This piece is my first child as an artist. Haha I'll explain. In 2009, I was exposed to an important body of information and experiences as I was enrolled n 4 different academic dance classes. I was discovering my opinions about dance, movement, and choreography as I watched video after video of historic pieces and experienced taking classes with live accompaniment for the first time. Everything was crossing over and connecting. I was excited, blown away and driven. Idea after idea came together and I couldn't hold it in anymore! I started choreographing this piece in the spring of 2010 after all of these ideas were bursting out of my soul.
I created the whistling and choreography at the same time for the first section. It became the foundation of the piece and really, the foundation of my artistry. For the piece, this foundation made it clear that it felt right to have unexpected changes and surprises in the music and that Trevor and I needed to work along side each other to create the movement and the music together. The more we could work together, the more the piece became a whole work. This is part of the foundations of me wanting to truly blend and blur the lines of music and dance together to create a unified entity.
The piece premiered to entirely live music in July 2013.
Title: Coqui // Composers: Trevor Woolley & Nathalie Neiva // Dancers: Marisa Prolo, Brianna Waite // Musicians: Trevor Woolley, Nathalie Neiva, Priscilla Nickel, Alicia Madsen