Tori Lawrence's Videos (dance-tech) - dance-tech

"Elizabeth" [trailer]

2013-03-04T21:20:35.574Z

purchase the full film here: http://elizabethfilm.eventbrite.com

length of film: 9 minutes

Live premiere: The Barnes Foundation, Dec. 14, 2012
Official Selection of 2013 Agite y Sirva Touring Screendance Festival
Official Selection of the En Route Dance Film Festival, 2012

Set in a historic 18th century home and its surrounding fields, it is a quiet journey between two women, accompanied by the rich soundscapes of musicians Vicki Brown and Mona Chambers. It is for the wanderers of the fields who dwell in sadness, loss, and flight. And it is for those who are drowning, both inside and out.

Choreographer/Director: Tori Lawrence
Dancers: Lora Allen, Ashley Lippolis
Director of Photography: Christopher Landy
Original Music: Vicki Brown, Mona Chambers
Sound Design: John Baker
Costume Design: Ellen Fishel

www.torilawrenceco.com

AWAKENED RUINS (preview)

2011-12-12T00:42:58.237Z

"Founder's Hall at Girard College is one of those Philadelphia treasures you might never know about were it not for artists in search of great spaces. [...] The piece begins with the sound of Christopher Brooks's violin spectacularly reverberating off the domed ceilings. [...] five women dancers caked in white clay and wearing corseted muslin bodices progress through the three adjoining rotundas that were Girard College's first classrooms. Tori Lawrence's choreography, replete with fine articulations and carefully placed tableaux, often resembles a slow-moving sculpture as much as a dance. [...] One breakout moment recalls The Rite of Spring, both in pianist Patrick Fink's rhythms and in the hunkered-down group stomps. [...] Memory, decay, and slow-moving time are rich elements of Awakened Ruins."
--Lisa Kraus, The Philadelphia Inquirer

venue: Founder's Hall at Girard College (Philadelphia, 2011)

choreographer/director: Tori Lawrence

dancers/collaborators: Emily Herchenroether, Christina Knipp, Tori Lawrence, Ashley Lippolis, Pamela Vail

musicians: Christopher Brooks (violin), Patrick Fink (piano), Vicki Brown

costume design: Tori Lawrence & Virginia West

photographer: Craig Harris

"Source" trailer

2010-11-11T13:01:35.828Z

"Source" is a new site-specific dance installation by choreographer Tori Lawrence. It was presented in the 2010 Philly Fringe Festival, where it was installed in Power Plant Productions, a renovated 1900’s power plant located in Philadelphia’s Old City gallery district.

"Down in the windowless basement of an outmoded power plant, choreographer Tori Lawrence leads a four-woman troupe through the vast, watery darkness. Their dresses soaked, their hair casting arcs of droplets, the dancers careen about the space with little regard for the bewildered audience. They slip and slide, they grab and lift and drop one another, staring straight ahead all the while. That's not a blanket of blankness in their expressions, but of disbelief, terror, resignation, rue. A short film projected atop their bodies and an eerie score by Bing & Ruth only add to the flow. "
--MJ Fine, Philadelphia City Paper

Chosen as one of philly.com's "Faves of the 2010 Philly Fringe"

The longer version of this film (5 minutes) is installed within the live performance (50 minutes).
It is performed by 4 members of the Lawrence-Herchenroether Dance Company. http://www.wix.com/lhcompany/dance

Director/Choreographer: Tori Lawrence
Performers: Emily Herchenroether, Tori Lawrence, Jaclyn Malat, Aly Massof
Photographer: Craig Harris

The Endless Round

2010-06-24T13:57:31.507Z

A videodance that is part of a 50-minute site-specific dance installation, "Source." Choreographed by Tori Lawrence, "Source" was presented in the 2010 Philly Fringe Festival, where it was installed in a 1900’s power plant located in Philadelphia’s Old City gallery district. wix.com/lhcompany/dance

"Down in the windowless basement of an outmoded power plant, choreographer Tori Lawrence leads a four-woman troupe through the vast, watery darkness. Their dresses soaked, their hair casting arcs of droplets, the dancers careen about the space with little regard for the bewildered audience. They slip and slide, they grab and lift and drop one another, staring straight ahead all the while. That's not a blanket of blankness in their expressions, but of disbelief, terror, resignation, rue. A short film projected atop their bodies and an eerie score by Bing & Ruth only add to the flow. "
--MJ Fine, Philadelphia City Paper

Chosen as one of philly.com's "Faves of the 2010 Philly Fringe"

Performers: Emily Herchenroether, Jaclyn Malat, Aly Massof
Camera: Tori Lawrence & Hang Pham
Director/Choreographer: Tori Lawrence
Location: Susquehanna River, York
Premiere: Eastern Market, Lancaster; April 2010

Inwake (translocated)

2010-06-11T04:19:26.383Z

For the Everywhere Project.

This is a videodance that I choreographed/directed at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. It takes place inside a glass box entrance-way.

camera: Patrick Delisser

dancer: Aly Massof

choreographer: Tori…