Choreography

crows 2024

crows

You are a crow looking through the window of a college dorm room, what do you see? What do you hear? What do you imagine?

For the rest 2023

A dance film choreographed by Emily Chapman Cinematography with cinematography by dannielwaters

yellow 2023

yellow

Tells 12 stories happening all at once. Much like in real life you might find love, confidence, anger, fear and happiness amongs a sea of interconecting relationships.

Performed by:
Flora Chatwin, Rebecca Lee, Amecie Lublin, Kayla Nielsen, Randy Phalouka, Katelyn Potyondy, Hermione Poudret, Silvana Ruiz, Gwen Treston, Kassandra Vogel, Laura Cubanski, Emily Spieker, Natalie Thach

April 20 - 22, 2023 8:00 pm

Music: “Become a Mountain” by Dan Deacon

Lighting Design: Jimmy Balistreri

Costume Design: Kaylynn Sutton

chaiR 2023

Choreographed by Yinqi Wang and danniel waters

Love 2022

Choreographed by dannielwaters

Tory 2021

Before we get started just a short announcement; The following show contains rapidly changing images, partial nudity, loud music and foul language, viewer discretion is advised.

Tory was a 2 day art installation that culminated with a two hour performance by danniel waters and 2 guest artist.

The show is divided into three distinct sections each exploring a different aspect of the dance making process

The event took place on September 11th and 12th at 2270 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90006.

artemisia 2023

artemisia

Is an intermedia experience that portraits a day in the life of a performing arts student. School, home and the internet.

trash 2023

“I am trash” is the opening statement of a letter I wrote in early 2023. At that time, I was thinking about how we’ve spent so many resources preserving paintings and sculptures and yet an average yogurt container can float in the ocean for hundreds of years. Most people go to a museum sporadically but see drawings and pictures in containers every day – beautiful works of art that are mass produced and dumped into the ocean as trash.

Choreography by danniel waters

Dancer: Rheylie Bennie

Dragon Scales 2023

Music by Lisa Yoshida

choreography by danniel waters

Lit_ 2022

Lit_

is a live setting continuation of the themes explored in Trip_

Performed by

Hannah Bode, Ashton Craven, Emma Mertens, Kira Montgomery, Taya Ovsiannikov, Randy Phalouka, Kyle Urbaniak, Alyssa Zavala.

December 1 - 3, 2022 8:00 pm

Music: “Children of the Grave” by Black Sabbath

Lighting Design: Kassia R. Curl.

Costume Design: Kaylynn Sutton.

twenty-four

choreography by dannielwaters

Trip_ 2021

Trip_

Trip_ is a film created by danniel as the result of nearly a year of research in isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. it is an exploration of what it is to be a dancer, a citizen a migrant and how these “roles” interact and conflict with each other during times of crisis and change.

Performed and Recorded by:
danniel, Rebecca Sierra Gomez, Edward Legaspi and Robert Gallegos

MARCH 3, 5, 2021 Wed-Fri, 6:00 pm

Telling 2020

”Telling” is a piece about remembering, missing, loving and letting go.

it wasn’t the 5G 2020

This piece is about nothing

This film was created while intoxicated with anger. It is the result of pure experimentation guided by the frustrations of living in California during the COVID-19 pandemic.

At the time I was taking the class “dance making: Dance as Ritual” in UCR, while maintaining my job at Little Caesar’s and one day after being yelled by a costumer that refused to wear a mask I realized “I want to make a piece that doesn’t make sense because the world doesn’t make sense”

Roses 2019

Roses describes the story of a man that is forced to sacrifice everything to achieve greatness. It is a showing of the “deal with the devil” most dancers have to make to take their bodies to their prime form. The tittle references my mentor and friend Steve Rosa.

Performed at various venues in 2019 as well as in "Mix Match Dance Festival" in Santa Monica on the summer of 2019. This is a video of the original performance in Long Beach. Dancers

Jazmin Alejos, Nickolas Currenton, Francisco Chavez, Ace Austria, Netosha Thomas, Erick Morales

Music: Found Footage by Take/Five, Arcade Dreams by The Midnight and Intro by ODESZA