Site Projects
Marshland Elegy,
September 2021
Through voracious physicality, Marshland Elegy invokes ecologist Aldo Leopold in a solo that conjures New Jersey's lost wetlands.
*Created specially for Buggé Ballet's Liberty Hall Dance Festival
Choreography & Performance: Nathan Forster
Music: Sound Score by Clynt Yerkes, edited by Nathan Forster
Remember Me, June 2021
What do we hold on to, and what do we forget? Who remembers what? How do we want to be remembered? Remember Me was born of 20-somethings unironically pondering these questions- Now we're making a dance piece about it. Shocker. Join ReFrame Dance Theatre in yet another adventure into the absurd and unknown, this time in our own heads.
Produced in partnership with the Rahway Arts + Business Partnership, and developed under an extended artist residency w/ ~Mignolo~ Dance
When? June 18-20 2021
Where? Arts District Park, Rahway, NJ
Choreography: Nathan Forster in collaboration with dancers.
Dancers: Bailey Benoot, Nathan Forster, Charly Santigado
Costumes: Bailey Benoot
Café, TBD #Coronavirus
Café is an immersive dance piece produced by ReFrame Dance Theatre in collaboration with The Coffeebox-Rahway, and choreographed by Artistic Director Nathan Forster. We'll be performing live in an actual café... Eventually.
Until then, enjoy this promotional video built from a live performance we did in a park!
Choreography: Nathan Forster in collaboration with dancers.
Dancers: Marissa Aucoin, Nathan Forster, Genevieve Hoeler
Under the Tracks, 2019
A new Commission by the Rahway Arts + Business Partnership for the Down Town Fall Culture Crawl,
Under the Tracks follows a series of lighthearted dance vignettes through Rahway Junction's undercarriage.
Grounded in the architecture and the opportunities for expression that it creates, Under the Tracks is Rahway, NJ first free site performance open to the public that glorifies something we take for granted:
What is plainly there to see.
When? 9/21, the Rahway Culture Crawl
1:30pm 3:30pm 5:30pm
Where? Rahway Junction
@ the corner of Broad St. and Irving St.
Who?
Choreography: Nathan Forster in Collaboration with Dancers
Dancers: Marissa Aucoin, Elanna Etemad
Costumes: Nathan Forster in Collaboration with Dancers
Photo Credit: Chris Torsiello
Human Infinite, 2015
A meditation on spirituality and space on the front lawn of Drew’s original seminary dorms, this collaborative project with studio artist Taryn Scozzari transported the audience to another world with vivid, surreal imagery from our everyday lives made new. Supported by the Student Mellon Grant for the Arts for the Common Good at Drew University and the Drew University Department of Theatre and Dance.
Choreography: Nathan Forster
Dancers: Mariah Ferrante, Nathan Forster, Angela Rouse
Costumes: Angela Rouse
Painting/Scenic Design: Taryn Scozzari
Music (in Order): Nico Muhly, Mercan Dede, Kronos String Quartet, Edited by Nathan Forster
Photo Credit: Taryn Scozzari
Background Photo Credit: Taryn Scozzari