Embodied Threads · The Repertoire
Original Ballets
Myths written for young dancers. Every one of these stories was created from scratch — so the pattern the children live inside for a season is one made for exactly where they are. Story first, then movement, then something they carry long after the curtain.
Original Story & Ballet · 2018
The Magical Divide
Written first as a tale for young dancers, The Magical Divide crossed from page to stage in 2018 — and then back again, growing into a published children's picture book. It remains the clearest proof of how these ballets work: the story arrives before the steps, and the steps give the story a body.
A season of living inside a myth about crossing — and the experience of watching something they embodied become a book the world could hold.
Original Ballet · 2020
The Dream
A young girl falls into a deep slumber during a performance of The Nutcracker — and wakes inside her own dream, guided by the Sugar Plum Fairy through the great worlds of ballet. She stands at the moonlit lake with Odette and her enchanted swans; she joins Princess Aurora's court in the celebration of a century-long sleep ended by love; and at last she reaches a meadow in full bloom, where the Dew Drop Fairy leads the Waltz of the Flowers in a final celebration of harmony and nature.
When she wakes, she carries the magic with her. Set to Tchaikovsky throughout, The Dream weaves the iconic ballets into a single journey — a reminder of the power of dreams, and of the imagination's ability to carry us into extraordinary worlds.
The whole classical canon, received as one girl's dream — every child dancing inside the tradition's greatest worlds while the story insists those worlds live in their own imagination.
Original Ballet · 2019
Lyra's Quest
Set to Gustav Holst's The Planets, Lyra's Quest follows a young heroine whose world is running out of water. To save it, Lyra must travel through the planets themselves — each one an archetype she meets, dances with, and learns from: the warrior's fire, the bringer of peace, the jollity of abundance, the old teacher of limits, the magician, the mystic. Only by gathering what each planet has to teach can she return home carrying what her world needs.
An archetypal journey wearing the costume of a space adventure — the oldest story shape there is, scored to the century's great planetary suite.
The planets as living archetypes met in the body — and a heroine their own age whose courage, not her rescue, saves the world.
Original Ballet · 2023
Symphony of the Elements
Air, water, fire, and earth — the four elements danced as living forces, and the story of what happens to a world when they fall out of balance. Set to the music of Beethoven, the ballet moves through each element's nature and its shadow, until the imbalance of the whole planet becomes something the audience can feel in their own bodies — and the return to harmony becomes the triumph.
The elements as embodied experience rather than science-class abstraction — and an ecological story the children told with their whole bodies: balance is something a world, and a person, can lose and restore.
Every ballet here began as a question
about what the children needed to live inside.
