, Emily Giovine, Falls Kennedy, Morgen Littlejohn, Sadi Mosko, Nicole Rondeau, Carolyn Silverman, Kennedy Thomas, and Madeleine Wood.
The creation of light and desire was supported in part by a commission from New York Live Arts’ Live Feed Residency program with generous support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding, Adam Mickiwiecz Institute and Barnard College. The Live Feed Residency program is supported in part by Rockefeller Brothers Fund, National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, and the Partners for New Performance.
2020
Communion
conceived, curated, and edited by Janessa Clark with performances by Colleen Thomas, Rosalynde LeBlanc, and more
Communion is an experimental screendance response to the isolation and uncertainty we are all facing as artists and humans in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis. Because dancers can no longer breathe together, touch, or share the experience of movement within the physical studio, Communion invites 40 dancers, separated by physical distance and the pandemic, into a digital space to commune together.
Each unique duet is created from videos by two different dancers who are separated by cities, countries, and sometimes continents. Artist Janessa Clark combines these videos to create virtual duets which are set to music donated by a composer also collaborating remotely.
Nominated for Outstanding Production for the 2021 Bessie Awards
COMMUNION is funded, in part, by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant Program, HERE Arts Center, and private donors. In-progress showings were made possible through Proteo Media’s P/FPF Festival & Art Cake’s Dance Series.
May 3-5, 2019
but the sun came up and we were here
with international artists from Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine
May 3, 4 & 5, 2019
La MaMa Moves, etc.
Made possible because of generous support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding and Barnard College.
February 22-24, 2019
Diane. Still.
featuring Sadi Mosko, Rochelle Wilbun, and Nadia Halim
Feb 22-24, 2019
100 Grand
November 16 & 17, 2018
but the sun came up and we were here
an evening-length premiere with international artists from Poland, Belarus and the Ukraine
November 16 & 17, 8pm
Lublin Dance Theater
December 2017
Bari, Italy
In early December, I'm headed to Bari, Italy to teach a workshop and explore some questions around my solo project looking at women artists during fascist times. I plan to share the questions and experiences I am grappling with, with 5 other women artists from Poland, Greece, Brazil, Venezuela, and Italy - all women who are living in political climates they don’t agree with.
December 15 & 16, 2017
NOW with Bill Young / Colleen Thomas Co.
A LIT (Loft into Theater) performance at Hundred Grand
December 15 & 16, 8pm
100 Grand Street (btwn Mercer & Greene)
Space is limited, please RSVP by email
November 2017
Lublin, Poland
Colleen Thomas Dance held a workshop and audition for a new project at the International Dance Theatres Festival in Lublin, Poland.
July 2017
The Watermill Center, NY
Arts and Science retreat on Consciousness with Robert Wilson at his special home – The Watermill Center. Colleen shared performance, research and discourse with 29 other artists and scientists.
June 23-25th, 2017
Durham, North Carolina
Bill Young / Colleen Thomas Co. performed Interleaving and led master classes at American Dance Festival.
June 2017
Paris, France
The USF/Barnard Dance in Paris program immerses students in Parisian dance culture while they participate in technique and composition classes and perform original work.
March 2017
Vancouver Ballet Society
Colleen was a Guest Artist for Vancouver Ballet Society.
February 2017
California State University, Long Beach, CA
Colleen was a Guest Artist for the university.
January 2017
Hundred Grand, NY
Anti-APAP
December 2016
Hundred Grand, NY
Interleaving
December 2016
Long Beach, CA
Bodies Matter with Keith Johnson Dancers
September 16-18, 2016
Nolan Park - Building 10A on Governor's Island (map)
Welcome Home is a new site-specific dance work by Colleen Thomas chronicling her evolving relationship with Governors Island. Inspired by her father’s photographs from her childhood on the Island in the 1970s, the performers will encourage audiences to find themselves at home in the spaces and memories of this island sanctuary.
August 2016
Festival Nacional de Danza, Costa Rica
Colleen traveled and performed with longtime friend and collaborator Adriane Fang in their duet, Stupid is a Bad Word with some extraordinary artists.
January 17, 2016
2-5pm
at New York City Center
Colleen Thomas Dance performed HER(E) REPETITIVE BLUEPRINT for APAP - Pentacle.
October 23-25, 2015
Friday & Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm
at 92nd St Y's Buttenwieser Hall (map)
92Y's HARKNESS DANCE CENTER PRESENTS:
HER(E) REPETITIVE BLUEPRINT
In Thomas’ first evening-length piece, the inevitability of our perception is called into question. A web of perceived social, gender and racial narratives runs rampant across the shapes and mounds of bodies.
October 4th, 2015
7pm performance at Dixon Place
Pentacle's Fall Further
http://www.pentacle.org/up-next-pentacle-presents-fall-further-iv/
September 26, 2015
5pm reception & 6pm performance
at Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanic Gardens (map)
PERFORMING ARTS SALON SATURDAYS (PASS):
HER(E) REPETITIVE BLUEPRINT (A PREVIEW)
August 14, 2015
Joffrey Summer Intensive performs a new work by Colleen Thomas at Symphony Space
June 5, 2015
just give me ten seconds screening at 2015 Dance Film Lab at Triskelion Arts in the Muriel Schulman Theater
April 24, 2015
Colleen Thomas supported Art Saves Lives.
March 11- 14, 2015
First Move with Ori Flomin
at Agnes Varis Theater
Gibney 280 Broadway
February 20 & 21, 2015
Then you took my hand
Alyssa Vernet at SUNY Purchase
January 10, 2015
ANTI-APAP
100 Grand Loft
November 20-22, 2015
Her(e) Again Untitled
Barnard/Columbia Dances
at New York Live Arts
ALL RECENT PROJECTS
July 2016 Watermill Arts Center - Science and Art Conference.
June 2016 Barnard & USF Dance in Paris program.
May 2016 Panel for Contemporary Dance in Bogota, Colombia.
April 2016 Onassis Cultural Center workshop/ performance in Athens, Greece and Arts Foundations workshop and Performance in Poznan, Poland.
March 2016 Barnard Symposium- Women Changing Europe in Paris
November 2015 What can neuroscience offer the study of creativity? Lecture and panel discussion, which is part of a new cross-disciplinary Columbia University Presidential initiative, Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience (PSSN).
July-August 2015 Joffrey Summer Intensive
June 2015 USF /Barnard Dance in Paris program
April 2015 Teaching at MDAA in Missoula, Montana
March 2015 Adjudicating at The Tank http://www.thetanknyc.org/dance/288-xyz-nyc-march-edition/
March 2015 Performed with Ori Flomin for his First Move at Gibney Dance
Read the undergraduate journal On Our Terms interview >
November 23, 2014 Presentation on international improvisation for AALAC at Amherst College
November 20-22, 2014 Barnard/Columbia Dances at Live Arts perform Her(e) Again Untitled
October 24-26, 2014 Performance of Stupid is a Bad Word with Adriane Fang at Ailey theater
October 16-18 New work in progress at Triskelion Arts new space
Read a preview by The Dance Enthusiast >
October 16-18, 2014 Performance at Sam Houston University
October 10, 2014 Moderating the International Dance Panel at Barnard
August 2014 Teaching at Joffrey Summer Intensive
July 2014 Presentation of film "just give me ten seconds" at the Harn Museum in Gainsville, Florida
July 2014 Guest artist at UF Swamp Dance Festival
June 2014 Dance in Paris summer program USF and Barnard College
May 2014 LIT loft into theater NYC
April 2014 Performance of "For You" at New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida
March 2014 Performance of "encounter" at TianziFang Arts Center in Shanghai, China
March 2014 Shanghai Theatre Academy of Dance
March 2014 Barnard Global Symposium Woman Changing China
March 2014 Dancing for Ori Flomin at Judson
February 2014 Skidmore College senior capstone commission
January 2014 Teaching at Palucca Academy, Dresden, Germany
September 2013 Interviewed by Jill Randal in "Life as a modern dancer"
Read it here >
December 2013 Art Basel project for Bill Bierne at the Sagamore Hotel
November 2013 Collaboration with Adriane Fang for UMD Fall Forward concert
September 2013 Sally Silvers a surprise every time
Summer 2013 Commission in Sao Paulo for Diadema dance company
Summer 2013 Joffrey Intensive
Summer 2013 DNA summer intensive
Summer 2013 Barnard Dance in Paris
