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Selected Projects

Phloem (2007)

Featured solo performer in the Boston Butoh Dance Series
March 17, 2007 – Third Life Studios, Somerville, MA
May 16, 2007 –Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
 
Dance Performance by Ellen Godena
Music Performance by Max Lord
Set Design and Costuming by Ellen Godena
Technical Direction by Andrew Anselmo

This piece is an exploration of the images and rhythms of winter.
 

Fern Study (2006)

Presented as part of a Benefit for the Andary Dance Company
August 13, 2006 – Private Residence, Swansea, MA
 
Solo Dance Performance by Ellen Godena
Music Performance by Max Lord
Costuming by Ellen Godena

This was a site-specific piece which evoked the beauty of plant growth. Performed during an elegant garden party, the dance erupted silently in a dark corner of the lawn like a time-lapse video.
 

I am an Agent of Time, Yet I am not Here (2006)

July 2006 – Davis Square, Somerville, MA
Featured as part of the Somerville ArtBeat Festival
 
Dance Performance by Dorian Rose and Ellen Godena
Costume and Set Design by Ellen Godena
Music by Bowed Metal

This movement piece explores a metaphorical relationship between the human body and the movement of storm systems.
 

Threshold (2006)

Featured as part of the 1st Annual Rhode Island Independent Artists’ Collaborative Show, Andary Dance 2006 New England Tour
February 2006 – Carriage House Theater, Providence, RI
March 2006 – Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
April 2006 – Julie Ince Thompson Theater, Cambridge, MA
 
Dance Performance by Alice Cox and Ellen Godena
Costuming and Props by Ellen Godena

The piece explores a moment in the life of a woman as she awakens to the existence of a second self inhabiting a parallel universe. The piece explores her awareness as it travels as a microscopic echo between the two selves.
 

Spider (2004)

June 2004 – Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
August 2004 – Private Residence, Swansea MA
Featured as part of the Frazier Festival
 
Dance Performance by Ellen Godena
Costume Design by Ellen Godena
Music by Matthew Everett

Spider is a short solo piece which explores the awakening of predatory instincts in a small animal-being.
 

Accordion (2004)

May 2004 – Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
 
Co-choreographed with Nathan Andary
Dance Performance by Alice Cox, Deborah Butler, Yvonne Blanco, Ellen Godena, Nathan Andary.
Score by Matthew Everett
Music Performance by Matthew Everett and Michael Jeffries
Video by Tara Cavanaugh
Costume Design by Lia Cinquegrano

This piece draws its inspiration from Marcel Duchamp's acclaimed painting, Nude Descending a Staircase and Fibonacci’s well-known mathematical sequence describing forms in nature.
 

Static is a state of television reception (2003)

June, 2003 – Berwick Research Institute, Boston, MA
 
Dance Performance by Nathan Andary, Yvonne Blanco, Deborah Butler, Rosemary Candelario, Alice Cox, Grant Hicks, Ellen Godena, Maria Godena
Music by Timothy O’Keefe, Ajda Snyder, Scott Roi
Video by Ellen Godena and Tomy D.
Technical Direction by Andrew Anselmo

This is an exploration of television’s effect on human development.
 

Box One In (2002)

February 2003 – AS220, Providence, RI
November 2002 – PAN9, Boston, MA
 
Dance Performance by Ellen Godena and Nathan Andary
Music by Ellen Godena and Chris Butler
Costumes and Props by Ellen Godena
Technical Direction by Andrew Anselmo

This satirical movement piece takes a look at human behavior inside the box.